Skills+-+Listening

There are lots of ways of practicing your Listening Skills.

**Ideas for Independent learning**
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 * Visit an ILC teacher to ask about how to improve your listening skills.
 * Visit websites with listening exercises.
 * Watch a TV program or movie and write a Who, What, Where, When summary.
 * Record new vocabulary in a vocabulary book by writing the word, the word form, a definition in English and an example of the word being used in a sentence. Use the words you learn the next day in conversation.
 * Listen to the radio.
 * USEFUL WEBSITES**

[|www.agenda.org] Find the listening exercises and pick one that is at the level you want to practise. You will see a list of stories – they are all short conversations. First, click “text completion” to listen and complete the gaps. Click “show score” to see the correct answers. Then, you can click “listen and read” to see the script and build vocabulary [|www.breakingnewsenglish.com] This is an excellent site to improve both your general knowledge and listening skills. It is free and there are minimal advertisements. Have fun!

**[|][]** This website has lots of listening activities. They ask you to think about the topic before you listen to the recording. There are multiple choice questions for you to do. This website offers tasks that are General listening, Basic Listening, Listening for Academic purposes, Vocabulary lessons, and long conversations. There are 3 level of difficulty for each type of listening task. You should focus on Listening for Academic Purposes tasks and the Long Conversations. Pick the level that challenges you the most.

[] This website has lots of multiple choice questions. The recordings you hear on this website use lot of different accents (shown by using the country's flag). There a many levels of difficulty. You should be at Intermediate level of higher.

[] This websites uses movie clips as the recording you listen to. There are multiple choice questions for you to answer. [] - Movie trailers [] - The Simpsons [] - more movie trailers

[] This has those word that sound alike - ship and sheep. This will be great practice that will also help you hear the different sounds of English.

[] TV and Radio listening activities with gap fill exercises, T/F questions and multiple choice questions.