Focus
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.
Focus: 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 - Roof Over Your Head
page 9 | page 14 | page 22
page 26 | page 30
Unit 2 - Smart Animals
page 33 | page 40 | pages 46-48
page 52 | page 56
Unit 3 - On The Road
page 59 | page 64 | pages 72-74
page 78 | page 82
Unit 4 - Music to Your Ears
page 87 | page 94 | page 99
page 102 | page 106
Unit 5 - Sporting World
page 109 | page 116 | pages 124-127
page 132 | page136
Unit 6 - Is It Luck?
page137 | page 139 | page 149 | pages 155-156 Part 1
page 158 Part 2 | page 162 | page 166
Internet Sites
Unit 1 - Roof Over Your Head
Homeless in Heathrow (lyrics )
Heathrow is My Home
Green Plaza Shinjuku Capsule Hotel
How to use a Japanese Capsule Hotel
Unit 2 - Smart Animals
Smart Crow vs Starbucks Box with Peanuts (video)
Cesar Millan
The World of James Herriot described by his son Jim
Life and Time of James Herriot
Unit 3 - Cn The Road
One Text, Two Lives - The Consequences of Texting and Driving
(video)
Liz Marks Texting & Driving Story (video)
Texting and Driving Stories
The impossible texting & driving test (video with English subtitles)
Wikipedia: Damon Runyon
Unit 4 - Music to Your Ears
How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins (video
Unit 5 - Sporting World
Usain Bolt
Greatest Rivals in Sports
Unit 6 - Is It Luck?
The luckiest unlucky man to ever live (Frane Selak) (video)
Steve Jobs
All about Steve Jobs timeline