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							Useful Websites for Teaching Materials and Lesson Plans

ESL Flow: Very useful site with a simple and effective way of navigating to the materials
you want. Lots of links, handouts, lessons and worksheets on everything from icebreakers ,
brainstorming, role plays to real-situation English. www.eslflow.com


Teaching English: Practical resources for teaching materials, activities, and lesson plans
with a theoretical archive where you can read about teaching ideas and techniques.
www.teachingEnglish.org.uk


Adult Education ESL Teachers Guide: A website established by the Adult Education
Centre, Texas A&I University with lesson ideas for illiterate, beginner and intermediate
students.
http://humanities.by u.edu/e lc/Teacher/TeacherGuide Main.html


Dave’s ESL Café : The renowned ESL Cafe site by Dave Spelling. Chat rooms, teacher's
forums, lesson plans and ideas, student pages, grammar practice etc. Comprehensive, well-
organised and easy to find your way round. www.eslca fe.com/


English-at-home.com: A user-friendly website with easy to use materials, including
vocabulary, grammar, functions and structures for real life English. www.e nglish-at-
home.com/


English as 2nd Language: Resources for students at different English levels: beginning,
intermediate, and advanced, and exercises aiming different skills: listening, reading,
speaking, or writing. http://esl.about.com/od/englishlessonplans/

TEFl.net: A comprehensive site providing free topic-based/skill-based/discussion-based
lesson plans. www.tefl.net/lessonplans/index.htm

Pronunciation: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.ht ml

Behind the Ne ws: Teaching notes and handy ideas to use with the popular ABC TV series.
www.abc k.net.au/tv/btn


Breaking Ne ws English: Provides international current events lesson plans in "easier" and
"harder" versions. Each lesson comes w ith activities for before, during, and after reading, as
well as vocabulary and other support activities.
http://www.breakingne wsenglish.com/


ESL Lounge: ESL lesson plans and materials that can be used for communicative English
lessons. The majority of resources are geared towards getting students to talk. www.esl-
lounge.com/siteguidetop.shtml
Reference Tools


Dictionary.com: On line dictionary. http://dictiona ry.refe rence.com/

Encyclopedia Britannica: Comprehensive reference site. www. britannica.com

Lone ly Planet: Background information about the countries in the world, including culture
& history, people & society, etc. www. lonelyplanet.com.au




Useful Websites for Quizzes and Exercises


Better English: Free online exercises in grammar, vocabulary, Business English, Human
Resources English, and other aspects of English. http://www.bette r-english.com/


English Language Liste ning Lab Online: A variety of audio clips of English native
speakers and interactive learning activities. Listening activities come with transcripts,
quizzes, pictures, and audio that can be downloaded . http://www.elllo.org/

English Listening Lounge: free listening materials available for beginner, intermediate and
advanced levels. www.e nglishlistening.com

Randall’s Websites: Comprehensive and practical listening materials and activities,
emphasising practising different aspects of spoken English. Note that the site is American.

      Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening La b: Listening quizzes from easy to for academic
       purposes. www.esl-lab.com

      Train Your Accent: To improve accent and rhythms in English with a comparison of
       actual transcription and reduced speech. www.trainyouraccent.com

      EZ Slang: To help understand and develop more natural conversational skills.
       www.ezslang.com

      Study Abroad: Materials and activities covering issues ESL students are concerne d
       about,  e.g. cultural   shock,    ESL    study    programs,    scholarships,  etc.
       www.tips4stude nts.com

      ESL Networld: To teach ESL students how to use the Internet resources as a way of
       improving language skills and a great er cultural awareness. www. networld.com

English Zone: A very comprehensive site for students, including quizzes and exercises
covering grammar, spelling, reading, writing to idioms and fun stuff, and reference
dictionaries of idioms, phrasal verbs, and proposition combinations. Membership registration
required for full access. www.e nglish-zone.com

Handouts Online: a wide range of selection of free English worksheets for st udents of
different levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. www. handoutsonline.com