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Download Audacity - Free Audio Editor and Recorder
Be sure to download Lame, as well as converting your audio files to Mp3.

Randall's Listening Page
Tons of great listening activities for all levels.

Listening Resources on the Net

The Bob and Rob Show
Fun weekly English lessons

Voice of America
A 30-minute daily news and feature program in a simplified form of American English, made easier for those learning the language.

California Distance Learning Project
Adult learning activities with listening.

Implementation of Voice Journals
In this article, Randall Davis gives tips on how to use digital voice journals with students.

Pronunciation Dictation Practice
Click on a dictation for each sound below, then follow the directions that you will see. Wonderful practice for your students.

English Language Listening Lab Online - ELLO
Encourage your students to learn English by listening to English speakers from all over the world. Over 500 listening activities to choose from.

Finding your Voice Online
A comprehensive article about the use of audio tools as an interactive online tool.

English Trailers
With this non-profit educational site your students can watch the latest movie trailers and enhance their vocabulary with a cloze exercise and a quiz related to each trailer. Some trailers require QUICKTIME 7 to work. If you don't have quicktime 7 in your computer, you can download it by clicking on the link below.

Quicktime 7
Download the latest version of Quicktime to watch movies in your computer.

EFL Club - movies
Watch each movie trailer and fill in the blanks with the words you hear. Quicktime is also required.

Apple Movie Trailers
Thousands of movie trailers for your students. Are you looking for specific trailers? Try the trailer search. This is not an educational site, but you can prepare your own activities.

Video stories
Why not become a movie director? You can record your own videos with a digital camera and build more specific activities. Check out this example.

Workshop handout
Presenters: Aldaíres Brito de Sousa, Patrícia Stahl Cordeiro Fleury, Peter Rodrigues Fernandes, Rosângela Tiyoko Matsunaga, and Vinícius Vieira Lemos.

Audio News
Listen to the news

English by Radio
Listen to radio news in English.

Everyday English in Conversation

Breaking News Online
All the current events lesson plans contain a news article, listening (MP3 file), communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises. Classroom handouts are reproducible in Word and PDF.

English Listening
Listening resource for beginners, intermediate and advanced students.

Listen to Poetry

Teach Poetry

The Rhyme Zone
Type in a word to find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and much more.

The Favorite Poem Project

Magnetic Poetry