Intensive Listening Recommendations

(TESOL Worksheets--Extensive Listening , Independent Study)

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[This is based on a previous document I created: Extensive and Intensive Listening Recommendations.  

But it's edited down so that it includes only the websites that are useful for intensive focused listening.  I share this document with students who are in need of extra resources to study listening outside of class. Some of this material I've linked to previously on this blog.  See:  Using Crash Course World History Videos for IELTS Listening, Spotlight English, English Reading and Listening Practice.

I'm including this worksheet in my index for extensive listening materials.  In the sense that extensive listening means the opposite of intensive listening, then obviously this list of intensive listening websites is not extensive listening.  But in the sense that extensive listening can mean a lot of extra listening practice outside of class, then I think this is a form of extensive listening.]

British Council Listening Materials: 

Tons of stuff on this website.  You can choose your own level.  (It may be useful to start at an easy level and then work your way up.)  If you do all the tasks, and look at the transcript, you can get a lot of good practice

ELLLO

English Listening Lesson Library Online--So many great resources here.  And great for intensive listening because it includes questions, vocabulary work, and work with the transcript.

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/ 

Scroll down on the left hand side to the listening exercises.  Choose a level.  (You may want to start on an easy level to get started).  There are lots of activities here to practice both intensive listening and micro-listening.

Listen and Write:

This website is so extremely useful for practicing micro-listening.  Highly recommended.

Lyrics training

This website is great for practicing Micro Listening skills

https://microenglish.com/  

There's a ton of great resources on this website, but of particular use to your exams is the micro-listenings: https://microenglish.com/category/micro-listening/

MyEnglishExam: 

There's a lot of content here for all the skills, but select the listening from their menu.  It's really great for reviewing the listening strategies for IELTS style listening (which will also be relevant to your exams).  You can also access the same content on their Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ESL4free/videos​​​​​​​

TubeQuizard

Lots of great activities to practice micro listening with. 

Spotlight English

This is a good website for building up your listening confidence if you're struggling.  The presenters on this channel specifically use only easy-to-understand broadcast English.  It's a great way to build up your general listening ability before going on to more difficult materials. Most listenings include transcripts.  It’s suggested to listen one time without the transcript (to see how much you can catch by yourself) and then listen one time with the transcript.)

You can also check out their Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SpotlightEnglish

Crash Course World History  with gap fill questions

You can listen and fill in the gaps, check your answers, listen again, listen with the transcript, us the transcript to check unknown vocabulary, etc,

English Reading and Listening Practice.  

Listen to the videos for extensive listening.  Practice the comprehension questions and vocabulary for intensive listening

Extensive and Intensive Listening Recommendations

(TESOL Worksheets--Extensive Listening)
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[Explanation: I used this in conjunction with my Extensive and Intensive Listening Tracker, but I'm posting it separately because I think this could also be used independently.
Each class, I emailed the students an extensive or intensive listening recommendation, that they could do for their homework tracker.  They were not obligated to do these (they could also find their own material independently if they preferred).
This was for an advanced class, and so the level of the material reflects this.
On this public blog, I'm only sharing the publicly available material--i.e. I'm not sharing here the links to materials that were on my school's private drive--which, unfortunately, is most of the intensive listening material.  So if this list seems more geared towards extensive listening than intensive listening, that's why.

Some of this material I've linked to previously on this blog.  See: ESL English Language Learning--Listening and Reading--Audiobooks--Stories, Using Crash Course World History Videos for IELTS Listening, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, The Robin Hood movie, Princess Mononoke , Spotlight English, English Reading and Listening Practice]

Extensive Listening Recommendation: http://esl-bits.net/  This website contains so much material that you can listen to--books, short stories, and articles.  Everything has both the listening audio, and the reading text, so you can do it either as a reading or a listening or both.  In the future, I'll recommend specific books to you that I think would be appropriate for your level.  But for now, I'll just recommend the website generally.  Have a look through the various material, and see what interests you.  

