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English as a Second Language Beginning Alphabet http://www.english-zone.com/spelling/alpha1.html Alphabet Interesting Things for ESL Students http://www.manythings.org/ This web has quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities. Even though most activities are for ESL, native English speakers may also find some interesting things on this site. This site is non-commercial and has no advertising. Learning Vocabulary Fun http://www.vocabulary.co.il Fun site to learn new words and practice vocabulary using crosswords, word search, hang mouse, quiz, match, and more! Lanague Guide www.languageguide.org LanguageGuide.org offers free sound integrated resources for learning languages. 200 Vocabulary Exercises http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/vocab/index.htm Subjects include furniture, school and office, home appliances, kitchen utensils, clothes, animals, Canadian coins, and food. Rebecca's EZ Page http://alri.org/ltc/ezpage/ Links to web pages for ESOL beginning-intermediate level students. Includes information on housing, clothing, worker's rights, lead poisoning and other topics. Recommendation: Adult intermediate and beginning ESL learners can use this site on their own. Not to Be Missed: Sounds for Somalis - Phonics for Beginning Readers English/Spanish Picture Dictionary http://www.my-spanish-dictionary.com/ You can look up words in English and the Spanish word will be provided. Each word has a picture. Press F11 on your keyboard to make the words and pictures larger. Pumarosa http://www.pumarosa.com/ This site offers beginning and intermediate lessons for learning English and is geared to native Spanish speakers. Dave's ESL Café http://www.eslcafe.com/ This popular site has quizzes, activities, help center, discussion forums, hint-of-the-day, and much more. E-Square http://www.alri.org/esquare/ Contents: community, jobs, government, children, families, computers, banking, buying a house, library, health, and much more Recommendation: Advanced and intermediate adult learners can use this site on their own. Beginning adult learners could work in pairs to use this site or work with a tutor. English Listening Lounge http://www.englishlistening.com/ The English Listening Lounge is for students who want to improve their English through listening. It has practice for learners of all levels. Students listen to recordings of English speakers, who talk about many topics. Each recording has text and comprehension questions. This site has free activities and a member area that costs money. Recommendation: Adult ESL learners of all levels can use this site on their own. Beginning and intermediate learners would benefit from teacher or tutor support. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/ This site has many listening activities, including conversations and quizzes. Levels are high-beginning to low-advanced learners. (Real Audio is required to use this site--links for free downloads are provided.) Sounds of English http://www.soundsofenglish.org/ Intermediate and Advanced Bright Ideas - Students http://www.clese.org/students.htm The Bright Ideas student site has adult learner writings from students who have come to America from Bosnia, the Ukraine, Iran, Iraq, the Philippines, and China. The sentence structure is simple and easy to understand. Not to Be Missed: Videos section that includes several videos of adult ESL learners and their experiences coming to America and learning English. These would be good videos for ESL teachers to show to beginning and intermediate ESL classes. They would form a good basis for discussion. Skillwise http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/ This site is a list of online activities, games, and quizzes. Games, quizzes and more to help you improve basic skills. The site has activities for grammar, math and many student stories to encourage adult learners. There are many worksheets and facts sheets. Recommendation: Intermediate and advanced learners can use this site on their own. Beginning adult learners can use this site with the support of a tutor. The Internet TESL Journal http://iteslj.org/ This monthly web journal has articles, lessons plans, and classroom handouts, teaching ideas and links for Teachers of English as a second language. This site also has links for students that include activities, puzzles, grammar and vocabulary quizzes, and other resources. Recommendation: ESL learners of all levels can use the student section of this site. Beginning learners will need teacher support. American English Pronunciation http://eleaston.com/pronunciation/ This site has practice on the sounds of the English language. This site uses RealAudio and has written support materials on contractions, grammar, and spelling, as well as the sounds of the English language. Recommendation: Beginning, intermediate and advanced ESL learners can use this site on their own. Beginning ESL learners will need teacher support for follow-up. English for All http://www.myefa.org/ This site is for adults who want to learn English. This site includes five real-life stories as movies. Each movie has a multi-ethnic cast and a friendly Wizard, who explains skills in each story. The movies have vocabulary, comprehension, grammar, and life skill lessons. Site includes a Spanish translation of most of the online text. To accommodate speakers of other languages, there is a link to an online translator (with translation capabilities for German, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, French, Portuguese and Hebrew). Recommendation: Advanced and intermediate ESL learners can use this site on their own with teacher support. High beginning ESL learners can use this site as part of a class with teacher support. Cool sites for ESL Students www.uic.edu/depts/tie/coolsites.htm Cool Sites offers links