Student ESL/EFL grammar,
vocabulary, reading, listening, writing, pronunciation, and TOEFL
Exercises: students
ESL Links for English teachers
Updated June, 26 2010
Saving Youtube videos
to your local drive
Description of the Six iBT Speaking tasks (task_description.doc)
UNDER CONSTRUCTION - The rest of the audio
files will be uploaded shortly.
Task 1 - Free Choice Task
Student Self Evaluation Sheet for Task 1 (student_eval1.doc)
Teacher Evaluation Sheet for Task 1 (teacher_eval1.doc)
Audio 1.1: Person you admire (admire.mp3)
Audio 1.2: University Course (course.mp3)
Task 2 - Paired-Choice Task
Student Self Evaluation Sheet for Task 2 (student_eval2.doc)
Teacher Evaluation Sheet for Task 2 (teacher_eval2.doc)
Audio 2.1: Marrying age (marry.mp3)
Audio 2.2: Housework (housework.mp3)
Task 3 - Read/Listen/Speak: Campus
Student Self Evaluation Sheet for Task 3 (student_eval3.doc)
Teacher Evaluation Sheet for Task 3 (teacher_eval3.doc)
Audio 3.1: Student Schedule (schedule.mp3) - Reading Transcript 3.1 (schedule.doc)
Audio 3.2: Transportation Bus Strike (strike.mp3) - Reading Transcript 3.2 (strike.doc)
Task 4 - Read/Listen/Speak: Academic
Student Self Evaluation Sheet for Task 4 (student_eval4.doc)
Teacher Evaluation Sheet for Task 4 (teacher_eval4.doc)
Task 5 - Listen/Speak: Campus
Student Self Evaluation Sheet for Task 5 (student_eval5.doc)
Teacher Evaluation Sheet for Task 5 (teacher_eval5.doc)
Task 6 - Listen/Speak: Academic
Student Self Evaluation Sheet for Task 6 (student_eval6.doc)
Teacher Evaluation Sheet for Task 6 (teacher_eval6.doc)
Using Free Audacity Voice-Recording Software for iBT Practice Handouts. CATESOL State Conference in San Diego, April 2007
Meta-ESL Websites:
Technology Talk
- Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day for Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL. A blog that includes more than 7,000 links to assist English Language Learners. http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ Here is his website with a list of links in alphabetical order: http://www.bayworld.net/ferlazzo/englishdetails.html
Time Savers:
- PIZZAZ! "People Interested in Zippy and ZAnny Zcribbling" A site by Leslie Opp-Beckman dedicated to providing simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable handouts for use with students of all ages. Includes: poetry, fiction, and bag of tricks. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html
- Teaching with Songs:
- www.isabelperez.com
- www.caslt.org/research/music.htm - Jazzchants with MP3 files: www.onestopenglish.com
- Teaching with Movies:
- Free, extensive lists of vocabulary from popular movies with definitions. Generously made available by Raymond Weschler www.eslnotes.com
- Purchase movie guides from FilmArobic or Teach With Movies - Superbowl Ads: www.superbowl-ads.com
- 4teachers: This site makes the life of a k-12 teacher in the US a little bit easier. Its tools include a rubric maker, a quiz-maker, a worksheet wizard, a “Think Tank” that helps students in third to eighth grade create topics and outlines for research, Notestar that helps students take notes from online sources, Spanish resources, data bases of lesson plans and webquests on practically any topic imaginable. www.4teachers.org
- Conversation Questions: www.eslpartyland.com and http://iteslj.org/questions
- My Bookmarks: Upload your bookmarks so you can access them from any computer www.mybookmarks.com
- Lesson Plans: http://iteslj.org/Lessons/
- Webpage language translators
- http://www.voycabulary.com
- http://world.altavista.com/ - Story telling: http://www.storyarts.org/classroom/index.html
- Fun With Grammar: This website permits teachers to download Fun with Grammar: Communicative Activities for the Azar Grammar Series for free! http://www.longman.com/ae/download/funwithgrammar/home.html
- Teacher's Printables: http://www.teach-nology.com/printables/
k-12
- Lesson Plans: www.eduref.org
- Make your own websites for FREE www.think.com/
- www.teachers.net
- Taking It Global: www.takingitglobal.org
Elementary Education
- Projects for Young Learners
- WebQuests According to Bernie Dodge, A WebQuest is “an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the web . . . Because pointers to resources are included, the learner is not left to wander through webspace completely adrift.”
- http://webquest.org/ Click on "Find a WebQuest" on the left-hand side. This site allows you to search for a Webquest from the San Diego State University database by selecting a specific subject and grade.
