The English Lobby

The English Maze www.englishmaze.com  is a web-based learning system for individuals and schools worldwide. It combines leading language learning theories with cutting edge technology to bring users a unique approach to learning English. With the English Maze, students can improve their pronunciation, speaking, reading, listening and writing skills. The site contains hundreds of hours of material, much of which is free.

Geosense
URL: http://www.geosense.net

An online, one-two player geography based game. Play alone or compete against an online opponent to locate cities as quickly and accurately as you can. Simple, competitive, addictive.

The Phantom Ship by Eleanor Black and Ray Sumner. Concept and page design: Andrew Pullin. The best example of task based teaching I have met.

Please take a look at a website started in San Francisco a while back. http://www.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~tolerant/

Our site aims to be a resource for bringing themes of tolerance and acceptance into
classrooms. We hope to be positive, and invite thoughtful discussion. Not heavy and preachy or
gloomy.

We've got lessons, links, student writing, and are open to more ideas and materials. For
example, I hope someday we can have a discussion list for students to use as a part of the site.
It's an on-going thing, like most web publications.

Recent world events inspired an update for the site, and we've added a 9/11 link.We're
checking old links to see if they still connect to good stuff as well.

Be in touch if you wish to get involved. Feedback is most welcome.

Cheers,
Venette  e-mail venccsf@yahoo.com

Hello fellow English teachers.

My name is Denise, and I am an English teacher in Spain. I have just started a free ESL newsletter. The first issue ( September ) was 26 pages long and I hope to keep on expanding the content ! I am also looking for teachers to share their advice, experiences, etc, of living and working in different countries with others. I would very much like to hear from people from any country. These experiences will be included in future newsletters. I am starting a Pen Pal section too, so if your students are interested in this then please let me know.

Here is a summary of the content of the September issue :

In this issue :

- Slang of the Day ( summary for August 2001 )
- World-wide Teaching Jobs
- Words of the Day and Quotes of the Day ( summary for August 2001 )
- Free worksheets
- Free lessons
- Article - Projects and Theme Packs in the English classroom.
- Article - CALL (Computer-aided language learning)
- Article - ipicturebooks Tests Variety of Business Models and Marketplaces for Children's eBooks
- Article - Unicef Project in high school.
- Special Charity Article - Looking for volunteers in China. Hope you can help.


If you would like to receive future newsletters, you can subscribe to my private mailing list. Contact me personally at deehart0@lycos.com
This is a private list and addresses are never disclosed or sold to a third party.

Please feel free to contact me at any time.

Good luck with your classes this new school year.

Bye for now.

Denise Hart

On-line English learning.

Conferences for students on the Internet using chat, audio and video

Magazines for students and teachers

Tandem learning and e-mail projects

Free English help and teaching

Lesson Plans

The Web Page Task. Materials for teachers interested in task based teaching esp. in teaching classes how to create web pages.

Dublin School Of English Grading test. Free! Test your English and receive your results by e-mail. An extensive test with good "grading questions" including verb tense, idioms, prepositions, etc. 

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/js/ck/ma-proverbs.html
Matching Quiz of Commonly-Heard Proverbs 47 sets of matching exercises with 5 questions each -- 235 proverbs.

Each time you do the quiz the order is shuffled, so the quiz can (probably)
be done more than one time without losing interest.

HyperGrammar HyperGrammar electronic grammar course at the University of Ottawa. This course covers approximately the same ground as our English department's ENG 1320 Grammar course. The content of HyperGrammar is the result of the collaborative work of the four instructors who were teaching the course in Fall 1993: Heather MacFadyen, David Megginson, Frances Peck, and Dorothy Turner. David Megginson was then responsible for editing the grammar and exercises and for converting them to SGML.

Many free English exercises including Multi Word Verbs, Grammar Exercises, Vocabulary Exercises, Find the Pairs, Matching Exercises, Centence Construction Exercises and more..

Learn2 is a very interesting site for teachers looking for relevant and interesting materials to be used for doing something with the language. The site has lots of instructions and is a great place for DIY people. Learn to tie a bowtie and repair your bicycle! "Welcome to Learn2.com, the ability utility, where you can learn the things that make life easier and/or more interesting: everything from the essentials of life to the esoteric, from practical to just plain fun. Happy learning!"

