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      Materials for Listening Skills
      Submitted by Peag on 21 July, 2009 - 02:58

      Hi, I'm Peag. I m currently working at an elementary school here in the Philippines. We are trying to generate a listening skills program for our students. We want to provide our children with audio materials that will help them develop their vocabulary, intonation and grammar. I've been browsing several sites and found good podcasts, my problem is how to arrange the materials for the teachers. Does anybody know where i can find sets of downlodable listening materials complete with lesson plans?

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      maharajanvethan
      Useful websites for Students-listening comprehension
      Submitted on 22 July, 2009 - 10:28

       Hi!  Peag

      I am very happy to help you to upgrade the level of students. You may consider the following websites for listening practice for the development of your students in all key areas.

      1 http://www.esl-lab.com/- it is a complete listening comprehension oriented website helps any kind of students at any level.

      2 http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/comp/frame1T.htm- it is a very useful website for students to improve their reading skill

      3 http://www.nonstopenglish.com/allexercises/elementary-004.asp- it is a another useful website for improving basic grammar with a wide rage.

      4. http://www.esl-lab.com/job1.htm- This is a another useful website for listening comprehension

      5. http://www.esl-lab.com/tradition/usflag-video.htm- This is more for your students audio visual listening comprehension

       For you I can suggest a  few ideas that according to the level of the students you can train your students in improving their listening skills. Play all the listening comprehension once through windows media player and click the file and save it by clicking save as media option

       

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      Haleema
      Hi Peg
      Submitted on 12 October, 2009 - 04:39

      It is very important to know what age group you are teaching more than that how  English is being taught. Is it a proficiency course (optional or compulsary)? Because if its compulsary and lets say  English is taught from Class 1 to 10 then the listening skills are introduced from Grade 1 and  the complexity is increased as learners move to higher class. 

      You need to decide how would you like to arrange your material

      Would it be genre-specific ( narrative, descriptive, argumentative etc )? or

      Would it be focusing on functions and co-functions ?

      For example:

      Use limited linguistic exponents to communicate appropriately for functions and co-functions of opinions

      Use selected exponents to communicate appropriately for functions and co-functions of opinions

      Use extended linguistic exponents to communicate appropriately for functions and co-functions of opinions

      OR if you want you can organize the clips according to the aural skills, Richard(1983) has listed out

      in the article “Listening comprehension: Approach, design, procedure”, that are involved in conversational discourse, which are as follows:

      • discriminating sounds in words, especially phonemic contrasts
      • retaining chunks of language of different length in short-term memory
      • deducing the meaning of unfamiliar words
      • predicting content
      • decoding meaning with the help of non-verbal and paralinguistic cues
      • recognizing the communicative purpose according to goals, participants and contexts using their real-life knowledge
      • comprehending particular meaning expressed in different grammatical forms
      • noting contradictions, inadequate information, ambiguities
      • differentiating between fact and opinion

      (Pp. 219-239)

      Good Luck!

       

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      gentur
      Listening material for Senior High School Students
      Submitted on 10 May, 2012 - 01:47

      Hi, i'm gentur

      I'm curently teaching at English course now. My problem is how to hike the students' ability in listening? Any body wants to help me..? tq

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      teacheronline
      Newsactivities.com
      Submitted on 11 May, 2012 - 09:13

      Hi Peag,

      This site offers free weekly EFL/ESL news activities based on BBC articles and videos: www.Newsactivities.com

      Some of the more advanced news activities are based on videos for listening comprehension.