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This cartoon can be used to practice the four skills: reading, writing, speaking, listening. Suggestion on how to use: Before students listen/read the story, they are pre-taught some new vocabulary used in the story. Then students can play the story in pictures while they're listening to it. They can click on the button "READ" to turn off and on the text. It's better if the first time, they listen to the story with the text on (reading while listening). Then, they will listen to the story with the text off and see if they can still understand. (listening) When they feel confident, they can watch the story again with the text off and try to tell the story along with the pictures, without reading (speaking). You can also ask them to write this tale down as a composition (about 250 words or more if you want to). Vocabulary can also be boosted through story. Students can also come up with their own ideas by discussing where they would go if they had a magic carpet. I tried this with my young advance elementary students and it was pretty successful. we had also a very engaging discussion in which students said they would have gone if they have had a magic carpet. They also very much liked the cartoon itself.

This is a wonderful activity for developing students' listening, reading (skimming and scanning), speaking skills, as well as increasing vocabulary. it contains variety of activities which are based on the listening. Moreover, all the activities can be done both online and on paper (all materials are printable including the transcript of the audio). It contains a pre-watching vocabulary activity the story a comprehension activity a language activity about idioms I used this material with my two intermediate students. Though the level was lower I have decided to try. In order to help them I wrote down the words/expression that they might be unknown and discussed them before listening. Then they listened to the audio but still had difficulties to understand completely what the audio was mainly about. In order to solve the misunderstanding I have decided to give the transcripts to read while listening (It helped much to understand). I used the third activity to check whether they could scan and skim the information (they could as I guess reading helped them very much). The last activity was a multiple choice activity where the students should look at the given idioms and choose the best meaning. Suggestion- If your students are not high intermediate/advanced the process will be slowed down. Just use transcript and after listening discuss the text. It will help.

The PDF file includes a great range of various exercises. This activity is very useful as students learn to read and write while they are listening. Students need to read through the questions in the exercises in the practice materials before listening to the podcast. While they're scanning the text they will get an idea about what they are going to listen to. They have to read the instructions of each exercise carefully, as sometimes they must listen for the 'right' answers. But in some of these questions, they must choose the one answer that is not possible or wrong. These exercises are also appropriate for those who intend to take IELTS or iBT exams later. My students did this activity; they liked it and didn't get bored (the variety of the exercises made them busy and concentrated). I gave them some other podcasts with their support packs and saw their gradual improvement.

The PDF file includes a great range of various exercises. This activity is very useful as students learn to read and write while they are listening. Students need to read through the questions in the exercises in the practice materials before listening to the podcast. While they're scanning the text they will get an idea about what they are going to listen to. They have to read the instructions of each exercise carefully, as sometimes they must listen for the 'right' answers. But in some of these questions, they must choose the one answer that is not possible or wrong. These exercises are also appropriate for those who intend to take IELTS or iBT exams later. My students did this activity; they liked it and didn't get bored (the variety of the exercises made them busy and concentrated). I gave them some other podcasts with their support packs and saw their gradual improvement.

These exercises are good for developing students' listening, reading, and writing skills. In addition to these skills, it also develops students' vocabulary. While listening and watching the songs or a video poem, the students will have opportunity to write down the missing words in a given space and later on check the answers. I used this type of exercises with my students and to tell the truth they liked them very much. This type of exercises can be used at the end of the lesson or in the middle of it, when teacher notice some boredom during the lesson. They play as a good refresh. After listening the song, the teacher may discuss it with students (as I did) or even translate. There are also some words at the end of each song and students may learn them as well.

This is a good listening activity, where learners will listen to a story and get used to coping with noise when listening. They can listen to the story with and without subtitles. Then they can answer comprehension questions. Alternatively, it is a good story - a part of Halloween party, and students can describe the clothes and characters they see.

