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English central https://es.englishcentral.com/videos

English central is a web site which promotes the English Language through the use of videos. This website takes advantage of people’s preference for watching videos and learning vocabulary, listening, speaking, pronunciation and writing. For this purpose, there are four steps: 1. Watching videos: learners watch a video according to their level and interest. The video has subtitles in English. The user has to mark unknown words. 2. Learning: in this step, learners have to type the unknown words in the spaces while the video is running. 3. Speaking: the user has to pronounce the new words and receives feedback about his/her pronunciation and fluency. 4. Go live: people have the opportunity to chat with a private tutor about the video. This webpage is constantly adding new videos for their courses. There thousands of videos about different topics which are organized according to the levels: starter (1, 2), intermediate (3, 4) and advanced (5, 6, 7). A big part of the content is free but they have some packages which are paid where users have the opportunity to access to more videos and tutoring sessions. I recommend this website because it uses authentic material, it fosters the use of most of the skills, it is very easy to access, it has a good layout and students can follow their progress.