RSA

The RSA, the initials for the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, has an excellent website that can be used as an online language resource. One of its many attractions for classroom (or self study) use is that it gets students to listen to many different accents, a true reflection of the real world outside the classroom. Another attraction is the wealth of subjects dealt with.

It offers two types of resource: the basic video of an interview or a lecture/speech on the one hand, and an animated version of speech, often with an downloadable transcript (pdf), on the other.

RSA Videos

 * Video: Steven Pinker – Changing Minds - Steven Pinker

RSA Animate

 * RSA Animate – Language as a Window into Human Nature - Steven Pinker
 * RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms - Ken Robinson
 * RSA Animate – The Divided Brain - Iain McGilchrist