Sounds
We must thank Flávia Pinheiro for having put together all the suggestions sent by her classmates.
http://www.eslflow.com/pronunciationlessonplans.html - This is a good site for ESL teachers. It has lots of tips for for teaching pronunciation (it even shows the difference between certain letters, and words, their sounds).
http://www.hollywoodwavs.com/ - This site has a lot of cool movie lines. The only thing I found difficult was to distinguish the lines, because it doesn't have the transcripts, so you have to already know the movie.
http://www.audio4fun.com/funsounds.htm - This site has lots of really funny sounds (the audio clips are really worthed too).
http://www.englishlistening.com: It brings lots of short audio files dealing with a wide range of situations (people introducing themselves, talking about likes and dislikes, life styles, social issues etc). There are files for beginners, intermediate and advanced students of English. It is a very interesting site in spite of it not offering downloadable material. Another problem with this site is that not all the resources are free.
http://www.audiosparx.com: The only problem with this site is that not all of its materials are free.
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com
_I found this site interesting.
It offers ready-to-use
lesson plans based on current events. Download
available for mp3 files in
Listening Activities.
http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Listening/
_It brings a lot of links for
listening activities.
http://www.fozzy42.com/SoundClips.html.
There are many options
especially for those who
loves cinema , there are famous sound from
films such as superman,
Indian Jones, impossible mission etc..
http://www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm
http://www.midisdaboa.hpg.ig.com.br/
http://www.bibvirt.futuro.usp.br/sons/vozoteca/vozoteca.html
http://www.eslhome.com/esl/listen/#English%20Listening%20Lounge,
it is divided in authentic
and semi-authentic listening materials and gives
us a entire analysis on
each site, with the advantages and disadvantages of
them. It provide even an
useful instrumental language courses, with
different approaches such
medicine, and other.
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.html - Partners in Rhyme web page.
http://www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm - We need to look if the sound is allowed to make the download.
http://fozzy42.com/SoundClips.html,
you can use material from cartoons, television theme songs, movie themes, which
are up to date and attracts students' attention.
http://www.elllo.org/graphics/links.htm - I simply LOVED this site. It provides a lot of listening material that could be used in class, or at home for self study. Every week we have a lesson that is composed by 7 parts (one for each day of the week). We can simply hear to the file looking at some pictures that makes it easier for us to understand the topics that are dealt with in the listening, or we can try to answer a questionnaire on the listening. Elllo also provides “tasktowns” and listening games in which you have to interact with the computer. Finally, Ello gives you the opportunity to listen to a specific variety of English (Irish, Canadian, British, American, etc).
http://www.1-language.com/esllistening/index.htm - This site is also helpful. Unlike the previous one, it provides the transcripts for every dialog, and before the listening, it presents a warm-up activity. I think the listenings are not as “natural” as the ones in Ello, but they are also good.
http://www.onestopenglish.com/tefl_skills/listening.htm - This site provides some English listening material for elementary and intermediate level. The listening activities come with supports such as worksheet for students, tips on how to use the material and the transcripts for the listening. It is also a very good site.
http://abcasiapacific.com/englishbites/stories/s1434419.htm - This site provides a lot of video material. They are like TV reports on some interesting topics. The video also comes with a transcriptions and clarification for all the terms which may not be clear. The file is quite heavy to download, so it’s better to have a cable or ADSL internet connection. Sadly, we can’t find “real” dialogs in this site: most of them are monologs
http://www.geocities.com/terrencein/html/christmas_midi.html
http://www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm
http://www.freeaudioclips.com/
http://www.wavcentral.com/
- Nice one, find since effect sound to commercial and movie sounds from
classical films.
http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Sounds/Free_WAVs/
- Sounds divided into categories.
http://wavcentral.com/
- (the best one for sounds,)
http://www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm
http://www.freeaudioclips.com/
http://www.sounddogs.com/start.asp
http://www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm
http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Sounds/Free_WAVs/
http://www.grsites.com/sounds/
http://www.externalharddrive.com/waves/waves.html
http://academics.vmi.edu/english/audio/audio_index.html
http://rats2u.com/clipart/animation/wav_files.htm
http://www.thepocket.com/sounds.htm
http://www.ehow.com/how_9444_find-cool-sounds.html,
http://www.fozzy42.com/SoundClips.html
http://www.findsounds.com/index.html
http://www.findsounds.com/ - it is a free and easy to use site where we can find sound effects and musical instrument samples and use editing operations to cut, paste, delete, adjust volume, undo, etc. Some of its features are offered for free for some time.
http://www.soundamerica.com/ - it offers many different types of sounds, sorted out into categories, but it’s a paid site!
http://www.moviesoundscentral.com/ - it is easy to navigate and provide us with quick downloads of movie sounds, wavs and quotes. It is very interesting and may be very useful for teachers.
http://www.grsites.com/sounds/ - it is said to be “the largest collection of free sound on the Internet” and offers, gratis, sound effects which may be very useful for teaching activities involving the use of computers, games, etc. There are also some paid features available.
http://www.fozzy42.com/SoundClips.html - this site offers an impressive collection of cool sounds taken from TV series, movies, and cartoons.
http://www.wavcentral.com/ - it brings lots of sounds presented in categories (movies, TV, FX, commercials) to be selected by its user.
www.genkienglish.net/phonics.htm
www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm
www.esl.about/com/od/speakingenglish
www.candlelightstories.com/radio2demo.asp
www.eslflow.com/pronunciationlessonplans.html
www.pbs.org - It is possible to identify the different American accents. The site contains numerous interactive exercises, some particularly challenging, such as “Where is this speaker from?”.
http://www.findsounds.com/ - the user will find sound effects and musical instruments samples.
http://www.soundamerica.com/ - it is possible to download sound files from movies, television, cartoons, comedy and sound effects.
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/animals.html - we can find sounds of the world’s animals. Animals make much the same sounds around the world, but each language expresses them differently, so the site also offers a list of countries where we can find how the sounds are expressed around the world.
http://www.powerfx.com/ - we can find tools which can help those interested in using sound effects in songs. Try it and have fun!
www.putfile.com/
- you can also find some sounds on this page.
http://www.moviesounds.com/
http://www.philb.com/findimages.htm
- you can also find sounds on this website
and it’s very complete,
even with instructions of what to get a sound and once you have a sound how you
hear it.