LISTENING COMPREHENSION PRACTICE FOR STUDENTS OF BÁSICO 2:

Practise your listening skills at the following sites:

• At About.com

http://esl.about.com/od/listeningbeginners/Listening_Skills_for_Beginning_Level_English_Learners.htm

• At ESL.com, find a listening appropiate to your level:

http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/bllisteningquiz.htm

• At La mansión del inglés.com:

http://www.mansioningles.com/listening00.htm

• At ELLLO.com:

http://www.elllo.org/september/norman/neuro.htm

http://www.elllo.org/english/0551/560-Jeyong-Overseas.html

• At News from ELLLO.com

http://www.elllo.org/english/NewCenter.htm

http://www.elllo.org/english/Points.htm

• At Mini lectures (from ELLLO):

http://www.elllo.org/english/Points.htm

• At Listen to English.com for ESL learners:

http://www.listen-to-english.com/

http://www.listen-to-english.com/index.php?date=2006-12

Listening practice for “Basico 1” students at EOI

 From La Mansion del Inglés.com:

http://www.mansioningles.com/listening00.htm

 From ELLLo.com

http://www.elllo.org/english/Games/G048DayRecap.htm 

From 1-Language.com:

http://www.1-language.com/audiocourse/index.htm 

From OM personal.com: 

I’M CALLING FROM AUSTRALIA
Telephone calls – The time

WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
Countries and nationalities

I’M STAYING IN BED
The time – Simple Progressive

MY CAR ISN’T WORKING
Repair shop – Parts of a car

SHE’S GOOD AT LANGUAGES
Gym and sports – Simple Present

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Age – Months – Simple Modals

I’M FEELING BETTER ALREADY
Illnesses and health problems

WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM?
The doctor – Simple modals

CAN YOU HELP ME, PLEASE?
The town or city – Directions

WHAT ABOUT YOUR WEEKEND?
Entertainments – Simple Past

 WE HAD A GREAT TIME
Cinema and theater – Simple Past

AT THE HAIRDRESSERS’S
Be born – Simple Past

 THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG
Expressing despair – Part I

WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME?
Cinema and theater – Modals

WHY DON’T YOU COME WITH US?
Simple Future – Present Perfect

YOU’RE A REAL PAL
Making phone calls – Progressive

IT’S AN EXCITING JOB
Jobs and professions

HOW HAVE YOU BEEN?
Expressions – Present Perfect

 

From Randal’s esl-lab.com

Calendars and Dates
Conversation Starters
Directions Around Town (1)
Introductions
Names: Meeting People
Shopping and Prices
Telling Time

 
Clothing and Fashion
Directions Around Town (2)
Family Relationships
Hobbies
Restaurants
Shopping Center
Telephone

EFL Web Explorer: comprehensive sites

English Study Direct is a site written by academic professionals with he following specific aims:

• to promote quality online English courses that offer personal tuition
• to provide an organised database of links to quality learning resources for students
• to provide a database of links to quality web resources for teachers and researchers
• to provide a database for consultancy services in academic English online to promote quality online English courses that offer personal tuition

It includes a useful Language Tests section where you can find Free Practice Exercises for students.

In this section you can do practice on:

a) Listening & Speaking

b) Reading & Vocabulary

c) Writing & Study Skills

d) Grammar

e) English Language Exercises and Activities – mixed

f) Test Practice – IELTS, TOEFL, CAEL, Cambridge

IMPROVE YOUR LISTENING ON INTERNET (2)

One site I have visited recently is ELL English Listening Lounge, a site for people who want to practise listening comprehension. Their philosophy is simple: “To learn English listen a lot. ” With this motto in mind they have developed a site with passages spoken by “real people, speaking real English, talking about what interests them. There are passages for everyone: easy passages for beginners, and more difficult passages for advanced students. The English Listening Lounge is inexpensive and is a very effective way to learn English. If you listen often your English will improve.”

For every passage you listen you can choose to see questions (Q) questions and answers (Q/A) or transcripsts (T).

The recordings are clear and not very long.

EFL WEB EXPLORER (6): IMPROVE YOUR LISTENING ON THE INTERNET (1)

An excellent site with videos to do listening comprehension practice is Video Jug. Life explained on film.

It is an amazing site with all kind of How-to’s videos. The videos are good practice for any kind of sudents, with the exception of absolute beginners. Besides, the films are wonderfully edited and you can get their script. They don’t speak fast and the videos cover all kind of everyday activities.

For all these reasons it is a good resource both for students and for teachers to use in class. They may be used with the projector. You can get the script before the class and make some adjustments for a listening comprehension practice which you can make into a printout.

The videos on food are an excellent resource for vocabulary and describing process.

I strongly recommend to see and use these videos.

Angeles Hernandez
Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Santander
CALL and ICT Language Learning

LISTENING 4EOI

Go to the following link on this site to do some listening practice. Make your own choice. All the sites in this collection are non commercial and have good quality sound, they have been tried and selected by language teachers from all over the world.