Sean Banville's Other Sites
- 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.
- Famous People Lessons.com: ESL / EFL lessons using biographies and profiles of over 150 famous people from sports, politics, popular culture, movies and more. Free Word and PDF downloads plus MP3 listening.
- ESL Holiday Lessons: Lessons and activities on holidays, anniversaries, commemorations and other notable days in the world calendar. Free Word and PDF downloads plus MP3 listening.
Other Current Events Sites
- BBC "Words in the News": Listening and 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, with a core vocabulary of 1500 words. Shorter, more simple sentences.
- 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.
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.
Sites for Teachers and Students
- Activities for ESL Students: Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles. Has thousands of contributions from teachers.
- Interesting Things for ESL Students: 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: Acollection of links to lessons sorted by theme and level.
- ESL Topics Magazine: Online magazine that offers learners of English an opportunity to express and publish their ideas in English.
- Teachers-Pet.org: A free teacher text tool that quickly and easily creates many vocabulary activities from MS Word texts.
- EnglishClub.com: A compendium of resources for teachers and students, plus information on international schools and ESL worldwide.
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