Links to help you throughout the course...
Emailing and
Netiquette
Netiquette
Homepage Read about Netiquette and try the Online Quiz
BBC World Service Learning English: Discussion Group/Mailing List
Some Email Acronyms Have a
go at guessing Email Acronyms
Discussion List
Discussion list for learners of English http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/slinfo.html
Dave’s ESL Café http://www.eslcafe.com/discussion/
Searching and
Evaluating the World Wide Web
Eastment’s
Criteria of Evaluation for good websites
Web Resource Evaluation Technique:
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval/eval1198/index.htm
Thinking Critically
about World Wide Web Resources
Searching the World
Wide Web from OWL (Online Writing Lab)
Evaluating
Internet Sources from OWL (Online Writing Lab)
Internet
Detective Learn to evaluate the quality of Internet resources and learn
through the Tutorial
Basic I T
Skills
Writing Tips
Finding Your
Focus: The Writing Process from
This presentation acquaints your students with the steps that constitute the
writing process, including strategies for brainstorming, drafting, revising,
and proofreading. This presentation would work well for the beginning of a
composition course or the assignment of a writing project in any class.
Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Improve your Writing Skills
and Simple HTML have to download file. For commercial purposes
Editing and
Correcting your Work
Crayon Create your own newspaper
Electronic Postcards - Send an
electronic card to anyone in the world who has an Email account and Web access.
Practice your writing and help someone have a nice day! A portion of the money
earned from advertisers at this site goes to the World Wildlife Federation. (http://www.e-cards.com/site/)
ESL
Gold.com Many more extended links about writing on writing strategies …
Online
Listening (Some require Real Player or QuickTime)
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
BBC World
English- Learn English
Arlyn Freed’s ESL Listening
Resources
Living on Earth Weekly Environmental News and Information Program
Listen and Learn ????
http://www.teacherwillian.com/REO/15cfree_test.htm from Real English Online providing video, quiz and script.
Real English http://www.realenglish.com
BBC Voices http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/index.shtml
The English Listening Lounge http://www.englishlistening.com/
Learning Oral English Online http://www.rong-chang.com/book/
RealAudio Programs in English http://www.manythings.org/ra/
Takako’s Great Adventure http://international.ouc.bc.ca/takako/
(Need to have Shockwave plug-in or Realplayer)
English Listening Exercises http://www.eviews.net/
Internet TESL Journal: ESL Listening
http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Listening/
Conversation
Conversations for ESL Students http://www.rong-chang.com/book/
Pal Talk http://www.paltalk.com/PalTalkSite/
Short Stories
at East of the Web for online short stories to choose from your favorite
genre (e.g., horror, sci-fi, humor, romance, and more….)
Online
Dictionaries
YourDictioary.com uses
the database of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language,
4th edition
People
Quotation for Famous People
Links to comprehensive sites
Most Admired People
comprehensive links from yahoo directory
Biographical Dictionary Has 27,000
biographies of historical figures, but for only a couple of lines
Biography.com longer biographies together with a
comprehensive range of worksheets and background information for classroom activities
(very much aimed at American college students, however.)
Mr Showbiz For in-depth biographies for
celebrities
Science
Online
Newspapers
News Articles Updated news from CNN
Tabloid News Links for Tabloid Tales
Making Websites
Guidelines for Designing a Good Website for ESL students
http://iteslj.org/Articles/Kelly-Guidelines.html
Creating Simple HTML Files http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz78mvs.htm
Specific Do’s
and Don’ts in Web Design
Vocabulary
English Club English Vocabulary
Why & how to use frequency lists
to learn words (Tom Cobb,
British vs American
English Choose an American English term and get
the British English equivalent - or vice-versa
BBC World
Service: Learning English
Grammar
Safari http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/web.pages/GrammarSafari.html
Exercises
ESL Blue Leads
you to the appropriate exercises after a diagnostic quiz
Vocabulary
with Corpora
The Collins Cobuild
Bank of English
British and
American Culture
British Studies and Intercultural
Studies
American Folklife Center - Online
Collections (Library of Congress)
For
the more advanced student. Auido files of speech and
music, photos, ...
Culture
English at the Beach (Preston/Reservoir Adult Community Ed.,
Fun stories
and information about the beach, with interactive quizzes.
Famous Quotations by Famous People. (Josuel
R. Barbosa)
For example: Think of
Tomorrow as the continuation of our lives on Earth.(Josuel)
John`s ESL Community -
Famous Quotes (John Erskin)
Over 160 quotes meant to
inspire and motivate
Look at bills and coins
from the
Proverbs for Daily
Conversation (Hon Long)
First come, first serve,
A hungry man is an angry man, ...
The English Learner Movie Guides [FRAME] (Raymond Weschler)
Vocabulary, cultural
references, characters, plot and more of popular films!
Thinkexist.com's
Quotation (Shar Malecot)
Sorted by topic: Action,
Achieving, Advice, Aging, Art, Attitude, ...
ThirdAge
- Romance - Body Language Quiz
Designed for native
speakers, but you might have fun doing this.
ThirdAge
- Romance - Body Language Tips
Lists of
positive body language and negative body language.
www.acl.edu.au
- The Festive Globe
Requires
Flash.
An interactive calendar of world festivals with ESL lessons
www.englishclub.net
- Christmas Pudding
Other Cultures
Proverbs
and Sayings Google Search
Culture Quest including World
Folk Tales
Countercultures
(culture in opposition to
mainstream society)
Cities
City
Web Sites Yahoo Directory gives links to the region of interest
City Guide and Resorts
Restaurant
Review Information of restaurants around the world
Holidays
Holidays on
the Net How Holidays are celebrated around the world
Multicultural
Calendar Holidays of the world by month, holiday, and country,
Festivals.com
Search for Festivals of the world
Movies
Movie Trailers http://www.english-trailers.com/
Internet Movie Database One of the most
comprehensive sites on information about movies
The English Learner Movie Guides [FRAME] (Raymond Weschler)
Vocabulary, cultural
references, characters, plot and more of popular films!
Drew's Script-O-Rama For movie scripts
on the Internet
Ten Most Profitable Movies
Current information on movies
Upcoming
Movies offered by Yahoo
Movie
Star Search Do a search on a movie star figure
Miscellaneous
Many Things a mega site quizzing and
learning knowledge about English
ESL Independent
Study Lab a mega site for all skills of language in reading, writing and
more.
How Stuff Works Ideas on
topics
Presentation Tips
Presentations in
English SLOWWWW
For
Children
Kindersite Project http://www.kindersite.org/ (in development)