English for Specific Purposes World ISSN 1682-3257

ESL / EFL

http://www.britishcouncil.org.hk/english/eltsites.htm
18 pages of links including teacher resources, student resources
and authentic materials compiled by the British Council in Hong Kong.
Includes, magazines such as GQ, Cosmopolitan, search engines, lesson
plans, quizzes and Usenet and discussion lists.

http://www.english-forum.com/teaching.html
A comprehensive list of links - 17 pages in total, including lesson plans, teaching organisations, jobs, online exercises and instant lessons.

http://member.aol.com/eslkathy/esl.htm
The ESL Centre's links, 7 pages of exercises for pronunciation, listening, vocabulary, games and news.

http://eleaston.com/index.html
A very comprehensive site of links including tons of authentic material, resources, lesson plans and information.

http://members.tripod.com/~towerofenglish/
Site for English learners, with plenty of
links to other sites

Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias

The Longman online interactive dictionary
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Search four Cambridge University Press dictionaries on line.

http://www.dictionary.com/
Offers many different dictionaries and directories including a multitude
of languages, Roget's Thesaurus, and language discussion forums.

http://www.microsoft.com/education/lesson/tag/encarta98.asp
Ideas for using Encarta in the classroom.

http://www.voycabulary.com/
A desktop dictionary that can be used to check the meaning of words
whilst surfing the Net in many different languages.

Grammar

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/welcome_english.html
The British Council UK's offering of activities for children, teens and
adults at a range of levels, including games, poems, and grammar.

http://www.fis.edu/eslweb/esl/grammar/index.htm
Slightly less boring than average for a grammar site! Useful
multi-choice
and gap-fills with rules and explanations for each exercise.

http://members.home.net/englishzone/
Loads of activities for all sorts of grammar, vocabulary, idioms, jokes,

hours of self-access material for students and activities for teachers.

http://www.englishclub.net/homework/index.htm
More gap-fills and exercises for various grammar points.

http://www.english-forum.com/interactive/
A mix of grammar, vocabulary and idioms for a range of levels.

http://www.educationalsoftware.co.uk/
Includes grammar page, downloads of EFL games, tips for teachers, easy
to
move around and use, especially useful for self-access.

http://www.englishclub.net/homework/index.htm
Simple activities for intermediate levels.

http://www.members.home.net/englishzone/
Good for jokes and idioms as well as the usual grammar and vocabulary -
to intermediate level.

General Interest

http://www.thegoodbookguide.com/
Book store and lots of reviews.

http://www.itools.com/research-it/
A one-stop reference desk including dictionary, geography, foreign
exchange.

http://home.about.com/aboutuk/index.htm
A U.S.-based mine of information on British culture. Go to about.com forthousands of other possibilities

News

http://www.consortia.nhsweb.nhs.uk/Newspap3.htm
Links for British newspapers.

http://www.thepaperboy.co.uk/
Links for newspapers from all over the world.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml
A comprehensive site for teachers and students offering on-line courses,
an e-mail discussion forum, and news stories section.

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk
Probably the most useful and user-friendly newspaper site, with a searchfacility so that you can find articles on, say, Venezuela at the touch of a button.

Projects

http://zebu.cvm.msu.edu/~dawsonbr/welcome.htm
a collection of animal trivia.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/media/world/amfacts/
Natural history trivia.

http://www.coopsjokes.com/amz/amzindex.htm
General trivia from Bill Gates to Spam.

http://englishculture.miningco.com/culture/englishculture/msubcastle.htm
A great site with all sorts of information about English culture, from
politics to paganism!

http://library.thinkquest.org/2834/
Travel through time with Dr Klaus (in a yellow and pink Morris Minor)
from the big bang onwards.

Puzzles & Games

http://www.kidcrosswords.com/
Just as it says . . .and other puzzles too

http://www.puzzlemaker.com/
Every kind of puzzle you can imagine

http://www.manythings.org/
Random collection of activities and puzzles

Skills

http://www.hio.ft.hanze.nl/thar/listen.htm
Excellent listening exercises in real-audio with activities.

http://tqjunior.advanced.org/5115/s_writing.htm
This site gives all the stages for effective writing.

http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5115/s_writing.htm
Help with story writing

http://www.hio.ft.hanze.nl/thar/listen.htm
Various activities to practice all skills, excellent site.

