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Listening

“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.”

― Ralph G. Nichols

iLANG recommends to you a wide range of resources to help improve your listening skills. Click on the online materials below for more details.

Active Listening	Tips and Information about Active Listening General Active Listening Strategies 10 Tips for Active Listening What is Active Listening (video)

Listening for Gist	TOEFL Listening Tips Listening Practice for Conversations, Academic Discussions and Lectures Five Essential Listening Skills for English Learners TOEFL Listening Questions – Gist-Purpose and Gist-Content (video)

Listening for Details	British Council Listening Exercises Listening for Specific Details about People Listening for Specific Details about Places Sample Listening Exercises with Games and Transcripts TOEFL Listening Questions – Detail │ Inside the TOEFL® Test (video)

Listening to Movies	English Movie Learner Guide Listening Exercises – Movie Clips Film Scripts Film-English.com English Listening Practice: How to Understand Movies Without Subtitles (video)

Listening to Radio	HK Radio Programmes in English BBC Radio Programmes Interesting English Vocabulary Used by Radio Jockeys Top Talk Internet Radio Stations 8 Podcasts for Fluent English: Advanced English Listening (video)

Listening to News	BBC News The Guardian Online PBS News News in Levels How to Learn English with the News (video)

Listening to Lectures	Listening to Lectures (Monash University) Listening and Note-Taking in Lectures BBC Learning English – Academic Listening The Art of Active Listening and Note Taking Learn English – Listening to Lectures (video)

Listening in Social Conversations	Freshman Days – CLE – Listening Materials Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab English Conversation Lessons Understand FAST English Conversations (video)

Listening in Discussions	TOEFL Sample Exercises – Discussions on a University Campus British Council – Learning Professional English TED: How can groups make good decisions? Speaking and Listening: Preparing for a Group Discussion (video) TED Talks: Panel Discussion (video)

Listening to Global English & Different Accents	A List of Global Radio Sites International Dialects of English Archive Understanding Different English Accents The English Language in 24 Accents (video)

Listening to Songs	Learn English with Songs English Exercises – Using Songs 605 Free EFL Song Worksheets Learning English Through Songs (When You Say Nothing At All by Ronan Keating) Lyrics Explained (video)

Listening to Poetry	BBC Poems Archive Listen to Poetry Poems – ESL Resources Learn English with a Poem (video)

Listening to Stories	100 Free Short English Stories for ESL Learners Listening to Short Stories Listen & Read: Short Stories Learn English Through Story (video)

Listening to Jokes	Jokes in English English Humour British Humour Explained (video)

Listening in Telephone Conversations	BBC Learning English – URL 1 or BBC Learning English URL 2 Listening on the Telephone Common English Phrases for Business Telephone Calls Conversation Skills – Understand Phone Conversations in English (video)

Listening in Debates	BBC Learning English International Debate Education Association Munk Debates A Collection of Videos of Debates Learning English with The Future American President- The Second Debate P1 (video)

Listening to Podcasts	HKUST Podcast Workshop Podcast Pickle ESL Pod 8 Podcasts for Fluent English: Advanced English Listening (video)

Podcasts in Business	Bloomberg on the Economy Bloomberg Benchmark Business Podcasts in iTunes Business English Podcast (video)

Podcasts in Science	Science Magazine Podcast Science Talk The 20 Best Science Podcasts Science Plus (video)

Podcasts in Engineering	Software Engineering Radio Top Engineering Podcasts Engineering Podcasts from Open University Technology Podcasts from iTunes Black Tees and Engineering (video)

Audiobooks	Gutenburg Audio Books for Free Audiobooks.org Audible

Other Useful Links	Listening and Speaking Sites A Collection of 1 Minute Listening Exercises Collection of Links Accent Reduction Guide Mixed Bag of Listening Resources English Listening Practice Guide to Learners How to Understand Fast-Talking Native English Speakers (video)

Tips & Advice from CLE	http://cle.hkust.edu.hk/archive/2021/ilang/listening-advice-sheets/

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