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This sections provides you with Listening Comprehension tasks in PDF Format as well as links to the audio resources .

Multiple Choice Tasks

• LC038 - A Nigerian - American Thanksgiving
• LC036 - PlayStation - XBox Rivalry
• LC034 - A Decade After The Fukushima Disaster
• LC030 - Inviting The World To Dinner
• LC027 - High-End Fashion and Recession
• LC024 - High-Tech Elevators
• LC021 - Teenagers Who Argue
• LC020 - Millennials and Their Financial Situation
• LC017 - Comics Crusader Mark Waid
• LC016 - Power Woman Aliann Pompey
• LC013 - The Ransomware Battle
• LC010 - Single and Middle Class
• LC007 - A New Kind of Snowboard Pants
• LC003 - Diet Books
• LC002 - Tour of Guantanamo Detention Centre
• LC001 - AbbaWorld

Match Sentence Parts

• LC042 - Is It Time To Shake Hands Again ?
• LC039 - Bilingialism and Brain Power
• LC037 - The Benefits of Singing
• LC035 - Global Cocoa Crisis
• LC032 - A Nuclear-Powered Mission To Mars
• LC031 - America's Changing Mall Culture
• LC028 - Margaret Thatcher
• LC025 - Children Go Hungry During Pandemic
• LC022 - Berliners Say Goodbye To Tegel Airport
• LC018 - The Influence of Logos
• LC014 - Cycling Across India
• LC011 - Rockanomics: Rock Music and the US Economy
• LC008 - Fascinated With Lego
• LC005 - Philadelphia's Mounted Police Program
• LC004 - Guinness Storehouse

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• LC041 - Skateboarder Tony Hawk
• LC040 - Poisonous Water
• LC033 - Exploring Venus
• LC029 - Running Out Of Water
• LC026 - Chicago Blackhawks Win Stanley Cup
• LC023 - Mystery Skype
• LC019 - Banking With The Amish
• LC015 - E-Books For Children
• LC012 - History and Origins of Ice Skating
• LC009 - Brazil's Falling Birth Rate
• LC006 - Shanghai Tower
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A1 listening.

Are you an elementary (CEFR level A1)  learner of English? Practise and improve your listening skills with these listenings and exercises.

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A good night's sleep

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At the library – giving personal information

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Describing people

First day at school

Getting an ID card

Interview with a swimmer

Introducing a friend

Inviting someone to the cinema

Online safety conversation

Ordering food in a café

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Listen to the spelling of the colours and do the exercises. If you don't know the colours in English, do this vocabulary exercise first.

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Understanding numbers

Listen to the numbers and do the exercises to practise and improve your listening skills.

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Here, you will find listening comprehension exercises divided into the following four levels of difficulty:

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ESL Listening Worksheets

This page has ESL listening worksheets that you can download and print for free. You can use them offline to help get better at listening to and understanding English.

Newest listening Worksheet

This is the most recent listening worksheet that has been added to the site. New material is added regularly so check back often to see what is new.

ESL New Year listening worksheet

All the material contained in the worksheets comes from the listening section of the Excellent ESL 4U website. It has been represented so that it is easier and simpler for people who do not want to use the Internet while doing the tasks. If this is you, then you can download the ESL listening worksheets.

Each worksheet has four listening exercises. These are listening to a group of words and identifying to correct order from options, listening to a definition of a word and finding the correct word, a listening comprehension where you have to listen to a spoken passage and then answer questions and finally a dictation passage.

For all the activities you will need to listen to a recording. Each exercise in the work sheet has a link to a Soundcloud track that you will need to listen to. You can either click the link within each pdf or copy the link into your web-browser to get to the recording.

On the last page of each ESL listening worksheet there are the answers to the three exercises that are multiple choice questions and the two passages from the listening comprehension and dictation are given so you can see them to check how well you understood the original.

There are also four other complementary worksheets about each of the topics covered by the listening worksheets on this page. They can be found on the following pages:

• ESL vocabulary worksheets
• ESL reading worksheets 
• ESL writing worksheets
• ESL conversation worksheets

The vocabulary worksheet has a list of words and definitions that about the topic, and you should make sure you have learnt them before attempting the listening worksheets on this page. You can also download the vocabulary as ESL flashcards that you can use to learn the words.

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The following list contains all the listening worksheets you can download from the site. Just click on the one or ones you want and they will open in a new tab in your browser. Then save them to your own computer.

• Banking listening worksheet
• Doctors listening worksheet
• Meeting someone new listening worksheet
• Halloween listening worksheet
• Pets listening worksheet
• Weather listening worksheet
• Shopping listening worksheet
• Travel listening worksheet
• Clothes listening worksheet
• Sport listening worksheet
• Legal listening worksheet
• Driving listening worksheet
• Work listening worksheet
• Eating out listening worksheet
• Houses listening worksheet
• Taking a trip listening worksheet
• Family members listening worksheet 
• Party listening worksheet  
• Christmas listening worksheet  
• University listening worksheet  
• At the beach listening worksheet  
• Supermarket listening worksheet  
• Birthday listening worksheet 
• Hotels listening worksheet  
• Cities listening worksheet  
• Describing people listening worksheet  
• Cooking listening worksheet  
• School listening worksheet  
• Baby listening worksheet  
• Politics listening worksheet  
• New Year listening worksheet 

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There are several ESL New Year listening tasks for you to do on this page so you can learn how to listen to the vocabulary.

ESL New Year Writing

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This page has a range of ESL New Year writing exercises for you to do.

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There are example ESL New Year conversations on this page as well as some exercises and activities.

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• using a variety of materials such as pictures, stories, articles, dialogues, and audio/video recordings.

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