For many ESL students Wikipedia is a frustrating experience. Teachers often spend a lot of time providing explanations of vocabulary and cultural issues. Simple Wikipedia is an option for a place to take your students at the intermediate levels.
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Visuwords for discovering word relationships
Learn the nuances of words through word relationship diagrams you can quickly create at Visuwords. Word associations such as synonyms, homonyms, part of speech, derivation, and much more can be found by simply typing the term or phrase in the text box and pressing search icon. Visuwords draws its data from Princeton University’s open source …
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Quickly locate keywords in texts with WordSift
WordSift is a great tool to preview text to identify keywords or concepts for lesson preparation. Teachers or materials developers can identify images and videos to use with the text. Start with the video tutorial to orient yourself to this useful resource.
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Free, fully online literacy courses
This site is a must for consideration of ESL or S(Spanish)SL instructors or students who wish to have an independent learning resource. U.S.A. Learns offers full virtual courses that can be tailored by the student. There are three levels offered. Teachers should look into the course offerings before taking their students to this site. It …
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Listen A Minute
Sean Banville, thanks again! Another resource that is useful to language teachers blending technology into their courses. Listen A Minute has 454 audio tracks accompanied by learning activities sections (Gap Fill, Correct the Spelling, Unjumble the Words, Write Your Own Questions, Partner Task, Free Writing, Extended Tasks) One minute a day is all you need …
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Free ESL Games for Children
This resource has a wide assortment of interactive games and exercises for young ESL learners. The activities/games include : Snakes and Ladders, Hangman, Spelling games, Wheel of Fortune, TV Games(Betting Game), Mazes, Memory Games, Matching exercises, Sequencing exercises, Picture Quizzes and more. Games also in PowerPoint, Word templates and printable worksheets are also available at …
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A Great World History app at TimeMaps
TimeMaps is an online app/resource that allows students to explore visually history through maps and a timeline. See the features highlighted in the image below.
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Looking for ESL Podcasts?
ManyThings.org is a web site for English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. Resources include quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities.
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