5 Wonderful Websites for Engaging ESL
Audio Short Stories
FluentU:
7.08.2020 by Rachel Rock
Listening
skills are important.
I know it. You know it. Your
students know it.
But how can you make
listening practice engaging?
The key is to spark your students’ interest
with something more exciting than those dull-as-dish-water dialogues.
A fantastic way to do this is with audio
short stories.
They’re versatile, accessible and—you
guessed it—short: all factors that make them extremely useful in the world of
ESL.
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stories, each roughly fifteen minutes
long, which are suitable for intermediate or advanced levels. A short explanation
of the content is given under each title.
The stories are read with a realistic
British accent at a decent speed. A transcript is available from YouTube to
follow along with while listening.
2. Agenda Web
over four hundred short stories, some
as short as 1.5 minutes long. They are most suited for low
intermediate level, although there’s plenty of variety.
The website
includes a dictionary for key vocabulary, which links to dictionary.com.
Each story has the following activities
at the bottom of the page:
a yes/no answer quiz,
a gap fill
a crossword
a
dictation practice
there is a translate button so that any
word can be translated into a student’s native language with a
definition in English underneath.
There are also short stories for
beginners with the same activities at the bottom of the page, available here.
stories are approximately fifteen minutes
long, by famous authors such as Edgar Allen Poe. They can be sorted by author
or alternatively by content, for example animals, health or ten-minute daily
news, to name a few.
The read-along option is great because
only one or two sentences come up on the screen at a time, allowing for easier
concentration.
suitable for intermediate and
above, with most of the stories around four minutes long. There
is a short explanation of each story, as well as a featured story of the week.
The short stories teach American phrases
and idioms, with an emphasis
on interesting topics that will promote discussion.
Transcripts of each story are available
to download and print.
As well as short stories, this website
also has full length audio books, novellas and songs.
The short stories are
suitable for intermediate or advanced learners, with a brilliant option
to have either a slow or fast(er) listening speed.
There are short stories by famous authors
such as P.G Wodehouse and Raymond Carver, all with a read along option. Any
longer works are split into listening sections of around thirty minutes long. READ
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Based
on 7 readability formulas:
Grade Level: 8
Reading Level: standard / average.
Reader's Age: 12-14 yrs. old
(Seventh and Eighth graders)
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