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Activities for ESL
Students |
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Quizzes, tests, exercises and
puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL). A collection of good podcasts on
various aspects of News and/or culture |
Lessons Reference |
Content Created by Teachers Music, slow narration,
transcripts. |
Adults |
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Interesting Things for ESL
Learners |
Hodge Podge
of useful links. Tends towards the practical. |
Reference Lessons |
Worth a look. |
All Ages |
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100 free short English
stories for ESL learners |
Short stories with accompanying
links to audio (slow and fast), questions, vocab
lists and a link to a dictionary. |
Reference Lessons, reading and listening |
Straightforward and simple except that ads are distracting. |
Adults |
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Marshall Adult Education’s Reading
Skills Stories |
Stories organized by level. Text
and audio |
Reference, Reading and listening |
Simple. No ads, no quizzes, vocab, links to dictionary. |
Adults |
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The Learning Edge |
Short animated newspapers with
simple English. Subject areas include career training, goal setting, etc. |
Reference and Quizzes, reading |
Simple, animation is helpful |
Adult |
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Eva Easton’s Authentic
Pronunciation |
Lots of different phrases,
alphabet, etc. pronounced ‘authentically’ by Eva Easton. |
Reference, pronunciation, idiom |
More a of a Reference |
Adult |
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ESL-Lounge |
Lyrics for popular songs |
Reference, lyrics |
Reference |
Adult |
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Phonetics – Sound of the
Spoken Language |
Resource of detailed pronounciation. |
Reference, pronunciatioin |
Audio of pronunciation plus video
and animation of anatomy while pronunciation happens. |
Adult |
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UGoEigo ~ ESL Phonics Video Podcast |
Resource of detailed pronounciation |
Reference |
Audio, video. Podcasts too. |
Adults |
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Pronouncing English Sounds |
Resource for detailed Pronounciation |
Reference, Pronunciation |
Audio plus still pics |
Adult |
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English Pronunciation/Listening
Okanagan Coll. |
http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation.htm |
Resource for detailed Pronounciation |
Reference |
Text and Adio |
Adult |
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Asian American Civic
Association Communicating at Work |
Step by step reading and listening
lessons focused on Workplace ESL. Not interactive enough. Mid-High Level
SPL 5 and 6. |
Lessons Workplace ESL |
Text and Audio and quizzes |
Adult |
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USALearns |
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Lessons |
OVAE |
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Learnerweb |
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Reference and Standalone |
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English for All |
Step by step lessons with
assessments. |
Lessons, Quizzes, Standalone |
Logon as a visitor. This is
what is used for DESE funded DL. |
Adults |
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Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day “My Best Of Series” Larry Ferlazzo’s
Best Web 2.0 Sites for EFL and ESOL |
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/about/my-best-of-series/
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2007/12/22/the-best-web-20-applications-for-eslefl-learners-2007/
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Blog. Review of good websites for
ESOL teachers. Text and links. A List of Best of Lists -- See,
for example, The Best Internet Sites for ESOL
Learners. http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/08/28/the-best-internet-sites-for-english-language-learners-2008/ |
Reviews of websites |
Very Broad range of links. Leans
towards cutting edge (Web 2.0). Multitude of links. |
ESOL but also education in
general. Tends to focus on kids. |
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English Club |
Lessons,
quizzes… Good organizations. |
Lessons,
Quizszes and Standalone |
Adults |
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Mansion Ingles |
Comprehensive. Specifically for
native Spanish speakers (website is in Spanish). Has section on Business
English. |
Lessons,
Quizszes |
Adults |
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Teacher Training Videos Ello: English Language Listening Online Breaking News English |
http://www.Teachertrainingvideos.com
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Short instructional video
tutorials on web-based technologies that may be useful in the classroom. Very cool site that allows people
to work on listening skills. There are games, interviews, quizzes, lessons,
and transcripts. Russell Stannard explains it here.
Russell Stannard explains here: http://trainingvideos.hscs.wmin.ac.uk/greatListening/index.html Mid to upper level English learners
practice reading comprehension by reading actual news stories that have been
modified for these educational purposes. Each story includes an accompanying
lesson plan. Described by Stannard at http://trainingvideos.hscs.wmin.ac.uk/eltPods/index.html |
Technology Reviews For example, here’s a link to one
of many games called “Two Lovers”: http://www.elllo.org/english/Games/G041-TwoLovers.html
Participants listen to a
description of several couples and then try to match those description to pictures. |
Good explanations of how to use
the technology and he usually mentions several ways to integrate in the classroom.
This is primarily for people that |
ESOL but broadly educational |
| Jones Library (Amherst) List of ESOL Sites for students who want to Study on the web | http://www.joneslibrary.org/esl/info/adult.html | Nice short description next to each link. | |||
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Patty Ball’s list of ABE
and ESOL links British Council’s Learn
English website Advanced English
Lessons |
http://delicious.com/poochiesan http://www.britishcouncil.org/central.htm?mtklink=central-learnenglish-portal-main-promo |
Links to websites useful in ABE generall. Search for “ESOL” tag to get those. Comprehensive site of lessons and
assessments and other resources for learning English. These are advanced! I had a hardtime with the Opposites Attract Game. |
List of weblinks Also: Wicked Good Websites http://www.sabes.org/northeast/Documents%20to%20link/Wicked%20Good%20Websites%202.doc and http://www.sabes.org/northeast/Documents%20to%20link/Wicked%20Good%20Websites%208_07.doc |