Links:
English Teachers in Germany founded by John Sydes (a very interesting bulletin board with advice about teaching and a lot of interesting links). http://elt.yuku.com/
Dave’s ESL Café (a bulletin board for TEFL teachers): http://www.eslcafe.com/
The Guardian portal for TEFL teachers: http://education.guardian.co.uk/tefl/teaching/0,15143,1305756,00.html
Other sites of interest to English Teachers:
Methodology and Didactic information
A site where you can upload, store and share files. You can create RSS feed from your public folders. A great tool for exchanging files with students. www.box.net
Make your long internet addresses shorter with: http://tinyurl.com/
Create your own online list of links for your students: http://del.icio.us
Make a map for your own web community. The members can insert a picture and you can see where everyone is. http://www.frappr.com
Create online voice message community with http://www.yackpack.com/
Make a simple webpage with this easy-to-use tool http://www.protopage.com
This site can facilitate the creation of an online course for your students: http://www.dokeos.com/
Create an online list of Citations at http://www.citeulike.org/
Try using podcasts in your class. Two excellent sites to start with are: http://www.abc.net.au/services/podcasting/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/default.stm
The best programm to get podcasts of the internet with is Apple ITunes: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Methodology and Didactic information:
One of the best sites on the internet is the Macmillan publisher’s web resource with hundreds of lessons and lots of invaluable advice and free methodology e-books. www.onestopenglish.com (requires registration for the free resources link)
The BBC web site for teachers. There are a lot of ideas for and also information on methodology including some free e-books. http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
Check out the British Council Website for interesting methodology tips for TEFL. Download the British Council Language Assistant Resource Book by Clair Lavery http://www.britishcouncil.org/languageassistant
A private site with interesting learning materials and links to methodology themes http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/index.html
This is an interesting source of information about teaching, with a very good list of published TEFL materials and also links to other sites. http://www.englishforum.com
Interesting facts about TEFL and advise about qualifications, grammar and pronunciation: http://www.languagelink.ru/e/tefl.php
Interesting site about the English language: World Wide Words by Michael Quinion, http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm
The Thinking Approach (TA) to language teaching aims at an integrated development of both language and thinking skills of learners. The TA project is concerned with the development of educational technologies necessary for this kind of teaching and mechanisms of implementing these technologies with various groups of learners. http://www.thinking-approach.org
Teaching Unplugged. Walking into a classroom without being burdened by a lot of materials. A project created by Scott Thornbury author of “Uncovering Grammar” http://www.teaching-unplugged.com/ There is also a Yahoo online community connected to this project. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dogme/
A very humorous controversial look at the English Language Teaching profession (not for everyone): http://www.englishdroid.com/
TEFL websites and magazines:
An internet portal of information about TEFL including lesson plans: http://www.tefl.net/
An Internet Journal for TEFL with interesting methodology articles and lesson plans: http://iteslj.org
This is the website of a printed magazine, but it has a great archive of articles: http://www.eslmag.com/
Humanising Language Teaching: http://www.hltmag.co.uk/
The leading practical magazine for English language teachers worldwide: English Teaching Professional: http://www.etprofessional.com/
http://www.eng.helsinki.fi/hes : An online journal.
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/eese.html : Erfurt Electronic Studies in English. "EESE concentrates on English literature and linguistics, but has articles of interest to anyone in this broader field. The current issue 2005 for ex. has a long piece on multiculturalism: "Not just looking at everything through one set of filters": An Interview with Sue Caro, Senior Manager at the BBC Diversity Centre."
