Beginning to Intermediate
CNN Student News - A site with news stories that are intended for American middle and high school students. It's good listening Practice!
BrainPop - A website where you can go to listen and take notes of flash-animation lectures.
http://www.esl-lab.com/ - A listening website for all levels from Beginner to Advanced! This website has quizzes for self-assessment.
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/ is a fun site that shows you clips of popular movies and then gives you a short multiple-choice quiz to check your understanding. Check it out!
California Long Distance Learning Project - A good short listening website with quizzes, game activities, and (sometimes) videos.
Advanced Listening
This I Believe - This I Believe, Inc., was founded in 2004 as a not-for-profit organization that engages youth and adults from all walks of life in writing, sharing, and discussing brief essays about the core values that guide their daily lives.
The Moth - Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase. Each show starts with a theme, and the storytellers explore it, often in unexpected ways. Since each story is true and every voice authentic, the shows dance between documentary and theater, creating a unique, intimate, and often enlightening experience for the audience.
TED.com - A Global Ideas Network. This is a great site to listen to intelligent people give lectures about academic subjects. It's also a great site to practice your note-taking skills!
EZ Slang! - Reduce your accent, speak more naturally, and understand conversational speech. EZSlang is designed to help you reach these goals rather than sounding like an English textbook. Enjoy!
EngVid - Learn English for free with 288 video lessons by experienced native-speaker teachers. New classes are added three times a week, covering grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, TOEFL, and more. Join over ten million ESL students worldwide who are improving their English every day with engVid.
English Listening Lounge - Listening is a natural way to learn English; it is fun and it works. You can study when you want: anytime, and any place. The passages are real people, speaking real English, talking about what interests them. There are passages for everyone: easy passages for beginners, and more difficult passages for advanced students.
This American Life - This American Life is a weekly public radio show broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 1.7 million listeners. It is produced by Chicago Public Media, distributed by Public Radio International, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards. It is also often the most popular podcast in the country, with around 650,000 people downloading each week.
NPR.org - The nation's number one news source for thoughtful, independent news.
Masters Advanced Academic Listening
For Listening Tips:
http://tigger.uic.edu/~onufrock/lecture_handoutsA.html
For Additional Listening Practice:
1. Links
http://tigger.uic.edu/~onufrock/lecture_linksA.html
2. Short Listening Exercises http://www.uefap.com/listen/exercise/exlis_lcnt.htm
3. Summarizing and Note-Taking
http://www.uefap.com/reading/exercise/menu_nt.htm
4. High-Level Conversations / Interviews
http://www.elllo.org/english/level-6-intermediate-high.htm
5. Listening and Lecture Practice
http://nigelteacher.wordpress.com/links/listening/
6. Archived Princeton Lectures
http://hulk03.princeton.edu:8080/WebMedia/lectures/
7. Video Lectures
http://videolectures.net/
8. Online Lectures from Top Universities
http://www.al-jamiat.com/college-lifestyle/free-online-lectures-top-colleges-universities/
Watch Documentaries
Documentary Heaven: Food for Your Brain
http://documentaryheaven.com/
Link-TV: Documentaries
http://www.linktv.org/documentaries
As your English speaking abilities advance, it becomes increasingly important to work on your listening skills by exposing yourself to material in English for longer periods of time. One easy way to do that is by watching documentaries, which are usually academic in nature and often employ more challenging, higher-level vocabulary. Check out the list of documentary websites below to enjoy some good documentaries on a variety of topics!
PBS: Frontline
Top Documentary Films
http://documentaryheaven.com/
Link-TV: Documentaries
http://www.linktv.org/documentaries
