ICT 4 ELT Portals

Listening for intermediate students and their teachers

Compiled and annotated by
Zbyněk Chuchma,
Gymnázium Nový Jičín.

This list contains links to ELT listening resources for teachers or / and intermediate students.

• Repeat After Us

  http://www.repeatafterus.com/

  Amazing online library with the best collection of copyright-free English texts and scripted recordings.

  Easy to navigate; a lot of content (more then 1500 recordings); 3 difficulty levels.

• World-English

  http://www.world-english.org/listen_english_accents.htm

  Spot the accent difference. You can listen to differences in pronunciation among various English speaking countries. Various native speakers from assorted English speaking countries reading text extracts.

  One single page – not much of content.

• OM personal – Multimedia English

  http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omaudio/contenidotematico.htm

  Practice some conversational situations. This page is a part of the whole language education portal. You must register for free before you can use the exercizes.

  Navigation – little too flickering. Sometimes there is only spanish :-) Great source though – many actvities.

• Eva Easton

  http://evaeaston.com/pr/

  Authentic American Pronunciation. Many pronunciation patterns and some advise too.

  Navigation is neat. Valuable source.

• Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

  http://www.esl-lab.com/

  Listening Quizzes, Vocabulary Lessons, Conversations…

  A lot of interesting content. 4 difficulty levels.

• Focus on English

  http://www.focusenglish.com/

  Site is dedicated to helping ESL learners develop conversational English skills. You can listen to native speakers talk about various topics; learn useful idioms; learn common words and phrases; test your vocabulary skills in everyday English; practice responding, in English, to real-life conversations; listen to native speakers give sample responses.

  Easy navigation and a lot of content.

• About.com

  http://esl.about.com/cs/listening/index.htm?once=true&

  Listening Skills Practice – listening quizzes and interviews.

  Easy to navigate; good content; 2 difficulty levels.

• English Listening Room

  http://www.manythings.org/el/

  Couple of RealAudio and JavaScript Quizzes + one Flash quizz.

  Quite amateur look, little content, rather just a time filler.

• Breaking News English

  http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

  Breathtaking site – ready-to-use lesson plans reflecting hot current news with listening support. All of these current events lesson plans contain a news article, listening (MP3 file), communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises. Classroom handouts are reproducible in Word and PDF.

  Easy to navigate; a lot of content with archive; 2 difficulty levels.

• EnglishOnline.cz

  http://www.english-online.cz/

  Nice listening tests with gap filling and some testings too.

  Very easy to navigate; not much content yet, but growing.

• BBC Learning English – Watch and Listen

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia/

  Amazing multimedia colection – London Guide, Britain Tour Guide, Top Pop Songs…

  Very easy to navigate; great content.

• Practical American English – audio course

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

  The Audio Center features 40 Units of English focusing on practical conversations and academic language as commonly found in American universities.

  Very modern flash environment, very easy to navigate, great content.

• British Council teaching English

  http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/listentry/listen_activites.shtml

  For teachers: practical activities to help students with listening.