Links for Listening Practice

Listening Websites

ELLLO - Many different topics and activities for listening practice.

Randalls' ESL Cyber Listening Lab - Listening practice and quizzes

Listening Activities (ESLoop by Lauri Fried-Lee)

Radio Stories

StoryCorps - At this website, many people tell stories from their lives.

• The Measure of a Man - Listen to Dr. William Weaver tell a story about his father.
• Speak, Pancakes: The Language of Love - Tomas is from Slovakia, and Carol is from the state of Wisconsin. Listen to them talk about how they met.
• Hey, You Forgot Something - Julio Diaz was  robbed on a subway platform. Listen to him tell how he turned a bad situation into something positive.
• From the Fields to the Classroom: A Mother's Tale - Listen to Lourdes Villanueva tell her son about growing up in a migrant family.
• Two Routes to Marriage - A mother and daughter-in-law compare their two different routes to marriage.

This I Believe - At this website, many people talk about important things they believe.

• There Is No Job More Important Than Parenting - Dr. Benjamin Carson talks about his mother.

Warm Hands, Warm Heart - Scientists learn that the proverb "cold hands, warm heart" is not true.

Christmas Story -- John Henry Faulk's story which is broadcast every year on NPR.

Movies & Video Clips

Scientific American Frontiers (PBS) - Science programs shown on public television and hosted by Alan Alda.

• Animal Intelligence
• Animal Communication
• Memory

The Futures Channel