• Listening sites

• Pronunciation sites

Sites with general ESL listening activities 

• BBC World Service - Learning Zone Home Page --
  This site has changed recently, but it's still great for ESL.
  You'll have to look around for the listening activities, but they're there.
• Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
  --Lots of great Real Audio quizzes good for all levels. Also, there is material for academic listening as well as a few videos.
• ESL Wonderland--One of Holly's favorite sites. Kent Trickel delivers a complete package--prelistening and vocabulary, teaching tips, etc.
• The English Listening Lounge
  -- This is commercial, and there are areas that are available only by subscription, but the free quizzes are quite good.
• About.com--There's a lot here. It's got a wide range of accents, and there are
  activities suitable for all levels.

• Podcasts from NPR
  
• BBC World Service - Home Page 
• Car Talk 
  The car talk guys are really funny, but we'd be careful about using this site with lower levels. They both have distinctive Boston accents, and there is a lot of car and colloquial vocabulary.
• Hollywood Online -Movies --Scroll to the bottom for short interview clips with movie personalities. Also has movie trailers.
• The World--public radio international news show
• ABC News Podcasts
• CNN video select --
  Video clips of current events in Real Audio

• The Weather Channel  has audio and video of the latest weather.
• BBC Weather Center --
  has videos of the latest weather in Britain.

• Shoe String Radio Theater --
  has a lot of short 5 minute audio scenes in real media format.
• The Mercury Theater on the Air --
  This fabulous site includes Real Audio of famous radio plays produced by the Mercury Theater. It includes the original 1938 Broadcast of "The War of the Worlds." You will need to download a special font plug-in to view it.
• Old Timer Radio --
  has audio of old radio programs organized by genre.
• One Act Plays --
  by a non-profit group called the One Act Players.

• The History Channel Video Gallery
• On-line speech bank - very extensive collection of on-line speeches, many with audio or video.

• Xena QuickTime Library-- Quicktime short clips.
• Hollywood Online -Movies --Scroll to the bottom for short interview clips with movie personalities. Also has movie trailers.
• CBS
  

• Billboard 
• MP3.com has some free music to listen to.
• Global Hit Archive, from The World. World music clips.

• The Academy of American Poets --
  Archive of Poetry with both text & audio usually read by the author).
• The Favorite Poem Project 
  Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky's ambitious audio/video project asks Americans to record their favorite poems. Here are videos of 50 Americans reading their favorite poems. Wow! What a great site. Listen to many different Americans and different regional accents. Learn why they love these poems.
• Harper Audio -- Poetry read by the authors or by famous actors. Available in several formats.

• BrainPop--This site is aimed at kids, but the science related animations have real possibilities for the ESL classroom.

Commercials

• Creativity online-- Commercials from US TV.

• ESL Independent Study Lab 
• Internet TESL Journal's list of Pronunciation links 
• Foreign Accent Archive --not for ESL per se, but a great resource for examining accented English and predicting pronunciation problems
• TESOL pronunciation special interest group. 
• Pronunciation Web Resources --put together by Marsha Chan.
• Antimoon.com's "English pronunciation and the phonetic alphabet— an introduction"
   

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