British Council
British Council Learn English Central: Listening and Watch
A selection of 20 or so mp3 listening files, with audioscripts, that you can download and play on your computer or portable player. Each comes with a follow-up activity -- these can vary, e.g., an offline writing assignment, online...
Starfall
Starfall: Sky Ride (Long I Listening Practice)
Learn to say and read English words with long I vowels. This animated storybook about friends Mike and Spike who like to ride bikes provides plenty of listening and pronouncing practice. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Speaking and Listening in Content Area Learning
Oral language development facilitates print literacy. In this article, we focus on the ways in which teachers can ensure students' speaking and listening skills are developed. We provide a review of effective classroom routines,...
Starfall
Starfall: Robot and Mr. Mole (Long O Listening Practice)
Learn English words with the long O sound by listening to this read-aloud story about a robot. English language learners and beginning readers can practice listening to and pronouncing words with long o's. Great graphics, unlimited...
Starfall
Starfall: Peg the Hen (Short E Listening Practice)
English language learners and beginning readers can listen as they read this wonderfully animated story about Peg the Hen. Excellent drill for learning to pronounce the short E sound with excellent reinforcement of basic vocabulary...
Starfall
Starfall: Jake's Tale (Long a Listening Practice)
A fun read-along story for practicing and listening to the long a sound. Great graphics and animation.
Starfall
Starfall: The Big Hit (Short I Listening Practice)
English language learners and beginning readers can practice listening to and pronouncing the short I sound in this read-aloud story about a baseball-playing tin man. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner controlled.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Active Listening
This tutorial focuses on active listening including what it is and how to become an active listener; a slide show provides the five basic elements of listening. It also offers a video of Alice Walker reading Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a...
Starfall
Starfall: Pete's Sheep (Long E Listening Practice)
Learn the long E sound in English while enjoying an animated story about sheep. You can listen to the story over and over again and watch the story come alive with animation.
Other
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Directed Listening Thinking Activity
Lesson which requires middle schoolers to listen to The Tell-Tale Heart read aloud, answer prediction questions during the reading, and write written responses after. Excellent for beginning a mystery unit.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Speaking and Listening: Collaborative Conversations
Learners will partner read The Kite, by Alma Flor Ada. Then work together in small collaborative groups to describe the character of the mother, the children, or the kitten. Included in this lesson are video demonstrations, printable...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Directions Around Town 2
This exercise combines map-reading and listening skills designed especially for English language learners. Students locate designated buildings on a map by following directions for turning right, walking two blocks forward, and so on.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Directions Around Town 3
This true-or-false exercise for English language learners tests their map-reading and listening skills. Using a small street map for visual reference, students answer a series of true/false questions about locations on the map.
Other
Morningside Center: Active Listening
In this instructional activity, students practice active listening by paraphrasing what they hear. Students will practice listening to one another and repeating what they heard. Various listening activities are included in this...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Phone Numbers
This listening-for-numbers exercise for English language learners (ELLs) tests survival listening skills and listening fluency. Students must choose the correct telephone number from a multiple-choice list after listening to an audio clip.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Animals (Animales): Listening Dialogs
At this site designed for Spanish-speaking English language learners, students listen to two short dialogs about pets. They can also read the second dialog in English as they listen. Then they answer interactive questions that test their...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: General Listening Quiz: Enjoying the Zoo
Students listen to a recording about a visit to the zoo, then read and answer questions to check their oral comprehension. Includes followup ideas for discussion and research.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Food (La Comida): Listening/dialogs
Wonderful, extensive site for Spanish-speaking ELL. In this section, students listen to a couple of short audio clip dialogs in English and then answer interactive comprehension questions. Several activities provided - instructions in...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: School (La Escuela): Listening Dialog
This site for Spanish-speaking English language learners. Students listen to a short dialog between two students who discuss their new class schedules. Presented in both written and auditory formats, students answer comprehension...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Character Education Read Alouds
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Patty Lovell's book, Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon. Students will participate in listening to other stories with the same message and then will determine the "big...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information Gathering Process
This lesson models an information-gathering process for primary learners as they listen to and look at resources, seeking information pertinent to the questions on an information wheel. Guiding the listening, looking, and learning...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Reader's Theater
To improve oral reading and listening skills, groups students will alternate performing reader's theater plays.
The Atlantic Monthly Group
Atlantic Online: Poetry: "Man Listening to Disc" by Billy Collins
The text of Billy Collins's poem, "Man Listening to Disc" and a link to the audio of Collins reading his poem.