Easy English for Russians Each file represents a lesson. The higher the number - the more complex is the lesson. It is recomended you read one lesson at a time. It is up to you to choose to use other material such as dictionaries or paper - none is required. Just read it and enjoy. The encoding is KOI8. If you do not have KOI8, check out the Russification Page

Living English Living English aims to assist in the acquisition of the English language by presenting authentic language in meaningful real-life contexts. Living English utilizes a variety of study strategies which integrate the four stages of language acquisition: listening, speaking, reading, writing.

Many TESL/TEFL/TESOL Links TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links Links of Interest to Teachers of English as a Second Language. Over 1,500 Links Maintained by The Internet TESL Journal

EF English Town. Here you find a lot of activities including on-line games, chat etc.

Dave's ESL cafe This is one of the greatest site for ESL teachers and students and contains something for everyone. Here you'll find discussion boards for teachers, activities and games, Computer Assisted Language Learning, English for specific purposes, K-12, leaching-learning Materials and much more.

Karin's ESL PartyLand, an independent web site for ESL students and teachers.  There are 25 discussion forums, an interactive quiz center, lots of lesson plans and printable materials to use in class, links, and more. 

Internet TESL Journal For teachers (Articles, researchpapers, lessons plans, handouts, ideas ..) A monthly web magazine.

Pedagonet A service to locate teaching materials.

Volterre-English and French Language Resources Many resources for teaching English and French. If not my first choice (I guess Dave's ESL Cafe is) then at least very close to being my favorite web site!!!!! (July 98)

Linda Bruce's Edutainment Links Reviews and discussion of educational software

Book Link BookLink is a book distributor that specializes in ESL and multicultural books.

The Linguistic Funland The Linguistic Funland's TESL page. This site is intended to be a stepping off point for TESL/TEFL people into the wonderful chaos available on the Internet.

Visualgram, On-line education World Multi Media Education Centre for the world's normal and disabled.Sample and actual programs are available for free downloads. In the days to come they will be putting more finished lessons in the pages for free downloads.

Australian on-line teachers Web Pages of Australian ESL Teachers..

TEFL Professional Network Jobs, lessons and reviews.

John and Sarah's TEFL Pitstop The TEFL Pitstop where language teachers on the information highway can quickly drop in and load up ready to use, original printable materials. 

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily to keep up with the tremendous number of new World Wide Web sites.

ESL Links by Nicole Have a great time to discover, as a first step, what could be useful in English as a second language on the web. Everyone can find a way to use this selected material.

Resources Materials of all kinds that could be useful to teachers of English as a foreign language. You'll find activities and exercises here (for the moment, mainly from the webmaster) that you could use in your everyday work. I'll also include links to other places on the Internet where you can find similar resources.

Alice's Wonderland Study English with Karaoke in Alice's Wonderland.

TIPS' Teachers' Web ESL/EFL Department by Christopher Etchells. Good links and information.

IWA Language Centre Provide individual Webmasters and Webmaster specialists with professional networking opportunities at the chapter, regional and international levels, professional development programs, name affiliation recognized by employers worldwide, and guidelines for professional standards of practice for our profession. Joining Together: IWA is growing fast as Webmasters and Webmaster specialists around the world are joining together to make a difference in this new and exciting industry.

Claire Bradin Siskin's web site with many interesting links and also featuring "The Dark Side of the Web"

Cyber English An Internet Project by Ted Nellen "I hear and I forget - I see and I remember - I do and I understand" - Ancient Chinese Proverb & An Educational Aphorism.

CyberGuides are supplementary, web-based units of instruction centered on core works of literature. They are designed for the classroom with one online computer. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, objectives,a task and a process by which it may be completed, teach-selected web sites and a rubric. From SCORE (Schools of California).

K-12 Educational Ressources from San Diego County Office of Education. -- All rights reserved.

Merriam-Webster OnLine - the language center on the Web! Also available in text-only. The best dictionary on the web (that I have met!). Try out this word (in any other dictionary!!!!!): transducer

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/js/ Interactive Javascript Quizzes for ESL Students

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/daily/   Daily Page for ESL Students.  A new page every day which has such things as "Proverb of the Day", "Word of the Day", and "Idiom of the Day".

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/vq/ Easy Vocabulary Quizzes with Pictures. Interactive JavaScript quizzes. Good for beginners.

