These sites offer authentic English audio/podcasts. If you want to listen to, or have your students listen to, native English speaker talk, check them out.
For links to other listening resources: TESL Journal
Suggested Activities
- English Club (Oxbord, UK)
From this site you can listen to English news. - Favorite Poem Project
A collection of videos of Americans reading and speaking about poems they like. - English Listening Lounge
Real people speaking about what interests them. - RepeatAfterUs.com
It's an online library and language lab with audio (and transcripts). - Pulse of the Planet
Short audio segments on nature, culture and science from National Geographic. - BBC Learning English
- ABC News Broadcast
- PBS Online
- CNN Video and Podcasts
- National Public Radio Podcasts
For links to other listening resources: TESL Journal
Suggested Activities
- Prepare listening comprehension activities for your students.
- Ask students to report orally some of the news from any of these sites.
- Ask students to write a report or a critical essay based a true story from the radio.
- Ask students to report (and record/podcast) a story or event in the news from a different perspective.
- Ask students to write a letter to one of the persons from the My Favorite Poem project in response to what he/she says about his/her poem.
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