High Points
To assist in enriching your English lessons, ECB Online provides:
- Internet sites based on the themes in your coursebook and provide resources for the unit tasks.
- Downloadable audio reading files (mp3) provide recordings of the reading texts that appear in the coursebook.
- Internet Activities: fun tasks to help you enrich your class lessons.
- Audio - Listening Files: click here.
High Points: Audio Reading Files
Listen to the texts in your book.
Click the links below to hear the audio reading of your text.
To download and save an audio reading file (mp3) to your computer:
- Right click on the page number.
- Click Save Target As or Save Link As.
- Choose folder to save file.
Unit 1 - Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
pages 8-9 | pages 14-15 | pages 22-23
Unit 2 - Dollars and Sense
page 29 | pages 34-35 | pages 40-41
Unit 3 - Weaving Dreams
pages 48-49 | pages 54-55 | page 60
Unit 4 - Again and Again
pages 68-69 | pages 76-77 | page 80
Unit 5 - He and She
pages 86-87 | pages 90-91 | page 97
The Moustache Part 2 - pages 129-132
The Moustache Part 3 - pages 133-134
Internet Sites
Unit 1
Dove - Evolution Commercial (higher quality)
Tyra Banks - Mother Daughter Body Image Issue
Nation's first face transplant
Obituary Robert Cormier
Unit 2
1929 Wall Street Stock Market Crash
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
US Financier Bernard Madoff Admits 50 Billion Dollar Fraud
Your Money: the Ponzi Scheme Explained
Ponzi Schemes
Unit 3
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (the full last lecture - over 1 hour)
Randy Pausch Last Lecture on Oprah (10 min)
Dying Professor Gives Final, Farewell Lecture (short news clip)
Protective Activism and Volunteering in Israel: Bustan
Hand in Hand
Unit 5
Gender Stereotypes in Media
Gender Roles-Interviews with Kids
Difference between men and women (from the TV show Friends – may not be appropriate for all classes)