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Hi, 😀Beijing colleagues. As TOEFL teachers, we treasure the limited time in class and desire to equip students with more power over TOEFL test. But we all know that language improvement derives from daily input and output largely on the part of students themselves. So, we commit ourselves to creating conditions for individualized learning and learning autonomy. Today I want to bring you an English learning tool that can boost our students’ listening skills, which is TubeQuizard ( http://tubequizard.com/ ) . (you can choose videos that suit you fine) TubeQuizard can make interactive listening quizzes for any subtitled YouTube video. The quizzes that TubeQuizard creates are aimed at top frequency expressions and grammar. These highly effective listening quizzes will train students to understand real life pronunciation of high frequency language. Students could choose videos of different levels, language focuses, topics, and accent varieties on the platform. For instance, I choose vide...

Hi, Beijing colleagues. Today I am excited to introduce a marvelous website for English listening practice. It is elllo ( https://elllo.org/english/ ). On elllo , there are extraordinarily rich natural English conversations in different accents all over the world. The videos and audios on this platform are recorded by both NS and NNS speakers, which makes this learning website very useful for TOEFL learners. As we know, different accents listening material are included in TOEFL tests. Our students who are familiar with American accents often complain about, for instance, Indian accents in TOEFL tests. From this perspective, the listening materials of diverse accents on elllo website are excellent exercises for our students.             (audio material on elllo )                                                 (video material on elll...