Sean Banville's Other Site
- ESL Discussions.com: Over 12,000 conversation questions, hundreds of Word and PDF handouts. Controversial and everyday discussion topics. For speaking practice in and out of class.
Other Free Current Events Lesson Sites
- BBC "Words in the News": Listen to and learn vocabulary from BBC World Service news stories. There is a weekly lesson complete with teaching notes and student worksheets.
- New York Times: Daily lessons based on NY Times articles. Primarily for students at grades 9-12 but useful for more advanced ESL learners.
- Voice Of America: Daily listenings that are read at a slower pace. News articles centre on a core vocabulary of 1500 words with short, simple sentences, active voice and no idioms.
- Simple English News.com: Daily news headlines and very short articles behind the headlines.
- HeadsUpEnglish.com: Lessons plans and materials for upper-intermediate and advanced ESL & EFL learners.
- NewsFlashEnglish.com: Weekly lessons on news of Slovakia. Word and PDF handouts.
Recommended Listening Sites
- ELLLO: English Language Listening Lab Online. Listen to English speakers from all over the world. Over 400 listening activities that include quizes and texts. New listening every day.
- BBC World Service: Listenings and video with tapescripts, quizzes and vocabulary exercises.
- BBC Video Nation: Videos of different British people speaking. Includes comprehension tests.
- PhrasalVerbDemon.com: A site for phrasal verbs. It has listenings with tapescripts and exercises that focus on phrasal verbs.
Recommended Sites for Teachers and Students
- The Internet TESL Journal: A monthly journal for ESL/EFL teachers with articles, research papers, lessons plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas & links.
- Activities for ESL Students: Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL) This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers.
- Interesting Things for ESL Students: There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities.
- Using English.com: Online ESL resources for students and teachers - for ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP.
- eslflow.com: An easily navigatable hierarchy of links to lessons sorted by theme and level.
General Sites for Students & Teachers
- Tools for Teachers: A very large collection of links to tools for teachers to create quizzes, lessons, surveys, worksheets, puzzles, flashcards and much more.
- Teachers-Pet.org: A free teacher text tool that easily creates vocabulary activities from MS Word texts.
- Study Stack: Online flashcards to help students and teachers memorize information. Topics cover geography, history, math, languages, science and medicine.
- AllWords Dictionary: English dictionary with multi-lingual search, guide, community and more.
- A Dictionary of Slang: A large selection of English slang and informal expressions currently in use in Britain, updated regularly.
- EnglishClub.com: A compendium of resources for teachers and students, plus information on international schools and ESL worldwide.
- English Maze: Interactive and interesting activities that introduce and recycle language online. Graded business and general English levels cover all skills. Comes with chat, e-pals, discussion boards, lesson plans and free resources.
- Timesavers for Teachers.com: Printable and interactive teacher forms, checklists, worksheets, award certificates, passes, report card comments, masters, units, and more. Contains free samples.
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