Listening Website Links

In this post you'll find links to a number of websites that offer listening lesson plans, audio files, quizzes, podcasts, games, and more.  Enjoy!

• Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab:  Developed by a teacher, this site contains well organized lessons divided into Pre-listening, Listening, & Post Listening sections.
  
  
• English Language Listening Online (ELLLO) :  Arranged by levels, this site provides a large selection of authentic recordings by native speakers and features a variety of accents.
  
  
• Talk English:  This website hosts hundreds of practical phrases and sentences for listening and pronunciation.  Arranged by topic, it serves almost as an online audio phrasebook.
  
  
• Voice of America: This well-known site hosts news stories read by native speakers in a slower, clearer voice.
  

• National Public Radio:  This American radio broadcasting network posts many of their news reports online, along with podcasts, live streaming radio, and other fun stuff.
  
  
• Classic Fairy Tales: These narrated fairy tales have some pictures and a little animation, as well.
  
  
• Focus English: Organized by topic, this site provides some useful phrases and sentences, but it's not very user friendly, as it requires RealPlayer.
  
  

Finally, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has a very comprehensive and useful set of tips for your English listening skills.  It can be accessed through their Self-Access Center:  Listening Advice.

For SKKU Students:  

• Worksheet for Lab
• Answer Sheet for Lab

For more listening links, check out ESL Gold's listening links page.

David Nunan's "Practical English Language Teaching"

Below you'll find a few resources to help your reading and studying of Practical English Language Teaching by David Nunan.  

• Visit David Nunan's Official Website.
• Chapter 2, Listening:  Study Guide
• Chapter 4, Reading: Study Guide (also Harmer, Ch. 7)
  
  (more to come)

Total Physical Response (TPR)

For those of you who are interested in the Total Physical Response (TPR) method, here are a few links that might be helpful.

• TPR World:  This is a James Asher's website which is dedicated to promoting TPR, and, of course, selling his books and products!  (right, James Asher)
  
  
• Total Physical Response Storytelling (TPRS):  This is a more recent expansion of the original TPR method.  (Actually, they still use the same acronym, TPRS, but they have officially  changed the name to Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling.) This version of TPR involves fewer commands and more storytelling, and its proponants claim it offers a more balanced approach to second language acquisition than the original TPR. 
  
  
• TPR Sequences: This is posted on EnglishRaven.com, a useful website for English teachers.  The site is hosted by Australian Jason Renshaw who is a professor at Kyungpook National University in Daegu, Korea.  SKKU students might also be interested to know that Jason's wife is Korean and together they have a child.   (right, Jason Renshaw and his family)
  
  
• TPR Instructional Video:  This video comes from the series "Teacher Training Through Video: ESL Techniques" (K. Lynn Savage, editor).
  Teacher Training Through Video, Clip 1: Total Physical Response
  

• TPR Activity Videos.  Jeremy Harmer has posted a number of useful videos on YouTube and on his own website that may help you visualize a few TPR activities.