Listening Activities

Using LearnEnglish Kids for listening. Here are some tips and ideas on how to use LearnEnglish Kids for listening practice with your classes. Where can I find listening materials? Click on the listen & watch tab at the top of the home page to find lots of listening practice.

Gameplay requires the use of the mouse. Turn this single-player game into a "play together" by sharing the controls or asking your child to make gameplay choices while you work the controls. Read with us skills focus on early literacy and include: listening, comprehension, speech, reading, writing, vocabulary, letters and their sounds, and spelling.

TinyTap is the best way to create personalised games for kids on the iPad. TinyTap allows parents and their kids to turn the moments they share together into personal games. Free on the App Store.

Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? is one of our favorite Dr. Seuss books. After reading the book, we went on a sound hunt. Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Dr. Seuss's Book of Wonderful Noises is full of onomatopoeia. It's all about the sounds Mr. Brown can make.

In this audio soap set in London a group of young people from around the world share their lives over a cup of coffee.

language learning activities for learners of english efl and esl combined with digital literacy

Watching Movies is a great way of developing your English, but sometimes what you are seeing can distract you from what you are hearing. So in this activity you can just listen to a movie and follow the script. This activity uses two websites.

These are computer assisted language learning word games designed for students of English as a Second Language.

http://www.digitalplay.info/blog/2012/06/22/pandas-bigger-adventure/ Level: Intermediate Location: Computer Classroom Skills Focus: Speaking/ Listening Language focus: Connectors and Sequencers Game: Panda's Bigger Adventure This game is about a time travelling Panda. Panda has to first fix his time machine and then travel between various time zones in order to beat his arch enemy - the Pirate Robot.

http://www.digitalplay.info/blog/2013/01/09/dictionary-with-deponia/ Level: Intermediate Location: Connected Classroom Skills Focus: Reading/ Dictionary work Language focus: Nouns and their definitions This game is set in the future fictional world of Deponia. Visually it's a joy to look at and because of the in-game audio (the characters talk) and subtitles as well as an extensive written walkthrough it lends itself very well for some extensive skills practice and dictionary work.

The Kindersite has 1,000s of graded educational games, songs and stories, Used by 11,540 schools in 136 countries. Recommended by teachers worldwide as the best way to introduce technology and English to children

Gold Clues are hidden in three different places: Numbers Kingdom, Alphabet City, and Shapes Forest. Find them by playing the games.

ESL Listening Comprehension Exercises: Movie clips to practice English | ELL/ELT

English Listening Lessons for Beginner Level ESL Students. Improve your basic listening using audio files, fun quizzes, and answers.

This was one of my first audio projects on this web site. It was originally called the "English Listening Room." That's why the URL is www.manythings.org/el.

This ESL listening Web site created by Randall Davis helps ESL/EFL students improve their listening comprehension skills through practice with self-grading quiz pages.

ELLLO is a collection of over 800 audio activities that esl, efl, English students and teachers can access freely via the net. Most audio comes with pictures of the speaker, the transcript, and downloadable audio in mp3 format.

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It takes practice to learn to listen to your sonic environment. These activities can suggest new ways of listening-and give you a sense of how others hear the world. You can play with all of these activities from your home computer.

123Listening.com is a website built and maintained by MES-English.com and Dream English.com. Many different audio downloads and many different worksheets that can be combined to be very simple for young learners or more difficult for older students. DreamEnglish.com offers free mp3 downloads with chants and songs for children, lesson and games ideas, 2 CDs packed with great songs for children.

Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation. Real people, real situations. Easy and fun to use.