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How do you teach Listening?

How do you teach Listening?

Dear colleagues,

May I know how do you teach listening?

the official book I use includes a lot of scripts without any audio files ...so I often try to read and ask my pupils to listen and answer certain questions. But I am not satisfied about my performance. sometimes I read a dialogue and turn it into monologue unconsciously.

I hope to hear from you some useful ideas.

3 Dec 2014

EstherLee76

www.esl-lab.com has native speaker listenings with online exercises.

www.eslpodcast.com has lots and lots of listenings with the scripts. I make my own exercises from them.

I also use songs, youtube videos, movie excertps etc.

Hope that helps

3 Dec 2014

Gi2gi

Judging from my experience, doing listening tasks when students are READING scripts is a waste of time, a listening task should be done without any script! Even if students may find it hard to understand everything at early stages.

As for the courses - there are many good books that provide a full course - with listening of course.

Oxford Solutions Series is one of my favourites at present.

3 Dec 2014

isa2

You can try this website for your scripts:

http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/

or
http://www.naturalreaders.com/index.php

3 Dec 2014

florimago

I always ask them to listen for gist . Have you understood the main idea ? It´s enough !!!

3 Dec 2014

s.lefevre

My listning sites collection

ADULTS AND TEENS

beginners

http://www.eslyes.com/nyc/contents.htm

http://eolf.univ-fcomte.fr/

http://listenaminute.com/

http://ompersonal.com.ar/

http://www.agendaweb.org/listening/elem_interm.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia/london/unit1/listen1_js.shtml

http://www.dailyesl.com/

http://www.eflnet.com/vocab/index.php

http://www.eltpodcast.com/archive/bc

http://www.eslgold.com/listening/levels/low_begin.html

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/listening.php

http://www.focusenglish.com/dialogues/communication/commindex.html

http://www.mansioningles.com/listening00.htm

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

http://www.real-english.com/reo/index.html

http://www.rong-chang.com/book/mkfrnd.html

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/cgi2/myexam/index.php

http://www2.cambridge.org/interchangearcade/downloads.do

http://pt.englishcentral.com/videos

http://es.talkenglish.com/Listening/ListenBasic.aspx

songs

http://www.songsforteaching.com/grammarspelling.htm ( grammar)

http://www.efl.net/caol.htm

games

http://www.elllo.org/months/weeks/games.htm

intermediate and advanced

http://a4esl.org/podcasts/

http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml

http://elllo.org/

http://esl-bits.net/advanced-listening/NEWindex.htm

http://international.ouc.bc.ca/

http://legacy.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/reading.html

http://librivox.org/

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

http://www.agendaweb.org/listening/practical-english-conversations.html

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1128_london_life/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1412_weekender/page2.shtml

http://www.betteratenglish.com/

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/listening.html

http://www.cdlponline.org/

http://www.dailyesl.com/

http://www.eslgold.com/listening.html

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

http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html

http://www.eslvideo.com/

http://www.focusenglish.com/dialogues/communication/commindex.html

http://www.grammarmancomic.com/comicsgman.html

http://www.history.com/video.do?action=home

http://www.listenaminute.com/

http://www.mansioningles.com/listening00.htm

http://www.rong-chang.com/book/

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/listening/index.html

http://www.thewclc.ca/edge/issue1/

http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/

http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/amer-stories-page.cfm

https://eee.uci.edu/programs/esl/ap4.html

https://eee.uci.edu/programs/esl/ap4.html

http://es.talkenglish.com/Listening/ListenBasic.aspx

KIDS

songs

http://bussongs.com/animal_songs.php

http://freekidsmusic.com/music-il.html

http://pbskids.org/music/

http://video.kidzui.com/videos/1272098?related%5Bsearch%5D=Jobs (jobsong)

http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/category.jsp?tag=4

http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-songs-animal-house.htm

http://www.dreamenglish.com/

http://www.dreamenglish.com/freechants

http://www.english-4kids.com/lessons.html

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1087 ( the very hungry caterpiller)

http://www.gfes.tpc.edu.tw/board/abc-song/

http://www.hello-world.com/games/conversations.php?language=English&page=English-conversations&topic=

http://www.kididdles.com/lyrics/allsongs.html

http://www.supersimplesongs.com/cd1-14.html ( the bathsong)

http://www.the-bus-stop.net/songs.html

http://www.youtube.com/profile?gl=BR&hl=pt&user=supersimplesongs&feature=iv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=BR&hl=pt&v=PrWJ-rC4YQc (body song)

http://www.multimedia-english.com/contenidos/listado/songs

http://childtopia.com/index.php?module=home&func=coce&myidioma=cat&idphpx=jocs-educatius

stories

http://bbcactiveenglish.com/ozmo_information.html

http://computerkiddoswiki.pbworks.com/Animated-Fairy-tales

http://www.angles365.com/recursos/ebooks/index.htm

http://www.highlightskids.com/Stories/arizonaZone/az_Archive/az_Archive.asp

http://www.literactive.com/Home/index.asp

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/incredibleenglish/level1/stories/

http://www.storyteller.net/stories/audio

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=talking+book&oq=talking+book&aq=f&aqi=g2&aql=&gs_nf=1&gs_l=youtube.12..0l2.575.5249.0.7763.12.12.0.4.4.0.205.1086.3j3j2.8.0.

http://www.agendaweb.org/videos/flash-stories-children.html

4 Dec 2014

isa2

Wow, this list IS impressive. Thank you!

4 Dec 2014

Thanks a lot

4 Dec 2014

omniya

thanks for sharing

wonderful :)

17 Dec 2014

omniya

Could you please tell me some steps i can follow in teaching listening for my kids ( 6 ; 7 years ) .

if this is the first time they listen to a context and answer questions about it

HOW many times shall I play the audio

17 Dec 2014

lipofootoo

Here�s a cool ESL listening activity that you can do. You can watch that on video. Dictations are also good for listening. In my experience they work pretty well even with young energetic children. Here�s how to do a basic dictation and here is a reading dictation.

24 Dec 2014