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Elllo: English Language Listening Lab Online
This is an extremely useful place for the improving listening skills of English language learners. Contains numerous listening exercises, such as dialogues, games, interviews, songs, news broadcasts, and more. Each activity has a number...
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Free English: Help for Korean Learners of English
Free English learning site that helps Korean speakers learn English through songs, books, and news. Contents and resources span all learning levels, from kindergarten to college. The audio-rich resources compiled at this site make it...
Read Works
Read Works: Callie Learns to Listen
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Callie who learned how important it is to listen. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Locomotor Sequencing (K)
This kindergarten lesson reinforces the skill of following directions. Young scholars must listen to a series of directions and follow them. Students will make different movements based on the directions.
Favorite Poem Project
Boston University: Favorite Poem Project
A video collection of poetry readings delivered by ordinary Americans, young and old. A blend of well-known and unknown poems, each selection describes why a particular poem was chosen as a favorite and includes a read-along transcript.
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Light Up Your Brain: Brain Teaser Games & Audio Stories for Kids
Fantastic classic children's stories online that you can listen to while you read along. Stories are offered in streaming or downloadable MP3 format. Some of the popular stories are: "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", "The Tale of the Flopsy...
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Many things.org: About Places
Read along and listen to historical information about several American monuments and icons.
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Many things.org: Stories About People (Biographies)
Read along and listen to biographies about famous people, mostly Americans.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Listening for Specifics
This Skillswise site focuses on listening for specifics. Included are a video about why learning how to do this, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, quizzes on the information presented, and games to practice the skill. The...
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Seattlepi: Hadiah Baby Sumatran Tiger
This resource offers a short video of the baby Sumatran tiger at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington. Good listening practice because you hear the spontaneous comments of young and old, as they watch the tiger cub.
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Analytic Technologies: Active Listening
Excellent article on reflective, or active, listening, a method used when trying to help the speaker deal with something. Includes a chart of choices made by the listener before giving a response.
James Madison University
James Madison University: Reflective Listening Exercise
This exercise in reflective listening is designed to be done with a partner. Instructions are tailored to classroom use, complete with assessment sheets. There is also quite a bit of background material for those doing the exercise....
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American Radio Works Documentaries
A collection of hour-long investigative documentaries produced for public radio covering a range of subjects, including health, American history, justice, and world events. Each program combines text, photos, and streaming audio, helping...
British Council
British Council: Learn English Kids: What's That Noise?
Listen to a cute story about animal sounds. If you like, you can read along with it.
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English Listening Lesson Library Online: Learn English Naturally
Homepage with links to an extensive list of videos, audio, quizzes, and vocabulary for English language learners. Sort by level, country, topic, and media.
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Pitara
This site from India provides a small collection of stories, poems, and activities that students can listen to online. In the activities section, students match animals with their shadows, answer vocabulary-related questions, and...
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Daily Esl: Conversation Starters for English Students
Listen and read along with several real-life scenarios to help expand understanding and conversational language. Listening activities are followed by a variety of quizzes, discussion questions, and role-play activities.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Listening
This lesson focuses on understanding listening including defining active listening, the five stages of the listening process, listening and critical thinking, and the four main barriers to effective listening.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Stages of Listening
This lesson plan focuses on the five stages of listening: receiving stage, understanding stage, evaluating, stage, responding stage and remembering stage.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab
More than 100 listening quizzes designed for English-language learners are available at this site ranging from quizzes for high-beginning English speakers to advanced English speakers. Each quiz has a prelistening exercise, listening...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Enhancing Your Listening
In this Boundless Communication students will learn the importance of being an active listener who can resist distractions and keep an open mind while suspending judgment and exercising empathy. SL.9-10.3 Eval Presentation, SL.9-10.3...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: How to Listen Better
Students read a description of what it means to listen respectively. Then they write a brief action plan for becoming a better listener.
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Spanish Flashcards
This selection of flashcards for Spanish grammar and vocabulary--often with scoring and self-correcting capabilities--are correlated to commonly used Spanish textbooks such as "Ven Conmigo" and "En Espanol." Includes many other features...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Sl.3.2: Determine the Main Ideas and Supporting Details of a Text
Links to 44 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.3.2: Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually,...