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Listening
for English Language Learners
Activities
All levels
- ESL
Cafe Web Guide: Listening
- Directory of links
to ESL listening resources
- ESL
Independent Study Lab: Listening
- Directory of Links,
organized by difficulty
- Randall's
ESL Cyber Listening Lab
- Four levels of listening
materials with and pre- and post-listening questions
- English
Listening Lounge
- Several good-quality
sample activities from a commercial site
- Internet
TESL Journal: Listening
- A collection of
links to activities and resources from the internet TESL Journal
- Wicked
Stuff for English Learners
- Several listening
activities are included here
Basic
- CELT
Listening Activities (BASIC, INTERMEDIATE)
- British English
listening: puzzles, comprehension
- Cutting
Edge CALL
- A small collection
of listening activities using Macromedia's Shockwave technology
- Everyday
Activities
- Dictation for beginners
- ESL
Language Lab: Listening 1
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- Going
to the Dentist's Office
- Dictation
- Takako's
Great Adventure
- A ten-part story
with cloze, vocabulary, comprehension, and inference activities;
uses Shockwave.
Intermediate
- BBC World
Service: Learning English
- Listening materials
and activities
- CELT
Listening Activities (BASIC, INTERMEDIATE)
- British English
listening: puzzles, comprehension
- CLTA
Listening Activities (INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED)
- Short listening
passages with recorded questions; answers are scored automatically.
- CNN
Newsroom for ESL
- Grammar and vocabulary
activities for viewers of the popular CNN show for students,
CNN
Newsroom
Advanced
- ESL
Wonderland
- Thematic units (Death
Penalty; Race Relations; Human Cloning; etc) based on US public
radio broadcasts in RealAudio format.
- CLTA
Listening Activities (INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED)
- Short listening
passages with recorded questions; answers are scored automatically.
- CNN
San Francisco
- Activities based
on current news stories; includes audio, story outline, summary,
and text as well as reading comprehension and vocabulary activities.
(ADAPTABLE FOR LISTYENING)
- Interactive
Listening Comprehension Practice
- Comprehension exercises
based on US public radio broadcasts from University of Illinois
LinguaCenter
- KXTV
Interactive Learning Resources
- Listening, reading,
and vocabulary materials based on current news stories in audio
and video; includes story outline and summary as well as comprehension
and vocabulary activities.
-
Listening
skills
- Improving
Your Listening
- Suggestions and
activities fopr listening to the news; lectures; movies; British
and American English, and conversations.
- Improving
Listening Comprehension Skills
- A couple of good
tips from Randall S. Davis of Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
- Listening
and notetaking tutorial
- "Think more, write
less" could be the motto of this series of common-sense suggestions.
Other
listening & viewing materials
- Yahoo!
Broadcast
- An audio directory
of the Internet...lots of news, sports, and talk sources click
on the category and follow the links to a listening source
- NPR
online
- Hourly news and
daily shows (Morning edition, All Things Considered, etc. from
US National Public Radio; they also keep a searchable audio
archive of past shows
(audio)
- CNN
Audio
- US and international
news services (audio)
- CNN
Video Vault
- ESL
NetLinks for English as a Second Language
- Annotated links
to resources of interest for English language learners
- Family
Health
- Two-minute audio
files on a variety of health questions, from Ohio University's
Dr. Harold C. Thompson III (audio)
- Fox
News Video
- Video news reports
(video)
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- On-line
Listening Resource Page
- A resources collection;
" ...we have also collected links here to sites offering materials
that can be used for improving comprehension"
- Radio
Broadcasts
- Our collection of
radio news and feature resources from around the world
- Vincent
Voice Library
- Historic speeches
and other recordings, from US presidents and others (audio)
- WebActive
- News and commentary
from a left-liberal perspective (audio)
- WebCorp
Multimedia
- Historic, exotic,
humorous, and other (audio)
- Yahoo:
Radio Programs
- A large collection
of programs, by topic
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