Listening

Beginners’ Dictations

1-A blue rod

Here, There and Everywhere

1 – Once upon a time 2 – Are you a mouse? 3 – Charlie Caretto 4 – Golden eagle 5 – Good luck, bad luck 6 – Calvin Coolidge 7 – Buffalo hunters 8 – “The five bells” 9 – Stand up and be counted 10 – The strawberry 11 – The fire truck 12 – Cézanne 13 – Can you see it? 14 – The Clock-Maker 15 – Mary cut the lawn 16 – Where are you going? 17 – They take my … 18 – Yoko’s ghost 19 – Frederick Wilhelm II 20 – If the Earth … 21 – Likee soupee?

Telephone dictations

Telephone dictations

Student’s introductions

For each student, you have to find the mistakes first, correct these mistakes then.

Christophe	Jacqueline	Pierre	Jeanne
Find Christophe’s mistakes	Find Jacqueline’s mistakes	Find Pierre’s mistakes	Find Jeanne’s mistakes
Correct Christophe’s mistakes	Correct Jacqueline’s mistakes	Correct Christophe’s mistakes	Correct Jeanne’s mistakes

TV Commercials

These are 1960′s TV ads. Find the differences between the video and the transcription. Baggies Food Wraps Alexis Lechine Wines Beech-Nut Baby Food Bathroom Cleaner Bounty Paper Towels Cheerios & V8 Juice Dentu-Creme Wonderful Fords Chevrolet When you have found the text, practice reading the text aloud with the video. Do not “repeat afterwards” because it brings in an element of memorisation. Let your voice be guided naturally by the voices in the video – just as if you were learning a song.

Fairy stories

Revisiting the great classics of fairy tales through these exercices. The Pricess and the Pea The Three Billy Goats Gruff Little Red Riding Hood Goldilocks and the Three Bears The Three Little Pigs Rapunzel Six Swans Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Real English video dictations

Streets interviews with English speakers. What time is it? What’s the weather like? Lost in England What are you doing? Michael Tom & Connie Ann Johnny & Noelle-Christine The Messenger Jim and Robin

Movie trailers

Click on a picture to find the exercice.