Links
Below is a selection of some
of the best links for English language learners and
teachers.
General
The Internet TESL
Journal
Rong Chang
Reading
Extensive Reading
Eltweb
Polite
English
ESL Lesson
Plan
English
Gateway
Nellie's
English Projects
Jeremy Taylor's Home
Page
- Readers, jokes, stories and other valuable resources
ET People
- Magazine written by and for ESL students
Polite English
Word-power
Common-mistakes
Talking-about.net
Forest Trail Academy
English Tips
Esl-lounge
Listening
Podcasts
are a great way for English language learners to improve
listening comprehension. Voice of America provide
'special English' audio broadcasts for ESL students and
teachers. You can find them here.
Another excellent resource is Breaking News
which
provides podcasts of up-to-date news items.
ESL Podcast is
also a good source of varied listening materials as
is ESL Podcards.
ESL Pod has
an extensive selection of materials with accompanying
notes but does charge a subscription.
Beatles Radio is
a great site for all Beatles fans. You can read about
the history of the group in easy English
here:
Young Learners
Ideas
about teaching stories in the pre-school second language
classroom using intrinsic motivation can be found:
here
IATEFL Young Learner Special Interest
Group
5 Minute English
Online Extensive Reading
Programme
- New site with excellent extensive links and resources
- Resources for ESL//EFL Teachers of children/young learners.
Easy Readers
- Beautifully designed site with original English stories for children
- Popular award-winning site run by a teacher in New Jersey, USA. Highly recommended
- Blog from Argentina aimed at Sixth Graders - well organised with some great activities
Teach children ESL
ESL Podcards : Free Listening resources
for teachers and students.
Compelling Conversations
- provides free sample chapters, teaching tips, pithy quotations, and links for advanced ESL teachers and students.
- Speak-Read-Write's Guide to 800 English idioms, plus short stories, worksheets, articles, puzzles, pronunciation exercises, some with audio. It's all online, and all FREE.
Vocabulary Activities : Interactive vocabulary games with help for hispanic speakers from MadridTeacher.com
Bogglesworldesl.com:
Free
Worksheets for Teachers to print
Fonetiks.org is a family of free
websites with an online pronouncing dictionary with
"Instant Sound", a spoken english grammar, and much
more
Groups
Teaching
ideas can be found on the
Yahoo ExtensiveReading Group
site . The
Extensive Reading group is an excellent place to exchange
ideas about learning English through Extensive Reading.
The EFL & ESL Reading
Group
- students and teachers share ideas about good reading materials
If you have ideas/materials/course outlines. you would like to share with other teachers, please send them here
Would you like to add an ESL-related link to ESL Reading from your website? Here are the details
Title: ESL Reading
Description: Free reading materials for English language learners
URL: http://www.eslreading.org
Please email me to let me know where the link is and I will place a link in return. Many thanks, Kieran