TESOL
Links - 4
Lesson
Sources
Teaching from a Hispanic
Perspective: A Handbook for Non-Hispanic Adult Educators - a great
starter for people working with hispanic adults
(or children)!
Enchanted
Learning is an excellent website that can be very useful for
beginner ESL students. Among its hundreds of activities and crafts is
its Little Explorer English Picture Dictionary as well as 6 bilingual
picture dictionaries. There are "Label Me Printouts" for dozens
of categories including animals, flags, states, geology.... Under "ESL
Printouts" you'll find a wealth of pictures specifically helpful
to students learning English. Just recently the website added an ESL
activity called "Look It Up! Quizzes" in which students look
up words in the English Picture Dictionary to find pieces of information.
This website is endlessly interesting for kids of all ages.
Dragonfly
Workshops Home Page - workshops in interactive, creative teacher
training
Movies
with Convincing Accents
Clips of Movie Soundtracks in
Real Audio - Soundtracks of current/past movies heard in Real
Audio
Lyrics
Connection - find the lyrics to almost any song that's been
written
Dumb
Laws
Roadside
America: The Vortex - alternative reading for students
The
AdCritic - All Ads, All The Time - 100s of ads for authentic
discourse to teach culture
Welcome
to How Stuff Works - from paperclips to nuclear reactors, great
for ESP
Sounds
of the World's Animals - What does an elephant say in Urdu?
Find out on this informative site!
Interactive
Javascript Quizzes for ESL Students
Intercultural
E-Mail Classroom Connections
Cooperative Learning Principles
Vocabulary
Quizzes - A practical page available for students of ESL. Quizzes
are divided into categories such as easy, medium and hard.
ESL Idiom Page -
A page that is part of the Dave's
ESL Cafe website. Idioms are classified in alphabetical
order, so they're easy to search.
Words
in the News - BBC site that focuses on the language used in
recent news reports, including information for English teachers
Word
a Day - An innovative site that will email you a word a day,
complete with meaning, pronunciation, and examples of how the word
is used in a sentence.
www.eslgold.com - Tons of
free resources for learning and teaching English! Grammatical explananations,
phrases of conversation, ideas for teaching, great ESL links, etc.
P.O.V.'s
Borders: PBS's First Web-only Series Showcasing Interactive Story Telling
- P.O.V.'s Borders is a showcase for interactive storytelling about
the borders in our lives. How easy is it for you to understand another
person's borders?
Practitioner
Toolkit: Working with Adult English Language Learners
-
provides needed support and resources to adult education and family
literacy instructors who are new to serving adults and families learning
English. The toolkit provides a variety of materials to help practitioners
meet the language and literacy development needs of the ELL students
they serve. These include responses to Frequently Asked Questions, a
first-day orientation guide, lesson plans, etc. Download the entire
document or select and download topics of interest as needed.
International Children's
Digital Library - a project of the University of Maryland,
this website features 573 children's books in 27 different languages,
available to be downloaded and read FREE!
.
List
of the 1000 books most held by libraries - This
list, updated for 2005, contains the "Top 1000" titles owned
by OCLC member libraries—the intellectual works that have
been judged to be worth owning by the "purchase vote" of
libraries around
the globe.
The
Dialectizer - render any piece of discourse into a variety
of "dialects"
Welcome to rateyourprof.com
- yes, let the nation know your opinion of your Prof.!
Blue Mountain Arts' Electronic
Greeting Cards - free e-greetings
Hallmark E-cards -excellent
animated e-cards for all occasions, free
The Onion -
Satiric newspaper
HaHa.com Best Jokes on
the NET
Korean Graduate
Students - this website, created by the Korean
Graduate students in Computer Science at University of Maryland,
includes such information as where to find Korean groceries,
restaurants, and entertainment in the area.
Urban
Dictionary - a website that allows
people to add their own slang words and definitions to an urban dictionary.
Some are real, some are humorous, and some are both.
Preparing
for a Substitute -
Being a substitute teacher isn't easy under the best of circumstances,
but as a classroom teacher, you can take steps to facilitate a
positive
experience for everyone - the substitute, the students, and
yourself. Click here for links to helpful tips and templates for
subsitute teacher instructions and feedback.
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Spread that Hoax
Symantec
Security Updates
Graphics
Microsoft®
Clip Art - Great, clear graphics, excellent animations
Hee
Yun's Graphic Collection
www.webshots.com - Extensive
collection of FREE, downloadable desktops/wallpaper for PCs and MACs
Do You
Know Another Good Link??
Send your link information
to Judith at tesol@american.edu.
Please make sure that your link is current. Thanks!
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