Spoken English Learned Quickly (complete course with MP3 and PDF lessons)
Idioms,
phrasal verbs,
and proverbs
"A picture is worth a thousand words ..." blog
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ESL Tour Program (Department of Tourism): study English and visit the Philippines at the same time.
Free English Proficiency Course (EPiC) seminars for public school teachers, private employees, Education majors, international students (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, etc) and other interested groups in the Metro Manila area. For more information, please contact Atty. Gerry T. Galacio at gtgalacio@yahoo.com
Free ESL and EFL lesson plans, worksheets, flashcards, printables and downloads (PDF, video, MP3 and Powerpoint)
Sites For Teachers (Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Activities, Clip Art in subjects like Reading, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and Writing)
Ultimate Top 100 Kids Sites is for children, teens, parents, and teachers, with links to fun, games, education, coloring, poetry, stories, cartoons, worksheet creator or generator, game makers, printables wizard and on-line teaching materials makers with images. Some of the listed English resources are ESL-Kids.com, Tools for Educators, Have Fun Teaching, Free ESL Flashcards, Heads Up English (ready to use ESL / EFL news lessons based on world events with mp3 downloads)
Free online practice tests for learners of English, from Exam English (IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, Cambridge ESOL, LTE and others; also available in French and Spanish)
British Council resources: Learn English (Listen & Watch; Grammar & Vocabulary; Fun & Games; Business & Work; IELTS), with sections for professionals (specialist English language practice such as mini courses on Journalism, Finance and Legal English; practice and advice with IELTS and Cambridge ESOL exams in the lesson downloads and exams section; work skills and study skills) and kids (games, activities, songs, writing); Teaching English (the global home for English teaching on the web brings together everything busy teachers need, from classroom materials to ideas for development, with Activities, Lesson plans, Tips, Teaching kids, BritLit, Links, and Quizzes; resources for Arabic speakers; resources for Chinese students and teachers; English teacher training in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Chongqing, and Guangdong.
VOA Special English: interactive Wordbook (hear English words, their definitions and example dialogues by actual native English speakers to help you understand how the word is used in conversation, with special sections on Health and Business); Idiom Dictionary (with audio for definition, usage and example dialogue); The Classroom (Articles, Activities, Interactive Learning, Programs, Lesson Plans for EFL Teachers); and English lessons live on Facebook.
Learn American English (for native speakers of Chinese, Farsi, and Russian; free interactive, task-based beginner, intermediate, and advanced English lessons with images and sound)
WritingFix (a global resource for Writing teachers with hundreds of free interactive lessons and quality resources for classrooms where writing is taught, not just assigned; with interactive writing prompts and lessons for teachers, students and writers like Daily Writing Prompts, Interactive Writing Prompts for K-6th Grade, Right-Brained Writing Prompts using serendipity and creativity to launch a piece of writing, Left-Brained Writing Prompts, and Writing Lesson of the Month Network for teachers around the world.) Other valuable resources from the Mentor Text lessons created by Northern Nevada teachers for teachers everywhere are: Picture Books; Chapter Book Excerpts; Literary Excerpts & Poetry Classics; Poetry-Inspired lessons; Short Stories (designing skill-based writing lessons inspired by short story excerpts); Poetry and Writing Across the Curriculum Prompts (using iPod technology to generate excitement about writing assignments in all curricular areas).
Daily Writing Tips, simple yet effective tips to improve your writing. Categories include Book Reviews, Business Writing, Competitions, Expressions, Fiction Writing, Freelance Writing, General, Grammar, Grammar 101, Misused Words, Punctuation, Spelling, Vocabulary, Word of the Day, and Writing Basics. You can get DWT via RSS Feed, or by email, and stay tuned for your writing tips.
Free resources in journalism: Newswsroom 101.com (more than 2,000 exercises in grammar, usage, spelling, The Editor’s Eye and AP Stylebook exercises) by Gerald Grow; 200+ lesson plan archive for journalism teachers from hsj.org
ESL Kids Lab offers free Printable ESL Worksheets and PDF Flashcards, Games for ESL Classrooms, ESL Video Lessons for kid Beginners, Interactive Students Vocabulary and Grammar Videos, and Powerpoint downloads for English teaching and learning.
MES-English.com by Mark Cox (free printables for teachers of young learners including Free Flash Cards for download; MES-Games: versatile communicative games; MES-Phonics: phonics flash card, posters and handouts for presentation; Projects and Lesson plans; Worksheets: talking worksheets, worksheets for introduction of grammar points, a phonics e-book series, award certificates, clipart to make your own worksheets, song sheets, nursery rhymes and chants cards, hundreds of color in sheets, teacher printables, and worksheets to match the MES-Flashcards, and Forums for games, activities, questions and feedback)
ESL Tower offers printable grammar and vocabulary exercises to make the lives of English teachers very easy like grammar worksheets for use in teaching by EFL, ESL, ELT and GSE teachers, vocabulary exercises to print and arranged according to topics, pronunciation printables to teach phonetics, connected speech and more.
ESL Printables, a website where English language teachers exchange resources like worksheets, lesson plans, activities, etc. Its collection is growing every day with the help of teachers from around the world. If you want to download any resource, you have to send your own contributions.
