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A picture is worth a thousand words.   A.K.A. Visual Aids.

Go Ogle is your friend.   Just type in Teaching Aids,
Languages for Beginners, Visual aids for ESL, (etc.)

..or give them 'Homework' watching cartoons or movies
with subtitles..?   Skype with International students, or
use posters for young children, THEN (try to) tie it all
together in the classroom.   Use humour, outside
excursions to maintain interest = attention = memory.

You are on a learning curve too...     

Google has all the goodies.   Go Ogle.     

Keeping it interesting is the key.
You can read a hundred books and learn nothing, but basic work building up to difficult over time will get them moving.

Try introducing a laugh.

You're going about this the wrong way. To improve students listening skills you need to be teaching them pronunciation. If they can't speak it, they'll never hear it.

Make sure you're teaching reductions, elisions, and linking sounds. This will greatly improve your students listening skills.

Fred #3 -  thanks for the link. Hilarious.

@Ralph

" Fred #3 -  thanks for the link. Hilarious."

Don't be fooled.   That was actually Fred doing
(yet another)  John Cleese impersonation.

..hence the necessity of subtitles...     

I am not John Cleese, I'm just a very naughty boy.

And now for something completely on topic......

Teaching listening and speaking to together very nicely but are very remote from reading and writing skills in a million ways.
The latter tends to send kids to sleep, especially when it comes to the finer points of irregular verbs, but teaching speaking and listening is a fat sack of laughs if you want it to be.

You'll need a wild imagination, inventiveness, creativity, a projector with sound system and the ability to tell your boss to bog off and watch you do it when he tells you it's impossible.

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

@ Fred...

  Norty not,  Nice neither.

I will continue to interrupt when needed... 

..nor will I not corrupt your comments...