Welcome to ESL Listening
ESL Listening provides
materials to help develop the listening skills of
English language learners. These including podcasts and
streamed video & audio.
These are accompanied by
interactive activities, including traditional ESL/EFL
listening comprehension exercises. There are also
worksheets based around short video
clips. There also links to some of the
best podcasts for ESL
students.
ESL
Listening is a sister site to ESL Reading,
has been
providing free graded reading materials for English
language learners since 2002. ESL Reading has links
with Extensive Reading, the British Council and many
other organisations promoting language learning through
reading.
ESL Reading features in the
recently published, Tips for Teaching with Call:
Practical Approaches to Computer -Assisted Languag
Learning (2008,
Pearson/Longman).
The
Editor
ESL Listening is edited
by Kieran McGovern, described in
Extensive Reading in
the Second Language Classroom
(Cambridge,
1998) as being 'amongst the
best writers of language learner materials in
English’.
Fun Facts
Poems
Songs
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Young
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