week4-1) Class Activities

1.Two listening techniques: top-down vs. bottom-up
     Top=Basic =Topics= Meaning
     Down                      =Form (linguistic elements- vowels, consonants, words, sentences)

2.Online tools and resources for listening

• Randall's cyber listening lab http://www.esl-lab.com/
• Ello.org http://www.elllo.org/
• Listening Lounge http://www.englishlistening.com/
• Manything's listening activities http://www.manythings.org/e/listening.html
• We are New York" English Online for Immigrant Adults by Hillary Gardner and Moira Taylor (9 movie episodes with maerials, lesson plans and handouts)

• Famous Speeches http://www.history.com/speeches
• TED http://www.ted.com
• http://www.slideshare.net/nliakos/ideas-worth-spreading-enhancing-language-skills-with-ted
• Youtube http://www.youtube.com
• YouTube Across the Curriculumby Rus Wilson & Davis Randall (How to use annotations and VLC)
• A Spotlight on Short YouTube Screening RoomFilms and Methodology by Harry Harris (chestnut tree, reach, sebastian's voodoo, Tired city-- story guessin, vocab activity, describing etc.)

• Ted Blog http://blog.ted.com/
• Adam Maxwell's Fiction Lounge http://www.adammaxwell.com/index.php?
• Storynory (Audio Stories for Kids) http://storynory.com/?
• CNN Student News http://edition.cnn.com/studentnews/?iref=allsearch?
• iTune U

            1. Berkeley http://itunes.berkeley.edu/?
           2. Oxford http://itunes.ox.ac.uk/?
           3. Stanford http://itunes.ox.ac.uk/??
           4. Harvard Extension http://itunes.extension.harvard.edu/?

• ESL Pod http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html??
• Grammar Girl http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/?
• American English Pronuncication Podcast http://www.pronuncian.com/Podcast.aspx?
• KIds Podcast List http://kids.podcast.com/?  
• Mabry Middle School Podcast http://mabryonline.org/podcasts/?
• Music Podcast List http://music.podcast.com/?

3.Group Review- [Manything's listening activities]
      http://www.manythings.org/e/listening.html