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Improve your English listening skills for free with clips from popular movies and TV series. Learn vocabulary, read transcripts, take the quiz, and more.

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Thanksgiving Listening Lab Lessons

A cartoon grocery store sits atop a green hill with a tree to the left and a family of cartoon pigs inside of a car on the right. The sky is blue with a yellow sun and a white clouds.

2:58

Thanksgiving With Peppa's Family

Peppa Pig (2004)

A2 - Beginner 🌱

A young boy and girl are outside playing with a jump rope. The boy is wearing a yellow shirt with blue shorts and red shoes. The girl is wearing a yellow and red dress with green shoes. The girl appears to be handing the red jump rope to the boy. The background looks like a watercolor painting of a blue table with yellow chairs and a brown stone floor. As the image gets closer to the edge, it fades away, leaving a white border around the whole image.

3:20

Chopsticks

Caillou (1998)

A2 - Beginner 🌱

A man and a woman stand in their kitchen with a dining table between them.

0:44

The Cranberry Sauce

Friends (1994)

B1 - Intermediate 🌿

A family of five sits at a dining table, eating. To the right is the father. He is large and blonde. To the left is the mother. She is petite and has red-brown hair. Between them are two kids sitting on opposite sides of the table. One is a blond boy and the other is a black-haired girl. Sitting beside the mother is a baby in a high chair with one clump of hair sticking straight up. They are all light-skinned. It is a dark, moody scene with just one overhead light above the dining table.

2:32

Dinner

The Incredibles (2004)

B2 - Intermediate 🌿

An image of an office with many desks and workers spread throughout. The lights are dim.

1:52

Time Prank

The Office (2005)

C1 - Advanced 🌳

A woman and a man stand in the entryway of a home. The man is holding the door handle. He is wearing black pants and a gray, wool jacket. He has dark hair. The woman is wearing a thin, white jacket over a dark green shirt with black pants. She has long black hair. They are both light-skinned. The walls and doors of the house are all glass, providing an expansive view of the forest outside. There is a wooden bench beside the woman. The scene has a blue hue cast over it.

4:36

Dinner with the Cullens

Twilight (2008)

B2 - Intermediate 🌿

Thomas is a great teacher, a good listener, and a really wise person. Something that I find helpful from him is that he can help you with tips for different contexts, well, at least for me, because sometimes I read something in an English book, but I need more examples, either for a casual conversation or for a business environment, and Thomas has helped with that. I highly recommend him!

Luis M.
Advanced learner from Nicaragua 🇳🇮

Now living in Canada 🇨🇦

Recent Reading Lab Lessons

Dialogue: A New Student

Ben is a new student.

A1 - Beginner 🌱

My Cat Meows Too Much

My cat is always meowing.

A2 - Beginner 🌱

Stormy Night Ghost Stories

When lightning strikes and the power goes out, the natural thing to do is share ghost stories.

C1 - Advanced 🌳

Climate Change

Climate change has become a huge problem for our society. How can we stop it?

B2 - Intermediate 🌿

Recent Games

Six rectangles are lined up in two columns. The top left rectangle and the bottom right rectangle are both orange with a navy blue line connecting them. The other rectangles are green. Across the bottom is a navy blue banner with the words "matching pairs" written in white.

Image Match: Nouns in Nature

Match the images to their nouns based on things you can find in nature. Great for the beginner English learner.

There are 10 navy blue tiles randomly scattered across the top of the image with white letters inside them. Below it is a white arrow pointing down. Across the bottom are 10 more navy blue tiles with white letters in them. These tiles across the bottom are lined up and organized to spell out "unscramble". Everything sits upon a dark green background.

Unscramble: Animals

Unscramble the names of different animals. Great for English beginners.

Six rectangles are lined up in two columns. The top left rectangle and the bottom right rectangle are both orange with a navy blue line connecting them. The other rectangles are green. Across the bottom is a navy blue banner with the words "matching pairs" written in white.

Synonym Match: Beginner

Match beginner English vocabulary with their synonyms to grow your English vocabulary. Great for A1 and A2 beginner English learners. The difficulty increases with the levels.

"Thomas is a great English teacher! He can create a very relaxing atmosphere to make you feel very confident to speak English! He is really a good listener who pays attention to your words and gives a proper response to inspire you to say more. I made great progress after 24 lessons with him. Thank you Thomas~"

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Advanced learner from China 🇨🇳

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How do the labs work?

Start each lesson with a vocabulary warm-up that includes words and phrases from a custom-built dictionary.

vocabulary examples from labs

The 'My Daily Routine' story from the reading lab is shown.

For Reading Labs:

Read the story out loud or listen to the AI generated audio.

For Listening Labs:

Watch the video clip as many times as you'd like. Character profiles are included to assist with understanding.

Dinner with the Cullens video clip in the listening lab.

For Listening Labs:

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Every video has a transcript that is hand-typed by Thomas and verified for accuracy. Clip context is also included to assist with comprehension.

For All Labs:

Get additional grammar and vocabulary practice in the quiz.

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The quiz element showing an audio based question for listening practice

For Listening Labs:

Fine tune your listening skills with targeted practice questions.

About EWT

As a person who has learned many languages of my own, I am determined to help others find their confidence in speaking English. I have been teaching English for just over two years, and I have fallen in love with it. Watching students make progress brings me an unbeatable joy.

I originally became interested in teaching English a few years ago while studying French. During my studies, I watched lots of movies and YouTube videos for practice, and I loved how 'easy' it was to learn through immersion. That is why this website was created using the very same methods I used to teach myself Spanish, French, and now Portuguese. Every day, I read a short story, watch a TV show, movie, or YouTube video, or I listen to music in all of my target languages. That's it! I only rely on daily immersion and occasionally testing my knowledge.

The number one thing to remember? Don't be nervous. Children learn languages quickly not because they’re better at it, but because they’re not afraid to try. So go ahead. Try a lesson. Make mistakes. Learn from them and try again. You'll thank yourself later.

Want to know more about me? Visit the About Thomas page. Still have questions? Send me an email!

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