Working with listening skills

This is a skill which is really useful and essential for your final exam, but we've already seen this skill applied to other skills like speaking or reading. Let's put together some links that might help you to practise, although most of them are included in Interesting links on this blog:

• One of the classic ones, but not enough for C1 unless you use it for other purposes like models, pronunciation, reviewing vocabulary, etc.: www.elllo.org

• BBC Learning English: Watch and Listen many topics and it has tapescript 6 Minutes English

• Agendaweb has also plenty of exercises with levels: Listening exercises

• Randall's ESL Cyber Café is another classic one: if you go to esl-lab you'll find the three levels available. Be careful because the quality of the audio sometimes is not really good.

• ESL lounge: this link has listening exercises divided into 4 levels plus Business section.

• The British Council: it also has a page working on listening and their levels are from A1 to C1

• Newsy: go here if you want to be updated but it doesn´t have exercises. You´ll find short videos about current news so work with the tools of the video (speed and subtitles).

• TED is also one of my favourite ones although you don't have comprehension exercises. Remember to use the shortest ones to practise listening and use the longer ones for fun.

• Cambridge: one of the most experienced institutions in the assessment of English has this site

Apart from these general pages, go to the samples you could find on the internet for listening exams, those from EEOOII and from Cambridge exams will be the most useful.

Take care and be patient!