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Free online EFL / ESL Listening: video

Online videos with exercises for students

These online videos and films present in English in natural contexts and exercises require students to interpret what they see and hear  through exercises which appeal to their intelligence and intuition.

Real English® Video Dictations

TV Commercials
Find the differences between the videos and the transcripts.

Movie Trailers
Text reconstruction/dictation exercises.

Travel and Tourism
"Good interviews" and "Bad interviews" with varied exercises.
Chris Jackson
City College Manchester

Living English - Sisters and Brothers
Australian elementary level course.

Lingualnet
Learn English through movies. A variety of types of films, with and without subtitles. There are also quizzes and "reviews" where you can give feedback on the films.

Michel Barbot:

"Kerry"
Franck Loiseau

"Wanna" Watch Some Movies? - My Cousin Vinny
Buth Al Othman

DY-TECH
Fill-in-the-blank quizzes based on movie clips.
Unfortunately, some of them don't work in Firefox:

Patch Adams
Butch & Sundance
The Postman
Field of Dreams - Voices
Stepmom - Serious
The Shawshank Redemption -Life
School of Rock
The Return of the King - Mordor
Lord of the Rings - Middle Earth
Gone with the Wind - No Lady
Jersey Girl
I am Sam - In the "best" interest
.. and many more.

Real English®
A very attractive website with exercises and authentic videos.
You have to register but a lot are free.
(We also have Real English videos and a CD-Rom in the CLA media centre.)

Real English® video exercises with and without the sound.
Josef Schiele

Learning English with the CBS
Carleton University Applied Linguistics
Video clips about Canada with exercises.

LearnEnglishFeelGood.com
Short clips from YouTube with comprehension questions.

Newcastle ALE (Academic Listening Exercises)
Video and audio extracts from university lectures.

Beyond the Postcard
BBC Learning English
Watch the videos and answer the questions:

Video Nation
BBC Learning English
Listen to the video diaries and do the exercises

English Bites
Australian news clips with transcripts, vocabulary help and multiple choice quizzes.

Story Archives
CNN and CBS news stories
Full and short versions + exercises + video + transcripts

thedailyenglishshow
Sarah - a New Zealander based in Japan.

ESLvideo.com
A large number of quizzes based on videos from You Tube and similar sites.
Organised by level. With transcripts.

Online videos- but no exercises

Videojug: Life explained on film
Short "how-to .." films on many subjects with transcripts.
Very clear and easy to understand.

Teacher Tube
Lessons on different subjects of variable quality but many of them are clear and easy to understand for learners of English. Downloadable.

Euronews
With transcriptions and podcasts.

Moving Image Archive
An American free collection
Can be downloaded and used for academic purposes.

Free Movies Entertainment Magazine
Over 200 public domain movies and videos, music videos, classic TV shows and movie trailers.

The National Archives
UK public information films
Can also be downloaded and used for academic purposes.
With transcriptions. Often amusing.

Top 100 speeches
American Rhetoric
Audio and video with transcriptions.

Movie speeches
American Rhetoric
Audio and video with transcriptions.

Flash Animations for the English Class
Mainly about science and the environment.
Downloadable
Frédéric Chotard

For fun!

German Coast Guard Video

For teachers

Video: Active listening & watching techniques for children
Pamela Albert, Glenys Hanson, Donna L'Hôte.
Many are also appropriate for adults.

To do online listening exercises you will need a recent browser
(Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer 7 ...) and Flash to hear the recordings.
To do online listening exercises you will need a recent browser
On some sites you will need QuickTime or RealPlayer.