skills in teaching English Language.
INTERNET ADDRESSES
TEACHERS’ SITES
http://school.discovery.com/teachers/index.html
A “mainstream education” type site, with loads
of links and ideas.
http://www.english-to-go.com/
Online resources from Reuters News. Free lesson
every week, and for a fee you can subscribe
and have endless lessons.
http://www.go.com/?&svx=SHBZ_CHMP
Go.com has a great site with loads of links to all sorts of topics.
Well worth having a look. You can do loads with this site.
INFORMATION ABOUT BRITAIN
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/
The official site for 10 Downing Street.
DICTIONARIES
http://www.awl-elt.com/dictionaries/index.html
Longmans Interactive Dictionary Site. Lots of activities and ideas.
GRAMMAR SITES
http://www.myna.com/~prjg/toc.htm
Grammar tutorials, with various gap-fill exercises for
a variety of structures
http://www.fis.edu/eslweb/esl/grammar/index.htm
Slightly less boring than average for a grammar site!
Useful multi-choice and gap-fills with rules
and explanations for each exercise.
http://members.home.net/englishzone/
Loads of activities for all sorts of grammar, vocabulary,
idioms, jokes, hours of self-access material for students
and activities for teachers
http://www.englishclub.net/homework/index.htm
More gap-fills and exercises for various grammar points
GENERAL INTEREST
http://www.educationalsoftware.co.uk/
Includes grammar page, downloads of EFL games, tips
for teachers, easy to move around and use.
Especially useful for self access.
http://www.talkfast.com/whatsnew.html
Info on latest products.
http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-world.htm
If you want to know what time it is anywhere in the
world, this site gives an immediate answer.
http://www.thegoodbookguide.com/
Book store and lots of reviews.
SOFTWARE COMPANIES
http://www.vektor.com/html/engprod.html
Produced Muzzy, Flyers, Movers etc.
http://www.clarity.com.hk/
Makers of Tensebuster, working in conjunction
with BC Hong Kong
SKILLS IMPROVEMENT
Listening
http://www.eflweb.com/practice/practice-frame-speech.htm
Great site with listening exercises. Perfect for self-access for students.
http://www.hio.ft.hanze.nl/thar/listen.htm
Excellent listening exercises in realaudio with activities
Writing
http://tqjunior.advanced.org/5115/s_writing.htm
This site gives all the stages for effective writing
All Skills
http://www.hio.ft.hanze.nl/thar/listen.htm
Various activities to practice all skills, excellent site
Using songs in class
http://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/nov/music.htm#
Activities, Games, & Quizzes
Excellent site with links and suggestions for using music
and songs in class. Very lively and usable site.
TEENS
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/kotn/gokids.htm
Kids on the Net site cool site with all sorts of links and ideas
VERY YOUNG LEARNERS
http://members.home.com/veeceet/index.html
Nursery rhymes and songs for kids
http://www.hookedonphonics.com/what/what_u_get.cfm
Hooked on phonics details of products available, order online
http://www.alfy.com/
Excellent educational site for young kids with stories,
theme-related activities, great potential once
you know what’s on there.
http://www.billybear.net/
Billy Bear’s kids site. Just a small page, I use it
with Muzzy in Gondoland 1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/wordsandpictures/phonics.shtml
The BBC phonics page. Printable activities to go with
phonic based courses.
http://www.go.com/Center/Kids?svx=CTOC_Kids
Fantastic site with links to activities, including jokes, games,
homework help and online stories.
MAGAZINES
http://www.thisengland.co.uk/homepag2.htm
A magazine about England, though you need to subscribe.
NEWS
http://www.thestar.com.my/
Malaysia’s leading newspaper online
http://www.otan.dni.us/cdlp/education/
Useful site, with ready made vocabulary activities,
exploiting news stories from US papers
PUZZLES AND GAMES
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Great site for making crosswords, word searches, etc.
http://www.kidcrosswords.com/
Just as it says . . .
SITES FOR PROJECTS
Amazing Facts
http://zebu.cvm.msu.edu/~dawsonbr/welcome.htm
http://disney.go.com/DisneyChannel/AmazingAnimals/Clips/
http://www.nj.com/yucky/roaches/index.ssf?/facts/ (about cockroaches!)
http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/facts.htm
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/media/world/amfacts/
http://www.coopsjokes.com/amz/amzindex.htm
http://public-library.calgary.ab.ca/wrg/castle.htm
http://www.scv.net/~deadangl/wow2.htm
All of the above came up in a search for Amazing Facts,
great for loads of different activities.
http://englishculture.miningco.com/culture/englishculture/msubcastle.htm
A great site with all sorts of information about English
culture, from politics to paganism!
Castles
http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4051/
An information site created by kids called
“Journey through the Middle Ages”.
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/Brisas/sunda/ma/mahome.htm
Another information site about all aspects of the middle ages.
http://www.castlesontheweb.com/search/Castle_Kids/
Great site with links to most of the castle sites.
You can build a medieval castle, take a virtual tour, etc from here.
Science/Environment
http://www.terraquest.com/va/bridge/bridge.html
A site dedicated to the Antarctic. Great potential for loads
of knowledge about the environment, wildlife etc.
http://kotn.ntu.ac.uk/castle/
Kid’s Castle attractive site with lots of information in easy to read format
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/castles/enter.html
This is the virtual tour of a castle. Follow a mouse to find out
such things as how the garderobe operated, what happened
to traitors and criminals.
HISTORY
http://library.thinkquest.org/2834/
An attractively presented journey through time, from
the big bang onwards .
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/textindex.html#trebuchet
An interesting site containing info on medieval times,
Easter Island, Pharaoh’s Obelisk, among others.
STORY SITES
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/
Great kids’ site with the Grimm fairytales
ENCARTA
http://www.microsoft.com/education/lesson/tag/encarta98.asp
Lots of ideas for using Encarta in the classroom. www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/links
http://towerofenglish.tripod.com/eslsites.html
one games page
www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1979/games.html