Here’s a list of some of the Web resources for students and teachers of English. These links will lead to variety of original resources and activities. They will also point you to other materials for ESL students to examine: news articles, comics, museums, jokes, movie scripts!
http://www.njcu.edu/cill/journal-index.html -- a creative and inspiring on-line journal
http://www.esl-lounge.com -- song lyrics and games for classroom use
http://www.edvista.com/claire/internet-esl.html -- An interesting list of links
www.mediaed.org - American culture DVDs and downloads
www.onestopenglish.com - Daily lesson plans
www.loc.gov – Library of Congress “American Memory” has amazing multimedia primary sources; also contains many lesson plan ideas
www.cal.org/ericcll/ncbe/esldirectory/-- online directory of ESL resources
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/elp/elplibrary/ProfMisc.html -- lots of links
www.gradekeeper.com -- Gradebook software that lets you print out individual student reports.
www.favoritepoem.org --The Favorite Poem Project – With videos of people reading their favorite poems
www.npr.org -- National Public Radio (Try a search for “Paul Auster.”)
Google “web quest” = Type topic + “web quest” in Google's search engine for a list of guided quests for students.
http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/ Voice of America Special English
http://www.manythings.org/voa/voa.htm Claims to be a faster-loading page for Voice of America Special English -- has other links as well
http://www.jalt.org/ The Japan Association for Language Teaching
www.mediaed.org Great study guides and culture resources
http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/info/setup.html -- Create your own quizzes and store them on-line
Sites for Students
Grammar/Writing/Vocabulary
www.bedfordstmartins.com/exercisecentral -- many self-checking grammar exercises
http://a4esl.org/ -- over 1,000 quizzes, exercises, and puzzles to help students
www.testmagic.com esp. for advanced grammar
www.owl.english.purdue.edu esp. for writing
www.writing.colostate.edu esp. for plagiarism
www.longman.com/ae/ldae – English dictionary practice (has teacher resources, too)
www.longmanwebdict.com – Free online Longman Dictionary of American English
www.dictionary.cambridge.org/default.asp?dict=a -- a traditional dictionary, an idiom dictionary, a phrasal verb dictionary and more
www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6720/ -- The Idiom Connection –explanations and online quizzes
dianahacker.com/writersref/ --Diana Hacker's Writer's Reference – includes on-line, self-checking grammar exercises that can be emailed to an instructor
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/research/awl/index.html -- Academic Word List
Research
www.easybib.com -- automatically formats your bibliography
www.bedfordstmartins.com/english_research/research_room. html -- The English Research Room -- lots of tutorials and links to good sources
www.noodletools.com/noodlequest -- a helpful search engine
www.ipl.org/div/subject/ -- the Internet Public Library -- a huge resource!
www.ipl.org/div/news the Internet Public Library's newspaper page -- many countries represented
www.whitehouse.gov -- Learn more about American government!
http://www.house.gov/writerep -- Find and write to your representative in the U.S. House of Representatives.
www.senate.gov -- Find and write to your senators.
Scholarship/Budgeting Tips/Comparison Shopping
http://www.usafunds.org/Borrowers/Access_to_Education_Scholarship.html Need-based scholarship fund $1500/year, renewable for 4 years
www.freestuffpage.com/frugal/content/budgetstudents.htm -- budgeting tips and worksheets for students
www.bankrate.com/brm/news/special/20030808a1.asp -- lots of money-saving tips for college students
www.californiaaggie.com/_articles/2787.taf -- A student gives advice on saving money.
webhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh/NOT13TH/not13th.htm -- Not the Thirteen Grade! -- great tips for college success
www.bestbookbuys.com -- compares many online stores
www.mysimon.com -- an online shopping bot
www.half.com -- inexpensive
Miscellaneous
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm -- country profiles
www.uebersetzung.at/twister -- tongue twisters around the world
www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/animals.htm -- animal sounds in many languages
www.phillyfunguide.com -- schedule and half-price tickets to area events
http://www.theholidayzone.com/ -- American holiday info for the classroom
www.epicurious.com – All kinds of recipes (with ratings)
TV shows and movies
http://www.geocities.com/tvtranscripts/links.htm#sein
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/index.html
http://www.snpp.com/episodes.html
www.allmovie.com -- comprehensive glossary of movie terminology; a "movie map" that gives a timeline and information about movies in all genres. An interesting site with lots of information that can be used in a variety of ESL activities with a "movie" theme.
www.script-o-rama.com -- gives complete and partial movie scripts for a huge variety of movies - great authentic reading, or to use in conjunction with watching video segments.
Karin’s ESL Partyland Teaching Grammar http://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/nov/grammar.htm
Idaho State University Center Learning Strategies http://www.isu.edu/ctl/learnstrat/handouts/readingstrategies.html
Teaching Today http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/tiparchive.phtml/7
Reading strategies and techniques for better comprehension http://mdmd.essortment.com/readstrategies_pdk.htm
Learning to Read http://www.toread.com/
Interesting Things for ESL Students http://www.manythings.org/
English Club http://www.englishclub.com/
Ohio ESL http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/index.html
ESL/EFL Practice http://www.musicalenglishlessons.com/index-ex.htm
About ESL http://esl.about.com/cs/vocabulary/
Boggles’s World Jobs, Worksheets, and Flashcards for the ESL and TEFL Teacher. http://bogglesworld.com/
Heinle and Heinle http://www.heinle.com/esl_d/
Cambridge University Press http://www.cup.org/
English Through Films http://ec.hku.hk/vec/film/default.htm
Internet Movie Database http://us.imdb.com/
English Grammar Links for ESL Students http://userpages.umbc.edu/~kpokoy1/grammar1.htm
Dave’s ESL Café Quizzes http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/