Listening Practice for ESL Level 1

The links below will take you to exercises that will help you improve your listening skills.

Oral Assessments in Wimba - http://maricopa.horizonwimba.com/maricopa/login  
Login with your email and the password your teacher gives you.  Click here for an instruction handout that explains how to do Oral Assessments.

3 Great Websites for Beginning to Advanced Listening Practice:
Real English Videos & Exercises -  http://www.realenglish.com/reo/index.html
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab - Audio & Exercises - http://www.esl-lab.com/
Elllo English Language Listening Lab Online - Audio, Video, & Exercises - http://elllo.org/

Individual Exercises Grouped by Topic for ESL Level 1:

Alphabet and Spelling Dictation
Alphabet Video and 3 Exercises

Numbers and Dates
Ordinal & Cardinal Numbers Video - After you watch the videos, click on the Lesson 8a Exercises link above the videos to go to the first practice exercise.  Then, use the Exercise 1 buttons at the top right of each page to continue.
Telephone Numbers Videos
 Telephone Numbers
Dates Videos
Dates - Listen and Choose
Dates - Listen and Type - Listen and type the date you hear using numbers and hyphens. For example: 09-01-07.
Dates - Jigsound Matching -Click on the speaker picture on the left to hear a date.  Click on the matching date on the right and drag it to the left. DATES Listening Multiple Choice

Greetings, Personal Information, and Family
COLLEEN'S FAMILY
Where Are You From?
Our Family Roots
Dawn's Family
HOW ARE YOU?
How Are You? 2
Personal Information
Are You Married?
A Form
A Survey - 2
A Survey - 1
Hello!
How Old Are You? Video
Video Quiz - When's your birthday?
How Old Are You?
Meeting New Friends
Is your Dad Home?
Greetings - Saludos - Listen and answer the questions.
Dictation - Greetings -Listen and type in the sentences you hear.

Websites for Beginning to Advanced Listening Practice with Video:

English for All - http://www.myefa.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=welcome
A fabulous website with a series of videos about immigrants and typical job and life experiences in the United States.  There are 20 episodes (5 peoples stories with 4 episodes in each) to watch.  Each episode has vocabulary practice, grammar explanations, and quizzes. 

Real English - http://www.real-english.com/reo/index.html
A site with videos containing interviews with people on the street around the U.S., Britain, Ireland, and Scotland.  The site is currently revising its exercises to practice vocabulary, idioms, and grammar; hopefully these will be ready soon.

English 180 http://www.english180.com/
Grammar, vocabulary, (with interactive quizzes) and conversation lessons with audio and video (podcasts and vodcasts). 

The Daily English Show - http://www.geocities.com/thedailyenglishshow/
Links to videos designed by a New Zealand woman to help ESL students learn and practice idioms, vocabulary, conversational language, and more.  Transcripts for most of the videos are available in English, German, and Japanese.

 English Media Lab - http://www.englishmedialab.com/
Video slideshows that teach vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar in addition to quizzes are on this site.

 Clear Language:  Video-based Listening Comprehension Exercises for ESL Students - http://www.clearbluerecords.com/esl/
Short video clips from popular American TV shows and multiple-choice comprehension exercises are included on this website.

ESL Pod TV - http://kibishipaul.com/blog1/
Weekly videos with vocabulary explanations, multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank quizzes, English transcripts (with links to Japanese and Spanish translation tools), and pdf files of lesson plans with additional questions and activities.

OM Personal Multimedia - http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/
The portal is in Spanish; here is the English site map - http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/sitemapenglish2.htmInstructions in English and Spanish for interactive lessons/courses and some video tutorials on grammar, idioms, and social conversation.

Learn English Feel Good - http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/index.html
Multiple-choice exercises to practice grammar, vocabulary, and listening comprehension (videos are clips from American movies, TV, and songs, although some links no longer work due to removal for copyright infringements).  There are also links to exercises for Russian, Polish, Spanish, and French-speaking students.

ESL Video - http://www.eslvideo.com/
Click on the quizzes tab at the upper left of the website to select videos to watch and then take (or create) multiple-choice quizzes on them.  Videos are from a variety of sources.  Some are designed for ESL, some are music videos/songs - anything a person decides to make a quiz about.

Learning Resources CNN News Stories    http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/archives.html
Click on a category and then on a story title. You can watch a video of the story while you read the transcript (click on story) or you can read an easier summary of the story (click on abridged story). After you listen, click on the Activities buttons on the left for vocabulary and comprehension exercises.

UGoEigo ESL Phonics Video Podcast - http://www.ugoeigo.com/
There are some video clips that focus on consonant pronunciation and some on common conversational sentences (functional phrases).

China232 with Rob and Andrew - http://china232.com/lessons.php
There are mostly audio mp3 clips (podcasts) right now, but these two men are starting to put video clips on the website also.

Free English Videos -  http://www.engvid.com/