2.+Listening+Resources

**Welcome to your Listening Resources page. Here you will find useful websites that you can try outside class.** **Listening Skills - Hints, tips and things to do**
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 * Enjoy! **

* [|www.ted.com] (TRY THIS OUT THIS WEEK) and practice your note taking skills.

Independent Learning
These are the suggestions that you and your classmates picked to do for independent learning. You should pick 1 or 2 of these to focus on this module.
 * Listen to the radio and write down a short summary or take a dictation (write out all your hear)
 * Join a conversation class in the ILC
 * Visit websites with listening exercises (see website list)
 * Watch a television program or movie and write a "who, what, when, where" summary
 * Record new vocabulary in a vocabulary book by writing the word, the word form, a definition in English and an example of the word being used in a sentence

 2. [|www.agenda.org] Find the listening exercises and pick one that is at the level you want to practise. You will see a list of stories – they are all short conversations. First, click “text completion” to listen and complete the gaps. Click “show score” to see the correct answers. Then, you can click “listen and read” to see the script and build vocabulary

=== 3. [|www.breakingnewsenglish.com] === This is an excellent site to improve both your general knowledge and listening skills. It is free and there are minimal advertisements. Have fun!

===4. **[]** === This website has lots of listening activities. They ask you to think about the topic before you listen to the recording. There are multiple choice questions for you to do.

This website offers tasks that are General listening, Basic Listening, Listening for Academic purposes, Vocabulary lessons, and long conversations. There are 3 level of difficulty for each type of listening task. You should focus on Listening for Academic Purposes tasks and the Long Conversations. Pick the level that challenges you the most.

5. [] This website has lots of multiple choice questions. The recordings you hear on this website use lot of different accents (shown by using the country's flag). There a many levels of difficulty. You should be at Intermediate level of higher.

6. [] This websites uses movie clips as the recording you listen to. ** There are multiple choice questions for you to answer. ** 7. [] - Movie trailers 8.[] - The Simpsons 9.[] - more movie trailers

10.[] This has those word that sound alike - ship and sheep. This will be great practice that will also help you hear the different sounds of English. Compiled by Sharon John