Last weekend when I visited Gangneung, my teacher friend Ken introduced me to an EFL/ESL listening website called "Listen a Minute".
http://www.listenaminute.com/
I have used it twice in my middle school classes already (we have internet/video connections in 3 classrooms).
Basically, the site consists of an alphabetical list of several hundred subjects (Accidents, Babysitting, Calories . . .), each of which links to a page with a paragraph that you can read and listen to. Then there are printable worksheets (gap fill, survey, etc.) that relate to the paragraph.
One very nice feature (aside from the fact that the author--Sean Banville--did all of this work and it is free) is that you can open the materials in MS Word, which mean that you can quickly edit them if you want.
The same author has another website called "ESL Discussions" that contains hundreds of subject discussion questions, in the form of "Student A/Student B", all of which can also be edited.
http://www.esldiscussions.com/
Nice resources and time-savers! Thanks Sean!
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