Buiding aural/oral skills on the net: Sample websites

Listening (student resource)
Link: Randall's Cyber Listening Lab: http://www.esl-lab.com/
This website is interested in teaching listening following the three stages: pre-, during, and post- activities. It's organized by topic and level. The main topics are:
• General Listening Quizzes
• Basic Listening Quizzes
• Listening Quizzes for Academic Purposes
• 20-Minute ESL Vocabulary Lessons
• Language Learning and Life Tips
• Long Conversations with RealVideo
I would recommend this website because of the following points:
- Different and interesting topics that would cater for different ages and levels.
- Classification of difficulty: easy, medium, difficult.
- Possibility to download available listening materials.
- Listening materials could be used by any media player.
- Quick downloading
- Audio format could be converted after downloading.
- Clarity of voice.
- Of task types: VarietPre-listening, while- and post-listening activities. Also vocabulary and online investigation activities.

Listening RealEnglish video
http://www.real-english.com
This is another interesting website devoted to teaching English, namely listening/viewing and speaking. It contains a set of lessons each of which relies on a video and a “while-viewing” task. Learners need to get back to the video for correction.
I would recommend this website because of the following points:
• Focus on listening and speaking activities.
• Videos with comprehension exercises.
• Speaking activity: Possibility to record voice answering questions.
• Availability of movies of different topics and for different levels and ages.
• Instructions on how to take RealEnglish lessons are well explained on every page.
• Possibility to download and convert the videos formats.
• Quick downloading.
• Good quality videos.
• Sample videos using different dialects
• Some videos are subtitled.