Internet Sites for English Language Teaching and Learning

Here are some sites, grouped by category. Many contain further addresses for you to follow up.

 

Web Guides

BBC Web Guide

http://www.bbc.co.uk/webguide

Web Guide

http://www.excite.com/apple/guide

Rough Guide to the Internet

http://www.roughguides.com

 

Search engines

Google

http://www.google.com

Yahoo

http://www.yahoo.com

 

Sites designed for language learners

Yalçýn Kuzören’s web site

http://www.findhershey.com.tr.tc

http://www.fh.com.tr.tc

BBC Schools

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools

BBC WS – Learning English

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

Bell English

http://www.bellenglish.com

British Council

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk

Comenius English Language Center

http://www.comenius.com

Dave’s ESL Café

http://www.eslcafe.com/

Discovery School

http://www.discoveryschool.com/

Edufind On-Line English Grammar

http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/index.cfm

English Is It

http://www.english.is.it/

English Live

http://www.englishlive.co.uk/

English Page

http://www.englishpage.com

Exercises for English

http://a4esl.org/

Guide to Grammar and Writing

http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

It’s On-Line

http://www.its-online.com/

Kid’s Jokes

http://www.kidsjokes.co.uk/

Many things (fun exercises)

http://www.manythings.org/

Mary Glasgow/Scholastic ELT

http://www.link2english.com

NZZ Online

http://www.nzz.ch/english

OUP ELT

http://www.oup.com/elt

Partyland

http://www.eslpartyland.com/

Peak English by Distance Learning

http://www.peakenglish.com

Penguin Graded Readers

http://www.penguinreaders.com/

Planet English

http://www.planetenglish.com

planET

http://www.the-planet.co.uk/

Search: How English words are used

http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/lookup.html

Spotlight online magazine

http://www.spotlight-online.de/

The Linguist List of Information

http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/esl.html

Turner Learning

http://www.turnerlearning.com/

Bookshops

BEBC

http://www.bebc.co.uk/

Keltic

http://www.keltic.co.uk/

Stäheli

http://www.staehelibooks.ch/

The Language Company

http://www.efy.ch


 
 Business Media

Business Week Online

http://www.businessweek.com/

Economist

http://www.economist.com

Financial Times

http://ft.com

Information Strategy Online

http://www.info-strategy.com/

This is Money (Daily Mail)

www.financialmail.co.uk

Business English Materials

Annova Business Information

http://www.ananova.com/business/

BBC Business English

http://www.bbc.co.uk/business

Business English Magazine

http://www.languagekey.com

Business English Online

http://www.businessenglishonline.net/

Business Spotlight online magazine

http://www.spotlight-online.de/

Dave’s ESL Café (over 45 business sites)

http://www.eslcafe.com/

English Is It

http://www.english.is.it/

Goff’s Safety & Business Cartoons

http://64.21.76.18/catalog/browse.cgi-set

IATEFL Business SIG

http://www.lydbury.co.uk/besig

Instant Ideas

http://www.instant-ideas.com/

Keypals and Penpals

http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/keypals.html

Learning and Teaching Business English

http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/businessenglish.html

Management fads and buzzwords (for fun)

http://www.dilbert.com

Market Leader

http://www.market-leader.net

One Word A Day (daily email service)

http://www.owad.de/

Clip Art (Free) to add illustrations to your exercises/games

All Free Clip Art

http://www.allfreeclipart.com

Classroom Clip Art

http://www.classroomclipart.com/

Clip Art

http://www.clipart.com

Free Clip Art

http://www.freeclip-art.com/

Micrsoft Clip Art

http://dgl.microsoft.com/?tLCID=en&nInterface=0

School Clip Art

http://school.discovery.com/clipart/

Language Teaching

http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/clipart/

Picture Dictionary

http://www.pdictionary.com

Dictionaries and Language Reference

Cambridge International Dictionary of English

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Cliché finder

http://www.westegg.com/cliche

Cobuild

http://www.cobuild.collins.co.uk

Idioms and Quizzes

http://www.oocities.org/athens/aegean/6720

Top Languages of the World

http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/top100.html

Leo English-German Dictionary

http://dict.leo.org/

Lexical origins

http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/sayings.htm

Merriam-Webster (+ thesaurus)

http://www.m-w.com

On-line dictionaries for most languages

http://www.yourdictionary.com

Oxford English Dictionary Online

http://www.oed.com

Plumbdesign Visual Thesaurus

http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus

Technical German<>English Dictionary

http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/urz/netz/forms/dict.html

