Short and challenging listening activity

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Short and challenging listening activity.

Teaching listening is not easy; sometimes teachers spend hours finding suitable activities for listening. The first problem is to find short piece with follow up activities and further practice.

This site is what you need

www.listenaminute.com

Here you’ll find listening materials with tapescripts (could be used as reading material) + 9 page handout+ quizzes.

The material is organized topically.

Here is an example about Google, if you’d like to know more go to the link.

What was life like before Google? This might look like a silly and strange question, but it is a good one. Google has changed our lives. In an amazingly short space of time, the verb ‘google’ has entered our language. I think everything about Google is amazing. It helps us so much. We can find any information we want just by typing in what we want in the search box. I even like the Google home page. It’s so simple. You know, I can’t remember the last time a day went by when I didn’t use Google for something. I wonder what Google will be like in the future. Only those at Google know. The strange thing about the Internet is that something we don’t even know about yet might come along and totally replace Google overnight.

Correct the spelling

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Unjumble the words

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