The podcasts on this site will help you to improve your English vocabulary and pronunciation and your listening skills. There are two short (3 to 5 minutes) podcasts every week, in clearly spoken English.Many of them are linked to grammar and vocabulary notes, or to exercises or quizes.
/Linguistic-Theory - discourse of fundamental works, book
Contents 1. Linguistic Theory as Discourse 2. Ferdinand de Saussure 3. Edward Sapir 4. Leonard Bloomfield 5. Kenneth Lee Pike 6. Louis Hjelmslev 7. Noam Chomsky 8. John Rupert Firth 9. Michael Halliday 10. Terry Winograd (previously unpublished) 11. Teun van Dijk and Walter Kintsch 12. Peter Hartmann 13. Linguistics versus language
Longtooth's Tale (Part 2); Galldora and the Woods Beyond; Big Red Head (Part 2); At the Forge; Mouse in the Snow; Peter Pan (Part 5); I Had a Little Nut Tree
Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so this book is a biography rather than a history. Ackroyd reveals the dozens of ways in which the continuity of the city survives - in ward boundaries unchanged since the Middle Ages, in vocabulary and in various traditions - showing London as constantly changing, yet forever the same in essence. Content: "Districts and Suburbs", "Fire and Pestilence", "Foundations", "Street Life and the People", "Trade and Enterprise".
!["London - The Biography" by Peter Ackroyd [ABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK]](http://englishtips.org/uploads/old/posts/1173345452_164paltb.jpg "\"London - The Biography\" by Peter Ackroyd [ABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK]")