for general ESL, listening comprehension, speaking, writing, vocabulary, news, grammar, culture, and more. English Zone http://english-zone.com/index.php This site has many different links for reading, spelling, vocabulary, writing, grammar, pronunciation, idioms, verbs, basic skills, and fun. ABE, ESL, and GED students will find sites to use to improve their skills. ESL Gold http://www.eslgold.com ESL gold provides many pages of free English teaching and learning materials for students and teachers. All pages are organized by skill and level for quick and easy learning. Choices include speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, business, pronunciation, TOEFL/TOEIC, and idioms. Levels include low and high beginning, intermediate and advanced. Recommendation: Advanced and intermediate ESL learners can use this site on their own if they have a focus for their visit. Beginning ESL learners can use this site as part of an ESL class with teacher or tutor support. Activities for ESL Students http://a4esl.org/ Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL) This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers. EnglishCLUB.net http://www.englishclub.net/grammar All levels can play games, take quizzes, and read stories and jokes English Page http://www.englishpage.com/ For all skills, lots of activities, exchange messages with other students, and ask questions ESL Partyland http://eslpartyland.com Student pages have over 75 interactive quizzes, 15 discussion forums, interactive lessons on a variety of topics, a chat room, and lots of great links. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/ This site has many listening activities, including conversations and quizzes. Levels are high-beginning to low-advanced learners. (Real Audio is required to use this site--links for free downloads are provided.) Sounds of English http://www.soundsofenglish.org This site haspPronunciation exercises for learners of American English, printable worksheets in PDF, handouts, and teacher tips for class pronunciation activities. Topics: an online magazine for learners of English http://www.topics-mag.com/ Learners of English as a second language express their ideas and opinions on many topics. Readers can explore an international world. Articles include topics such as travel, food, movies/books, learning, writing, globalization, and much more. Site allows users to take a quiz or poll. Teachers section included. Site has current and back issues Recommendation: Adult advanced ESL learners can use this site on their own. Intermediate ESL learners can use this site as part of a class with teacher support. Beginning adult learners can use this site with tutor support. Discoveries http://www.boulderreads.org/discover.htm This site has stories, poems, and articles written by ESL adult learners in the Boulder Reads! Program in Colorado. This is a pdf format booklet that you can look at online or print. Recommendation: Advanced adult learners can use this site on their own. Intermediate adult learners can use this site with teacher support. Beginning adult learners can use this site with a one-on-one tutor. Tower of English http://towerofenglish.com/index.html Cool Site for ESL Students http://www.uic.edu/depts/tie/coolsites.htm University of Illinois at Chicago sponsors this site. ESL Blues http://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/ Pronunciation Phonetics Flash Animation Project: www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/# A library of the sounds with step-by-step descriptions, video-audio practice, and a diagram of the anatomy. English Pronunciation (OUC) international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/ Recordings, pronunciation demonstrations, and tongue twisters Eva Easton - Authentic American Pronunciation: evaeaston.com/pr/home.html Pronunciation and listening practice site. Consonant sounds, vowel sounds, explanations, demonstrations, minimal pairs, and homophones. Listening Pumarosa http://www.pumarosa.com/ This site offers beginning and intermediate lessons for learning English and is geared to native Spanish speakers. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/ This site has many listening activities, including conversations and quizzes. Levels are high-beginning to low-advanced learners. (Real Audio is required to use this site--links for free downloads are provided.) Repeat After Us http://repeatafterus.com Beginning, intermediate and advanced quotations, text, stories, poetry, and nursery rhymes that you can listen to in English. Citizenship Information U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis US Citizenship and Immigration Services - includes practice for the citizenship test (Click on Educcation & Resources (top menu), then on Civics and Citizenship Study Materials(left side of page menu). Welcome to the USA www.WelcometoUSA.gov This site helps find local English classes, apply for citizenship, get information on obtaining a driver's license, green card, jobs, a social security number, and much more. Citizenship Homepage http://www.thecenterweb.org/alrc/citizenship-pub.html#web A collection of material to help students to get citizenship. The goal of these materials is to insure that applicants understand what they must do to pass the citizenship interview and tests. Important issues are residency requirements, criminal record/legal problems, and ability to speak, read, write, and understand basic English. Recommendation: ESL adult learners of all levels. The information is presented in easy to follow chart format. The information is available in: English, Spanish, Polish, Bosnian, and Russian on the web site. Chinese and Vietnamese are available by contacting the Center. Conversation Conversation http://iteslj.org/questions Great TESOL site for conversation questions
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