What is it?
Listening is a perceptive skill that involves identifying the sounds of speech and processing them into words and sentences. When listening, the ears receive the sounds, and the brain converts them in meaningful messages. This skill requires extreme attention and focus. People who have problems concentrating are poor listeners. Remember listening and hearing are two completely different processes!
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In the following list, it will be
found five websites to practice this skill.
To keep in mind: They are not in hierarchical
order (from the best website to the worst one). They are a compilation of useful
webpages to improve the listening skill.
LyricsTraining
LyricsTraining
will help you to improve your listening skill. You can look for your favorite
song, start playing it, and practicing with filling-gaps or multiple-choice
activities. The constant exposure to listening will improve your capacity to
recognize sounds and words in a variety of accents such as British, American,
Scottish, Jamaican, etc. If you want to have LyricsTraining at your fingertips,
you can download it in the Playstore for Android or in the Appstore for iPhone.
This website is suitable for users over 13 years old. What are you waiting to
start practicing your listening, through music videos and the lyrics of your
favorite songs?
Pre-Post
activities:
NO
Levels: A1 – C1
Audio
transcription: NO
Printable
version: NO
Updated: YES
Reliability: 100%
Link: lyricstraining.com
TEDed
TedEd is a website designed for students and teachers to make classes more interactive. This site offers animated videos divided into subjects like arts, health, language, literature, psychology, mathematics, etc. Every lesson is divided into four parts: Watch (the animated video). Think to answer (some multiple-choice questions, or open answer questions). The number of questions may vary. Dig deeper (contribution of information about the video). Finally, discuss (a guided discussion in which you can take part through commenting). This website is suitable for A2 to C1 level, covering ages of over 13 years old. A particular, and interesting feature is that you can create your own video lessons. Students can create talks on their own, and teachers can learn about how to create, and give their own talks in their communities. You must create an account to access all the tools that the website offers. When you will be signing up, you can register as a student, teacher, or parent.
Levels: A2-C1
Audio transcription: NO
Pre-activities: NO
Post
activities: YES
Updated: YES
Printable version: NO
Reliability: 100%
Link: ed.ted.com
ESL Video
A great website to practice the listening skill. There are a lot of video lessons divided into 5 levels: Beginners, low intermediate, intermediate, high-intermediate, and advanced. The lessons are also divided into categories or topics. You can do its multiple-choice, and filling gap activities to improve your listening skill. There is not a specific age for using it but an average would be for students over 13 years old. Age may vary.
Levels: A1 - C1
Audio transcription: YES
Pre-Post activities: NO
Printable version: YES
Updated: YES
Reliability: 100%
Link: eslvideo.com
This website provides online English listening comprehension activities for ESL and EFL students over 7 years old (age may vary). The activities in Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab focus on comprehension skills at three levels (Easy, intermediate, and difficult) There is a combination of children, teenagers, and adults' voices. In each audio lesson, the level, the topic, the speakers, and the length are specified. In addition, you will find multiple-choice activities to do online. As a matter of fact, you will practice your listening skill in a funny way.
Levels: A1 - B2
Audio transcription: YES
Pre-Post activities: YES
Printable version: NO
Vocabulary practice: YES
Updated: YES
Reliability: 100%
Link: esl-lab.com
DailyESL.com
This website provides users with different audio lessons divided into 7 categories; in the community, around the house, holidays, vacations, education, work, hobbies, and family. Daily ESL is designed to help students to become familiar with common vocabulary and expressions they can use all the time in many situations. The audios are not complex. It is suitable for beginners to intermediate students who are over 12 years old (age may vary). Thanks to its multiple-choice activities you will enjoy practicing this receptive skill.
Levels: A1 – B1
Pre-activities: NO
Post-activities: YES
Printable version: NO
Audio transcription: YES
Updated: YES
Reliability: 100%
Link: dailyesl.com
Cool design for the blog. Out of all the websites you present, my favorite is LyricsTraining. The concept is innovative. It makes the practicing of the listening skill a fun time listening to music while filling gaps.
ReplyDeleteHello everyone! I want to congratulate you because your blog is great. All the content is well organized and attractive. Moreover, when looking for some websites to practice in this section the one that I liked the most was Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab. It has really good activities to practice and you can also choose the level of difficulty so once you manage any level you can continue practicing the others.
ReplyDeleteGood job with your blog. The website that I liked the most is TedEd since it is designed for students and teachers so that the classes are more interactive. There are several animated videos on many subjects and that is what makes it so engaging and diverse.
ReplyDeleteHello everyone, I was checking the web pages about listening and I have to congratulate you because you have added a lot of information about them, such as if the web page is updated or not and their reliability which is very useful. The web page I like the most is Randall's ESL Vyber Listening Lab because the content is divided into levels which help us to find the information easily, also we can look for a wide variety of activities.
ReplyDeleteHi guys, you have done a great job on this blog. The websites for listening skills are very useful, I liked "ESL Videos" because it is a great website to practice the listening skill, also, there are a lot of video lessons divided by levels. Each lesson has different topics and activities that help learners to improve their listening skills.
ReplyDeleteHi guys, I would like to tell you that I like the organization of the information published in this section. Also, all of the website options for practicing listening skills are interesting and fun. The website I liked the most from your blog is Lyrics training, I have used this website, and it is fun to play and learn. Also, another thing about this website is that it has an application that you can download on your cell phone. I think it is important for students to have fun while they are learning, and this website does that for them.
ReplyDeleteThe design of the page is attractive and contains adequate information. This page is useful to develop listening skills in students through interactive, entertaining activities where the student will learn and have fun at the same time.
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