Classroom Resource Links: General ESL Web Sites II

ESL Fun Game, Spin the Wheel Game - This is a game where you spin the wheel and answer the questions that show up.

Film English is a site that promotes the use of film in the language classroom. There are lesson plans, a film language glossary and film links to help both teachers and students.

Views from the Whiteboard - A site for EFL teachers to pick up ideas and activities to use in their classroom.

Canadian Corner: ESL Activities – This Web page offers a selection of texts relating to Canada as well as multiple questions interactive Canadian Citizenship Test.

University of Ontario Institute of Technology: resource guide for English as a Second Language – “This guide highlights resources that support your research and professional learning, such as textbooks, curriculum, books, journals and magazines. You will also find resources appropriate for classroom use, including student books and videos.”

efl-resource  – This Web site offers a large number of lesson plans and ideas as well as Topic-Based EFL Materials.

Fun Language Games for Children - Three fun interactive language games for young learners.

TeachYa! - Well conceived Web site for teachers and learners of English with an extensive webography.

EnglishCLUB.net Teachers' Room - resources for TEFL-TESL-TESOL teachers

Ages of English Timeline – A History of the English language in ten acts.

English Business Letters Generator – “Generate your English business letters per mouse click. Choose the template and mark the checkboxes for the sentences you want to use in your business letter.

List of Assessment Resources for English as a Second Language (ESL) - This document from Alberta Education provides a list of 24 useful assessment resources for ESL.  Each assessment is described in detail and is rated, with accompanying reviewer comments, according to 12 evaluation criteria.

A Review of the Literature on English as a Second Language (ESL) Issues (2008) - The Language Research Centre at the University of Calgary was contracted by Alberta Education to produce an annotated bibliography on diverse aspects of education related to English as a Second Language (ESL) students. Part I deals with best practices when it comes to delivering content and curriculum in the ESL classroom, Part II deals with meeting the needs of students with special needs in the ESL community, and Part III addresses the question of how best to serve ESL students who have limited literacy skills in their first language.

Eslhandouts.com is an ESL/EFL web service that allows teachers to share English teaching ideas, and materials such as lesson plans, worksheets, recordings, pictures.

ESL Printables:  a website where English Language teachers exchange resources: worksheets, lesson plans, activities, etc.

ESL Activities Online - This website contains a variety of activities for English language learners. It includes a section on idioms, grammar, reading comprehension, and a selection of flash activities.

Dave's ESL Cafe – includes helpful ESL resources such as:

• Idioms: lists, definitions, and examples
• Phrasal Verb Page: lists, definitions, and examples
• Idea Cookbook: Hundreds of ideas posted by ESL teachers throughout the world.

Learning English BBC World Service - The site contains material for learners grouped around five categories which presents new language, explains difficult words and phrases, and gives you the chance to practice it.

Breaking News English - world news and current affairs lessons and plans for ELT.

Web English Teacher - contains a good list of annotated links to ESL Web sites. (Note: some of the material here would only be suitable for adults.)

Hacker Handbook Software - interactive exercises in each of the following categories: effective sentences, word choice, grammatical sentences, ESL trouble spots, punctuation, spelling and mechanics, basic grammar. Shockwave plug-in required to run the exercises.

Boggles - contains a wealth of free printable ESL flashcards and worksheets.

ESL ALL International - A Canadian ESL and search engine directory named ESL All which includes over 3,300 links to both ESL and EFL free resources.

Activities for ESL/EFL Students (English Study Materials) - quizzes, exercises and puzzles to help you study English as a second language.

ESL Galaxy - This Web site offers ESL lesson plan materials, printable worksheets and games, flashcards, and audio and video files.

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