English Teacher Websites

English teacher Websites

ENGLISH LISTENING

ESL English as 2nd Language, http://esl.about.com/cs/listening listening quizzes, interviews, specific English learning listening resources for teachers. In addition, some links are categorized based on the target students’ language proficiency.

Literacynet Learning Resources, http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf - provides current and past CNN San Francisco bureau news stories for teachers to teach English listening. Each story has its own full text, following activities, and short video clips for English teachers to use in class.

Real English: ESL for Everyone, http://www.real-english.com Contains forty-nine units. In addition, each unit has its own language focus, video clips, and exercises for English teachers to use for improving their students’ listening.

Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab, http://www.esl-lab.com Detailed exercises for English teachers to teach listening. Each story has its own script and audio aid.

Eviews, http://www.eviews.net - classroom lessons and recorded interviews on this website. Interviews cover a wide range of English accents and subject material that aim to provide teachers authentic material to teach students English listening.

ENGLISH SPEAKING

English Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom, http://iteslj.org/questions - Teachers can find plenty of conversation questions that they can use to teach their students speaking.

English Learning and Teaching Site, http://engsite.ncu.edu.tw/ demonstrates how vowels are pronounced differently. It also provides words, sentences, poems and songs that contain two slightly different sounds for teachers to use as practicing material.

ENGLISH READING

English Teaching/Learning Materials, http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/material.htm - This website provides teachers reading material of American holidays. Furthermore, each holiday contains several post-reading activities for teachers to check their students’ comprehension.

WorldNews Network, http://www.wn.com A useful website includes news around the world. Teachers can choose different news based on the regions or the topics that their students are interested in.

ENGLISH WRITING

1-language.com:, http://www.1-language.com/eslwriting/index.htm A lot of writing topics that cover a wide range of interests are listed on this website. In addition, each topic has its own prompt for teachers to facilitate students’ writing.

OWL Online Writing Lab, http://owl.english.purdue.edu/lab/teachers descriptions for teachers to know how they can use this online writing lab designed by Purdue University in their own classroom. It also provides a lot of useful writing resources for teachers.

ENGLISH LEARNING VIDEOS

Sozoexchange
http://www.sozoexchange.com/
The English learning site where professional adults can learn English and exchange knowledge for free. Anyone can download video lessons, and we also offer additional study materials such as complete transcripts of the video lessons, audio exercises, and study guides—all are available free of charge!

RESOURCES AND INFORMATION FOR TEACHERS OF ENGLISH!!!

http://Inforteach.com
Information for teachers of English. Database of CPD courses. Grundtvig and Comenius funding available. Teachers of English in-service training courses in UK, IRELAND and Malta. Many different courses from well known and highly acclaimed providers.
Links and tips for all.

Wikispaces for Educators
http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers
Complete and a good resource for English teachers

Teachers 2.0
http://teachers20.com
User submitted resources for techy teachers.
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