Resources for Listening

Best Resources for Listening

English teachers who get difficulties finding material especially "Listening Materials", be calm and prepare your laptop, Teachers. Nowadays, with technology everything become easy and simple. It is also useful in finding listening materials in the Internet. Teachers will be very helpful if they can use technology in the right and appropriate way in their teaching. 

Teachers usually get difficulties in finding the best level of listening material and the topic for the listening material as well. If they want to surf the internet, there are a lot of things that can be used for teaching. There are several website that provides many listening materials with a bunch of topic and level for the students. It can be the "Authentic" one or "Recorded" one. Teachers is the one who decide what listening materials that can match well with the culture and background of the students.

Here are the "Best 5 Online Resources for Listening"

1. VOA Learning English 

 VOA or Voice of America is widely-known brand that people can see in many medias, such as News in TV or YouTube as well. VOA Learning English tells the news around the world. This website provide you MP3 audio and video to watch. It is easy, because it is download able and free. So, teachers may download it directly, and use it in the classroom without any meaningful difficulties. The video also come up with subtitle that no more that three minutes long.  Just go to this
VOA Learning English and find out more, Teachers. 

2. Talk English

Talk English come up with listening materials in many levels of students; Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced. So, teachers will automatically helped by this. The listening material can be conversation, multiple choice quiz or audio full script. It is also free and downloadable. But, there are also several choices, if you want to pay for the audio, you may do that here. So, check and go to  Talk English for finding best listening material for the students.

 

3. Podcast in English

Podcast in English is also another great website that provides many listening materials in the MP3 format. The podcast has several levels and variety of topics. It is also very easy to download the podcast. Podcast in English is free and you can sign up with your email account. The transcript and worksheet are also available. Teachers, just go Podcast in English and find your best listening material. 

 




4. ESL Cyber Listening Lab

ESL Cyber Listening Lab is greatly provide the teachers with quizzes. The quizzes are divided into several level, such as Easy, Medium and Difficult. Not only that, teachers are also provided by the Pre-listening activity of this ESL Cyber Listening Lab. After having the Pre-Listening, multiple choices quiz and Post-activity will be followed. No more talk, just go to this
ESL Cyber Listening Lab and you can find many things in it.


















5.  Newsy

Similar with VOA, Newsy also provides listening materials in the form of short news with variety of topics, from entertainment to business, International to US news. The best thing of this site is that each video also provided by the transcript of the news report. Another jackpot is, Newsy was offered as an app for Android, Blackberry, iPhone and iPad. Just go to this
Newsy to know what's the next amazing thing.

So, teachers.. do not need to feel stress in finding the listening material that appropriate for your students. With technology, teaching become easier and simpler. Don't forget to always