Word of the Day (Webster Dictionary)

http://www.edu.yorku.ca/wotd

Word detective

http://www.word-detective.com/

Worldwide Words – origins of words

http://www.worldwidewords.org/

Your dictionary: Global languages + Thesaurus

http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Educational Organisations

British Council

http://www.britcoun.org/

British Council - Learning English

http://www.britcoun.org/english/index.htm

British Council Switzerland

http://www.britishcouncil.org/switzerland

British Council – Education links

http://www.britishcouncil.org/education/dir/index.htm

Exams

British Council- Education and Training

http://www.britishcouncil.org.uk/education

Cambridge Exams

http://www.ucles.org.uk/

Cambridge EFL Exams

http://www.cambridge-efl.org/

Cambridge EFL Exams (Switzerland)

http://www.cambridge-exams.ch

Exams Support

Flo~Joe’s FCE Exam Success

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/teachers/index.htm

Flo~Joe’s CAE Exam Success

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/cae/teachers/index.htm

Exchange scheme/pen friends - higher education/IH school learners

International Student Exchange Association

http://www.xchange.org.hu

Information Technology

IT materials for Language Teachers

http://www.ict4lt.org

The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk

Legal English

The Bar Council

http://www.barcouncil.org.uk/

The Law Society

http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/index.asp

Legal Language Services

http://www.llsgroup.com/

Cambridge Law Studio

http://www.camlawstudio.co.uk/

Modern Languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish, etc)

The Linguist List of Information

http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/esl.html

Museums

British Museum

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Hermitage in St Petersburg

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org

Louvre

http://www.louvre.fr/louvre.htm

Smithsonian Institute Washington

http://www.si.edu

Science Museum London

http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/

San Francisco's Exploratorium

http://www.exploratorium.edu


 
News Media

All British Press and Media

http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/britnews.htm

BBC Online

http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/today

BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

BBC World Service

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice

Business Week

http://www.businessweek.com/

Crayon – write your own newspaper

http://www.crayon.net/

CNN News Quiz

http://www.cnn.com/SEARCH/quiz

CNN

http://www.cnn.com/

Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/

International Herald Tribune

http://iht.com/

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com

NZZ Online

http://www.nzz.ch/english

Online Newspapers

http://www.thepaperboy.com/

The Electronic Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Guardian TEFL update

http://www.guardian.co.uk/GWeekly/teflupdate

Swiss news in English

http://www.swissinfo.org/

The Economist

http://economist.com/

The Times

http://www.the-times.co.uk/

This is London (Evening Standard)

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/

Time Magazine

http://www.pathfinder.com/time

Ultimate … News links

http://pppp.net/links/news

USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com

Wall Street Journal

http://www.wsj.com/

Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com

Penpal and Keypal Sites

ePals for classroom exchange

http://www.epals.com/

It’s On-Line

http://www.its-online.com/

Keypal and Penpal Sites

http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/keypals.html

Publisher Sites

Collins COBUILD

http://www.cobuild.collins.co.uk/

Cornelsen

http://www.cornelsen.de/

Cambridge University Press

http://www.cambridge.org/elt

Hueber

http://www.hueber.de/

Klett

http://www.klett.ch/

Langenscheidt

http://www.langlong.de/

Language Teaching Publications

http://www.ltpwebsite.com

Longman

http://www.longman.com/

Macmillan/Heinemann

http://www.mhelt.com/

Macmillan/Heinemann Resources

http://www.onestopenglish.com

Oxford University Press

http://www.oup.com/elt

Penguin

http://www.penguin.co.uk

PONS

http://www.pons.de/

Prentice Hall

http://www.pheurope.co.uk/

Summertown Publishers

http://summertown.co.uk/

Reference

Encarta

http://www.encarta.msn.com

Encyclopaedia Britannica

http://www.britannica.com

Refdesk

http://www.refdesk.com/

Useless knowledge for fun

http://www.uselessknowledge.com


 
Secondary Schools – support and projects

Achievers International

http://www.achieversinternational.org

British Educational Comm. + Technology

http://www.becta.org.uk/becta_home.cfm

European Schoolnet

http://www.eun.org/

Windows on the World – Projects

http://www.wotw.org.uk

 

Songs

Songs

http://gs.fanshawec.on.ca/tlwm/

Song lyrics

httt//lyrics.ch

Instand Ideas Songs

http://www.instant-ideas.com/songs/index.htm

ESL Lounge Songs

http://www.esl-lounge.com/songstop.html

Song lyrics

http://www.songlyrics.co.nz/

Downloading songs/video/ads

http://www.kazaa.com

Downloading songs

http://www.imesh.com

 

