ESL / EFL Listening Activities

Here are links to some of the best English quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you improve your listening skills. They range in difficulty from elementary up to advanced. A good site to visit in order to improve your all round listening skills is the BBC World Service.

Diagnostic Listening Test Fairly Easy Mixed Listening Activities The News in Simplified English (news stories read and reported in simple, easy to understand English) Pronunciation Poem Peter's Day Dictation Practice A Trip to the Dentists Baking Bread My Favourite Restaurant Fun with Vowel Sounds A Woman's Diet  We Say Tomato Dialogue Personalities The History of Christmas Holiday in Singapore Complaints about Food Animal Sounds A Night on Mars Body Parts

More Advanced Listening Comprehension Famous Speeches Choose the Best Answer Phone and Cars Thinking About Communism What to do in England Shouting Competition Everyday Conversation Problems with the USA Holiday Traditions Mobile Phone Safety Australia Night Visitor Working Girl Gambling Ukrainian Higher Education Teaching Children Life in Poland Marijuana Grower Words in the News Listen to Wuthering Heights Listen to A Christmas Carol More Listening Activities