Listening Topics
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ArticleListening skills lesson plans: Catching up on news
Listening for specific information, inferring relationships and inferring meaning.
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ArticleListening skills lesson plans: Talking about your family
Listening for specific information, listening for details and recognising context.
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Intermediate: Friendly advice
An American English worksheet to ask and answer questions about friends.
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Obama's 2008 victory speech
This comprehensive lesson plan by Rosie McAndrew, available at intermediate and advanced levels, focuses on the final part of Barack Obama's presidential victory speech. Students complete pre- and post-listening activities, including a focus on the literary style of the speech and Internet-based research tasks.
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Elementary: Getting to know your classmates
An American English worksheet to practice asking and answering questions in the present simple.
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Elementary: Family tree
An American English worksheet to review vocabulary associated with families.
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Elementary: Twenty questions
An American English worksheet to practice and review questions and answers using the present simple.
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Intermediate: Have you ever?...
An American English worksheet to practice the present perfect and past simple.
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Starter/Beginner: Bingo: Time
A British English worksheet to play a game of bingo and to recognize the times of the day.
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Intermediate: Children and money
An American English worksheet to practice verb complementation and to encourage a class discussion on money.
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Pre-Intermediate: Where's the English Language Institute?
An American English worksheet to follow directions and to fill in details on a map.
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Pre-Intermediate: Where's the Park School of English?
A British English worksheet to follow directions and to fill in details on a map.
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Elementary: Guess who?
An American English worksheet to practice asking and answering questions about daily routine, likes, dislikes and abilities.
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Elementary: I'm the President of the United States!
An American English worksheet to practice using the present simple with adverbs of frequency.
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Elementary: Are you jealous?
An American English worksheet to practice describing feelings and sharing opinions.
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Elementary: What are they doing?
An American English worksheet to practice asking and answering questions using the present progressive.
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Elementary: Find your partners
An American English worksheet to practice asking and answering questions about names, cities and countries.
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Elementary: Geography race
An American English worksheet to practice asking and answering questions about countries, capitals and locations.