General English - Listening
Behind the News: Watch and listen to the BTN news.
Enough Rope with Andrew Denton: Here, you can watch excerpts from some of the best ENOUGH ROPE interviews since 2003. Scroll down to the section watch online.
VILC: The Virtual ILC is an Australian site with different sections. Go to 'Realweb' for language learning tasks; 'Easynews' to listen to news articles and answer questions or 'Listen to this' for listening about a topic. This site is only available within Victoria University.
BBC Learn English: Listen and read the news. Click on Watch & Listen.
ABC Radio National: The site has authentic listening material on current topics.
ABC Radio News: Advanced listening. Listen to the radio news and complete the cloze activities. This site is only available within Victoria University.
VOA Special English: Listen to a 30 minute program news and special feature reports. They are written and produced daily for learners of English. You can also listen to many special reports with scripts or do some English practice activities. (American English)
Randall's ESL Cyber Lab: Lots of listening activities.
Listen to English podcasts: You can listen to lots of stories on a wide range of topics or download them to your mp3 player to listen to later. Sometimes language notes or quizzes are included. Look at the archive to see the full list of topics. This is an excellent site.
Adult Learning Activities: Improve your listening and reading skills.
ESL Radio: This Australian site was created by Monash University. The program guide tells you about Monash University. Click on the Listening Activities to choose a listening program.
Dr Karl: On this site Dr Karl talks about Science on ABC Radio. There are two pages - Homework has shorter conversations and Famous Moments has longer ones. On both pages, you can listen and read at the same time.
In The News: News stories & downloadable activities. This site is only available within Victoria University.
English Songs & Lyrics: Listen to the music and read the lyrics of many English songs from the 1930s- to the 1990's
Breaking News: News stories with vocabulary and comprehension exercises. Recent stories have audio. Stories are added weekly. You can choose stories from the theme (topic) list near the bottom of the page. Intermediate to Advanced Students.
ELISA: This site is suitable for EL1 and UP students. Listen to interviews about peoples' careers There are large word lists and the texts for each interview and you can use the site's concordancer to study the vocabulary. These two interviews also have a lot of activities.