Resources for Listening Practice
Sites for Listening Practice
Watch TV programs online:
News in Easy English:
News in Authentic English:
Other listening practice designed for ESL students:
More challenging listening practice:
- Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
- English Listening Language Lab Online
- Online Listening Resources
- real-english.com/
- Breaking News English
- Penguin Dossiers
- English Listening Lounge
- VOA News--Regular and Special English
- VOA News Special English
- VOA American Stories Simplified short stories with recordings and transcripts
- National Public Radio
- http://www.npr.org/programs/
- 60 Minutes
- Internet TESL Journal's Listening Links
- Larry Ferlazzo: Best Listening Sites for English Language Learners
- http://www.favoritepoem.org/ Ordinary people read their favorite poem and talk about their lives.
- http://www.repeatafterus.com Ordinary people read poems, tongue twisters, famous quotations, etc.
Watch TV programs online:
- TV Gorge: http://www.tvgorge.com/
News in Easy English:
- VOA News in Special English http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/index.cfm
- Penguin Dossiers http://www.penguindossiers.com
- Breaking News English http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
News in Authentic English:
- National Public Radio http://www.npr.org/
- CNN http://www.cnn.com
- Reuters http://www.reuters.com/news/video
- New York Times video http://video.on.nytimes.com/
- MSNBC (NBC News) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
- ABC TV News http://abcnews.go.com/
- CBS TV News http://www.cbsnews.com/
- CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) http://cbc.ca/news/
- BBC News (British Broadcasting Corporation http://bbc.co.uk/
- VOA News (regular English) http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/
- World English http://www.world-english.org/listening.htm Here you can listen to radio broadcasts in English from the U.S., Canada, England, Australia, and other countries.
Other listening practice designed for ESL students:
- Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/
- English Listening Lesson Library Online http://www.elllo.org/
- Real English http://real-english.com/
- English Listening Lounge http://www.englishlistening.com/
- Online English Language Center Listening Links http://oelp.uoregon.edu/listen.html
- Antimoon: Shaggy Dog Stories and Other Recordings for English Learners: http://www.antimoon.com/other/shaggydog.htm
More challenging listening practice:
- http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ Apple's iTunes University. You can download and watch lectures from universities all over the world on many topics. (Best of all, it's free!) You'll need to download iTunes software, but that's free too, and it's available for both Macs and Windows computers.
- http://academicearth.org/ "Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars" on all kinds of topics. This is great for some challenging but stimulating listening practice.
- http://www.ted.com/ "Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to all the world."
- http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy. Thousands of short videos, especially about math, science, economics, and SAT preparation.
- http://www.bu.edu/buniverse/ Videos uploaded by Boston University teachers and students.
- http://www.storylineonline.net/ Storyline Online. Videos of well-known actors reading children's stories. Sponsored by the Screen Actors' Guild Foundation.