Good websites for listening practice

isle-teach · Post by **isle-teach** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:41 am

One of my students recently asked me how he could improve his listening skills on the internet. Many websites come up when I google ESL, listening, but would love some pointers. I'd also be interested in exposing them to as many accents as possible. I might be asking a lot, I know, but then again I might get lucky.

Thanks!

Lorikeet · Post by **Lorikeet** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:21 pm

Not sure what level the student is, but I have a small number of things on my website (sorta standard American English, whatever that is

). You can check at http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/activi ... ening.html if you like.

Matty · Post by **Matty** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:07 pm

Hey guys! This could be right up your street -

I'm looking for opinions, ideas and suggestions for on-line applications for learners of English as a foreign language. I've created a couple of dictation exercises to give you some idea of what it's all about.

These applications follow web standards for on-line learning, notably keeping the content and presentation separate so it's easy to create new exercises without any specialist computer programming knowledge.

Check them out:

http://watchtvlearnenglish.com/dictatio ... essay.html

http://watchtvlearnenglish.com/dictatio ... ences.html

Any feedback will be most appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Matt

BradC · Post by **BradC** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:33 am

This site has a large number of short dialogues and interviews with native speakers from around the world, so you can hear various accents, idioms, etc.

http://www.elllo.org/

It's free to stream online or download as MP3 files, and many of the clips are accompanied by written exercises to test comprehension.