- http://www.nelliemuller.com/WebQuests_for_Teachers.htm
- http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webques/taskonomy.html
- Free Weblogs/online diaries http://www.xanga.com/ and http://www.diaryland.com/
- Epals http://www.epals.com/ This site claims to be the world's largest online classroom community with over 6.5 million students and teachers from 191 countries. Membership is required.
- GlobalSchoolHouse http://www.globalschoolnet.org/GSH/pr/index.cfm This is a database of thousands of collaborative projects for grades k-12 across the globe
- Thinkquest http://www.thinkquest.org/ Sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation, the competition offers a unique project-based learning experience to students and teachers across the globe. More than 30,000+ students from ages 9-19 worldwide have participated since 1996. - Language Learning Software for kids:
- http://oregonstate.edu/dept/eli/softlist/elementary.html
- Handybits http://www.handybits.com/vm4kids.htm: This site offers free voice mail for kids. As the site claims, “with this incredibly easy-to-use program, even 2-3 years old kids can record and email voice messages to their grandparents." - Story Books Online
- Children's Storybooks Online http://www.magickeys.com/books/
- On-Line Stories http://web.bsu.edu/00smtancock/EDRDG430/430stories.html
- A Portal of Cyber projects for k-12 students http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/edproj.html - Kid-friendly Seach Engines:
- Ask Jeeves For Kids http://www.ajkids.com/
- KidsClick! http://www.kidsclick.org/
- Looksmart's Kid's Dictionary http://search.netnanny.com/?pi=nnh3&ch=kids
- Yahooligans http://www.yahooligans.com/ - Kid Sites
- Time for Kids Magazine http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK Good reading opportunities.
- British Council for Kids http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids.htm
- Little Clickers http://www.littleclickers.com/ This is a collection of educational web sites for children (aged 3-to 12-years). These pages were previously published in Children's Technology Review - Elementary Education Portals: Lots of
good stuff
- http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic21.htm
- http://www.educationoasis.com/resources/student_sites.htm
- http://www.eslkidstuff.com/LinksMenu.htm - Lesson Plans for k-6
- Teachnology http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/
- CyberGuides http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
Web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, based on the California Language Arts Content Standards.
- PBS http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/ - Elementary Education Virtual Meeting Places
- TESOL Elementary Education Interest Section http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/seccss.asp?CID=307&DID=1812 If you are a TESOL member, you can take part in conversations about English teaching in elementary school.
- IATEFL Young Learners http://www.countryschool.com/younglearners.htm
- Dave’s ESL Café: Elementary Education forum http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/teacher/viewforum.php?f=8
Language Learning Theory:
- Second Language Acquisition http://nadabs.tripod.com/acquisition/
- Authentic Assessment: http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/index.htm
CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) Links:
- TRACKSTAR: A database of links on hundreds of topics. Pick a topic or create your own. Lead your students through the web with this site. http://trackstar.hprtec.org/
- Hot Potatoes: Free software to create online matching and cloze exercises http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/
- Tapped In: http://ti2.sri.com/tappedin/
- Nice.net: FREE online learning environment: http://www.nicenet.org/
- MSN Community: http://groups.msn.com/
- English Concordancers: http://view.byu.edu/ and http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/concordance/WWWConcappE.htm
Country Information: to help you learn about where your students are from.
(from http://www.gmi.org/research/websites.htm)
- Countries.com Information, news, graphics, links and search engine for each country http://www.countries.com
- The World Factbook 19988 information On all countries, including a simple map of each country http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
- Country Studies / Area Handbooks A continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. This series presently contains studies of 71 countries http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
- Virtual Tourist The ideal site for links to worldwide travel http://www.vtourist.com
- World Weather Current weather condition of cities around the world, from the US National Weather Service http://www.emulateme.com/weather.htm
- Statistical Resources on the Web available from the University of Michigan Documents Center http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/stats.html
- International Census Statistics basic census stats for every country at http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbprint.html
- U.S. Census Bureau This page allows you to obtain summary demographic data from several countries http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/ipc/www/idbsum.html
- Penn State Population Research Institute This web site has several pages full of demographic information http://athens.pop.psu.edu
- Jane's Geopolitical Intelligence A great site to find information about any country and its struggles (click Regional Assessments, then Risk Pointers) www.janes.com/geopol/geoset.html
- CIA Maps and Publications www.odci.gov/cia/publications/mapspub/index.html A collection of all the maps the CIA has published on every country in the world and how to order them. The site also offers publications such as the World Factbook. www.odci.gov/cia/publications/mapspub/index.html
Miscellaneous:
- Free Online Classes (various subjects) http://www.free-ed.net/catalog/
- Common Grammar Mistakes http://englishplus.com/grammar/mistcont.htm
- Free Flashcards: http://flashcardexchange.com/directory/1152.html
Note: Thanks to Jeff Cooper for sharing his resources http://trackstar.hprtec.org/