Listening

Beginning Level

• Conversation Starters for ESL Students
  This site presents short conversation starters or readings that you can study and then try to apply in everyday situations.

All Levels

• Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
  There are Short Listening Exercises, General Listening Quizzes, Listening Quizzes for Academic Purposes, and Long Conversations. All are labeled easy, medium, difficult, or very difficult.
• Listening Skill Practice
  This resource provides listening quizzes, interviews, specific English learning listening resources as well as where to go to listen, listen, listen.
• Listening Games
  Some are appropriate for beginners.
• Many Things
  Read the text on the web page while listening to the MP3 file.
• ESL YouTube Videos
  Many new ESL videos are added each day.
• English Teachers Everywhere
  For teachers, but students could have fun with this site, too. The audio is classroom-ready: copy the mp3s, take them into class—from beginners to advanced learners of English.
• English Listening Lesson Library Online
  Learn English naturally by listening to speakers from all over the world!
• Shaggy Dog Stories
  These stories are humorous and can be very useful for learners of American English. The actors speak clearly and slowly, so you can understand the recordings quite easily. The recordings are the property of the English Teaching Forum magazine, a publication of the United States Department of State.