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Teacher resources *

Many different exercises *

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Useful links

· Yahoo- http://www.yahoo.com

· Alta Vista- http://www.altavista.digital.com

· HotBot- http://www.hotbot.com

· Infoseek- http://www.infoseek.com

· Lycos- http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu

· WebCrawler- http://webcrawler.com

Skills

Listening/reading

Graded listening and grammar:

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

About: English as a 2 language

Stories upper basic (read, listen, and exercise)

British Council

Upper elementary Silly Songs fill in

English Listening Room

Radio intermediate up transcriptions of news:

NPR: The Middle East Conflict

Intermediate up locally hosted and have been reformatted so that they are faster to download, easier to read on the screen and print well on any size paper.

Texts of VOA (Voice of America) Special English Features

Dowloadable MP3 VOA

Advanced:

The BBC World Service is a good place to start. For a monthly schedule of programs in different topics click here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/default.stm

Here are some great links to other ELT listening resources on the Internet.

Many different sites with hundreds of links.

· The TESL Journal's ESL: Listening

· Arlyn Freed's ESL Home at http://www.eslhome.com/esl/listen/

· More intermediate pronunciation at http://www.soundsofenglish.org/pronunciation/index.htm

o Hand-outs +MP3, explanation of the formation of the sounds.

· Engish maze advenced http://www.englishmaze.com/

o studies different accents at http://www.englishmaze.com/main/home.html

· 1-Language.com elementary up at http://www.1-language.com/esllistening/index.htm

All levels minimal pairs

American English Pronunciation Practice

Pictures

Animals, food, toys, Halloween with names.

http://www.1-language.com/eslflashcards/index.htm

Verbs, adjectives, pronouns,

http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj//FLClipart/default.html

English Raven Action Flashcards

Vocabulary

Longman dictionary

http://www.ldoceonline.com/

Basic-elementary

These are interactive basic JavaScript quizzes for students of English as a second language.

http://www.manythings.org/vq/

Starters and children

Activities for ESL Students grammar and vocabulary, easy, madium and difficult.

Basic-elementary all vocabulary study

Flash Crossword Puzzles for Studying English Vocabulary (java)

Basic-elementary

Scrambled Sentences for ESL Students

Situational sentances with variations.

Useful Sentences for Travel Survival

Easy things for beginners.

http://www.manythings.org/e/easy.html

Elementary up exercise

Flash Hangman Games for ESL Students

CGI Hangman Games for ESL Students (1999)

Matching Quiz, Concentration Game of Word Pairs (two players), Spelling Game

Word Based Games for ESL Students

Listening reading memory game.

Concentration Games for ESL Students

Intermediate

Crosswords-Difficult level 3 up

http://a4esl.org/a/c3.html

Sentences to complete and question.

http://a4esl.org/a/v3.html

Intermediate proverbs completing game

PhraseDaze Games for English Study

Proverbs with correction.

Commonly-Used Proverbs

Dictionary of slang

Commonly-Used American Slang

Crosswords and Quizzes at Net Learn Languages some in java.

http://www.nll.co.uk/free/exercises.shtml

· Dave's ESL Slang Page
http://www.eslcafe.com/slang

Advanced

quotations, insults, and neologisms (new coinages) as well as a daily historical diary entry

http://www.wordwizard.com/indexresources.htm

Sentences to complete and questions.

http://a4esl.org/a/v5.html

· Toon in to Idioms
They will find an idiom along with an amusing illustration and a sample dialogue that they can listen to if their computer has speakers. http://www.elfs.com/2nInX-Title.html

This is a very advanced vocabulary site. Students will find vocabulary quizzes and stories about words. http://www.wordfocus.com

Reading and writing

· ¡Vamos a Granada!, Kristy Cross

· Muralism, Muralists, and Murals, Carol Sparks

· El Bosque Lluvioso, Carol Sparks

· El Ballet Folklórico de México, Carol Sparks

Basic-elementary
List of pen pals sites

http://www.merrywing.com/penpal.htm

e-pals forum, mail, information.

http://www.epals.com/

Post card with famous pintings

http://postcards.www.media.mit.edu/Postcards

Basic writing/reading with different versions of the final text.

A Self Introduction

Children zone – ARKive natural life

http://www.planetarkive.org/vista.html

The games are not that easy http://www.planetarkive.org/games.html

Elementary up exercises on English grammar and vocabulary while reading scripts. Not only can you practice English, but you can learn many interesting things while doing so.

Quizzes Based On VOA Special English Programs

Helps to write different texts and gives some reading options.

Fun with words 2 shows all verbal tenses.

Computer Assisted Writing

Wait for the storymaker to load, then answer the questions - choose the characters, words and places or write your own! Then the story maker will 'make' your story - you can print it too!

http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-writing-storymaker.htm

The British Council Learnenglish arts archive with exercises and cultural links.

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-arts-current.htm

· Kidproj
This is an extensive and well-organized web site maintained by teachers and youth leaders who design and oversee projects, particularly collaborative writing activities for children between the ages of 10 and 15. Projects include The KIDPROJ Multi-Cultural Calendar, Holiday Legends, Poems and Stories from Around the World, the KIDPROJ Online Magazine, and the Multi-Cultural Recipe Book. http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ

· CNN
This is a marvelous source of current, authentic reading materials. In addition to the latest news stories, students will find interactive news quizzes. http://www.nmis.org/NewsInteractive/CNN/Newsroom

Grammar

Elementary up various exercises of vocabulary

Flash Quizzes for ESL Students

Elementary - Easy grammar exercises

http://a4esl.org/a/g.html

Elementary up medium exercises

http://a4esl.org/a/g3.html

Intermediate exercises

http://a4esl.org/a/g5.html

Explanations on grammar topics from A to Z.

