eBooks
Listening & Speaking Resources
This section offers a variety of materials to help you strengthen your English listening and speaking skills. You’ll find links to books, eBooks, and trusted online resources that provide practice with understanding spoken English, improving pronunciation, and engaging in everyday conversations. Whether you are preparing for work, school, or social situations, these tools will help you build confidence and communicate more clearly in English.
Books Available in the Library Collection
Selected Online Resources: Listening & Speaking
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All ESLAll ESL strives to not only teach English to language learners, but to provide the necessary tools to equip teachers with the right resources. For listening/speaking help, check out the sections on Pronunciation and Speaking.
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BBC Learning EnglishMaterials are delivered as full length courses but each component of the course is standalone and can be studied on its own.
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Dictionary of English Idioms and PhrasesIdioms and idiomatic expressions are used frequently in spoken and written English. Idioms are phrases where the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words. This can make idioms hard for English language learners to understand. However, learning idioms can be fun and rewarding since their meanings are often surprising.
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EnglishClub: English Listening Skills"Welcome to EnglishClub Listening for ESL learners, to help you learn and practice the skill of listening to English." -- website
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EnglishClub: English Speaking Skills"Welcome to EnglishClub Speaking for ESL learners, to help you learn and practice the skill of speaking English." -- website
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EnglishClub: English Pronunciation"Welcome to EnglishClub Pronunciation for ESL learners, where you'll find lessons and resources on the way we say words in English, many with audio for you to listen to."--website
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Randall's ESL Cyber Listening LabActivities focus on everyday English comprehension skills at three levels based on content, voices, vocabulary, and natural speed. A combination of adult, teenage, and children’s voices are included.
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All Ears English PodcastAn ESL podcast for intermediate to advanced learners around the world. Teachers Lindsay McMahon and Michelle Kaplan will show you how to use everyday vocabulary and natural idioms, expressions, and phrasal verbs and how to make small talk in American English.
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Speak English with ESLPod.com"Start speaking English using a proven method that's fast, effective, and fun. These daily cultural English lessons are brought to you by Dr. Lucy Tse and Dr. Jeff McQuillan, former professors of applied linguistics and education."--website
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Luke's English Podcast"Luke’s English Podcast is an award-winning audio show for learners of English as a foreign language. The podcast started in 2009 and is still going strong."--website
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Ten Questions ESL PodcastThe Ten Questions ESL Podcast is for English language learners around the world who want to improve their English listening comprehension. In each podcast interviewers will interview a native or non-native English speaker and ask them ten common questions that people use to get to know one another.