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EFL Portals in the Quick
Reference Guide
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- Activities for ESL Students.
Check its Bilingual
Quiz Generator and its songs
podcast
- Adele's
ESL Corner
- Advanced Composition for Non-Native
Speakers of English
- Agenda web A databank
of resources either original or from other pages, classified into
grammar, vocabulary, listening, verbs or reading. There's a videos
section to learn English, either from You Tube or others.
- Alex's
Unofficial ICC ESL Quiz Arena. For Reading Comprehension.
- American Rhetoric
An online speech bank with the most famous speeches either real
(MLK, Kennedy) or fiction, from films such as Gladiator, Citizen
Kane.. With audio, video and full text.
- Aula Fácil
- BBC
World Service. Level 3 or upper.
- Bill
Daly's Writing Argumentative Essays
- Blue Web'n.
A search tool.
- Bob Wilson's
AUTO-ENGLISH
- BOGGLE'S WORLD. Resources
for teachers to print.
- Bridging the
gap. It helps students to begin at Secondary School. It's
a modest title of an incredibly rich project which focus on all
four skills and provides with a huge variety of activities. The
"Diccionari Illustrat" is especially recommended.
- British Council's
Learn English. Check the children's
section.
- Business
English Exercises
- Charles Kelly's Interesting
Things for ESL Students. There are quizzes, word
games with pictures, Audio
Memory Game, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams,
a random-sentence generator and other study materials. As its
name says, very interesting.
- Clicknlearn. An excellent
site with units graded according to our Secondary Education levels,
but the links to the exercises cannot be direct. Great to visit
and work on but guided by the teacher.
- CNN Student News
high level practice with CNN news.
- Colegio
Erain English Department
- Conversation.
It suggests ideas for conversation.
- Curso de Inglés.
Contents in 3 levels, related exercises and much more... Listening
exercises classified according to grammar or vocabulary contents.
It's annoying having to close banners all the time, but there's
a very good grammar appendix translated into Spanish. In the movies
section there're dialogues of "Six days seven nights".
D-F
- Daily Grammar.
A grammar reference with theory and practice to print.
- Dave's ESL Cafe. Students
can publish their recipes here.
- Dave Sperling's Internet
Activity Workbook: a complete guide for Internet exchanges.
- Diana's
quizzes.
- Diari de l'Escola.
It has a list of news in English
- E-Cambridge
school and AnglesOnLine. With a beautiful interface and classified
into floors, every one is devoted to learning via a different
mean: cinema, music or ads. For instance, you can do listening
comprehension exercises by watching movies trailers.
- edu365.com
- Educational
Technology Training Centre. Instant Poetry Forms, for writing
poems on line.
- Edufind.com
For a full list of tests. You have to register for some services,
but it's easy.One test at 1
- eflnet. a great
site with grammar, vocabulary and phrasal verbs interactive exercises.
- EFL Club
- Emile's Webenglish.
Some interactive reading comprehension texts, tips for teachers
(conversations, roleplays..), recommended her 2nd conditional
mini
webquest.
- English as
Another Language
- English Club.com
- English Exercises Online
- English
Skills. As its name says, provides with interactive Hot Potatoes
exercises with a skills classification. Excellent for level 3.
- English4theworld. Apart from
the typical grammar and vocabulary sections, there's the works
skills and everyday English ones on situations. The resource bank
at the teacher's center provides with lots of images and audio/video
files.
- English 4 All.
- English
for Sedavi. A huge amount of original exercises designed by
a Secondary School teacher for his students.
- English
hilfen. A huge amount of vocabulary exercises.
- English Language
Centre Study Zone at the University of Victoria. Apart from
grammar exercises, the activities on reading in every section
deserve attention. Look at the RPTE
(Reading Proficiency Test of English) from the University of Texas.
- EnglishLearner.com
- English Maze: you
have to subscribe and pay for it, though some exercises are free;
mainly on reading comprehension, with a very interactive interface
and beautifully designed.
- Englishpage.com.
Fancy reading? Click here
- English-to-go. Interesting
resources but you have to subscribe and pay for it. Some lessons
for teachers are free, though.
- English-Zone.Com
- ESL Bears.
A resouces index.Testing your writing.
3 levels
- ESL
Blue(s) del College
Edouard Monpetit
- ESL
Independent Study Lab. Especially recommended its pronunciation
section. It's mainly a links page.
- ESL
Loop : A collection of sites relevant to English Language
Teaching and Learning on the Web. Each site is linked to the next.
- Esl-lounge.
