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Website Suggestions from ESL Pt1/Spec July 2003www.towerofenglish.com- look for Wacky Web Tales (Mad lib type exercises) and Ask the eight ball. http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html discussion hints www.readinga-z.com free leveled readers –in Spanish too. http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm#M content and composition lessons www.essentialskills.net website for a good computer program http://www.eslkid.com/You will find lesson plans, worksheets, flash card ideas, diagnostic assessment tools geared toward the ESL learner www.ManyThings.org The site is called "Interesting Things for ESL Students: A fun study site for students of English as a Second Language" www.asiaforkids.com This site has many bilingual books for children and adults. Also, there are books of fairy tales from various cultures and books about food from around the world : www.webster.commnet.edu/grammar
I just finished (as of today) a professional http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/web.pages/ESL.html geared toward ESL for adults. It has a variety of resources (reading, listening, etc and teacher resources). It is mainly a bank of links to other ESL sites. www.starfall.com
Now get ready for this....FREE BOOKS! I know, your thinking what is the
catch?!? It's minor, let me explain. http://www.itbe.org/resource.htm http://www.eslgold.com/site.jsp
http://songsforteaching.homestead.com/ESLSongs.html
www.teachingfish.com
http://www.iaw.on.ca/~soleil/1000w.htm "A Picture is Worth a 1000 words" and a Teacher's guide is also available which provides questions to ask students. Available in many different languages for anyone who is interested. www.rubrics4u.com Kulvinder Dhatt http://bogglesworld.com/ This website has printable flashcards & worksheets, crosswords, lesson plans, creative writing, songs, wordsearch, link for ESL adults.... everything! Very user friendly and fun to look around on! Lots of goodies... http://www.esl-images.com and has many colour and black and white images for vocabulary or grammar activities of your choice organized into different areas and other items, such as a store with books of ESL games. You have to join to have access to everything, but there are some downloadable free samples http://www.teflgames.com
many different types of games, quizzes, word matching, and so many
great ideas. http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/culture
a work book for Peace Corps volunteers to instruct them about aspects
of culture. I don't want to seem overly critical, but as Cullen pointed
out in Nancy's article, there is the potential for cultural imperialism
and arrogance; sadly, here's a good example. Chapter 6, Adjusting to a
New Culture, was something I thought might, in some way, parallel The
ESL experience in Canada. The "Four Levels of Cultural Adjustment
detail the usual stages of adaptation, but a checklist poses the statement
" There is logic to how these people behave." The Peace Corps
is well intentioned, but this workbook suggests a particular naivete that
has an almost missionary zeal. Have a look at " the ugliest man."
www.onestopenglish.com http://grove.ufl.edu/~klilj/samptest.htm http://www.unifon.org/code-switch.html an excellent website that is interactive! It involves an experiment that helps you understand what is happening when code switching is put into action. It is a lot of fun and quite informative. It won't take long, so try it if you are interested! Joanne Arnonovitz Here is a web site that has A LOT of links to various web sites for ESL teachers to use with their students or to find resources for themselves. There is too much to list... all I can say is if you have a second check it out! It is called: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listeslsu.html Has anyone visited www.eslpartyland.com? ESL PartyLand is a site with resources and connections needed in an ESL classroom. There are many ideas and printable materials, discussion forums, film and video listening & speaking, internet teaching, music, and lessons for the basic reading/writing/speaking skills
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