Nice job of compiling an superb list of sites for anybody looking for websites that work in the classroom! I have used most and I must say you have hit just about all the goodies.

Best,



Steve Quann
World Education
44 Farnsworth Street
Boston, MA 
617.482.9485



>>> "Steinbacher, Mikal" <msteinbacher at cascadia.ctc.edu> 11/28/2006 12:44 PM >>>

I'll give it a try.
 

Useful Web Sites for Practicing English

Compiled by: Vibrance Mitchell                                                        *updated 9/21/06

Supplemented by :  Mikal Steinbacher                                       

http://myefa.org <http://myefa.org/>    English for All

 

Video Episodes

-listen to video (with text if desired)

-listen to a single word for discrimination of sounds

-answer comprehension questions

-learn meaning of key vocabulary

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www.thewclc.ca/edge  The Learning Edge

 

An Interactive Newspaper on Life Skills

 

Practice:

-reading

-listening

-vocabulary quizzes

-comprehension quizzes

-writing (students can email their story to the web site)

 

Topics: On my own-classified ads, missing work, consumer aware, health feature, street safety, paying a utility bill, *plus back issues!

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www.eslcafe.com <http://www.eslcafe.com/>    Dave's ESL Café

 

-Quizzes (geography, grammar, history, idioms, slang, words, people, reading comprehension, science, world culture, writing)

-Quotes

-Slang 

-Phrasal Verbs

-Idioms

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www.manythings.org <http://www.manythings.org/>    Interesting Things for ESL Students

 

-quizzes

-crosswords

-games

-listening

-etc.

www.nwlinks.org/nwlinksweb/student.htm    Northwest Links Student Study Page

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http://a4esl.org   Activities for ESL Students

 

Quizzes (grammar, vocabulary, idioms, homonyms, places)

Bilingual Quizzes

Crossword Puzzles

Scrambled Words

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http://english-zone.com <http://englishzone.com/>    English Zone

 

-Quizzes (grammar, verbs, spelling, vocabulary, reading) *some include explanations

-Study Skills

-Writing

-Conversation -chose the best response and see what happens

-Idioms

-Fun Stuff- games, jokes, funny pictures

-Teacher Resources

**Must choose activities marked FREE or pay for membership to have full access. 

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www.literacynet.org/cnnsf   Learning Resources - News Stories

 

Reading Comprehension

-vocabulary

-word selection

-multiple choice

-sequencing events

-conclusions

-your turn - give your own thoughts about the problem

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kids.learn2type.com   Typing Program

 

Typing lessons, games, and tests

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www.easytypetest.com <http://www.easytypetest.com/>    Typing Program 

 

Typing lessons, games, and tests

 

*has some glitches in the program

 

http://www.eslcafe.com/idioms/ <javascript:ol('http://www.eslcafe.com/idioms/');>  is a site for idioms

 

 

 

http://eleaston.com/listen.html   English Online -Materials for Teaching and Learning

 

Business English <http://eleaston.com/biz/bizhome.html> , Grammar <http://eleaston.com/gram.html>  <http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html> , Quizzes & Tests <http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html> , Test Your English <http://eleaston.com/tye.html> , Dictionaries <http://eleaston.com/vocabulary.html> , <http://eleaston.com/gram.html> English around the World <http://eleaston.com/world-eng.html> , English for Speakers of... <http://eleaston.com/espeak.html> , Etymology <http://eleaston.com/etymology.html> , Pronunciation <http://eleaston.com/pronunciation/>  <http://eleaston.com/spellqz.html> , Reading <http://eleaston.com/../reading.html> , Writing <http://eleaston.com/writing.html> , Listening <http://eleaston.com/listen.html> , Speaking <http://eleaston.com/../speaking.html> , Spelling <http://eleaston.com/spellqz.html>  <http://eleaston.com/listen.html> , Language Classroom <http://eleaston.com/lgclass.html> , Classroom Mgmt <http://eleaston.com/classmgmt.html> , Teaching Methods <http://eleaston.com/methods.html> , Why Study Languages <http://eleaston.com/why.html> ... , Distance Education <http://eleaston.com/dist-ed.html> , Internet for Teachers <http://eleaston.com/teach-online.html> , Key Pals <http://eleaston.com/keypal.html> , Mail Lists <http://eleaston.com/mail-lists.html> , Language Jobs <http://eleaston.com/jobs.html>  <http://eleaston.com/keypal.html>  , Art <http://eleaston.com/artqz.html> , Country Studies <http://eleaston.com/countrymat.html> , Currency <http://eleaston.com/monmat.html> , Flags <http://eleaston.com/flagmat.html> , Geography <http://eleaston.com/geoqz.html> , Government <http://eleaston.com/govmat.html> , History <http://eleaston.com/hismat.html> , Holidays <http://eleaston.com/holidays.html> , Humor <http://eleaston.com/humor.html> , Law <http://eleaston.com/biz/law.html> , Libraries <http://eleaston.com/libmat.html> , Maps <http://eleaston.com/mapmat.html> , Math <http://eleaston.com/mathqz.html> , Medicine <http://eleaston.com/medvoc.html> , Military <http://eleaston.com/milmat.html> , Movies - Scripts <http://eleaston.com/movmat.html> , Museums <http://eleaston.com/libmat.html#mus> , Music-Lyrics <http://eleaston.com/music.html> , News(papers) <http://eleaston.com/newsmat.html> , Politics <http://eleaston.com/govmat.html> , Radio-Audio <http://eleaston.com/listen.html#rad> , Religion <http://eleaston.com/religion.html> , Science <http://eleaston.com/scimat.html> , Sports <http://eleaston.com/sportmat.html> , Terrorism <http://eleaston.com/terrorism.html> , Time <http://eleaston.com/timemat.html> , Transportation <http://eleaston.com/transvoc.html>  , Travel <http://eleaston.com/travel.html> , Weather <http://eleaston.com/weathermat.html> 

