Useful links

BBC World Service: Learning English
Programme information and many features,e.g.Word in the news,English by radio. Grammar and Vocabulary,Quizzes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml


Breaking News English
Over 800 Free English language lessons base on current download world news stories.
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/


English as a Second Language
This is part of the About.Education site. It offers articles, advice, lesson plans, exercises etc.
http://esl.about.com/


ESLflow
Lessons, activities and resources for Elementary, Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate levels. Try the Intermediate section on Multiple Intelligences or the Pre-Intermediate page on Childhood.
http://www.eslflow.com/


Linguistic Funland TESL
Now in its 7th year. Links to resources for the teaching of English, exercises and activities for students of English, online journals and linguistic databases and corpora as well as for linguistic study, computer-mediated communication and the study of other languages. http://www.linguistic-funland.com/


TEFL.NET
Classroom activities, lesson plans and webguide to other ESL/EFL links. Click on Improvisations (under Lesson Plans) for both pair and group ideas.
http://www.tefl.net/index.html


Cambridge ELT
An attractive new website offering a wide range of information and resources for ELT professionals, teachers and students, e.g. teaching young learners, support for many of the excellent Cambridge coursebooks, study tips, Cambridge dictionaries online, data for language reseachers, online activities... There are new features each month. http://www.cambridge.org/elt/


MacMillan One Stop English Magazine
One of the best of publishers; sites, this monthly online magazine offers hundreds of free resources: professional support, lesson plans, lesson sharing at all levels plus a new Forum section.
http://www.onestopenglish.com/


Oxford University Press
This is the Oxford site tailor-made for teachers, dedicated to providing information, resources, support materials, and ideas for teachers and students. http://www.oup.com/elt/teachersclub/?cc=global


Pearson Longman
The Pearson Longman website has a wide choice of excellent dictionaries with downloadable worksheets. There are also sections for specific age groups and interests, e.g. Young Learners, Teens, Adults, Business and Exams, each with a variety of activities, resources, quizzes, reading ideas and teaching tips.
http://www.pearsonlongman.com/


ESL Partyland
Lively site. Lesson plans and ideas, reproducible materials, interactive quizzes, lots of links. Three recommendations: the collection of Conversation Questions, presented as card sets for about 20 topics ( e.g.technology , the environment and you, learning languages); Ideas for Previewing Vocabulary and the Peer Evaluation Checklist for oral presentations. http://www.eslpartyland.com/


Extensive Reading Pages
Articles and advice on starting an extensive reading programme, model programmes, materials, reviews, presentation handouts, discussion group ... http://www.extensivereading.net/index.html


Newspapers in Education: Bangkok Post
Professionally presented material for reading, vocabulary development and making students think. Study the models and apply to your own lessons and self-access materials. Good notes for teachers on using newspapers in the classroom
http://www.bangkokpost.net/education/


Online Writing Lab, Purdue University
OWL stands for Online Writing Lab. This URL takes you to ESL Resources for Teachers which gives access to a number of useful pages: handouts on grammar points, online journals, help with research and documentation, writing across the curriculum and links to ESL resources. Also check out the Internet Resources section. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslteacher.html


Grammar Safari
Activities for 'hunting' and 'collecting' examples of words as they are used on the Web--'a vast, ever- growing, always up-to-date corpus' of language. There are also suggestions for what to do with the words so acquired, using a Grammar Journal.
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/student_grammarsafari.html


Online English Grammar
Complete, searchable guide to English grammar, grammar clinic and test centre by an internationally recognised expert in using the Internet in education/TESL.
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/index.cfm


E. L. Easton - English - Music and Lyrics
An extensive collection of links to pages with ESL-through-music lessons and teaching ideas, plus audio and vocals (American pronunciation), song collections, national anthems plus a multilingual songbook section where you can compare the lyrics to popular songs in a variety of languages.
http://eleaston.com/music.html


Ernie's ESL Songs Page
How to use music and songs in the ESL classroom plus songs and activities at 5 different. levels http://www.lingolex.com/userpages/music.html


ETNI's Music
Includes ideas, projects, materials and links for teaching English language and literature through song. Also provides technical information on how to download and manage audio planers and files.
http://www.etni.org.il/music/


Song Dictation
A concise ITESL-J article by Brian Cullen giving the why and how of using song dictation in the ESL classroom. Search the ITESL-J index for other articles, e.g. 'Songs, Verse and Games for Teaching Grammar'.
http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Cullen-SongDictation.html


A4ESL (Activities for English as a Second Language)
A collection of over 1000 quizzes, exercises and puzzles for language learners. This site is a project of the Internet TESL Journal (below).
http://a4esl.org/


Asian EFL Journal
'The ELT Professional's Written Forum' A free refereed and indexed journal of research and practical articles, dissertations, reviews and forums with special relevance to Asia. Volumes 2002-2006 are available in full.
http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/


Humanising Language Teaching
A free e-zine edited by Mario Rinvolcri of Pilgrims and a sister to the Teacher Trainer. There are articles, course and lesson outlines, and inks to sources of other free materials.
http://www.hltmag.co.uk/


Internet TESL Journal
A leading free monthly web journal offering articles, research findings, lesson plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas and many instant links.
http://iteslj.org/


Reading Online
Published by the International Reading Association (to which we belong), with thousands of visitors each month.
http://www.readingonline.org/


Reading in a Foreign Language
The online journal Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL) is a scholarly international refereed journal originally founded as a print journal in 1983 at the University of Aston, Birmingham, England.
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/about.html

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