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.
Nellies English Projects

Easy Readers
  • Beautifully designed site with original English stories for children
Mrs. Hurley's ESL Page
  • Popular award-winning site run by a teacher in New Jersey, USA. Highly recommended
My room in cyberspace
  • Blog from Argentina aimed at Sixth Graders - well organised with some great activities
Math and reading help for kids

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.
    Free Printable Materials for 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.
    ESL Printables
    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