Listening
Interactive Listening Comprehension Practice – Listening comprehension exercises from the Intensive English Institute at the University of Illinois (requires Real Audio).
Online NewsHour – main news stories in Real Audio format along with well illustrated text versions. A full archive back to 1996 with many hundreds of stories. Excellent resource for practicing listening at intermediate levels and above.
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab probably the most extensive collection of listening activities on the web – long and short listening tasks with accompanying work sheets.
Timecast – a guide to Real Audio sites across the Web, organised by topic.
Speaking
English Pronunciation – a whole series of activities to practice individual sounds including, minimal pairs, tongue twisters and dictation. Requires Shockwave and Quicktime plug-ins.
Learning Oral English Online – this site created by Rong-Chang Li at the University of Illinois has sample dialogues from everyday situations that students can listen to and practice.
The Tongue Twister Database – if you enjoy a real pronunciation challenge, this is definitely the site to visit. Over 100 tongue twisters including all the old favourites.
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab – probably the most extensive collection of listening activities on the Web – long and short listening tasks with accompanying work sheets.
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