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http://www.cambridge.org/venturesarcade
Online activities that support the Ventures Adult Education ESL integrated series.
Disclosure: The post author helped develop this product at Cambridge University Press. The opinions expressed here are my own and are not necessarily those of the Press. This blog is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Press.
http://www.thebobandrobshow.com/
From the website: “The Bob and Rob Show is a variety show for learning English. It’s aimed at intermediate to advanced learners of English.
“Bob and Rob live in Japan, and they both teach English at the same university.”
http://www.paulmeier.com/ipa/charts.html
From the website: “The following interactive charts of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) were designed by Eric Armstrong of York University, Toronto, Canada; and voiced by Paul Meier, of the University of Kansas, USA. They are provided as an aid to students of dialects and phonetics… Vowels, consonants, ingressives, suprasegmentals, intonation, diacritics, ejectives, implosives, diphthongs, and clicks are demonstrated… If you would prefer to own a CD-ROM of these interactive charts, you may purchase one here.”
http://msuconfuciusinstitute.org/scheduler/index.php
From the website: “This system connects tutors and students with real-time audio to provide the best in online language instruction. “
www.chinaontv.com
From the website: “ChinaOnTV.com is a U.S. based online video network, with all content presented in English. The mission of ChinaOnTV is to continually increase the public’s awareness of China’s history as well as contemporary Chinese life and achievements, in order to foster international trade, business ventures, cultural understanding, travel, peace and good will between the peoples of all nations.”
From the website: “The site has been designed with the specific goal and narrow focus of providing easy-to-use listening activities that can be used on almost any Internet connection. Of course, many more kinds of interactive listening activities, test-question types, and accents are possible, and I look forward to seeing others launching their own sites with these features in mind. In my case, I wanted to give depth, not breadth (rather than snippets of this and that), to my original concept, one reason being the large time commitment just to create one activity. “
http://english-zone.com/index.php
From the website: “English-Zone.Com is a fun site for STUDENTS who are learning English as a Second Language, or studying English in general. Here, you can learn some idioms, practice with English verbs, test your grammar, check out the fun stuff page, write a silly story, or visit links to other English sites!
“This is also a useful site for TEACHERS. English-Zone.Com has a Teacher’s Zone filled with ready-to-print materials usable for ESL teaching guides, worksheets, handouts, or quizzes. There are dozens of links to other sites for teachers as well.”
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
From the website: “All of these current events and business English lesson plans contain a news article, listening (MP3 file), podcast, communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises. Classroom handouts are reproducible in Word and PDF. SPELLING: This site uses the American English spelling system.”
From the website: “Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL). This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers.”