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/proverbs/ Common Proverbs.  Well-known short sayings presented in a quiz-like fashion.

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/slang/ Common American Slang. Slang is informal, often entertaining, language.

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/rs/ Fun with Randomly-Generated Sentences. These JavaScript pages will make sentences for you which you can study.

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/anagrams/ Everyday Vocabulary Anagrams.  These are words made by using letters of another word in a different order.

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ * The Internet TESL Journal * A monthly web journal for teachers of English as a Second Language

An elementary grammar An elementary grammar in 11 units

The Internet Grammar of English is an online course in English grammar written primarily for university undergraduates. However, we hope that it will be useful to everyone who is interested in the English language.IGE does not assume any prior knowledge of grammar.

Quizzes More than 900 self study quizzes (grammar, vocabulary, idioms, Slang..)  for learners of English

Online Grammar This grammar has been put on-line by Anthony Hughes and is available free of charge for anyone to use. However, copyright applies to the grammar and a copyright notice can be found below. The author would appreciate it if users would respect the copyright and contact him should any they want to use the grammar in any way that may infringe on the copyright.

The Blue Book of grammar and punctuation. Information and exercises

Guide to Grammar and writing. Many explanations and examples plus over 150 challenging computer-graded (cgi-based and javascript) quizzes to test your knowledge of grammar! Take the quizzes as a challenge or just for fun, or read the digital handouts listed above first. Many of the quizzes are also listed at the end of the appropriate sections. If you want to live on the wild side, try the page with the Random Quiz Generator

Click on Grammar's rocker to get a form that will allow you to submit a question about English usage or grammar. It's a good idea to check the FAQ File first to see if your question has already been answered. Answers are posted in the Grammar Logs (below) -- sometimes within hours, almost always within a day or two. Full responses are sometimes sent through e-mail or you will be notified that answers have been posted in the Grammar Logs (listed below). Questions without home-town and e-mail address might be ignored.

Grammar sucks. Nobody likes the rules of English, especially not after they've been going by "ear" rules all of their lives.  (Anybody catch the errors in that last sentence?)  Plus, in a five-week, twenty-hour class such as I facilitate for the University of Phoenix, there's basically no way to cover enough detail and repeat it often enough to make it stick in everyone's already-resistant mind. That's why teaching English grammar is such a sucky job, at least in my (self-) esteemed opinion.

English Check Your Grammar. The on-line English grammar check which helps you prepare for the entrance examinations for English ... in construction but useful ! Javascript base works properly only with Netscape 4.0 and Internet Explorer 4.0!
Vitajte. Na týchto stránkach sa môzte otestovat Vaše znalosti z anglictiny. Tieto testy sa stanú neskôr sucastou projetku "Virtuálne príjímacie skúšky", ktoré Vám pomôzu pripravit sa na vysoké školy Ekonomického zamerania. Neskôr budú k dispozíci aj prijímacie skúšky z matematiky a ekonómie.

Selingua: Selingua is a vocabulary training program with extensive built-in dictionaries -- more than 2000 words. The award-winning language education program Selingua is now also available in a Java version! You can run the Selingua applet in you web browser over the Internet, or easily install and use it over your local network - on a PC, a Macintosh, a UNIX workstation or in any other environment that supports JDK 1.1.

English Teaching and Travel Ressources. A Danish collection of links with comments. The site also has some shareware programs with descriptions.

I've used a site called Amazon Interactive with my students (not studying
tourism). It's at www.eduweb.com . I think it's meant for school children.
Basically, you have to run your own ecotourism project in the Amazon. The
students I've taught have enjoyed it (and many of those are Chinese) so I
hope it's of use.

Judith Hamilton
UK

There's one interesting site at http://www.englishpractice.com

My students found that interesting. They are of intermediate and
upper intermediate level where English is a second language to
them.

There are many activities which they can do online. 

Sandra Sambun Umpang
Intensive English Program Coordinator
Curtin University of Technology
Sarawak Campus
CDT 250, 98009 Miri
SARAWAK, MALAYSIA.

I agree with Sandra, the EnglishPractice.com has a lot of great stuff, e.g. listening exercises, grammar help, fill-in exercises, four levels of competence, English for business, testing, culture, travel .......

Kent Andersen
The Language Plaza