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Secondary ESOL Links
Online Grammar
- BBC - Skillswise - Games
Skillwise has put all their literacy and numeracy games together in one place.
- Grammatical Knowledge for Teachers
A series of modules for teachers to build traditional grammatical knowledge (the UK National Literacy Strategy).
- LearnEnglish
A British Council site. It offers opportunities to learn and practise English online. It is aimed at the intermediate learner.
- Aardvark's English Forum
Comprehensive portal with resources for students and teachers.
- Big Dog's Grammar
Simple, entertaining explanations and exercises to reinforce basic grammatical concepts, especially about sentence structure.
- Blue Pencil Online
Interactive activities for testing grammar and punctuation skills with guidelines, hints and feedback (Macromedia Flash 5.0).
- The Clause
An exercise that helps clarify the difference between an independent and a dependent clause.
- Color Coded Parts of Speech
Kinesthetic group tasks focusing on parts of speech.
- Dave's ESL Café
A popular site with news updates, forums for students and teachers, a graffiti wall, an ideas page for teachers, an on-line help centre for students and much more.
- English as a Second Language
Rong-Chang Li's links - such as Listening, Reading, Pronunciation, Writing, Grammar, Lesson Plans and Games.
- The English Grammar Website
Traditional grammar focusing on exercises to identify parts of speech and relationships within sentences.
- ESL Center
Kathy Chareonsup's ESL Center is a collection of links.
- Everyday Routines
An activity focusing on the present tense and its use for talking about everyday activities. (The ESL Wonderland).
- Exercises that Help to Build up Confidence During Exam Time
Practical activites that encourage critical thinking from Davis and Rinvolucri (Humanising Language Teaching online journal).
- Food Hygiene
Focus on learning both content and language associated with food hygiene. Matching sentences, definitions, spelling and punctuation.
- Glossary of English Grammar Terms - A - Z
From the Using English website, a cross-referenced English glossary of linguistic and grammatical terms.
- Glossary of English Phrasal Verbs
From the Using English website.
- Grammar Monster
Grammar Monster uses real-life examples to explain traditional grammar points. It includes a comprehensive glossary of grammatical terms.
- Grammar Safari
The activities here are suggestions for 'hunting' and 'collecting' examples of specific words used in authentic communication in documents on the Internet. Suitable for independent study by motivated students.
- Grammar Workout Menu
This is an interactive site for teaching sentence construction techniques. For advanced students.
- Guide to Grammar and Style
A comprehensive grammar guide for academic writing created by Jack Lynch.
- HyperGrammar
An electronic traditional grammar course developed at the University of Ottawa's Writing Centre.
- KS 3 Grammar
From the UK, this is a tutorial in grammar for teachers of English at Years 7, 8 and 9. It explains all technical ideas and terms, and makes some suggestions for using them in teaching, and especially in the teaching of writing.
- The Language Menu
Site includes tools for teachers to generate their own resources, and multilingual interactive language exercises for students. Free site although you need to register.
- Larry Ferlazzo's English Learning Links
Favourite links from an enthusiastic teacher.
- List of English Irregular Verbs
A list of 280 different irregular verbs complete with definitions.From the Using English website.
- My Own Resources
An extensive site with exercises at the word and sentence level.
- Pronoun Reference
An exercise to help students recognise loose reference.
- Punctuate This!
From the Eats, Shoots and Leaves site, a quick test of your punctuation skills.
- Self-Study Idiom Quizzes
From the Internet TESL Journal.
- Sentence Construction
Fact sheets, worksheets, and games on sentence construction and how to combine sentences. (BBC Skillswise)
- Sentence Construction Game
You must jump on the correct logs to complete the sentence and get Bryan the beaver safely to the other side. This game has sound. (BBC Skillswise Words)
- Skillswise: Words: Grammar (BBC)
Practice in making sentences, putting sentences together, writing instructions, double negatives and much more.
- Skillswise: Words: Spelling (BBC)
Learn about prefixes, suffixes, root words, letter patterns and much more.
- UsingEnglish.com - Learning English (ESL) Online
Traditional grammar based language learning resources for students and teachers.
- Wacky Web Tales
Students supply individual words and the programme creates a wacky story using the words. Includes a focus on parts of speech.
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