Listening Activities Made for You
Dialogues, Monologues, Mini-Stories
Talking to a Contractor
- C2
- Listening/Speaking
In this C1–C2 ESL lesson, students learn home renovation vocabulary, practice real estate conversations, and role-play speaking with a contractor about repairs, damage, and renovation timelines. Great for fluency!
Pirate Peace Talks
- B2+
- Listening/Speaking
Learn how to negotiate in English with this fun, ESL lesson. Students mediate a pirate conflict using informal language, key negotiation phrases, and role-play to improve real-life fluency.
A Political Scandal
- C2
- Vocabulary
Improve your advanced English vocabulary with this C2 English reading lesson. Practice reading comprehension, discussion, and gap-fill activities while exploring political scandals and power struggles in this exciting English story.
Past Continuous
- A2
- Listening/Grammar
This lesson helps A2 learners understand and use the past continuous tense through engaging short stories, emphasizing actions in progress in the past, supported by visual and comprehension practice.
The Conspiracy Theorist
- B2+
- Listening/Speaking
Stuck in an elevator with a conspiracy theorist, students explore absurd theories, sarcasm, and advanced vocabulary while practicing tone, disagreement, and creative improvisation in a high-level role play.
Your Worst Roommate
- B1 +
- Listening/Speaking
This lesson helps advanced learners use natural, casual English to describe roommate problems. Students practice real-life vocabulary, informal expressions, and storytelling through dialogue, discussion, and role-play.
The Missed train
- C2
- Vocabulary
In "The Missed Train," a young woman faces an unexpected delay on the way to a job interview. In this lesson, students explore advanced vocabulary through a realistic fiction story
Stormy Skies, Steady Hearts
- C2
- Vocabulary
In this realistic fiction lesson, students read and listen to a proposal story disrupted by stormy weather. The focus is on understanding and using advanced vocabulary in real-world, emotional contexts.
Signal Loss
- C2
- Vocabulary
In this dystopian tale, students explore themes of surveillance and resistance while practicing advanced vocabulary related to danger, distance, and disruption through matching, gap fills, and discussion.