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The extensive ESL podcast by Jeff McQuillan usually starts out with a slow version of a dialog or a story about a topic. In this case it is clothes shopping. Then the host explains vocabulary and phrases. The ending is usually the same sequence at native speaker speech rate. While the whole podcast is rather long, the dialogs or narratives are usually only a minute and a half. What I do with these is that I play the native speaker bit to better students and the slower one to students, who are not so advanced. This works quite well and lets you differentiate in a group with mixed ability students. The script highlights difficult parts of speech. What I like to do to make work easier, is that I cut out the slow and the fast sequence in audacity and save them as a separate listening.

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Clothes shopping with my wife (script and download link)