Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: El Preterito Y El Imperfecto
This exercise for practicing the preterite and imperfect tenses has you watch a video of a hotel receptionist who describes a frightening experience on the job. Then you complete the story by filling in blanks with preterite and...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Good Listening in Class
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient listening tool. Students will be able to listen more effectively by following steps provided on this resource.
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How to Study: Good Listening in Class
Eight tips on how to improve your listening skills in the classroom so that you gain more from lectures and discussions.
English Club
English Club: Teach English: Animal Adventures
A teaching activity where students participate in creating a story to practice listening and speaking skills.
TES Global
Blendspace: Nonverbal Communication
In this TES Blendspace, students will have access to nine resources that will help them learn about nonverbal communication.
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Esl Kid Stuff: Esl Songs Sheets
Fun song sheets for six well-known children's songs like the ABC Song and Old MacDonald. Sheets include words and pictures featured in the song.
Free Management Library
Free Management Library: Habit to Differentiate Good From Poor Listeners
Table contrasting the habits of effective and poor listeners. Contains related links and links to discussion groups in the areas of management, business, and organization development.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Tomie De Paola's Biography
This resource features a booklist for Tomie dePaola. There is a summary and a picture of each book.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Becoming an Effective Listener
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on the traits of an effective listener and the identification of popular logical fallacies and propaganda techniques. In addition, there is an Activote at the end to check student...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Listening for Sounds
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart has the students working on their listening skills with various activities as well as the alphabet cheer, a Big Book, and classifying people and animals.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Listening to Prices
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a simple flipchart to assess students' understanding of verbal pricing. Each page has an audio link to someone saying a price. The students should vote on which price they heard the voice say....
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Quiz Tree: Sight Words: Pre Primer Chart
Students' have access to a pre-primer chart that provides an audio of each word when clicked.
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Bryan Bell: Active Listening
Chapters two and three from entrepreneur Bryan Bell's "Lessons in Lifemanship" emphasize the importance active listening. Chapter two handles the topic generally, covering the meaning of active listening, pointing out obstacles, and...
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Tony Alessandra: Jump Starting Your Listening Skills
Motivational speaker Tony Alessandra's ten techniques to active listening.
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Listening Skills Self Evaluation
Listening is a skill that is often overlooked and it can have everything to do with how someone views you. This site provides an evaluation that allows the user to analyze their ability to listen in a thoughtfull manner. The evaluation...
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California Polytechnic State University: Listening Skill
This site from the California Polytechnic State University provides a concise and well done guide to listening that coveys what the instructor has to say, as well as the tasks of the listener. Good advice, easy to download as a one page...
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Story Arts: Listening Skills Table for Storytelling
Two rubrics to assess a listener's attention during a storytelling session. The first is used to record frequency of audience reactions. The second is used to access the listener's level of comprehension.
Randall Davis
Building Your Listening Vocabulary: Personality Types
This exercise designed for English language learners helps build their vocabularies. Students learn words associated with personality traits, such as selfishness, truthfulness, and cleverness, by completing this multiple-choice quiz.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Day the Monster Came to School
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a great little story that can be read at the beginning of the school year to make the classroom rules.
Integrated Publishing
Integrated Publishing: The Communication Process
With text and diagrams, this article surveys the communication process, which consists of a message being sent and received, either verbally or nonverbally.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Obstacles to Listening
A short list of six possible obstacles that may hinder listening skills.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Dinosaur Egg (Listen and Choose)
This word game utilizes listening skills and reading skills as words are displayed on various dinosaur eggs and the correct word must be chosen.
Education.com
Education.com: Sl.2.1.a Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to practice the Common Core standard of following agreed-upon rules for discussions. Also included is a formative assessment for speaking and listening.
Character Lab
Character Lab: The Secret: Permission to Feel
Don't assume that the young people in your life are fine. Don't assume that what you see is all there is to know. This blog describes an encounter that a young boy had that helped him feel "seen" and understood by adults. Listening is...