Listening Sites

USA Learns is a good site for Adult ESL learners. It has three levels: Beginning, Low Intermediate, and Intermediate. It has real life situations on video with respective language listening exercises. It is particularly interesting that it provides a way for students to record themselves and playback the utterances that they make. It is a good pronunciation tool as well. It is community/real world oriented which gives students useful chunks of langauge that they can use right away. However, it is slow and a bit difficult to navigate, otherwise worth visiting.

www.usalearns.org/index/welcome.cfm?CFID=131927&CFTOKEN=25395022&jsessionid=1a303f9b84775751614227314b447697c1a4TR


Reepworld is a good civics real world beginning visual aid for Adult ESL learners. It tells short stories with picture cues and some words. Good for Beginners. You can also read the story in small chunks. Then do a matching exercise. Many other possibilities for adults, how to use a mouse as you prepare for doing computer work with your students, etc.

www.reepworld.org

Many Things also a great site for many things. Listening exercises that let the student read and listen along. Good for high beginning and up. There is listening with dicatation and many other ways to listen short stories. I would pre teach some of the vocabulary and then have them do a dicatation exercise or let them watch a video for homework and present depending on level, appropriate task.

www.manythings.org


ESL Lab good resource for listening to real life dialogue and practice for adult students of different levels. Like leaving a message on an answering machine, or just understanding the message on the machine. It has pre listening activities and practice. There are also post listening activities that would help reenforce the language.


www.esl-lab.com


Activities for esl students: Also a great site for podcasts that you can listen to in different languages. A good source for language recognition (English), or distinction from other langauges.

www.a4esl.org/