VOA has added an Articles section with activities for reading, listening, and vocabulary. Here are the sections included (articles can be under more than one topic. For example, a famous scientist's invention might be under People in America, In the News, and Science and Technology):
The VOA (Voice of America) has expanded its offerings and has a number of great additions for English learners. Here are some of them:
Wordbook: Alphabetical listings of vocabulary for specific purposes. These include:
Here are stories from NPR and Marketplace Money that are about jobs:
Digital Disruptor- Read how the Internet has effected one person's life who grew up with the Internet
Newroom Disruption- How has technology effected newsrooms?
Where did the January jobs come from? - What areas of the economy are growing?
Here's an Argentine site that has American English listening
Here are ESL-Lab.com exercises on money and banking:
Oxford University Press has online activities for their texts. Here's the Step Forward site's page.
Here are some ELLO conversations that talk about jobs. Don't forget to check the questions and vocabulary explanations on the right hand side of the page.
Jobs (This is and older lesson on the site and works a bit differently. See the link for the transcript above the screen)
BBC Learning English has lots of activities and interesting things to do related to learning English.
Here's a great site for listening. There are diagrams to show motions and recordings to the diagrams.
The California Distance Learning Project has stories with activities, sound, and some video on critical areas of adult life, including work.
