lunes, 29 de junio de 2020

Best English Websites 


Listening websites


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1. TED-Ed Lessons Series


Level: B1 - C1.
Age: 10+
TED-Ed has several videos that are very interesting to watch, as they address topics such as science, technology, history, nature and much more! Each video develops students' listening skills and is accompanied by comprehension questions to check understanding, as well as open-ended questions and links to explore more on the topic. Most of the videos are quite short, so students can easily watch them twice if necessary, and you can also find the transcript.




2. Speechyard

Link: https://speechyard.com/video-exercises/
Level: A1 - C1.
Age: young adults.
Speechyard exercises will help you practice listening by watching videos and doing interactive exercises. The page allows us to choose the category of the videos and the level you want. Here you will have to write, build words and sentences, and find the missing word. Before starting the video, instructions are given on how to do each exercise. Students can listen more than once until the video is understood.




3.  Elllo


Link: http://elllo.org/index.htm
Level: A1 - C1. 
Age: 8+
English Language Listening Library Online (ELLLO) is a web page that contains activities to help develop students' listening skills. The page contains audios and videos with speakers from all over the world, which is a great advantage for a student to hear different accents. On this website, students can listen to audio or watch a video, read the script, take an interactive quiz, and learn vocabulary. These activities are listed by difficulty in grammar and vocabulary according to the CEFR.



4. Lyrics Training


Link: https://es.lyricstraining.com/
All levels.
Age: 10+
LyricsTraining helps train the ear when listening to songs. It is also an entertaining way to learn the lyrics of students' favorite songs. You can choose the difficulty from beginner to advanced. There are two different modes of practice, the first is writing mode and the other is selection, in which according to the student can choose.

5. ESL Video

Link: https://eslvideo.com/series.php?id=Easy%20English
Level: A1 - C1. 
Age: 8+
Esl Video allows students from 8 years old to explore questionnaires by level, from A1 to C1 according to the CEFR. The videos on this site are hosted on YouTube and next to each one has a short quiz. This page contains printable fill-in activities to practice listening skills in the classroom. In addition to offering videos with practice activities, it is a very useful tool for teachers since they can create their own questionnaires in the Create tab. Just enter, add a title, description, video embed code, and a thumbnail image. Then add questions and share the quiz with students.

5 comentarios:

  1. Nice design for the blog. Mu favorite website for the listening skill is TED Ed. It offers so many professional and appealing videos on many topics. It also evaluates your listening comprehension.

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  2. Dear classmates, first of all I would like congratulating you. The design that you have used for your blog is attractive. In addition, the information provided is accurate, and help the people to know more about these websites. What it is referred to the list of webpages for practicing the listening skill, I will say that the one that I like the most is Lyrics training. The reason why I have chosen this website is because its activities. You can learn the English language through songs by doing multiple-choice or typing exercises. Moreover, you don’t need to sign up for using it. I really love it.

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  3. Hi dear classmates, I was checking your blog about listening. The design you used is attractive and all the information about the listening web pages is organized and very useful. The web page I liked the most is ESL Video because of the content we can look for, such as some printable fill-in activities to practice our listening skills in classes. Also we can answer some multiple-choice questions by listening to some videos. Is important to mention that this page is not only for students, also for teachers because they can create their own lesson in the "create tab" which is very useful. Great Job.

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  4. Hi guys, I have seen your blog and I think that you have done a great job in selecting the web sites. For listening skill, the website that I liked the most was Lyrics training because I consider that it is an interactive and fun way to learn a language, since you can practice while listening to your favorite song, I really liked it, this is a great website

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  5. Dear Group, I reviewed all the content that you present on your page and I liked the presentation and organization, it is attractive for users, in addition it contains many web pages that offer to improve the skills of the students through activities of interest.

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