Its songs section includes some songs with grammatical contents
and worksheets. There's lots of board
games for teachers to print and practice some grammar contents…In
each level there's an interactive reading comprehension quiz
- ESL materials just
click online ESL activities, materials, and textbooks
- ESL Rong Chang: a links
page
- Filmeducation with
free worksheets on many movies.
- 5 Minute English.
Very short (5-min) activities including explanation and exercise.
Good easy reading comprehension activities, listening and pronunciation.
- Fonetiks. Listen to sounds
by rolling the mouse on.
- free-English,
although you have to register.
G-I
J-L
M-O
P-R
S-U
V-Z
Teacher's pages
Media
Publishers
Level tests
Listening
Non-EFL but useful
- Aesop's Fables more
than 655 fables with morals, Real Audio narrations..
- All Recipes For work
on Food lexical field.
- Ask Jeeves: One of the best search
engines. It gives information on subjects such as Maths, Science,
Astronomy or History. Very useful for intermediate students to
work on different topics in English.
- Audible.com you can listen
to books in English
- Billy Bear's Playground
- BrainPOP.com: A great
non-EFL-specific web where you can work on lexical fields on areas
such as Mathematics, Science, Geography, Health or Technology.
By clicking on a movie you can watch and listen to it and answer
questions. You can watch several for free per day. After that,
you need to subscribe.
- Cajatonta
-
Cartoon
network You can play games related to your favourite cartoons,
reading in English at the same time.
- CNN Learning
Resources. News on topics and activities for reading comprehension.
Learners can also choose to listen to a news story from the Story
Archives or watch a video clip that comes with each reading.
- Common
errors in English
- Discovery School.
For teachers to make crosswords, lesson plans.
- Drew's
Script-O-Rama. Great for performing short sketches of famous
movies.
- Enchanted
Learning. For Primary school children, but useful for non-native
speakers of all ages.
- Esl for kids.
- Europago.
Games on the countries of the European Union.
- Funbrain
- Jibjab.
A free newsletter with songs, just to have fun. You can click
on "This Land" or "It's good to be in DC"
and "Click here" to see the lyrics.
- Karaoker
- Ksolo A karaoke where you
can listen to, sing and record your own voice singing famous songs.
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for
Educators: It's a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing
curriculum and professional growth.
- Kidcrosswords
- Kids Domain
- Not just for kids
- If you want to make an on-line
photo album with your students' pictures.
- Quotations: 1
2 3
4 5
6 7
8
Ideas for using quotations
in class, click on MacMag #6
- Renata's
ESL/CALL corner. On Autralian topics for learning English.
- Skoool.ie An interactive
learning portal. Specially recommended the poetry
section where you can listen to and work on poems.
- Strucc Books
Some elementary sample puzzles
- Teaching Heart. It's
a site for k-3 teachers, but some resources as its scripts
and plays are very recommendable.
- TED stands
for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984)
as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds.
TED is devoted to giving millions of knowledge-seekers around
the globe direct access to the world's greatest thinkers and teachers.
Its speakers range from Bono to Jane Goodall or Daniel Goleman.
- The British
Monarchy: For cultural research on this institution.
- The Early Elementary
Library
- The Internet Movie Database
- The Learning Edge.
A site on reading comprehension for 2nd cycle ESO or Bachillerat.
- http://www.english-trailers.com/index.html
movies trailers with exercises ready to be done.
- University
of Iowa. This is a fantastic site with graphics, sound, and
video. See an animation of mouth anatomy or a video of a native
speaker pronouncing each sound. Click on "English sounds
library" and then choose the sounds you want to work on.
- Waltzing
Matilda.
- Webmonkey
for kids
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Yahooligans.
The web guide for kids. It's intended for native speakers
of English, but some things can be used as a classroom resource.
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Dictionaries
- Free translation.
Funny translations.
- The Internet Picture Dictionary.
Vocabulary grouped into several categories or lexical fields with
their images. It also provides with activities such as flashcards,
fill-in-the-blanks or Word Scramble.
- Spanishdict. It
has over 56,508 entries with over 10,369 audio pronunciations
- Heinle. over 40,000 entries
providing simple and clear definitions.
- yourdictionary.com.
Your students may want to register here to get a word-a-day sent
to their e-mail address.
e-books
- Freebookstoread.
6000 book online library This library uses "Text To Speech"
audio technology to allow your computer to read your selections
aloud.
- Bibliomania. Free
online literature with more than 2000 classic texts.
- Project Gutenberg. More
than 15.000 eBooks.
- East
of the Web short stories is a section devoted to reading with
interactive activities such as forums, games or more materials
for teachers.
- Wikipedia.
The free Encyclopedia.
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