Online Resources

1. Activity 1 (Watch & Listen) with quizzes & transcripts

Listen to an episode and read its related materials or its own transcript. Discuss the topic and issues based ont the guide line. Plus try to tackle the quizzes on the site.

• Student CNN News (free transcripts)
  1. Watch the video
  2. Try Ten Questions & Newsquiz
  3. View the transcript - Learning Activity
• Literacy Works (Archives)  (free transcripts)
  1. Listen to the current story
  2. Take quizzes from "Vocabulary" & "Word Selection".
  3. Take another quizzes from "Multiple Choice" & "Sequencing"
  4. View the outline & transcript
• BBC Learning English - The Teacher (free transcripts)
  1. Watch the video
  2. Read the transcript
  3. Write your comments
• BBC Learning English (free transcripts)
  
  1. News English
  2. Business English
  3. Grammar & Vocabulary
• NPR All Things Considered (transcripts)
  1. Listen to the episode (Podcast ready)
  2. Read about the story.
  3. Download the audio file
  4. (Option) Purchase the print-ready transcript ($3.95 ~ $12.95)
• Voice of America - Special English (free transcript)
  1. Listen to the 30-Minute Radio Broadcast (Podcast ready)
  2. Find the transcript and read it.

 

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2. Dictionary

• OneLook.com ® ( Dictionary Search):  
  
• WordNet 3.0 - online lexical reference
  1. Type "heckler" as an example
  2. Click "S" in front of the word.
  3. Then click again "inherited hypernym" in the middle to see the result shown here.
• Visual Thesaurus
• American English Spoken Lexicon
• Hyper Dictionary
• Cool word game: Word Zap
• * Advanced Google Search
  

3. Activity 2 - Speaking; Writing; Reading

• Focus English (Everyday English in Conversation. Hear the whole conversation about 20 topics!)
• Diary Project since 1998 (Writing and sharing a diary on the bulletin board. Get feedback and exchange ideas!)
• Bedtime-Story (The Web's Premiere Children's Story Site. Lots of bedtime stories with pictures - good resource)
• Aesop's Fables (Online Collection of 655 Aesop's Fables with AUDIO)
• English Reading Database
  

4. Grammar

• Guide to Gramamr & Writing: Capital Community College (Interactive Quizzes, good examples & resources)
• BBC Learn it! (Archives of Interactive Q & A, Learn by example & topic)

5. Beginners: Elementary & Middle School

games & fun readings with pictures

• ReviseWise English, BBCi Schools (Elementary & Middle school - Reading/Writing/Spelling with graphics)
• Children's Storybooks (Stories with pictures for Children)
• FunSchool (Interesting animated games and activities for Children)
• Online Learning Games (Online ESL Games for Children)

6. Experiment Sites

• ESL chatting robot DAVE (Practice English with a computer program called DAVE.)
• Divabot, Pandora Bots, Oleobot (Experimental software robot.)

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7. Lesson Plans

• TESL: Lessons, The Internet TESL Journal (Activities for Conversation classes, Culture, and Game.
• Activities for ESL Students, The Internet TESL Journal (Over 1,000 quizzes, exercises and puzzles)

8. ESL/EFL Journals & Links

• The Internet TESL Journal:
  For Teachers of English as a Second Language (Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links): (Articles are available on the web.)
• Language Learning & Technology:
  A refereed journal for Second & foreign language educators: (Articles are available on the web.)
• International Commission on second language acquisition
  provides references to all major international SLA acitivities and resources.
• TESL Canada Journal: (Abstracts are available on the web.)
• ELT WEB (Index of English Language Resouces)
• TESL/TEFL/ESL Links (Links of interest to students and teachers. Maintained by The Internet TESL Journal.)

 

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