TED Talks - Evelyn Glennie shows how to listen

Another great video from TED Talks about listening.



Word cloud of the TED Talk video. 

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TED Talks - Julian Treasure : 5 ways to listen better

Listening is a very important skill in learning English. From the TED website, is a nice video about listening by Julian Treasure. 



Now here is a word cloud which shows the words used by Julian Treasure in this TED video. Cool, isn't it?

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3 Wonderful Things About ELLLO

If you want to practise your listening and comprehension skills, English Language Listening Lab Online (ELLLO) is a great site to bookmark. This free site contains hundreds of listening activities with short quizzes to test your comprehension. While you listen you have the option to show or hide the text. The text version also offers audio explanations of difficult words and phrases. ELLLO's mp3 recordings are unique in that they offer English accents of people from all over the world, including America, Canada, Britain, Australia, and countries where English is not a first language. Conversation topics, such as housing, relationships, and jobs are modern and practical in daily life. Listen on site or download your favorites and study English on the go. To sum it up, I found three wonderful things about ELLLO :
1. It's free.
2. There are hundreds of listening activities with short quizzes to test your comprehension. 
3. Conversation topics are modern and practical in daily life.


To know more about ELLLO, try to listen to Russell Stannard's tutorial which you can access here. 

Photo via michellehenry.fr

Listen-and-Write

Listen-and-write is an online tool that allows you to practice your listening skills by listening to audio and transcribing it.  You can upload your own audio, or choose from a  list of audio files. This tool would be great for teachers and students of English language learners (ELLs) since it is a great way of practicing listening skills.  Here is a slide about how to use Listen-and-write.

Listen and write

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