Multi-skill and Multi-level Resources

ESL Independent Study Lab. <http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html>

Links to some of the best ESL/EFL Internet resources. Organized by skill and language level.

 

EFL Club. <http://www.eflclub.com/>

Songs, movie clips, stories and games. Organized by level.

 

ESL Gold. <http://www.eslgold.com/>

Hundreds of resources sorted by level and skill.

 

English Language Resource Center. <http://www.bergen.cc.nj.us/library/learning/english/links.html>

Lists of Internet sites for ESL Students sorted by level, topic and skills.

 

Everything ESL Lesson Plans http://www.everythingesl.net/lessons/

Lesson Plans, Teaching tips

 

Internet TESL Journal  http://iteslj.org/

Lesson plans, games, jokes, teaching techniques, and more.

 

Reading and Composition

ESL: Reading: Songs and Music for Secondary Students

<http://www.onestopenglish.com/young_learners/teenage/Songs/index.htm>

 

New York Times Learning  www.nytimes.com/learning/

Daily lesson plans and activities using content from the New York Times.

 

New York Times Upfront Magazine teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/

Weekly news magazine available online or in print form.  Lesson plans and activities are provided. 

 

Grammar

English-Zone. <http://english-zone.com>

Features: Grammar explanations, self-grading quizzes, Win a million bananas! (some free material, some restricted material)

 

ESL Blues. <http://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/trouindx.htm>

Features: Diagnostic quiz, self-grading quizzes.

 

Vocabulary

Freerice. www.freerice.com

Features: vocabulary game adjusts to player vocabulary level. For each correct word, 20 grains of rice are donated to the UN World Food Program.

 

Oral Skills

 

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab. <http://www.esl-lab.com/>

Features: Audio clips categorized by level of difficulty, self-grading quizzes for each audio clip.

 

ELLLO  English Listening Language Lab Online http://www.elllo.org/

Features: Listening activities 

 

Phonetics: the spoken sound of language www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#

Audio and video diagramming the sounds of language.  Works best with Firefox.

 

Authentic Audio and Video

Podcasts

StoryCorps.  www.storycorps.net/

Features: Short (2 - 6 mins) recorded interviews of Americans sharing the stories of their lives. 

 

TED.  Ideas worth spreading.  www.ted.com

Online lecture videos on a variety of topics, ranging from 5 to 60 minutes long. 

 

yolango.com  www.yolango.com

Authenic video clips with accompanying cloze drills, vocabulary exercises and comprehension questions.  Multi-level.  

 

Minnesota Public Radio www.mpr.org

Audio newscasts with accompanying text, often as a transcript.

 

Blogs

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day.  larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/

Keep current on new websites by checking out this blog.  Includes reviews of useful tools for use in ELL classrooms.

 

 

 

Connect with English (course video)

EFL Club

University of Choices International (on-line interactive)

English Trailers

Randall's Cyber Listening Lab

Cutting Edge CALL Demos

Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood Song List

NPR Audio Archives