Kids can listen to and read a story in funny settings (and also through listening to songs). The story is about how Boowa helps his new friend Kwala find her family.This trick can be used for teaching kids travelling by developing their reading and listening skills. The story consists of 13 chapters, so it's better to teach them during a couple of classes.

Listen and follow. Repeated listening. 

This interactive story can be used with elementary level students for developing reading. Students can read then listen to a an expert of English articulating the same thing. And this will help them to articulate the word correctly. I tries this with my sister. She liked the activity and most of all its interactivness.

Great reading book from meegenius.com - to learn reading for kids, improve listening and general English proficiency. This story is just one of many available for free from the website.  

These materials are from BBC Learning English site. All of them are downloadable and each audio & video material have its pdf file (with transcript and vocabulary). These audios/videos are good for developing students' listening and reading skills, increasing students' vocabulary, and also speaking skills. It depends on the purpose of using this material. For example I used the first one (I haven't used the others yet) "Are men the weaker sex" with my intermediate students. While listening they underlined all the unknown words they had come up with, then we discussed the words together (I explained them in a target language). After, the discussion, I asked them not to look at the transcript and listened to the audio again. At the end of the audio they told me what the audio was about and in this way I could make them speak.

This is an amazing site for students who are bored with reading, grammar and writing. One can listen to music, reading its lyrics at the same time and also read some phrasal verbs from the music below.

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The site provides online books. Students have the opportunity to listen, read, work on the printable worksheets on the related topic, and finally take a quiz. This site may be helpful to develop students' listening, reading and writing skills.

Listen to a sentence and then click the word that's asked for. Very basis level of reading. Might work well for beginning readers who already have a solid oracy skills in English like native speaking kids. 

1. Advanced English listening skills 2. Advanced English conversation skills 3. Using English slang and humor 4. Advanced English phrasal verbs and their usage 5. Using complex sentences with multiple clauses 6. Advanced English idioms and vocabulary 7. English for daily life, social life and business 8. Advanced verb tenses & usage At the end of each audio, there is a vocabulary list with explanations in front and also some expressions that are utilized in the the lesson.

I used these dialogs with my brother, who wanted to improve his English. Generally speaking he wanted to listened to native speakers speech and daily conversations. During the listening I didn't show the transcript of the dialogs in order to check whether he understood the meaning. To tell the truth there were some unknown words and expressions even for me. He could get the main meaning of the dialogs, however there were words and expressions that were quite difficult for him to understand. So, to solve the problem I used the vocabulary list written below.

* This painting game is good to teach or/and revise vocabulary as well as to practice listening and reading skills. I have practiced it with my 5 year old son. Though he can not read, with this activity he practiced listening, repeated known words and assimilated new vocabulary. And he enjoyed it very much! I think that other 5 -7 year old kids also will like it.

This is a very popular fairy tale translated in many languages of the world. So the children will be familiar with the plot and even if they don't know some words they can guess the meaning. Here they have listening with script, which will help them to develop their listening and reading skills. I played this fairy tale for my little son . He watched it with pleasure and said that the ending is different from other red hat fairy tales.

If you read and listen to one article every day, your reading and listening skills can be better fast. You will learn very fast and after some time you will not have to translate into your own language. You will simply understand. Why?

I found these podcasts from the Sesame street website. They can be used for developing listening comprehension. There are also activities with the podcasts which can be used for developing listening comprehension. I tried this with our neighbour's son who is 12. He liked the activity very much and said that it was fun and interesting.

This activity is useful for listening and comprehension. I asked my 10 years old learner to listen and retell whatever she understood from the whole clip.It's quite suitable for low intermediate.

Today I tried this activity on my 5th grade students and my little sister. This acitivity is not just a song. It is a game where your child can enhance his/her speaking and listening abiltiies and pronouciation while listening to it. Actually it is about people living in the world and it is an animated video. It was funny and I even promised them to write down the words (which is not difficult, as the animated man is singing and below the page u can see the sentences of the song) and give them at the next lesson so that they can learn it and sing the song together.