Listen a Minute is a free website with hundreds of short listening lessons.  Each recording is less than one minute.

• Listen to the recording while you read the words
• If you have time, you can try one or two exercises
• This website is in England, so the accent and a few words are a little different, but it’s still good practice and will work well on your smartphone

Here’s an example about Eggs:

Eggs are great. Where would we be without them? They are so useful. I can’t imagine life or cooking without them. There are many ways of cooking eggs for breakfast – fried eggs, scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, etc. There are even many ways of “cooking” these. You can have a runny or hard fried egg or even have it sunny side up. You can have soft or hard-boiled eggs and fluffy scrambled eggs. There are also many things to put on top of eggs – mayonnaise, ketchup, salt, soy sauce. Each country has something different. I like cooking with eggs. I particularly like breaking them. I can now do it with one hand, without breaking the yolk. Sometimes it gets messy and the egg white starts dripping down your arm.

• Quiz 1 (Choose the correct words of the story)
• Quiz 2 (Dictation – write the words you hear)