This website provides very simple texts in a number of topic areas, eg. entertainment, health, pets and animals, sports, travel. American English.ESL Lounge
Elementary level listening with comprehension exercises and full transcripts. British English.The Virtual ILC
This excellent Australian website has a range of listening activities designed for students from elementary to advanced level. Start with Easynews - short stories based on SBS News.
Listen-A-Minute
A Sean Banville website with around 500 topics - each being one minute of listening. Transcripts and comprehension exercises are included.
Weird News (Daily Telegraph, UK)
Unusual news stories from the Daily Telegraph (UK newspaper). Videos with short texts, including:
#American teen speaks 23 languages
#Shark surprises fisherman
#Cat stops play during football match
#What happens to tears in space?
#German robots play heavy metal music
#North Koreans dance amid tensions
#Hamster comes back from dead
This is an American website with a large number of articles at elementary and intermediate level - with comprehension and vocabulary exercises. 
This website has around 120 Mixer lessons - where students talk about their experiences with English language learning, sport, fast food, future plans and so on. There are a range of vocabulary and comprehension exercises with each lesson. There are usually six students speaking about each topic. A wide range of accents.
This website provides a very wide range of topics at 3 levels (easy, medium and difficult). Pre-reading and comprehension activities.
Pre-intermediate level with many comprehension exercises. British English.
Intermediate level with many comprehension exercises. British English.
A series of featured articles at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Each article has five different activities to build vocabulary and aid comprehension.
This website provides practice in: types of listening, listening for specific information, communication skills and formal and informal speaking.
BBC Learning English: Express English
Students answer a different question each week. British English.BBC Learning English: Words in the News
A range of news items from the BBC. Listening, vocabulary and pronunciation. British English.ESL Bits (Intermediate level)
A huge range of listening topics from Voice of America (Special English). Each story has a full transcript and can be listened to at faster or slower speed. 
On this website you can listen to a range of podcasts, with comprehension and vocabulary exercises to follow.
An excellent Australian website with listening at intermediate and advanced level. Programs include:#Passport to English
#Nexus
#English Bites
#The Business of English
#Study English
#Living English
Listening webmix (on Symbaloo)
Individual tiles provide links to 52 websites to practise listening.
Choose from: audio, video,dictation, songs, podcasts, exam listening, listening strategies. Most sites have comprehension activities. Levels are from elementary to advanced. A variety of accents.
Sean Banville's dictation topics
The following dictation topics have been developed by Sean Banville (British ESL teacher, based in Japan).
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