"In 'real-life' listening, our students will have to use a combination of the two processes, with more emphasis on 'top-down' or 'bottom-up' listening
depending on their reasons for listening.
L'entraînement
à la compréhension de l'oral et la capture du son 1- La compréhension de l'oral et le CECRL. - Les différents types de textes oraux.
- Les descripteurs du CECRL (niveaux à atteindre) 2 - Les documents sonores et leur utilisation en classe - Quels types de document utiliser en classe ?
- Quels types d'activités proposer à nos élèves
? 3 - La capture du son. Diaporama à télécharger
par José Paradas (Ac. Versailles)
Leçons :
Atelier de compréhension orale avec BBC World Service "Travail par groupes de compétences.
Voici le référentiel des huit ateliers compréhension orale. (Durée huit semaines)
Pour tous les ateliers des extraits de BBC World Service sont utilisés." (blog.francetv.fr)
languages- a lesson proposed by Randall S. Davis (esl-lab)
with :
- a list of commonly-used vocabulary with a recording of the
words in RealMedia format.
- a short quiz to test students' comprehension of some
of the words,
- a Follow-Up exercise for expanding students' use
of the vocabulary in a conversation with a partner or group.
English
Pronunciation/Listeningfrom New Okanagan College (international.ouc.bc.ca)
: Movies / Videos / Lessons / Dictations / Minimal Pairs / Tongue
Twisters...
Evaluation :
Banque d´outils d´aide à l´évaluation diagnostique Niveau : Collège : cycle d'orientation (3ème) Exemple :
Mesurer le nombre d’éléments lexicaux significatifs repérés en un temps limité.
"Cet outil évalue l’aptitude des élèves à repérer les mots porteurs de sens dans un message oral, c’est à dire les mots qui jouent un rôle essentiel dans leur démarche de construction du sens.
Le support proposé, intitulé ‘Bullying’, aborde la thématique de la violence, qu’elle soit physique ou psychologique, en milieu scolaire." Recherche par niveau. (banqoutils.education.gouv.fr)
Évaluation
en classe de Seconde "L'ensemble de ces fichiers et enregistrements dédiés
à la Compréhension Orale provient des cahiers
d'évaluation des classes de Secondes utilisés entre 1992
et 2001."
(Yvan BAPTISTE - Ac. Montpellier)
Similar
sounds(BBC) "Each of the five units gives practice in
some of these 'minimal pairs'. You can listen to
examples
and then you have the chance to test how good your hearing is in interactive
exercises."
Turbo-mots "Le but du jeu est de classer le mot, le plus rapidement possible,
dans sa catégorie en fonction du son."
- Activity created by: Renée Maufroid
Free Worksheets: Phonics(freeworksheets.com)
"Print or download over 5000 worksheets for FREE"
: long and short vowels, blends, consonants, digraphs, and "Miscellaneous."
Spelling :
Times Spelling Bee - interactive game Listen and write the word you hear. (timesspellingbee.co.uk)
dictationsonline.com : "Choose your English dictation ... You'll hear it read four times..." - 5 levels (dictationsonline.com)
English
Dictations - interactive exercises Hamburgers and Frankfurters - The Great Chase - The Fishing Trip
- The Crash! - Thunder and Lightning -
The Boy who Cried Wolf - Robin Hood -A Noise at Midnight - Fire at
Blackpool Pleasure Beach - A Bad Day - a joke - A Day at Home (kico4u.de)
Text
Terminator
"I destroy texts! You recreate them!" says the Text Terminator.
A text disappears and you have to reconstruct it.
You can just guess the words or get help by listening to it if you
want. Play now! (British Council)
Here,
There and Everywhere - Interactive listening exercises
- 21 stories for learners of English (eolf.univ-fcomte.fr)
English
Pronunciation/Listeningfrom New Okanagan College (international.ouc.bc.ca)
: Movies / Videos / Lessons / Dictations / Minimal Pairs / Tongue
Twisters...
The
Owl and the Pussy Cat, by Edward Lear
read by Bernard Cribbins- BBC Collection Entraînement à la compréhension orale
- compréhension globale
- chaîne sonore
- formes faibles
(merryprof)
Graded
English Dictations(fonetiks.org)
"Choose your English dictation below. You'll hear it read four
times :
- first, the whole passage is read at normal speed for you to listen
for gist;
- second, phrase by phrase - each phrase is read slowly twice, with
punctuation, while you write;
- then the whole passage is read again for you to check your work;
- finally, the written text is shown - count your mistakes."