For the extensive listening, it's recommended that you do this as listening practice and not reading practice.  That is, don't look at the printed text--just play the audio the first time, without looking at the reading.  (After you've listened one time, you can use the transcript to help you if there were parts you had difficulty listening to.  But remember, for extensive listening, you don't need to worry about understanding everything.  Just understanding the main idea is fine.)

Intensive Listening Recommendation: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9  Actually today's recommendation can be either extensive or intensive listening.  If you listen to these videos just for enjoyment (and don't answer any questions), you can classify it as extensive listening.  However, if you do the questions, you can classify it as intensive listening practice.  I've designed IELTS style gap fill questions around the first 12 videos in this series.  You can access my materials in this folder here: 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5QgMDk6npsRcWNhRFg2c0w3bW8?resourcekey=0-2VdYQ_ZyWEWDU-x_qpBn2Q&usp=drive_link  You can listen and fill in the gaps, check your answers, listen again, listen with the transcript, us the transcript to check unknown vocabulary, etc, and then it would count as intensive listening.  So either intensive or extensive listening would work for these videos.  If you do decide to use them, you can count each video as one listening.  So, for example, the first video (the Agricultural Revolution) can count as one extensive or intensive listening on the tracker.  The next video would count as a second listening on the tracker, etc.

Extensive Listening Recommendation: So, for the last extensive listening recommendation, I gave you this website: http://esl-bits.net/ .  But the truth is, there's a lot of material on that website.  Some of the books are very difficult and probably not appropriate for you.  So you may need some help navigating that website and finding the easier material, and that's what I'll try to do over the next few weeks.  The easier material is, of course, the children's stories.  The easiest story I can think of on that site is Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, which you can find here.  http://esl-bits.net/Novellas.for.ESL.Students/Charlotte/contenu.html  This is a classic children's story, first published in 1952, but still read to young children nowadays.  When I was in school, my teacher read it to us when I was in 2nd grade (so I was 7 years old).  So it's at about a 7 year old level for native speakers.  For second language learners like you, I suspect there will be a lot of unknown vocabulary in this story, but you should still find the main idea of the story very easy to follow.  It's a children's story, so the plot is simple, but it's not without its charms.  There's a reason why it became a classic.

As always with this website, remember to do this as listening practice, not reading practice.  Don't look at the text the first time you listen.  (I suggest either minimizing the window, or looking away from the  screen.)  Although there are pictures for every chapter that you could preview before you listen to give you an idea of what will happen in that chapter.  

If you do this for your extensive listening tracker, you can count one chapter for one extensive listening practice.  (You don't need to listen to the whole book all in one go.)  

There's also a movie version of this story which you can find on Youtube.  https://youtu.be/rv7A4tg7G1k  The movie has some minor changes, but overall follows the story in the book pretty closely.  If you're having trouble visualizing what is happening in the book, you may want to use the movie to help you follow the story.  You can watch the movie before you listen to the book.  Or you can watch the movie after you finish the book.  Or you can watch the movie alongside the book (i.e. listen to some of the book, then watch some movie, then back to the book, etc).  Whatever helps you more.

You can also watch the movie instead of the book.  If you do that, you can count the movie as one extensive listening practice.

Extensive Listening Recommendation: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. http://esl-bits.net/Novellas.for.ESL.Students/Lion.Witch.Wardrobe/contenu.html  This is another audio book from http://esl-bits.net/ . As I mentioned before, I'm going to help you find the easier books on this website.  And this is another children's book, so it should hopefully be easy for you to listen to.  I first had this book read to me when I was 5 or 6 years old, so for a native speaker I think it's about at the 6 year old level.  For second language students like yourself, I think you should be able to follow the main idea easily, even if there will be some unknown vocabulary.  

As always with this website, remember to do this as listening practice, not reading practice. Don't look at the text the first time you listen. (I suggest either minimizing the window, or looking away from the screen.) Although there are pictures for every chapter that you could preview before you listen to give you an idea of what will happen in that chapter.

