Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Fun

Have you seen these sites?!

http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/ - Puzzlemaker - make word searches, crosswords etc. or get your students to make them

http://www.readwritethink.org/ - Read Write Think: look in "Student Materials" - there are lots of online writing frames (e.g. for poems) as well as things to print

http://www.20q.net/ - Play 20 questions against the computer

http://www.dfilm.com/live/moviemaker.html - Dfilm: make mini movies

http://www.icons.org.uk/ - Icons of Britain: interesting cultural reading for all learners

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

For teachers

Lessons & Activities

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ - British Council teaching site: quality material, including lesson plans, activity ideas, articles about methodologies and grammar issues

http://www.onestopenglish.com/ - One Stop English - lesson activities and plans

Grammar

http://www.oup.com/elt/students/?cc=gb - OUP student sites

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/headway/ - Headway student site

http://www.englishmaze.com/main/home.html - English maze: try the "mistakes room" for common errors. There's also an "accents room" for practice listening to different English accents

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/grammar_challenge/ - BBC's weekly grammar challenge

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish/central - British Council Learn English Central: all sorts of English practice, including grammar explanations and games

Vocabulary

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ - Cambridge Online Dictionary: clear definitions and useful examples

http://thesaurus.reference.com/ - Online thesaurus

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ - Adapted news stories with vocabulary and grammar activities - new each week!

http://www.letterexpert.co.uk/ - Loads of sample letters for different situations - students can borrow whole phrases, layout etc.