A good place to start is the wonderful list of links put together by Juergen Wagner http://www.wagner-juergen.de/englisch/
A classic teacher's website: Macmillan publisher’s web resource with hundreds of lessons. www.onestopenglish.com
Do you need Conversation Materials? Here is a comprehensive list of interesting conversation questions from the Internet TESL Journal. http://iteslj.org/questions/. There are also lessons avaliable http://iteslj.org/Lessons/
Free lessons compiled by Sean Banville. All lessons are based on stories currently in the news. As the world's news breaks, teach it. Each lesson contains a news article, communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises. All lessons are also downloadable in Word.doc and PDF formats. Teachers can easily copy and paste the parts of the lessons they want to use. http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
If you are interested in creating debates in the classroom, then check out this debating topic database. You can search for a theme and get the pros and cons. http://www.debatabase.com/
Clip art for lesson plans to enhance boring work sheets. http://www.caslt.org/research/clipartanimal2.htm
Lesson plans for TEFL teachers. Themes connected to the internet, music and film. http://www.englishdatabase.com/
ESL go is a free English community of ESL students and ESL teachers. We help ESL students learning English as a second language through free ESL classes and free English practice message boards. ESL go.com also provides free teaching ESL activities for TESOL, TESL, and TEFL. http://www.eslgo.com/resources.html
Free English grammar worksheets and printable handouts, for English language and English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers and instructors to use in the classroom or other teaching environment. http://www.usingenglish.com/teachers.php
A site for TEFL teacher and students. Grammar, lessons and Vocabulary exercises: http://www.englishclub.com/index.htm
Lots of interesting lesson plans at different levels (requires free registration): http://www.englishmaterials.com
There are also interesting lesson plans available at a variety of levels (requires free registration): http://www.English-4u.com
Lessons from the Macmillan “Inside out” series: http://www.insideout.net/warehouse.htm
Lessons from the Macmillan “Reward-English” series: http://www.reward-english.com/warehouse.htm
Lessons from the Macmillan “Business English” series: http://www.businessenglishonline.net/e-lessons/index.htm
Lessons from the Macmillan “Move Ahead” series: http://www.moveahead-english.com/resourcesteachers_ele.htm
A web site for developing teachers: Includes some lesson plans: http://www.developingteachers.com/
Lesson plans, language cards and exercises: www.bogglesworld.com
A good learner’s site that also has resources for teachers of English. http://www.englishlearner.com/teachers/index.html
An excellent site powered by REUTERS that has over 1500 items at 5 different levels, BUT YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR THEM (samples are free): http://www.english-to-go.com
Free ESL lesson materials and ESL lesson plans. Printable worksheets for ESL classroom teaching. English grammar, pronunciation, board games, esl books, flashcards, board games, song lyrics and more. http://www.esl-lounge.com
You can download printable quiz material and there is a link for students. http://www.usingenglish.com/teachers.php
A site with a small quantity of worksheets: http://english.specialist.hu/
An internet portal with lots of links useful to teachers (this site includes a wide range of links to other web resources). www.world-english.org
An internet portal with lots of links to materials like quotes and jokes (diverse Content): http://www.anglik.net
Crosswords and Vocabulary games:
http://www.vocabulary.co.il
Radio (Audio files):
Voice of America: “Special English” section has mp3 files of news that are read slowly. The texts of these files are also available on the web site. Works with Microsoft Media Player: http://www1.voanews.com
BBC World Service: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ You can listen and read news stories from England. You will need to download the RealOne Player OR Real Alternative: http://www.free-codecs.com/Real_Alternative_download.htm
Make you own audio files. An application that runs inside a web page (called an activex or COM object). This web based application will make compressed .wav files that you can save on your own computer http://www.actasif.com/saveawave/
This is a great way of learning vocabulary, as you can record a word or phrase, leave a space to repeat, and then record the meaning in your own language.