If you do this for your extensive listening tracker, you can count one chapter for one extensive listening practice. (You don't need to listen to the whole book all in one go.)

Because this is a very famous story, it's been made into a movie multiple times.  At least two of the movie versions are available for free on Youtube.  A 1979 cartoon version is on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/CP5uXoNf7Nc A 1988 live action version is on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/6Fft9DLIp7E If you're having trouble visualizing what is happening in the book, you may want to use one of the movies to help you follow the story. You can watch the movie before you listen to the book. Or you can watch the movie after you finish the book. Or you can watch the movie alongside the book (i.e. listen to some of the book, then watch some movie, then back to the book, etc). Whatever helps you more.

You can also watch one of the movies instead of the book. If you do that, you can count each movie as one extensive listening practice.

Extensive Listening Recommendation: Another audio book from http://esl-bits.net/ Diary of a Wimpy Kid.  http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Wimpy.Kid/indice.html  This is another children's book.  This one is pitched at slightly older kids (10-11).  The vocabulary is slightly more advanced, and it also contains more slang terms and idioms.  But on the plus side, each individual chapter is very short, so it's very easy to do this in short listening sessions.  And in my experience, this book has been popular with students in Vietnam.  You can also listen to it on Youtube if you prefer.  https://youtu.be/cy0jEVm002w

Extensive Listening Recommendations:  So far I've been slowly recommending you audio books on a book by book basis.  But we're now 2 weeks into the course, so it's time to just give you all the good stuff at once so you can make up your mind.  The following are a list of books on esl-bits.net that were written for children, and so should be easier to comprehend.

Bridge to Terabithia: http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Bridge.to.Terabithia/indice.html

Holes: http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Hoyo/contenu.html

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh: http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Rats/contenu.html

Peter and the Starcatchers: http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Peter.and.the.Starcatchers/indice.html

The Black Stallion: http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/The.Black.Stallion/indice.html

The Hobbit: http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/The.Hobbit/inn%C3%A9acs.html

The Lightning Thief: http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Thief/contenu.html

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Wizard_of_OZ/inn%C3%A9acs.html

Where the Red Fern Grows: http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Where.the.Red.Fern.Grows/contenu.html

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: http://esl-bits.net/Novellas.for.ESL.Students/Chitty.Chitty/indice.html

Danny, the Champion of the World: http://esl-bits.net/Novellas.for.ESL.Students/Danny/contenu.html

Mary Poppins: http://esl-bits.net/Novellas.for.ESL.Students/Poppins/contenu.html

Intensive Listening Recommendation: The Robin Hood movie, and do the slideshows and worksheets: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5QgMDk6npsRNmFJU2N6djNzN1U?resourcekey=0-nBFEagwqu3UgRyOMGDexYg&usp=drive_link (If you only watch the movie, you can count it as extensive listening.  If you do the movie and the slideshow and worksheets, you can count it as extensive listening.)

Extensive Listening Recommendation: Eyes on the Prize Documentary https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOwK3r1sMvSZVth7XGlcpfLSjS3tAp90T  I notice you've been doing a lot of talks and lectures on the extensive listening, but not a lot of documentaries.  Documentaries can also be a fascinating way to study, and this is one of my favorites.  It's a documentary on the American Civil Rights Movement.  There are 14 parts, but each part can count as 1 extensive listening.  The transcript is here: https://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/media/filer_public/b9/02/b902b327-70e0-4a4c-80d4-db9ca54941ab/eyes_on_the_prize_transcript.pdf

Intensive Listening Recommendation: Princess Mononoke and do the slideshows and the worksheets: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5QgMDk6npsRUUtYbVc4OWlnbUE?resourcekey=0-MgR3Hdtd24WhCO34qLg6Bg&usp=drive_link  The movie is originally Japanese, but the version I'm sharing with you here is the English dub, so it counts as English listening practice.  The worksheets and slideshows follow the same format as the Robin Hood worksheets and slideshows I shared with you earlier this week.  As with the Robin Hood materials, if you only watch the movie, you can count it as extensive listening.  If you watch the movie and do the worksheets and slideshows, you can count it as intensive listening.  Each part can count as one intensive listening.