Dictation
Tests- (learnenglish.de)
"Improve your listening skills and your spelling." (Elementary
or Intermediate) :
Adjectives / Buildings / Food / Irregular verbs / Education...
Real
English® Dictations- Video Listening Exercises(eolf.univ-fcomte.fr) What time is it?
What's the weather like?
Lost in England
Paul and Fiona
Michael
Tom and Connie
Ann
Johnny and Noelle-Christine
The Messenger
Movies "You're going to hear little movie excerpts
and try to figure out what is going on."
Activity created by: Renée Maufroid
The DAILY.WAV - "Short
sound clipstogether with their transcripts.
Clips come directly from commercially produced TV series and movies,
like Star Wars and Black Adder."
(The English weblab)
American Rhetoric: Movie
Speeches - audio and video database of some 80 Hollywood
movie speeches (americanrhetoric.com)
Chansons :
Listen to the Songs and Fill in the Blanks :
Arkansas - Traveler Buffalo - Gals - Cindy - Little Bo Peep - Little
Liza Jane - Swanee River - Weeping Willow (manythings.org)
IDEA : International Dialects of English Archive - with AUDIO
"All recordings are in English, are of native speakers, and include both English language dialects and English spoken in the accents of other languages." (web.ku.edu)
North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns (aschmann.net)
"Rich Aschmann, a linguist, created a huge map of North America describing the boundaries and differences between various dialects of the English language. Keep scrolling down at the link, and you can find Aschmann’s extensive listing of audio examples of many of these dialects."(neatorama.com)
Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK "Do you call a ‘bread roll’ a cob, batch, bread cake, barm cake or scuffler? How do you pronounce the words cup and plant?
And are you sitting or sat at this computer?
The UK is a rich landscape of regional accents and dialects, each evidence of our society’ s continuity and change, our local history and our day-to-day lives. This site captures and celebrates the diversity of spoken English in the second half of the twentieth century.
Click on the map to hear how pronunciation varies across the UK." (bl.uk)
21 Accents
"Amy Walker does a little tour of 21 accents in 2 1/2 minutes.
From the UK and Ireland to Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Russia, France, Australia, New Zealand, and around North America." (YouTube)
Harry and Paul: Football Manager(You
Tube)- UPDATED
"Harry and Paul do a hilarious parody on the international diversity of English football."
ACCENTS
REGIONAUX - interactive activities
"Dans les activités ..., vous pourrez entendre des locuteurs
de différentes régions du Royaume Uni.
A vous d'identifer la ville d'origine du locuteur !
Chaque extrait dure environ 30 secondes." (Yvan BAPTISTE - Ac. Montpellier)
The
Audio Archive(alt-usage-english.org)
"Sound samples are spoken by English speakers from around the world." The spoken texts : Arthur the Rat (Australia, Canada, England, India, Ireland, USA)
The Rainbow Passage (England, USA)
The North Wind and The Sun (England, USA)
Bother, father caught... (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, New Zealand,
USA)
I teach Ferdinand... (England, USA) + Other sound files
WHERE
ARE THEY FROM ? - Listen! "You're going to listen to six native English speakers. As
you will hear, they all speak English with very different accents." (Ac. Dijon)
The Speech
Accent Archive(accent.gmu.edu)
- language/ speakers
- atlas/ regions
- native phonetic inventory
Voices Recordings- with an interactive map (BBC) "Take an online audio tour of the way we sound today.
Listen to hundreds of conversations...
Some of the clips are people talking about language slang, dialect,
taboo words, accents.
Other clips cover all sorts of subjects and simply offer a flavour of
how we talk today."
English Language Listening
Lab Online - "Learn English by listening to real
speakers from all over the world.
Over 400 listening activities to choose from!"
+ transcript + quiz
Listen
to English Accents from Around the world(world-english) "You can listen to a dialogue or a poem being read
by different native speaker from assorted English speaking countries.
This list will include speakers from various locations in England,
Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India,
USA, Canada, and the West Indies (Jamaica). While you listen you
can also read what the speaker is saying...
And at the same time increasing your knowledge of English literature."
