Students, this is a game to help you improve your listening skills and English vocabulary with your favourite videos.
Teachers, some of these videos contain adult themes.
First, select a popular Youtube clip below to start the listening challenge.
TED Talks & Educational Videos
[Upper-Int] Space & Time Part 1 (BrE) (4:56)
[Upper-Int] Speed of Light Part 2 (BrE) (4:38)
[Intermed.] Space & Time Part 3 (BrE) (3:15)
[Advanced] Learn British slang (BrE) (6:40)
[Intermediate] Whales Are the Largest Animals Ever (BrE) (3:16)
[Intermediate] The Octopus is the Weirdest Animal on Earth (3:20)
[Intermediate] How to Wake Up Better (2:11)
[Intermediate] Gratitude (School of Life) (2:40)
[Upp-Intermed.] Jim Carrey - What it all means (5:18)
[Advanced] The danger of silence - Clint Smith (4:16)
[Upper-Intermed] The art of misdirection Pt 1 (4:39)
[Upper-Intermed] The art of misdirection Pt 2 (4:02)
[Intermediate] Try something new for 30 days (3:20)
[Upper-Intermed] Keep your goals to yourself (3:13)
[Intermediate] The world's English mania (4:27)
Speeches
[Intermed.] Al Pacino Speech - Any Given Sunday (4:30)
[Intermed.] Christopher Walken - The Lion Speech (2:17)
[Upp-Intermed.] Churchill - Their Finest Hour (BrE) (1:37)
[Advanced.] Stephen Merchant - Wedding Speech (Comedy/BrE) (1:35)
[Upp-Intermed.] Steve Jobs - Graduation Speech Pt. 1 (5:15)
[Upp-Intermed.] Steve Jobs - Graduation Speech Pt. 2 (3:29)
[Upp-Intermed.] Steve Jobs - Graduation Speech Pt. 3 (5:43)
Short Films & Skits
[Intermed.] "Vincent" by Tim Burton (6:00)
[Intermed.] "Xentrex" with Dwayne Johnson (Comedy) (2:25)
TV Sitcom "Friends"
[Intermediate] Unagi (4:44)
[Intermediate] The I-Hate-Rachel Club (2:44)
[Intermediate] Joey & Chandler become lazy (4:37)
[Intermediate] Joey's Sister's Problem Pt.1 (4:05)
[Intermediate] Joey's Sister's Problem Pt.2 (4:30)
[Intermediate] The Test Pt. 1 (4:47)
[Intermediate] The Test Pt. 2 (4:48)
TV Sitcom "How I Met Your Mother"
[Upper-Intermed] Pharma Girls (4:33)
[Upper-Intermed] Jennifer Lopez as Anita (5:27)
Instructions (Read First)
- Click on a video above (Friends, TED, etc). You must do this before the next step.
- Press the Start Video button to begin the listening game.
- As you listen, type the missing word for each sentence in the [sentence] area below this box.
You do not need to use your mouse to stop and start the video. It will automatically stop so you can type the answer.
If you enter the correct word, you will gain 100 points and the next sentence will appear. However, you will lose 25 points for replaying a sentence and 100 points for displaying the answer. Good luck!
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Every week, new videos will be added for you to practice. If you have any requests or technical difficulties, please leave a comment below.
-- Listening Game designed by Matthew Barton of Englishcurrent.com
I think it is helpful and fun ;)
HELLO
i think it’s useful and interesting
I like Ted Talks. It is very thoughtful and clear speech.
I saw your name in the Hall of Fame. Come back and play again anytime!
Good
It was awesome and helpfull to improve our listning skills.
It helped to be more precise about the listning.
It is awesome and helpful to improve our listening skills. very very useful, the only best way i found to listen while watch videos
please add much more new videos for us to practice, thanks millennial
I will. Please share the this page with your friends! I think it is a great learning tool but it needs more visitors.
Really creative
Great! Really helpful!
Will come back for more! :)
It is of one of the best kind of english learning method …thank you @Englishcurrent
Hahaha! So much fun it was! Now sharing this with friends :D
Great! This game needs more players!
MB
a very good comprehension makes my English getting better .
interesting!
Great ! I am going to share it with my classmates
Great ideas!
Please, add more videos with British pronunciation.
See our new TED talk about space & time to practice your listening.
It was a nice experience and it was fun.
good
It was a fun test. My score is 2400.
I scored -50000
It was a nice fun test.
Cant hear anything
that easy when you put the “sous-titres” ;-)
cant agree more
These videos are wonderful. However, I have a high-beginner student. Do you have videos of this quality for that level of student?
Thank you
This may be useful for my listening.
I love this activity! These videos are very useful not only for listening but also for speaking because it shows you how they pronounce the structure words in a sentence.
I just watched the art of misdirection part 1 video and some of the words aren’t either transcribed well or transcribed at all. For example, the speaker says “BY show of hands” and only “Show of hands” has been transcribed. Also, he doesn’t say “hi sir” but “alright sir”.
Hello. Thaks for the comment. I’m glad you are enjoying the videos. I checked the video (https://youtu.be/GZGY0wPAnus?t=74) and the speaker does say “show of hands”. With that said, there probably are a few transcription errors. In some cases, I did it manually; in others, I used the transcripts from TED’s site. I haven’t worked on this page in a while. I have been making new lesson plans for speaking class. Are you an English teacher yourself?
Yes I am an English teacher :)
It’s nice. But honestly I couldn’t measure about the score whether equal with A1, A2, B1, B2 or what
Hi there! I tried to use this video today. However it states that the video is no longer available from Youtube.
Hello. Yes, sorry about the inconvenience. That can happen. Please try another video.
it is too difficult to tell the words
It’s hard to make out the words because the music covers the girl’s voice
Hello,
Love the listening videos. I use Schoology as our LMS. Can you let me know if I will be able to add the video with the timer and scoring feature in Schoology?
Hello Robin. I’ve never heard of Schoology. This listening game is something I programmed in Javascript in 2018 for this website. It is not available on other sites.