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Try "Listen a minute .com" for Easy listening texts

This site Listen a minute .com" has  Easy listening texts for independent study.  Why don't you give them a try. 

One minute a day is all you need to improve your listening skills. Focus on new words, grammar and pronunciation in these short texts. Doing the online activities, discussion, survey and writing will help. Listen many times - enough for you to you understand everything. Listen A Minute.

See "News English Lessons.com" for Easier news stories

This site  News English Lessons .com has easier news stories that will be a valuable study aid for listening.  Please try our some of these stories in your independent study time.

English club .com

This free site English club .com looks to be most promising with lots of practice materials for:- listening (with news), idiomatic language, this week in history, language tools and much more. Why don't you check it out for your independent study time.  Have fun. :-)

CDLP California distance Learning Project

This site has many stories contained within eleven different topic areas to help you develop your listening skills.
You can read the story, listen to the story with or without the text and some stories have accompanying video clips. After listening try the activities. You can:- learn new words and hear the correct pronunciation for these words, practice spelling the words from hearing as you hear them, play a matching game (matching the word to a definition), and answer multi choice questions. When you have finished all of the exercises you can mail your results to your teacher. Have fun with this site. :-)

ELLO

ELLLO (English listening lesson library online), has a vast resource of easily understood listening materials for listening practice for English language learners.
News Center is an animated newscast with six stories. Newscenter can help students learn academic English and develop test taking skills for standardized listening tests such as TOEFL®, TOEIC® and IELTS®. Stories can be played with or without text and have accompanying questions and answers. The news is delivered at a medium speed from a reader with a clear voice. This site should prove to be most useful. Have fun with your listening.

ESL News New Zealand

 

This  site "ESL News New Zealand" has news audio files with  transcripts to practice your listening skills. The news story archive has stories going back about three or four years so there is plenty of material to practice with.

Test your skills by looking at a news heading and trying to predict what it might be about.

Then make up some questions to guide your listening. Try to find out who or what the story is about. Where and when did the thing happen? What happened? Why did it happen?How much/how many etc etc.

Listen to the story without looking at the transcript. Once you have listened a few times and answered your own questions listen again with the transcript and check to see if you got your questions right. Did the story heading help you guess what the story was going to be about?

Could you explain to someone what the story was about in your own words in a summarised form?

There are usually a few comments at the end of the story for you to think about and consider what your point of view might be on a particular topic. This is important practice for this terms assessment which requires you give your reasoned point of view. So this would be a great site to use this term for your independent study. Happy studying. :-)

Randalls ESL cyber listening lab

Hello everyone,
Here is a great site to practice your listening skills. There are a large number of podcasts for you to listen to and these are arranged in different levels so you can choose the one most suited to your needs. Enjoy your study. :-)