Extensive Listening Recommendation: Story Time Animated: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfT-6VFvgdC2wTkjITSTGyg  This is a Youtube channel which (supposedly) takes real stories from teenagers, and animates them.  Are all of these stories real?  Well... supposedly, at least.  I don't know, what do you think?  Most of the stories are just over 10 minutes, so they should be perfect for extensive listening.  You can count each video as one extensive listening.

Intensive Listening Recommendation: British Council Listening Materials: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening  Tons of stuff on this website.  You can choose your own level.  (It may be useful to start at an easy level and then work your way up.)  If you do all the tasks, and look at the transcript, you can definitely count this as intensive listening.  

Extensive Listening Recommendation: A great listening resource which we haven’t even talked about yet is the wonderful world of podcasts.  You can find podcasts on just about any topic you like, so explore around a bit and find what you’re interested in.

You can search for podcasts on many different apps, but I use https://podcasts.google.com/  .  I’ve been recently been listening to (and loving) history podcasts by Mike Duncan.  Revolutions https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZvbHV0aW9uc3BvZGNhc3QubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3Mv and The History of Rome https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9oaXN0b3J5b2Zyb21lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz

Intensive Listening Recommendation: ELLLO--English Listening Lesson Library Online--So many great resources here.  And great for intensive listening because it includes questions, vocabulary work, and work with the transcript. http://www.elllo.org/index.htm

Extensive Listening Recommendation: Spotlight English.  This is a good way to build up your listening confidence if you're struggling.  The presenters on this Youtube channel specifically use only easy-to-understand broadcast English.  It's a great way to build up your general listening ability before going on to more difficult materials.  Check out their Youtube channel:https://www.youtube.com/user/SpotlightEnglish1 and also more material at their website: https://spotlightenglish.com/

Intensive Listening Recommendation: https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/ Scroll down on the left hand side to the listening exercises.  Choose a level.  (You may want to start on an easy level to get started).  There are lots of activities here to practice both intensive listening and micro-listening.

Extensive Listening Recommendation: Channel Awesome Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChannelAwesome/videos  I find these videos very entertaining, particularly the Nostalgia Critic segments: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0AQIMR-tpolMHlQtgREG-amOqw8J_fkS

Intensive Listening Recommendation: Listen and Write: https://www.listen-and-write.com/  This website is so extremely useful for practicing micro-listening.  Highly recommended.

Extensive Listening Recommendation: I've been finding Philosophy Tube's videos very thought provoking.  Check them out: https://www.youtube.com/c/thephilosophytube/videos​​​​​​​

Intensive Listening Recommendation: Lyrics training--this website is great for practicing Microlistening skills. https://lyricstraining.com/

Extensive Listening Recommendations: Adam's Answers Youtube channel.  https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamsAnswers/videos  The channel is made for kids, but I think it would be great practice for anyone struggling with English listening.  Adam's pronunciation is so clear and easy to understand. 

Intensive Listening Recommendation: Check out micro listening: https://microenglish.com/  There's a ton of great resources on this website, but of particular use to your exams is the micro-listenings: https://microenglish.com/category/micro-listening/

Extensive Listening Recommendation: I find the film criticism of Lindsay Ellis really interesting.  Check out her Youtube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LindsayEllisVids/videos  She also does work on the PBS channel Storied: https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsstoried/videos

Intensive Listening Recommendation: Check out the MyEnglishExam website: http://www.myenglishexam.com/  There's a lot of content here for all the skills, but select the listening from their menu.  It's really great for reviewing the listening strategies for IELTS style listening (which will also be relevant to your exams).  You can also access the same content on their Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ESL4free/videos​​​​​​​

