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LISTENING STRATEGIES     Active Listening Stategies Studygs 

LISTENING EXERCISES

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Basic English dialogue with video  ABC Asia Pacific  43 Video Episodes on everyday conversation
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Listening for Specific Information  BBC         Watch and Listen  BBC

  Basic Listening Conversations   univ-fcomte.fr/

Listening Conversations and Talks with Questions  ESL Lab  ***
       You can Download the Script at bottom of each Lesson. Easy, Medium & Difficult
        Also, see the Vocabulary and Exercises for these conversations  esl lab vocab

 

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Listening to People from various Countries talking about their Experiences ELLLO.org
       Has Comprehension Questions and Script

Voice of America Education Broadcast .voanews.com/specialenglish/
       Read and Listen to Many News Stories on Education and other topics

ABC Online: Listen to and Read  News, then try the exercises ABC In the News

BBC World News:  Words in the News 
       Listen and Read the News Stories and New Vocabulary

BBC Video Nation   bbc co uk
      a collection of videos of people talking about their lives

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ABC Asia Pacific  English Bites 
        Listen to and Read Stories from the ABC

Listening Exercises  ParaPAL

Movie Trailers with many Exercises  http://www.english-trailers.com/index.php

HOW TO LISTEN TO LECTURES   Listening Comprehension and Notetaking   uefap.co.uk  
   click on the items in the menu on left to learn how to listen and take notes

      Also read the standard listening comprehension exercise here .You can use this with any listening

Structure of a Lecture .uefap
        Recognizing Discourse Markers

Note taking during Lectures  MT Royal College

 

Lecture Listening Exercise   Lecture on California with Questions  edtech uiuc.edu  NEW

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Listening and Note taking Exercises _ Many short listening topics, some with gap fill   uefap  ***
                   
Also try the general listening exercises   uefap

Listenings:  a huge range of video listenings on many topics  learnoutloud  New

Princeton University Lectures   Click on real audio or windows media to listen Princeton                                    Many Lectures, mostly on Different Topics, from Science to Economics

SBS Insight: Topics of current interest are debated   SBS   You can watch the program on Tuesday Nights at 7:30 pm and download the Transcript by clicking on any month/year

 

PODCASTS   Introduction to Podcasting   learnoutloud

Online video/audio titles    learnoutloud
  many lectures, speeches interviews sorted by topic

Education on Line  Jimmy Ruska Blog
  links and ideas  for learning from audio files online

Online web casts lectures   berkeley edu
  lectures on many topics from Univ of California

Wikipedia Spoken Articles   wikipedia  articles on many topics in ogg format