useful websites for studying English

Hot websites for teachers

www.eslcafe.com

'Dave's ESL cafe' "A long0established site for jobs, stuff for teachers, stuf for students and for everyone."

www.quardian.co.uk

Very useful: regular TEFL updates, etc

www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish

A great site.

Includes: News English; Business English; Watch and Listen; Grammar and Vocabulary; Communicate; Quizzes; Webcast; English by Radio, etc

www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise

Includes; words, numbers, grammar, tenses, tutor help, stories, games and exercises.

www.learnenglish.org.uk

The extensive British Council site.

'Learn English' is a free site that helps learners and teachers)adults and kids) of English.

Learn English comes to you from the British Council, the United Kingdom's international organisation for educational and cultural relations. Sister sites in go4english or in2english

www.eslgold.com

Hundreds of pages of free English teaching and learning materials for ESL students and teachers.

www.onestopenglish.com

Free resources, teacher support, jobs, lesson share, magazine, forum, exams, business & ESP, grammar/vocabulary, skills, young learners, ESOL-ESL ("An excellent site with some tips by Jim Scrivener.")

www.bloggingatleeds.blogspot.com

This contains a wealth of information and advice on web logs(blogs).

www.blog-efl.blogspot.com

Blog-EFL site that helps you get into the world of class blogs.

There are examples of EFL blogs that you can look at, info about workshops and training and you and your students can join in online chats, skypecasts and blogs.

www.ielts.org

This is an international English language assessment centre site for testing and assessing throughout the world. It contains specimen materials plus details of test centres, affiliated organisations etc.

www.puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com

Puzzle maker is a puzzle-generating tool for teachers, students and parents.

Creates and prints customized word searches, crosswords and maths puzzles, using your own word lists.

www.englishclub.com

A site to help you learn English or teach English as a second language. Access to all pages is free.

You will find everything from lessons for students to jobs for teachers, including interactive pages such as forums, games, quizzes, chat, help and pen pals.

www. teachertrainingvideos.com

www.englishonline.co.uk

This includes teaching resources, language, literature, literacy, speaking/listening activities, media links, teacher's centre, extra tips for project work.

www.halfbakedsoftware.com

Hot potatoes for making cloze activites, quizzes, crosswords, gapped tasks etc: You can download a sample version free. Recommended.

www.englishlistening.com

The English Listening Lounge': 33 free listening clips categorized into 3 levels for students to access online; more available with membership' requires aduio software such as RealPlayer (free).

www.theenglishprofessor.com/alphal.htm

It has loads of low-level listening exercises for younger learners and low-level students. Free!

www.elllo.org

This gives students access to mp3 files which are free to download, with exercises. Also offers songs from little-known groups. The publisher's websites: particularly Macmillan (onestop.com) along with Garnet, OUP, Pearson & CUP (CUP has software to go with the Grammar in Use and Vocabulary in Use series... It's good, but a bit "drill & kill" in parts.

www.eslpartyland.com

Teachers' pages - materials and methodology, student pages - interactive quizzes, learning pages, discussion forums, e-mail exchange.

www.teflnetnation.com

This contains a directory of ELT links.

www.tefl.com

Professional network and jobs and employment information

www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html

A library of ELT resources, which you might find useful for teaching ideas?

www.oelp.uoregon.edu/teach.html

Directory of teaching resources.

www.eslpod.com

ESL pod casts

www.developingteachers.com

Lesson plans, warmers, fillers

www.essayinfo.com

Academic writing, essay structures, examples, tips

www.eslpartyland.com

Teachers pages - materials and methodology, student pages - interactive quizzes, learning pages, dicsussion forums, e-mail. exchange;

www.essayinfo.com

Academic writing, essay structures, tips

www.iatefl.org

A large UK-based site.

Special interest groups, especially young learners and Business English groups.

The teacher training one is quite good for links, resources, articles and conference details.