Teacher Magazines and Journals

English Language Gazette

http://www.elgazette.com/

English Teaching Professional

http://www.etprofessional.com/

ELT Journal

http://www3.oup.co.uk/eltj

Humanising Language Teaching

http://www.hltmag.co.uk

Modern English Teacher

http://www.onlineMET.com

 

Teaching Materials and Teacher Support

BBC Teaching English

www.teachingenglish.org.uk

Cambridge English Readers

http://www.cambridge.org/elt/readers

Clarity

http://www.clarity.com.hk

Cloze Maker

http://www.cict.co.uk/software/freestuff.htm

Comenius English Language Center

http://www.comenius.com/

Cuisenaire Rods

http://www.cuisenaire.co.uk/

Daily Pages of links for EFL Teachers

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/daily/

Dave’s ESL Café

http://www.eslcafe.com/

Developing Teachers

http://www.developingteachers.com/

Discovery School

http://www.discoveryschool.com/

Eclipse Crossword Maker

http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/

Edufind On-Line English Grammar

http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/index.cfm

English File

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile_student

English Live on-line magazine

http://englishlive.co.uk/

ESL Lounge

http://esl-lounge.com

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

http://www.informationfrombritain.com/

Handouts for EFL teachers

http://www.handoutsonline.com/index.shtml

It’s On-Line

http://www.its-online.com/

Kid’s Jokes

http://www.kidsjokes.co.uk/

Language Farm

http://www.teflfarm.com

Macmillan Graded readers

http://www.onestopenglish.com/booksandcourses/readers

Market Leader Website Lessons

http://www.market-leader.net

Mary Glasgow/Scholastic ELT

http://www.link2english.com

Michael Quinion: New words/derivation

http://www.quinion.com/words/

One Stop English (Macmillan)

http://www.onestopenglish.com

One Word A Day (daily email service)

http://www.owad.de/

OUP ELT

http://www.oup.com/elt

Oxford Graded Readers

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/teachersclub/products/readers

Partyland

http://www.eslpartyland.com/

Penguin Graded Readers

http://www.penguinreaders.com

Schubi teaching materials

http://www.schubi.com

Search: how English words are used

http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/lookup.html

Shine

http://www.shine-english.com/

Sky Language Teaching Software

http://www.skysoftwarehouse.com/

Snapshot

http://www.longman.com/snapshot

Supplementary Lesson Worksheets

http://www.efl4u.com/

Teacher’s Virtual Campus

http://www.pilgrims.co.uk/

Teacher Trainer Forum

http://www.eltforum.com/

The Linguist List of Information

http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/esl.html

Turner Learning

http://www.turnerlearning.com/

Virtual Teacher’s Centre

http://vtc.ngfl.gov.uk/

Teachers' Organisations and Teacher Development

British Council Education Links

http://www.britishcouncil.org/education/dir/index.htm

British Council Switzerland

http://www.britishcouncil.org/switzerland

British Council

http://www.britcoun.org/

CILTS Unit (UCLES CELTA/DELTA)

http://www.edunet.com/ciltsrsa

IATEFL

http://www.iatefl.org/

IATEFL Business SIG

http://www.lydbury.co.uk/besig

Open University

http://www.open.ac.uk/frames.html

TOEFL

http://www.toefl.org

UCLES

http://www.cambridge-efl.org.uk/

VHS Zurich

http://www.vhszh.ch/

Translation Services

Altavista World Translation

http://www.babelfish.com/Translations.shtml

Free Translation

http://www.freetranslation.com/

Travel

Time Out

http://www.timeout.com/

Rough Guides

http://www.roughguides.com/

Lonely Planet on-line

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/

British Tourist Authority

http://www.visitbritain.com/

This is London (Evening Standard)

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/

Official Tourism … New York

http://www.nycvisit.com/

Internet Teacher Reference Books

Dudeney G.                 The Internet and the Language Classroom (CUP)

Sperling D.                  Dave Sperling’s Internet Guide (Prentice Hall)

Sperling D.                  Dave Sperling’s Internet Activity Workbook (Prentice Hall)

Teeler/Gray                 How to Use the Internet in ELT (Longman)

Windeatt et al              The Internet (OUP)

 

Please tell me about any other useful sites you find.  You can contact me at  ykuzoren@yahoo.com

 

YALCIN KUZÖREN

English Teacher & Teacher trainer

 

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