Songs

http://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/nov/music.htm
An excellent site with links and suggestions for using music and songs
in class. A very lively and usable site.

http://www.kissthisguy.com/
An amusing site devoted to misheard song lyrics.

http://www.lyrics.com
Learn the words to your favourite songs.

Story Sites

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/
Great kids' site with the Grimm fairytales

http://www.storyarts.org/classroom/index.html
Includes lesson plans and methodology and a great story library.

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/kid_frame.html
Listen to and read stories and poems by young learners.

Teacher Resources

http://www.english-forum.com/
A good variety of resources and research tools.

http://www.eduplace.com/main.html
Resources for English as well as maths, science, social studies.
Includes sites for students too.

http://www.english-to-go.com/
Reuters provides online news. A, free lesson every week, but you need
to subscribe to receive endless lessons.

http://www.tesol.com/
Enter the English Zone for everything from reference material to
resources to chat.

http://iteslj.org/links/
Very comprehensive site of links from planning lessons, to web
authoring.

http://www.etanewsletter.com/index.shtml
Lesson resources and articles.

http://www.homestead.com/ESLflow/Index.html
A very comprehensive site pitched at 3 levels elementary,
pre-intermediate and intermediate.

http://www.smic.be/smic5022/teacherhandouts.htm
Worksheets can be copied into word for use in class, includes
vocabulary, grammar and dictation at intermediate level and above.

http://www.eslnotes.com/
Lessons for the movies, - include a plot summary, a list of characters,
a glossary of vocabulary and various cultural references and questions for
ESL class discussion (just hope you can get a hold of the video!)

http://esl.about.com/homework/esl/mbody.htm
Very big resource for everything from grammar, TOEFL to clipart.

Young Learners & Teenagers

Search Engines

http://www.yahooligans.com/
A search engine that provides for "safe surfing".

Teens

http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/kotn/gokids.htm
Kids on the Net site - cool site with all sorts of links and ideas

http://kids.mysterynet.com/
Stories to read and mysteries to solve, as well as scary stories and
magic tricks!

http://www.thenewspaper.org.uk/news/index.php3
An online newspaper featuring sports, news, and music for teens.

http://www.homeworkhigh.com/english/frame.html
Answers all you problems with grammar, - send an email and wait for the
answer. Also has help with other school subjects.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/lookandread/lar/index.htm
Produced by the BBC, can you help to catch the spies during World War 2? Reading, Listening and grammar activities, a very attractive and
exciting site.

Young Ones

http://www.toweroflondontour.com/kids/kidsquiz.html
Quizzes and activities.

http://members.home.com/veeceet/index.html
Nursery rhymes and songs for kids.

http://www.alfy.com/
Excellent educational site for young kids with stories, theme-related
activities, great potential once you know what's on there.

http://www.billibear.com
Billi Bear's kids site. Just a small page which can be used alone or
with
the Muzzy series of books and videos.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/wordsandpictures/phonics.shtml
The BBC phonics page.

http://www.askmytutor.co.uk/
On line help, advice, cartoons, and idioms.

http://esl.about.com/library/lessons/bl_younglearners_dictation.htm
Aims to improve spelling through musical dictation.

http://allaboutfrogs.org/froglnd.shtml
Games, puzzles and facts all about frogs.

http://www.teflfarm.com/index.html
A nice site for resources for young learners (but is intended for native speakers), has stories, poems and quizzes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/lab/quiz/quiz1a.htm
General knowledge quizzes. Get "splatted" when you answer incorrectly. (Requires Shockwave).

http://syndicate.com/
Entertaining collection of puzzles, comic strips, words games and more.

http://funbrain.com/
Fun and challenging on line games for kids, including Maths Baseball,
Change
Maker, Fun Match, Spell Check and Wacky Tales.

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/index.html
Wacky Web Tales students can create their own stories by filling in the
blanks to You and Harry Potter, The Mummy, The Camping Trip, The Box,
and other thrilling stories.

http://www.ncrtec.org/tools/camp/lessons.htm
A picture warehouse, contains pictures of anything and everything.
Also gives lesson plans and helpful advice as to incorporating pictures in
your lessons.

http://www.preschoolrainbow.org
Resource of rhymes and activities for use with young ones.

Even more miscelaneous