Elllo -- English Language Listening Library Online

Website of the day: Elllo

What is this?

Elllo is a really fantastic website with over 1000 free listening practices and activities with pictures, videos, downladable MP 3 and much more. These practices are extremely helpful for students and teachers. What makes the listening resource unique is that the speakers of these listening practice come from all over the world with different accents. Besides, the genres of listening practice include interviews in audio or video format, conversation, casual talk or speech.

CNN Student News

Today’s website: CNN Student News.

What is it?

The website provides a large amount of news videos, each of which has transcripts, discussion questions, and news quizzes. New video made based on the recent important news will be uploaded from Monday to Friday. It is suitable for intermediate to advanced learners.

Wordia--Let people tell you what the words means!

Today's website: Wordia

What is it about?

It is a brilliant unique and interesting on-line dictionary for intermediate to advanced English learners to learn vocabulary. As the slogan of the website goes, Wordia “bring words to life”. This website provides not only standard definitions of words from Collins English Electronic Dictionary (Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008) but also videos in which both famous and ordinary people can give their own definitions and connotations of words.

Ted: Ideas worth spreading

Today's website: TED: ideas worth spreading

Source: http://www.ted.com/

 What is this?

It is an amazing website with over 700 best talks, which are subtitled in English and even in other various languages. Originally, the talks are given by great people in the field Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED). However, the website now has more topics other than the three fields. These videos are freely shared and reposted so that English teachers can use the video clips on the website to amplify the depth and width of our teaching materials.       

lyricstraining-Practice listening and having fun!

Today's website: Lyrics training

What is this?

It’s an excellent websites with many popular music videos whereby students can enjoy listening to their favorite songs while typing the lyrics they just heard. In every music video of the website, there are three modes of exercises based on the levels of students: beginner, intermediate, or expert.  Teachers no longer have to print out the lyrics or press the buttons on the CD player again and again to find the certain parts of the song.

              

Listen-and-Write -- Fantastic website to practice listening!

Website of the day: Listen and write

What is this?

It is a website that we can use to improve listening ability in particular. It contains various video clips and audio files, each of which includes three activities which learners can write down what they have heard: full mode, quick mode, and blank mode.