Extensive Listening Recommendations: The Philip DeFranco show--A really interesting way to keep up with the news... and also the Youtube scandals.  https://www.youtube.com/c/PhilipDeFranco/videos

Intensive Listening Recommendation: Check out TubeQuizard--lots of great activities to practice micro listening with. http://www.tubequizard.com/

Extensive Listening Recommendation: As discussed in class, Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell is a great Youtube channel for educational videos about science topics.  https://www.youtube.com/c/inanutshell/videos  In particular, there video about Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change? (https://youtu.be/EhAemz1v7dQ) is useful for your Unit 8 topic.

Extensive and Intensive Listening Recommendation: English Reading and Listening Practice.  https://sites.google.com/view/reading-and-listening-practice/  Listen to the videos for extensive listening.  Practice the comprehension questions and vocabulary for intensive listening

Extensive and Intensive Listening Tracker

(TESOL Worksheets--Extensive Reading, Learner Autonomy) 
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[Note: Sample of what I used in my class.  In my class, the students' names are written in the left hand column, and then a copy is shared electronically with students (who are given editing privileges) and then students keep track of their weekly intensive and extensive listening]

Week 1

Extensive Listening Guidelines: Longer listenings (10 minutes or more).  Listen for enjoyment.  Find something you are interested in.  Movies, TV shows, Youtube videos, lectures, etc.  No comprehension questions.  Listen for main ideas only. (Don’t worry about unknown vocabulary).   It must be something online so that you can share the link with the rest of the class.   Share the link below, and also write a brief note about whether or not you would recommend it.				Intensive Listening Guidelines: Shorter listenings (10 minutes or less).  Listen many times. Focus on understanding everything.  Answer the questions.  Check your answers.  Check the transcript.  Look up any unknown vocabulary. It must be something online so that you can share the link with the rest of the class.
Name	Extensive Listening 1	Extensive Listening 2	Extensive Listening 3	Intensive Listening 1	Intensive Listening 2	Intensive Listening 3
Example	Inside the Neurotic Mind of Stonewall Jackson  Really boring and hard to understand--don’t recommend	Flash Gordon (1936) Space Soldiers.  So great.  Really exciting	The Story of Persephone & Pandora's Box.  It’s okay.  Mildly interesting.

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Worksheets (Extensive Reading, Extensive Listening)

(TESOL Worksheets--Extensive Reading, Extensive Listening)
[Note: In order to avoid cluttering up this post, I'll post all the materials at the top, then explain them down below.] 

Google Drive Folder HERE, Students Select Vocabulary HERE, Pre-Selected Vocabulary HERE
1. The Sickness of Timothy Frisby: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
2. Mr Ages: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
3. The Crow and the Cat: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
4. Mr Fitzgibbon’s Plow: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
5. Five Days: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
6. A Favor from Jeremy: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
7. The Owl: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
8. Go to the Rats: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
9. In the Rosebush: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub--Crossword Puzzle (Answers)--Made using Crossword puzzle maker
10. Brutus: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub--Crossword Puzzle (Answers)--Suggested answers: docs, pub
11. In the Library: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub--Crossword Puzzle (Answers)--Suggested answers: docs, pub
12. Isabella: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub--Crossword Puzzle (Answers)
13. A Powder for Dragon: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub--Crossword Puzzle (Answers)
14. The Marketplace: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
15. In the Cage: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
16. The Maze: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
17. A Lesson in Reading: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
18. The Air Ducts: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
19. The Boniface Estate: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
20. The Main Hall: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
21. The Toy Tinker: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
22. Thorn Valley: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
23. Captured: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
24. Seven Dead Rats: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
25. Escape: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
26. At the Meeting: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub
27. The Doctor: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub--Suggested answers: docs, pub
28. Epilogue: docs, pub, Pre-selected vocabulary: docs, pub--Suggested answers: docs, pub

Notes and Explanations
These were used with a students studying English as a second language at an advanced level.
You can also see my review of this book (in which I talk a little bit about my experience teaching it.)

