Duration
20min

Dimension of the advised group of students
10-25

Specific objectives
To improve students’ listening skills To improve students’ comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, and cultural awareness.

Link Source
https://www.esl-lab.com/

Needed Materials
Computer &internet connection

Software
To interact online with students use: -online communication platform, such us: zoom, google meets, etc -tools to deliver the training and working in groups: mentimenter, jamboard, slido, kahoot, etc.

Description
For students to begin practicing listening skills for their English classes, ESL-Lab is a fantastic online teaching resource. It includes content for all skill levels and is engaging enough to hopefully hold students' interest. Using three language levels (beginner, intermediate, and advanced) based on content, voices, ambient noise, idiomatic expressions, vocabulary, and natural speed, its activities ranging from simple to academic focus on everyday English comprehension abilities. There are voices from adults, teenagers, and children mixed in. The listening exercises include quizzes, movies about different cultures, interviews with native speakers on various subjects, and opportunities to practice your English. They are designed to help students with understanding, speaking, vocabulary, and cultural awareness. The website was primarily created for both self-study, where students do the listening exercises on their own, and teacher-directed learning, where the teacher assigns students specific tasks to complete to further their learning goals outside the classroom. The fundamental goal of the exercise is to teach students how to listen better, not to test them on it; completing all of the activities in each conversation can help students achieve this goal. Teachers can easily integrate these activities into their own classes and use quizzes suggested by the website. The site could be used with students at risk of demotivation because the online interactive activities can be chosen according to students’ language level and their topics are interesting to students. Students can also work at home whenever they feel like it, play the passage as many times as they need and work at their own pace. The activities can also be done in pairs at school. The tool can be used and applied in both a fully virtual/at distance teaching context and a blended learning one.

Procedure on how to put in practice
To improve students’ experience with the site, the teacher should:
1. Give students a tour of the site and lead them through some of the exercises.
2. Introduce students to the Pre-Listening Activities which are used to help students generate ideas and vocabulary on a specific topic and build their expectations about the conversation. Tell students that the Pre-Listening Activities include a picture for stimulating discussion about the topic of the conversation helping students develop critical-thinking skills Listening.
Duration: 20 min
No of Participants: 10-50
Methods used: discussion

Step-by-step description:
1. The teacher engages students in the listening task by eliciting what they know about the topic (e.g.What are the potential physical and psychological health benefits of walking and running, no matter what the pace might be?).
2. The students review the questions in the Listening Section before they use the Play Audio button. This will also help students use their prediction skills to guess the topics they might hear.
3. The students click the Play Audio button, listen to the recording, and answer the questions. Learners receive automatic feedback after every question and a final score at the end.
4. The students review the transcript and study the key vocabulary for the activity. They can also access the Vocabulary Practice and do the vocabulary quizzes with the words from the conversation.
5. The students can engage in different conversational activities to apply what they have learned (personalising the information in the conversation or doing online research on the topic).
6. Class discussion on the findings.

Debriefing question: What are the tips you would give teens to improve their listening skills?