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[gwangju_ajarn]

I have been handed a listening course for upper-intermediate/advanced students. NO MATERIALS! Is there anywhere i can download MP3 files and then burn them on to CD to use in the classroom? Most of the websites have the listening dialogues stored somehow that makes them inaccessible! Also are there any activities that accompany the listening dialogues?

Any help would be more than helpful.

I am willing to buy the beers in return!

Thanks....Martine

[ilovebdt]

If you know who publishes the materials, if you got their website it may have downloads for the listening exercises.
If you are in Seoul, check out the big book shops. You can normally buy the listening tapes/CDs separately and then charge your school for them!

[SuperHero]

additionally you could run audacity in record mode while listening to the audio and then export it to mp3.

[jjurabong]

Try these:


http://www.ello.org


www.esl-lab.com

[ricky_lamour]

I tried these two links and only one of them works. The other one is a broken link. Does anyone know of any databases of useable dialogues out there. By useable I mean without any pointless and confusing slang in them, without annoying accents, without culturally specific references to life in the former Mexico, and with people speaking clearly. I know that makes things less realistic but I think its difficult enough for an unstreamed class of middle schoolers to understand dialogue. Don't see the point in trying to teach them idioms and language that will be out of fashion next week.

[Jizzo T. Clown]

It's www.elllo.org

That extra "l" throws me off too.

Can't you bring your laptop to class and plug it into some speakers?

If you can somehow print out the dialogue then you can make your own exercises for the students, regardless of cultural idiosyncracies or slang. I would think those would offer an opportunity to teach them more...

[jinjuguy]

Well, there is a resource that I've found useful, it's Maxwell-MacMillan's Tuning-In the USA. I'm not sure if you can download it for free though.

PM me if you want to know more.

[Fishead soup]

You can get listening text books with tapes or C.D. at Kyobo is Seoul.
I used the material designed by Jack Richards.

[ricky_lamour]

Ah, its supposed to be a tripllle elll in elllo. That site is not too bad actually. I'm using it already. The language is fairly straight-forward and you can search the archives for phrases/funtions. Thanks jizzo.

[koala5]

http://www.esl-lab.com/index.htm
I have used this website many times
I hope this helps

I have more but post them later