Dictionaries:
Look up a word in Encarta http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryHome.aspx
Online English-German Dictionaries: http://www.leo.org
http://www.dict.cc/?l=d
http://odge.de/
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/
Online English-English from Cambridge Advanced learners: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Merriam Webster Dictionary http://www.merriam-webster.com/
Speaking Dictionary: http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryHome.aspx
Online dictionaries in all languages: http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.html
Catalogue of Slang: http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/k.htm
Rhyming Dictionary http://rhyme.poetry.com/ http://www.rhymer.com/
Law Dictionary: http://dictionary.law.com/
DICT.org (online database of words) http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict
Roget's Thesaurus: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
Quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/
http://www.coolquotes.com/
A Great Search Engine that can also search quotes: http://www.maridadi.com/
Banished Words List: http://www.lssu.edu/banished/
Business English glossary: http://www.finance-glossary.com/pages/home.htm
Phrases: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/e-1.html
Corpus searches:
Online Cobuild Corpus sampler: http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx
Webcorp (the Web as corpus). You can see all the combinations of words on the WWW. http://www.webcorp.org.uk/
Word Corpus called “Just the word” shows lexical combinations of words (Very useful): http://193.133.140.102/JustTheWord/index.html
BNC database and word frequency lists by Adam Kilgarriff: http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/~Adam.Kilgarriff/bnc-readme.html
Oxford 3000 most important words
for word frequency information http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/projectsindex.html
The Compleat Lexical Tutor: http://132.208.224.131/
Vocab Profile: http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r21270/cgi-bin/webfreqs/web_vp.cgi
Webcorp (the Web as corpus: http://www.webcorp.org.uk/
Virtual Libraries:
The WWW Virtual Library: http://vlib.org/
The directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/
The Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/
The electronic library (subscription, but free web search) http://www.highbeam.com
Classics at the Online Literature Library (complete books) http://www.literature.org/
Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts) on the Internet. Our collection of more than 13.000 eBooks was produced by hundreds of volunteers. Most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use http://www.gutenberg.org/
A great selection of 17,000 online books http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Great books online, fiction and non-fiction books, http://www.bartleby.com/
This site is here to try to bring real books to people through the Internet. http://www.literature.org/
Free pdf story books: http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp?CurrentPage=1
Cliff Notes has a lot of content for free if you are looking for notes and summaries of books: http://www.cliffsnotes.com
Other lists of Links:
An excellent list of categorised links for teachers and students (The best of its kind in my opinion). Compiled by Jürgen Wagner, Landesinstitut für Pädagogik & Medien, Saarbrücken: http://www.wagner-juergen.de/englisch/ (German).
This is an internet site with materials for teaching and learning. It operates like a list of web links that are very well structured and brilliantly presented. http://www.eleaston.com/
Kurt Sester’s Internetadressen für den Englischunterricht: http://www.sester-online.de/
A long list of sites: http://sitesforteachers/index.html
Quite a lot of interesting sites and well worth looking at: http://www.englishforum.com
A list of interesting links from the web site English for academic purposes: http://www.uefap.co.uk/links/linkfram.htm
An interactive list compiled with php: http://englishwebguide.com/
A very useful list of links from the British Council Website: http://www.britishcouncil.org/languageassistant-arc-weblinks.htm
Sites for Teachers: http://sitesforteachers.com/index.html
There are a lot of links organised into different categories: http://members.tripod.com/simonmgill/index.html
This is a brilliant selection of ELT links from David Eastment: http://www.eastment.com/links.html
TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links. From the TESL Journal (This is a very useful set of links and materials for TEFL teachers): http://iteslj.org/links/
The Linguist Links has a long list of categorised links: http://linguistlist.org/sp/LangLearnESL.html
http://www.lernen-mit-spass.ch/links/englisch.php
Examples of Simple Business Letters: http://www.4hb.com/letters/index.html
Pronunciation: http://www.soundsofenglish.org/
Songs: http://www.lyrics.com
Guide to writing Essays: http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay/
English For Academic Purposes: http://www.uefap.co.uk/
Free learning Software: http://www.hamburg-english.de/fsw.htm
Interesting fact sheets on intercultural differences: http://www.communicaid.com/culture_country.asp
http://www.siu.edu/~cesl/teachers/get/around.html : ESL/EFL Directory of Resources for teahcers (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale). Includes a link to 7000 references to vocabulary acquisition.
http://www.topics-mag.com/index.html : Sandy Peters' An Online Magazine for learners of English.
http://www.tesolislamia.org : Concerned with TESOL in the Arab world.
http://www.nationjunior.com : Thailand. THE NATION JUNIOR. The learners’ spin-off of the Bangkok daily