 

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www.esl-lab.com <http://www.esl-lab.com/>     Listening Quizzes

 

Pre-listening questions

Listen to a script 

Answer comprehension questions

Post-listening questions

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www.englishclub.com <http://www.englishclub.com/>     English Exercises

 

Lessons on:

-Grammar

-Pronunciation

-Vocabulary

-Listening

-Speaking

-Reading

-Writing

-Games

-Quizzes

-Jokes

-etc.

 

 

www.thebeehive.org <http://www.thebeehive.org/>  All sorts of activities.  Click on middle school or high school and explore!

 

www.ask.about.com/library/listening/blminimal/htm   Practice pronunciation of minimal pairs of sounds that are similar, but sooooo different when it comes to saying a work correctly.  The ask.about.com site has a lot of different sites.  Explore! 

 

esl.guide at about.com  Lots of different areas to practice all English Skills.  Explore!

 

 

(http://www.esl-lab.com/guide.htm) Lots of listening activities!

 

http://esl.about.com/od/englishvocabulary/ig/Visual-Dictionary---Sports  Pictures of sports, the verbs used with them and sample sentences.  Good vocabulary and grammar information.

 

Article practice sites:  

 

http://www.learn4good.com/languages/evrd_grammar/articles.htm <http://lwtc.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.learn4good.com/languages/evrd_grammar/articles.htm> 

 

http://towerofenglish.com/writingcenter.html <http://lwtc.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://towerofenglish.com/writingcenter.html> 

 

 

Learning from Katrina: Tough Lessons in Preparedness and Emergency Response, it's now archived at: http://publichealthgrandrounds.unc.edu/katrina/webcast.htm <http://owa.cascadia.ctc.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://publichealthgrandrounds.unc.edu/katrina/webcast.htm> 

 

http://esl.about.com/od/vocabularyadvanced/a/a_wordforms5.htm  This one has word lists showing the parts of speech of many words, e.g.:  

 

Concept noun   Personal Noun   Adjective    Verb

 Baking    baker                              baked          bake

 

esl.guide at about.com  Lots of different areas to practice all English Skills.  Explore!

 

Practice for the TOEFL

 

http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/bl_toefl1.htm 

 

http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/bl_toefl2.htm 

 

http://esl.about.com/od/grammarquizzesandtests/ 

 

http://www.englishclub.com/business-english/index.htm <javascript:ol('http://www.englishclub.com/business-english/index.htm');> 

 

http://www.geocities.com/kurtracy/ <javascript:ol('http://www.geocities.com/kurtracy/');>  This is a link to ESL Business English website. 

 

 

Below is a great listening comprehension site with 3 levels of reading and listening exercises and quizzes on a variety of real life activities.

 

http://www.esl-lab.com <http://www.esl-lab.com/>   

 

 

computer stuff


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From: englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Lynda Terrill
Sent: Tue 11/28/2006 5:40 AM
To: The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List
Subject: RE: [EnglishLanguage 849] Request for software advice


Hello, all,
 
Mikal, could you please resend your list of Web sites to the list again as part of the body of your email rather than as an attachment? Not everyone was able to access the attachment from their email programs.  
 
Thanks and thanks as well to others for sharing software programs or Web sites that have worked with adult English language learners  
 
What criteria do you all use to decide what programs or sites are effective learning tools--because the learners like them, because they mesh well with other parts of  the lesson, because content and activities seem to move learners along towards their language or lifeskills goals, or for other reasons? 
 
Lynda Terrill
Adult English language discussion list moderator
lterrill at cal.org <mailto:lterrill at cal.org> 

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From: englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Steinbacher, Mikal
Sent: Mon 11/27/2006 5:01 PM
To: The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List
Subject: RE: [EnglishLanguage 849] Request for software advice


Neil, I have a list of websites that has grown over the years.  It was started by an Amicorp voluteer and I've been adding to it as time passed.   Some may be defunct by now .. some day I'll find the time to check it out .. but many are still alive and well.  I use the About website a lot and like Dave's ESL Cafe too.  I've attached the list for your pleasure!  Have fun!

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From: englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Neil Rigole
Sent: Sat 11/25/2006 7:36 AM
To: The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List
Subject: [EnglishLanguage 849] Request for software advice


Hi all,
Recently I was asked to provide some advice related to ESL software (I am the Instructional Technology Director for a small k12 system without an ESL background and with limited ESL technology-based resources in our system). We have had a family from Russia move in to our system this year (with two elementary age children), and although we are providing resources for the kids (we have an ESL teacher providing services as well), I have been asked if I could find some software or web-based resource recommendations to assist their parents. Thanks in advance for any advice or recommendations!
 
 
Neil
 
 
Neil Rigole
Director, Instructional Technology
Monroe County Schools
Forsyth, GA
rigolen at monroe.k12.ga.us 
www.monroe.k12.ga.us <http://www.monroe.k12.ga.us/>