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1. Try These Great Online Resources to Amplify Listening Skills

   Utilizing online listening quizzes is one of the best ways to supplement book exercises and provide students with additional challenges. One of the best, most organized websites to find a surplus of listening quizzes isRandall's ESL Cyber Lab.
   Randall's site is well-organized, user-friendly, and applicable for every level. In addition each listening quiz is put together with pre and post listening exercises, vocabulary activities including idiomatic speech, a quiz script, and conversation. You can choose how you want to present the activities, and you could use it either for individual listening practice or for group work as a class. One of the best ways to utilize the site is to project the quiz onto the screen while the conversation is playing. You can decide whether you want to make the listening conversations part of practice, an opportunity for a group quiz, or simply take bits and pieces of what is presented and create your own activities. The conversations are perfect for launching into discussions and also provide substantive support materials for a range of topics. Students enjoy the challenge and stimulation of these real-world dialogues. It's so constructive that the conversations are presented in natural speech, and are not slowed down or unnatural as many books often present.
   Another website created by Randall is the Train Your Accent website. It is a newer site with not as much content, but the content provided is rich with more real-world language to train students in listening and also inspeaking. There aren't many websites out there dedicated to helping students understand different accents and also work on their own. This website has short listening exercises accompanied by a script, reduced speech script, and ideas for a few activities. This website would also be very useful for self-paced study or individual projects.
2. Music and movies are another wonderful resource to facilitate natural listening exercise which also add an element of playfulness and change of pace. Creating lessons with music can be time-consuming as can finding movies that are appropriate for ESL audiences. One website does the work for you, and if you are looking for visuals to go along with the listening, all these resources are videos. The website is ESL Video.
   There are videos of songs, movies trailers, and short movie clips. Each exercise comes ready made with questions, transcript, and notes. The videos are catalogued by level, but you can also perform a search if there is something particular you are looking for. One other cool aspect of this website is that you can register for free in order to create your own video quizzes. The resources are presented expertly and the possibilities for utilizing these videos is only limited by your imagination.
   There is another stellar website that is designed for learners to practice not just listening, but reading and writing as well. It is ESL Fast. It provides a wealth of stories and conversations, many of which have an audio file accompanied by a script or story. The listening exercises use authentic speech and interesting language to provide a very effective resource for discussion, question and answer, or independent practice. Each listening exercise also comes with a list of vocabulary words, yes/no questions, cloze, crosswords, keys, and even dictation. These exercises are designed to be worked through online, but can easily be printed out or used with an overhead projector. There is no limit to how you could utilize these conversations and stories!
3. Podcasts have become so popular, why not bring them into your ESL classroom? NPR and the BBC have hundreds of podcasts on all types of topics. Most of them are at least 30 minutes in length, so you would need to choose excerpts for your advanced level students. Podcasts are an interesting resource for students who really want challenging, thought-provoking listening activities. Podcasts would be an effective assignment forproject-based work that speaks directly to students and their interests. The topics and language are challenging, spoken in natural English with American and British accents, and there are no scripts available.

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4 Listening Skills and Practice Methods for Beginners

1. Students at the beginning level are just starting on their English learning journey. Everything is new. And if they have travelled overseas to study English, they may be dealing with culture shock, experiencing new things at every turn.
   Though their language skills are not comprehensive, there are some things your beginnings students should be able to do when they hear English spoken. They should be able to hear and repeat words and be able to distinguish between minimal pairs. (Minimal pairs are sets of words that differ in only one sound such as bat and cat.)
   Help your beginning students be successful at listening activities with these tips. To prepare your beginning students, the room should be quiet. When choosing materials, choose those that use an accent similar to yours. Limit distractions during the activity (though it is necessarily not realistic it will make your students more successful), and be sure to lay out the context if you are showing a movie clip or similar material.
   Here are some activities that are good listening exercises for beginning students.
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   Directions

   Give directions. Give students a simple map that you have drawn. Give them directions from one place on the map to another. As they listen, they should trace their finger along the route you give. If they end up where you were directing them, they listened successfully.
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   Telephoning

   The classic game of telephone is good for beginning students. Have students sit in a circle and whisper something into the ear of the first person. Each person must repeat what they heard to the next person in the circle, and they’re only allowed to say the phrase one time. Once the last person has heard the phrase, she says it aloud to the rest of the class and you follow by sharing what you actually said to the first person. See if your class can pass the message along without making any errors.
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   Minimal Pairs

   Minimal pair bingo. Write at least twelve sets of minimal pairs on the board (though twenty is better) and have students copy them in random order into a blank bingo board. Call out words randomly until someone has five in a row. When they do, check to see that they marked off the words you actually said and not their minimal pairs.
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   Listening for Details

   Have students listen for specific words in an audio recording. Give them a short list and have students highlight each word or cross it off when they hear it.

6. No matter what level your students are at, listening is an important aspect of language instruction.

   Try these activities as well as others to give your students the familiarity they need with the English language in spoken form. That way they will be successful when they complete their language program and get to using English in the real world.

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