For the text of the book, I've used the version at http://esl-bits.net/.  You can find it here:
http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Rats/contenu.html  At this link you can find the full text of the book, and what appears to be a professionally recorded audio book.

In my classroom, I used the written text as an extensive reading project with one group of students, and the audio book version as an extensive listening project with two other groups of students.

I'm not entirely sure whether this website is entirely legal or not.  The website owner appears to have good intentions and to legitimately believe that he is within fair use protection because he is posting the material for educational purposes and because it's not for profit.  But is that enough to save him from copyright litigation?  I genuinely don't know. (Your guess is as good as mine.)  But I wouldn't be surprised if this website is running on borrowed time.  If you want to use it, it might be a good idea to copy the material now before it gets deleted.  (Or, if you are reading this post at some time in the future after the website has been shut down, then you'll have to find the text or audio material elsewhere.)

The text at the website linked to above appears to have been modified very slightly from the original.  As far as I can tell, the only changes are when there is a difference between American and Australian English, in which cases the text is changed into Australian English (the website appears to be Australian).  So, for example, "elevators" is changed to "lifts".
This unfortunately means that the accompanying audio tracks available on the website (which, as far as I can tell, must be a copy of the audiobook produced by the publisher) don't always match the text exactly.  The differences are minor (usually only one or two words per chapter), but they are there.  In classes where I wanted the students to read and listen to the material, I copied and pasted the text onto a Google document, and then previewed it before class, listened to the recording, and changed any words that were different.  (I'm not going to share those corrected texts on this post for fear of violating copyright.  Sorry.  You'll just have to correct it yourself.)

Doing this text as an extensive listening can be done using the audio on the same website.  (Or, if something ever happens to that website in the future, it can also be done using any of the various amateur readers on Youtube--example here).  It can be done either in class or (as I attempted) as homework.
In my extensive listening class, I handed out the worksheet to the students, and emailed them link to the website.  They were instructed to do it as listening practice, and to disregard the text (or to only use the text to check their listening.)  However, when it soon became apparent that many of the students were doing it as a reading, and not a listening, I changed to just emailing them the audio link only.
The audio link can be found by clicking on the audio player, and clicking "open in new tab".  In the worksheets linked to above, the audio link is at the top of each page.
(If you're still worried about the students finding the text, you can also download the audio by clicking on the audio player and clicking "save audio as...".  Then, you can email the students the audio.)

The extensive listening program at my school encourages students to keep a vocabulary journal with new vocabulary from the listening, so initially I added a vocabulary section at the bottom of the worksheet for students to add any new vocabulary that was of interest to them.  However, the second time I used those worksheets, I decided that it was too difficult for my students to find new vocabulary words in a listening text.  (Since they couldn't see the spelling, it was very difficult for them to find and look-up new words).  So then the second time I used these worksheets, I adjusted them so that some useful vocabulary was already pre-selected for them.  And that's why there are two versions of each worksheet--one in which the students select the vocabulary they want to focus on, and one in which some new vocabulary is already pre-selected for them.

When creating the questions for these worksheets, I copied a lot from teachers who came before me.  I searched Google for comprehension questions already created by teachers, and found quite a lot.  (This book is apparently very popular in the classroom.)  I regret to say that when I was making these worksheets, I didn't keep good track of who I was borrowing from every week, and so I can't actually now remember where all these questions came from, and can't give credit to where it is due.  The PDF I borrowed from most heavily was this one here, but there were others as well.  (I also found this PDF useful in setting up the first couple chapters.)
I started creating crossword puzzles for the vocabulary for chapters 8-13, but then stopped when I realized none of the students were doing the crossword puzzles.
4 chapters, linked to above, have suggested answers, but only 4.  Those 4 were created because for one of my groups, we did not have time in class to go over the answers, and so I made those as answer keys and emailed them out to the students.