ESL 85F Integrated Skills - High Intermediate
READING
- Student stories
- Websites and student autobiographies
- Interactive newspaper with audio: Community and vocational components
- Culture Capsules: student designed web-pages
- Full text and abridged stories with audio versions
- Hundreds of song lyrics by various songwriters
- English language newspapers from around the world
- Information about Native American history
- World customs and cultures written by ESL students
- The BBC News
- PBS News Hour for students including questions
GRAMMAR
- Self-study quizzes
- Grammar quizzes
- Internet TESL Journal's Links
- Grammar quizzes and tutorials
- Grammar tutorial with business letter writing information
- Grammar tests
- On-line writing lab from Purdue University- advanced ESL activi ties with good teacher materials and resources
- Basic overview of English grammar
LISTENING
- Many listening activities listed by leve
- Listening practice for all levels with wide selection of topics
- National Public Radio News broadcast with text
- BBC World News (click on upper right hand blue box to listen to hundreds of BBC programs)
- Reading and Listening activities from the California Distant Learning Project
PRONUNCIATION
- Pronunciation activities and worksheets
- A comprehensive pronunciation website from U. of Iowa.
WRITING
- Sign in to get email from around the world
- Pen-pal information and links to pen-pal sites
- Paragraph writing practice in guided steps
IDIOMS
- A list of idioms with written definitions and examples from Dave's ESL Cafe
DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
- Links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesaurus
HOLIDAYS
- Poems, songs, stories, games etc
- Source for holiday celebrations
- Songs, stories, graphics, recipes, activities
EMPLOYMENT
- Oregon Employment Department -Job listings, job fairs, job market information, childcare information
- Employment resources
LINKS TO OTHER LINKS
- Over 300 fun and interesting websites in 34 different categories
- Internet TESL Journal's links
- Resources for learning and teaching English
- Online ESL Resources
- English lessons and tests
- ESL Loop collection of sites relevant to English language teaching and learning
MULTI-PURPOSE WEBSITES
- Dave's ESL Café
- ESL handouts and activities (very extensive list of handouts pertaining to grammar, computers, and reading)
- Activities for all levels- letter recognition, personal information etc.
- Downloadable activities and lessons from beginner to advanced. Very detailed information.
- English Club- a very thorough website- activities and more
U. S. CIVICS
- Civics Online
- English Literacy and Civics Education: from the Colorado Department of Education. Has various resources and links.
- EL/Civics: from Central Oregon Community College. Has a few links related to Independence and the Constitution.
- Civics Lesson Plans : over 100 links to lesson plans related to civics
- EL-Civics Lesson Plans : Northwest Lincs has links to curriculum, lesson plans, On Common Ground, and web-based projects
- On Common Ground Lesson Plan for Chapter 1. Word Document
- On Common Ground Lesson Plan for Chapter 2: PDF document 24 pages
- On Common Ground Lesson Plan for Chapter 3: A detailed lesson plan with activities in pdf format. 28 pages.
- On Common Ground Lesson Plan for Chapter 3: A much shorter lesson plan in Word format.
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