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-grammar-archive.htm

very well organized all-topic multiple-choice exercises

http://www.better-english.com/grammar.htm

Literature Online
Online Books Page,

Internet Public Library – a very complete resource with many other links

http://www.ipl.org/

Children's Literature Web Guide.

Fiction, poetry, drama, articles, interviews, and short stories.

http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/5/4/frameset.html

Some great writers, their history and some texts, real time dictionary with pronunciation.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/

Teacher resources

List of business exercises for dofferent levels

http://www.better-english.com/exerciselist.htm

All MED magazine issues content index

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/med-magazine/february2004/16-index-page.htm

ESL Magazine, reports, ideas and resources.

http://www.eslmag.com/

Onestopenlish, writing – one world page

http://www.onestopenglish.com/tefl_skills/writing.htm

http://www.onestopenglish.com/exams/index.htm

Cool Links for Teachers & Linguists

http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/MyLinksTeachers.html#Clipart

Very useful for every resources

http://esl.about.com/cs/

Links of Interest to Students & Teachers of English as a Second Language.

http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Speaking/

The British Council home page (Kids, military, teachers, communities)

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish.htm

ESL magazine

http://www.eslmag.com/index.php

Antimoon.com: A good site for learning English with many different strategies brought to you by the greatest ESL students in all of Poland!

Internet English Resources – links to listening, grammar, reading, etc

http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/student_internet_res.html#oral

The following sites that have continually updated lists of links:

Volterre Web Links, Linguistic Funland, the ESL Study Hall and Dave Sperling's ESL Links Page for Students.

A collection of free grammar lesson plans including an outline of the lesson and teaching materials.

http://esl.about.com/library/lessons/blgrammarplans.htm

E-pals resources page, some links to projects and organizations.

http://www.epals.com/resources/online/

· National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education
Among NCBE's many offerings are hundreds of links to web pages on language and education issues, lesson plans and other practical classroom information.

Many different exercises

http://www.manythings.org/it/sitemap.htm

different languages lessons

http://www.clta.net/lessons/

There is even a special BBC World Service site for people learning English(basic to elementary)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml

They can try listening to different accents, for example American English on CNN or CBS:

http://www.cnn.com/

http://www.cnn.com/EDUCATION/

http://cbsnews.cbs.com/

Thematic
Meaning of Names

Kidproj - all about the first names, wonderful acrostic poems and discovered the significance of their names.
http://65.42.153.210/kidspace/start.cfm?HoldNode=20240&HoldNav=20200

Movies

Synopses and language information about many movies.

http://eslnotes.com/synopses.html

The Internet Movie Database: A true joy for movie lovers! A comprehensive guide to virtually every movie ever made, with detailed information on the plot, cast, and awards won by each film, as well a large selection of movie reviews and other fun stuff.

Drew’s Script-o-Rama: This site offers scripts that can be downloaded directly for free. In addition, it also has access to a few transcripts, which are the word-for-word dialog that is in the actual movie.

Zoos

Kids word games, starter questions, songs

http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-topics-zoos.htm

Easy games: clothes, animals, colors.

http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-games-little-kids.htm

ARKive natural life and animals http://www.arkive.org/

Globally Endangered Chapter – endangered species round the world, basic and specific information. Photos and short videos as well as other links are available.

http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/

Children zone

http://www.planetarkive.org/vista.html

The games are not that easy http://www.planetarkive.org/games.html

Historic

Atlas with a time line of human evolution

https://www5.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html

Geographic/demographic

AmeriStat

http://www.ameristat.org

AmeriStat provides up-to-date, easy-to-use, nontechnical summary information on major U.S.

demographic trends.

CIA World Factbook

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook

The CIA produces in-depth and up-to-date descriptions of countries worldwide.

The Population Reference Bureau

http://www.prb.org

Track U.S. and international population trends as well as other demographic data.

U.S. Census Bureau

http://www.census.gov

A vast amount of data is indexed by subjects covering population, housing, economics, geography, and agency news. U.S. and world population clocks are also available.

United Nations Statistics Division: Cities Population

Database

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/citydata/default.asp

Find the population of a country's capital city and cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants, and the cities' geographic coordinates.

World Bank: GenderStats

http://genderstats.worldbank.org

This database of gender statistics for countries covers basic demographics, population dynamics, labor force structure, education, health, and maternal mortality.

Celebrations

http://www.australianmedia.com/familynetwork.htm

Online couses

Widmayer & Gray: On-line course management systems and language teachers . . .

References and Resources

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· ALN (www.aln.org) "State of the Art ALN Courses" page 54

· Khan, B. and Vega, R. (1997) "Factors to Consider When Evaluation a Web-based Instruction Course: A Survey." In B. Khan (Ed) Web-based Instruction. New Jersey: Educational Technologies Publications.

· The WebQuest Page http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html

· Strategies for Using the Web in Your Course http://www.irc.gmu.edu/wkshpmaterials/webstrategies/Table_of_Contents.asp

· Tips for Connecting Your Course to the Internet http://www.irc.gmu.edu/wkshpmaterials/Tips/table_of_contents.asp

· Complying with ADA and Mason Website Policies and Regulations http://www.irc.gmu.edu/wkshpmaterials/ada_masonweb/table_of_contents.asp

· WebCT http://about.webct.com

· Blackboard http://www.blackboard.com

· WBT Systems http://www.wbtsystems.com/index.html

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Literature Online
Online Books Page,