http://www.englishlanguage.org.nz/tutors/resources/index.html

Tutor resoruces from English Language Partners

http://dontgiveup.eu

Don't Give Up! Is a European Union language project that has written a book of 48 best practices for every level of language educators (schools, managers, teachers). The best practices will help improve the motivation and the results of language courses for adult learners.

http://martinmcmorrow.podomatic.com/

International Student Podcast

This is a free resource aimed at helping students to develop their listening, reading, vocabulary and knowledge of academic research and New Zealand culture. There are more than 250 programmes on a wide range of topics, including science, management, history and sociology. Each programme has listening practice of about 15 minutes, together with text, photos and links on the page. In addition, there are tasks and supporting vocabulary for news reports and online interviews with local and international experts in their fields.

www.englishcoach.com.ar

This web site, of free access, was conceived by a team of English teaching professionals and graphic designers, with the aim of offering teachers material for the improvement of English Language teaching; and tools which facilitate the diffusion of the language. English Coach! offers teachers of English a diverse range of activities for various levels and age groups: support material, exercises, tests, posters, picture cards, amusing masks to colour, a collective visual dictionary, stickers and much more; all regularly updated. See FLYER.

http://www.usalearns.org/index/welcome.

This US website provides adults who have low levels of English proficiency with easily accessible and free English language training.

http://www.my-english-dictionary.com/

Learn English with Pictures and Audio (US)
This website is a free, online resource to learn English words in a fun way. The site has over 400 words and photographs, ranging from animals to kitchen appliances. Beneath each photograph, there is an audio button to click and hear the word.

www.yourenglishonline.com

Your English Online (Pascal Brown)

Themes (global, workplace, technical, business, hotel, academic, job search,
health, retail, police) with texts and quizzes at three levels.

http://www.educationworld.com/index.shtml

Aimed at US schools but contains vast numbers of warmers and useful activities.

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http://www.elllo.org/

ELLLO is a free online listening resource of over 1,000 listening activities designed especially for ESL and EFL students and teachers. Most listening activities include images, an interactive quiz, transcript of the audio and downloadable MP3.

http://www.tki.org.nz/

http://www.tki.org.nz/esolonline

http://www.tki.org.nz/e/assessment/index.php

TKI Assessment: You will find information about all aspects of assessment, including research and readings, online workshops, new assessment tools and resources.

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http://www.tki.org.nz/r/asttle/index_e.php

asTTle stands for Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning (He Punaha Aromatawai mo te Whakaako me te Ako). It is an educational resource for assessing literacy and numeracy (in both English and Maori).

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http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/

English Teaching Forum Online is a quarterly journal published by the U.S. Department of State for teachers of English as a foreign or second language.

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http://www.eric.ed.gov/

Educational Resource Information Centre

http://www.vocabulary.co.il

Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun - a vocabulary oriented site that aims to be educational, fun, simple to use and friendly.

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http://www.englishmaze.com

English Maze - Free materials and lessons.

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com

Breaking News English - Ready-to-use EFL / ESL lesson plans based on current affairs. Graded news articles, listenings and communicative activities uploaded daily.

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http://www.test-your-english-now.net/

http://www.onlinetutoringworld.com/

http://www.theconsultants-e.com/webquests/

Free resources – a WebQuest repository on a large range of topics and levels, for general English, Business English, and for teacher training.

http://nzliteracyportal.org.nz/

The New Zealand Literacy Portal is a rich source of free online information for people interested in adult literacy. It is designed to provide a knowledge base of adult literacy information contributed by both New Zealand and international organisations.

The New Zealand Literacy Portal provides access to:

• Items on topics including e-literacy, ESOL, financial literacy, health literacy, learning disabilities, literacy, numeracy and Te Reo Maori
• Practical resources for teachers and learners
• Resources for professional development
• Research reports and case studies
• Journal articles and newsletters
• Local and international events

http:// www.makebeliefscomix.com

A website where children and adults can create their own comic strips. They can select from 15 fun characters with different moods -- happy, sad, angry, worried - and write words for blank talk and thought balloons to make their characters talk and think. There also are story ideas and prompts to help users create graphic stories.

This site can be used by educators to teach language, reading and writing skills, and also for students in English-as-a-Second-Language programs to facilitate self-expression and storytelling, as well as computer literacy. It is now being used in 160 countries by educators. Some educational therapists use it with deaf and autistic people to help them understand concepts and communicate. Parents and children can create stories together, print them to create comic books or email them to friends and family. Others will find the site a resource to be creative, calm down and have fun.

http://www.dfes.gov.uk/curriculum_esol/

This interactive website is designed to enable teachers to search and explore the UK Adult ESOL curriculum, then save, store and/or print relevant sections in the notebook facility for use in learning plans, schemes of work or lesson plans. The website also features page numbers from the original document for easy reference between the electronic and paper versions.

There is coverage of the four skills, supported for impaired learning of various kinds, standards and levels, progression tables, key grammatical structures, the UK equivalent of Unit Standards, and smaple activities.

www.eslnews.org.nz

Free Listening in English

for New Zealand migrants and others who speak English as a second language

• find listening difficult
• can’t understand TV and radio news
• want to know what is happening in New Zealand
• want to feel part of New Zealand society

Listen to New Zealand news, spoken slowly and clearly, using easy vocabulary.

http://www.esl-galaxy.com/

ESL Lesson Plans , Materials & Activities

ESL Galaxy offers over 2368 free printable worksheets for ESL lesson plans and ESL Activities; and there are more additions every other day .The worksheets include: Board Games, Crosswords, Grammar worksheets, Vocabulary Worksheets, Theme or Topic lesson plans, Pronunciation, Survival English, Song and Video Activities, Word Search Puzzles, Festivals & Holiday Worksheets, Prefixes/Suffixes Word Formation,ESL conversation & Communicative Activities, Game and Writing Templates, Cloze & gap fill exercises, We also have ESL Games and ideas for ESL Classrooms, Powerpoint downloads, Matching & Collocations, Reading & Writing Exercises, Complete Lesson Plans.

Also: Olympic Games -Beijing 2008, China Worksheets, ESL Grammar & Vocabulary Portal, ESL Downloads: Powerpoint, Video Slides, E-books

http://www.extensivereading.net/

This site is a repository for information on Extensive Reading, with an emphasis on its application to Second or Foreign Language Learning. We hope that this site will continue to grow and evolve as more people contribute their own resources to the collection.

Numerous links to other sites, including Free downloadable materials and information on The Extensive Reading Foundation.

http://www.stickyball.net

Stickyball ESL Resources. Great Resources for the Frustrated Teacher. Free grammar and phonics worksheets and handouts; ESL dialogues and conversation; adult ESL, plus tons of games, ideas, writing activities, and GEPT ideas.

www.ghotit.com

Ghotit develops assistive technology for people with problematic English spelling like people with dyslexia and people that use English as a Second Language (ESL) or Foreign language (EFL) . Ghotit has released its first solution which is a Microsoft Word spell checker plug in which allows people with problematic English spelling to write freely.

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