Useful Links

BBC World Service: Learning English
Programme information and many features, e.g. Words in the News, English by Radio, Grammar and Vocabulary, Quizzes. Adult learners can try he Virtual English Masterclass, e.g. Learning Tips, Business Communication, Grammar Surgery with its interactive quizzes and live chat with transcripts. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml

Breaking News English
Over 800 Free English language lessons based on current downloadables world news stories. Several new lessons each week at two levels with reproducible classroom handouts which can be adapted for your class. http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

English as a Second Language
This is part of the About.Eduaction site. It offers articles, advice, lesson plans, exercise etc, on the usual ELS topics with some interesting extras such as Music in the Classroom and Sentence Auctions, Check out the Most Popular Articles and Latest Articles sections. http://esl.about.com/

ESLflow
Lessons, activities and resources for Elementary, Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate levels. Try the Intermediate section on Multiple Intelligences or the Pre-Intermediate page on Childhood. Attractive design and a high standard. http://www.eslflow.com/

Linguistic Funland TESL
Now in its 7th year. Links to resources for the teaching of English, exercises and activities for student of English, online journals and linguistic databases and corpora as well as for linguistic study, computer-mediated communication and the study of other languages. http://www.linguistic-funland.com/

TEFL NET
Classroom activities, lesson plans and webguide to other ESL/EFL links. Click on Improvisations (under Lesson Plans) for both pair and group ideas. Offers a monthly electronic magazine with online teaching help. http://www.tefl.net/index.html


Publishers' Sites: (You need to register to gain access to free resources. It'a free.)

Cambridge ELT
An attractive new website offering a wide range of information and resources for ELT professionals, teachers and students, e.g. teaching young learners, support for many of the excellent Cambridge coursebooks, study tips, Cambridge dictionaries online, data for language reseachers, online activities... There are new features each month. http://www.cambridge.org/elt/

MacMillan One Stop English Magazine
One of the best of publishers; sites, this monthly online magazine offers hundreds of free resources: professional support, lesson plans, lesson sharing at all levels plus a new Forum section. Recent and current features include practical teaching ideas on grammar and speaking, teaching with minimal materials (e.g. using timetables, role play), drama activities, using songs with young learners, reading lessons on topics of global interest, business and ESP, exams and assessment plus a warmers and icebreakers section and links to other ELT sites. Be sure to check out the large methodology archive which has much useful how-to material. http://www.onestopenglish.com/

Oxford University Press
This is the Oxford site tailor-made for teachers, dedicated to providing information, resources, support materials, and ideas for teachers and students. There are sections for Young Learners, Teenage Learners and Adult Learners, each with activities and exercises for practising English plus a free online Teachers Club with tips, articles, downloadable teaching materials and links. http://www.oup.com/elt/teachersclub/?cc=global

Pearson Longman
The Pearson Longman website has a wide choice of excellent dictionaries with downloadable worksheets. There are also sections for specific age groups and interests, e.g. Young Learners, Teens, Adults, Business and Exams, each with a varity of activities, resources, quizzes, reading ideas and teaching tips. There are companion websites (meaning sites to support coursebooks) and an ELT Forum for professional development online hosted by Jeremy Harmer. There is a searchable archive of past articles. http://www.pearsonlongman.com/


Lesson Plans and Materials for the Classroom

ESL Partyland
Lively site. Lesson plans and ideas, reproducible materials, interactive quizzes, lots of links. Three recommendations: the collection of Conversation Questions, presented as card sets for about 20 topics (e.g. technology, the environment and you, learning languages); Ideas for Previewing Vocabulary and the Peer Evaluation Checklist for oral presentations. http://www.eslpartyland.com/

Extensive Reading Pages
Articles and advice on starting an extensive reading programme, model programmes, materials, reviews, presentation handouts, discussion group... http://www.extensivereading.net/index.html

Newspapers in Education: Bangkok Post
Professionally presented material for reading, vocabulary development and making students think. Study the models and apply to your own lessons and self-access materials. Good notes for teachers on using newspapers in the classroom. http://www.bangkokpost.net/education/

Online Writing Lab, Purdue University
OWL stands for Online Writing Lab. This URL takes you to ESL Resources for Teachers which gives access to a number of useful pages: handouts on grammar points, online journals, help with reserch and documentation, writing across the curriculum and links to ESL resources. Also check out the Internet Resources section. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslteacher.html

Grammar Safari
Activities for 'hunting' and 'collecting' examples of words as they are used on the Web--'a vast, ever- growing, always up-to-date corpus' of language. There are also suggestions for what to do with the words so acquired, using a Grammar Journal. http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/student_grammarsafari.html

Online English Grammar
Complete, searchable guide to English grammar, grammar clinic and test centre by an internationally recognised expert in using the Internet in education/TESL Users of this section of the award-winning Digital Education Network (DEN) currently number more than 200,000 per month. http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/index.cfm

E. L. Easton - English - Music and Lyrics
An extensive collection of links to pages with ESL-through-music lessons and teaching ideas, plus audio and vocals (American pronunciation), song collections, national anthems plus a multilingual songbook section where you can compare the lyrics to popular songs in a variety of languages. There is a great deal on offer at this site. http://eleaston.com/music.html

ETNI's Music
Includes ideas, projects, materials and links for teaching English language and literature through song. Also provides technical information on how to download and manage audio planers and files. This is part of a larger EFL site; go to the Teachers' section for links to lesson plans, classroom activities, projects and other EFL resources. http://www.etni.org.il/music/

Song Dictation
A concise ITESL-J article by Brian Cullen giving the why and how of using song dictation in the ESL classroom. Search the ITESL-J index for other articles, e.g. 'Songs, Verse and Games for Teaching Grammar'. http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Cullen-SongDictation.html


Journals and Magazines Online

A4ESL (Activities for English as a Second Language)
A collection of over 1000 quizzes, exercises and puzzles for language learners. This site is a project of the Internet TESL Journal (below). http://a4esl.org

Asian EFL Journal
'The ELT Professional's Written forum' A free refereed and indexed journal of research and practical articles, dissertations, reviews and forums with special relevance to Asia. Volumes 2002-2006 are available in full. http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/

Humanising Language Teaching
A free e-zine edited by Mario Rinvolcri of Pilgrima and a sister to the Teacher Trainer. There are articles, course and lesson outlines, and inks to sources of other free materials. You can download every issue (or the parts you want) from 1999 to the present. http://www.hltmag.co.uk

Internet TESL Journal
A leading free monthly web journal offering articles, research findings, lesson plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas and many instant links. The archives go back to 1995. You can ask to be e-mailed whenever a new issue goes online. http://iteslj.org/

Reading Online
Published by the International Reading Association (to which we belong), with thousands of visitors each month. Features practice and research related to both primary and secondary teaching. Besides peer-reviewed and printer-ready articles there are sections on the Electronic Classroom, New Literacies. International Perspectives, Book Reviews and Online Communities. http://www.readingonline.org/

Reading in a Foreign Language
The online journal Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL) is a scholarly international refereed journal originally founded as a print journal in 1983 at the University of Aston, Birmingham, England. The journal moved to the University of Hawai'i in 2002 under the co-editorship of Richard R. Day and Thom Hudson, and Reviews Editor Anne Burns, Macquarie University, Australia. http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/about.html

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