ESL Galaxy offers over 2,368 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 and Intonation, Survival English and Business English, Song and Video Activities, Word Search Puzzles, Festivals and Holiday Worksheets, Prefixes / Suffixes Word Formation, Adult Communicative Activities Lesson Plans, Young Learners' Lesson Plans, Game and Writing Templates, Cloze and gap fill exercises, It also has ESL Games and ideas for ESL Classrooms, Powerpoint downloads, Matching and Collocations, Reading and Writing Exercises, Task-based Lesson Planning, Complete Lesson Plans (with video, ppt, worksheets). Free online exercises include grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, video slide lessons, and self-grading quizzes.
iSLCollective.com, a free teaching material sharing site for ESL teachers (English, French, Spanish, and German) with over 8,000 worksheets in editable doc/ppt formats; Level: Beginner (pre-A1), Elementary (A1), Pre-intermediate (A2), Intermediate (B1), Upper-intermediate (B2), Advanced (C1), and Proficient (C2); Student Type: adult, kindergarten, elementary school, high school, and business/professional.
International House Bristol offers hundreds of free online, interactive exercises in grammar, vocabulary and phrases (elementary level for A2 to B1 on the Common European Framework, intermediate for B1 to B2 CEF, advanced for C1 to C2 CEF), useful expressions and Cambridge ESOL exercises with optional time limit for FCE (First Certificate in English), CAE (Certificate of Advanced English) and CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English).
ESL videos: Daily Pronunciation, with more free videos on vocabulary, American slang and idioms with pronunciation help from Sozo Exchange (the place where professional adults can learn English and exchange knowledge for free; download sample Study Guide); Learn English Through Song helps young adults at high school to university levels learn to speak, practice listening, develop vocabulary or just sing along like karaoke and have fun as they study more than a hundred songs from John Denver, Loggins and Messina, James Taylor, Elton John, CSNY, Simon and Garfunkel, Abba, etc. (from Teacher Frank’s Learn How to Speak Here and Now, with free song lyrics and practice exercises); English with Jennifer (free online vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation lessons); Business English Pod (download more video lessons and transcripts from businessenglishpod.com); Real English (hundreds of free exercises using authentic and natural videos of people speaking real English on streets across the globe, rendering the spontaneity of normal speech understandable for all levels of students, every lesson has 10 to 40 exercises using the English Star player, with a choice of subtitles in English, French, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese); Hugosite (free 365 American accent English lessons); The Daily English Show (the world's first daily online English language show with over a thousand videos; with YouTube channel; transcripts available in Japanese, German, Italian, Korean, Russian, Bulgarian, Spanish, Polish, and Ukrainian); and ASL in ESL (using American Sign Language in ESL classes)
BBC Learning English resources: ELT China, ELT Arabic, General and Business English (6 Minute English, Talk about English, Talking Business, Get That Job! activities, quizzes and tips to build career-related vocabulary); Grammar, Vocabulary & Pronunciation: Words in the News, Ask about English, News English Extra, Quizzes (Quiznet, Crosswords, Beat the Keeper, Wordmaster interactive vocabulary quiz with thousands of questions), Exam skills, guide to preparing for and taking exams with quizzes, scripts and audio; For teachers: Grammar Challenge worksheets for teachers to use with individual episodes of Grammar Challenge series; Funky Phrasals worksheets for teachers to use in tandem with series about phrasal verbs, Watch & listen activities to support series on Entertainment, London Life, and People and Places, Talking Business downloadable worksheets, How to ... activities and ideas; Teaching ideas & worksheets: The Flatmates, materials, ideas and worksheets for teachers to accompany the online soap opera, Knowledge on the Net, download this six-part radio series about the Internet and the classroom, Working Abroad worksheets, Innovations in Teaching for the classroom teacher or educationalist, Words in the News ideas and suggestions for using news stories in your class.
ESL Talk Time materials for conversation starters, independent speaking practice, debate clubs, discussions, lesson add-ons and more: ESL Discussions.com (currently with 642 discussion topics to choose from and 12,840 conversation questions on everyday themes and more controversial issues, in ready-to-print Word and PDF downloads); Speechtree (with dozens of conversation starters for abstract themes, academic matters, daily life, hobby topics, holiday nature, personal history, personal values, relationship, work, world and culture); and Road to Grammar (100 warm-up questions to turn your students into conversationalists).
Hot Potatoes from Half Baked Software Inc. (a suite of six applications which allow a user to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises and action mazes for the Internet. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source. Download Hot Potatoes 6.3 installer for Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista; Hot Potatoes for Linux users running Wine, version 6.3, zip file; Java Hot Potatoes for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux or any computer running a Java Virtual Machine)
ICAL Online TESL / TEFL Training (largest commercial online teacher training provider where you can get qualified to Teach English as a Foreign Language or Teach English as a Second Language; free resources from TEFL World Wiki include comprehensive online grammar of English, classroom techniques, linguistics, ESL activities and lesson plans, teaching FAQs, and ESL / EFL videos)
Common Errors in English, by Paul Brians
Text to Speech and Text to Speech Translator, from oddcast.com (available real time in over 60 various languages, accents and voices)
English - Spanish Language Dictionaries, from WordReference.com (free online Oxford Spanish dictionary, conjugator, audio pronunciations and forums for your questions; More Spanish dictionaries are Spanish - French, Spanish - Portuguese)
Hazar.com offers free online dictionaries for translating Turkish to and from English, German, Italian, Danish and Japanese; free resources for people of Turkish heritage
Yahoo downloads (the best free software for Windows like Firefox 3 and others)
Google Chrome for Windows combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
Learning English and creative writing through the use of photographs: discussions and interactive exercises
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” More than the mechanical recording of events, photography has the power to convey a mood or share our insights with others. It has the power to capture not only our perfect moments of love and happiness, but also searing images of cruelty and poverty. It has the power to preserve in a rectangular frame the beauty of a thousand sunsets, the joys of parents seeing their child just learning how to walk on its own, and the sublime happiness of students graduating after years of hard work and sacrifice.
Photographs (whether your own, those of others, or cut out from newspapers and magazines) can be a very effective way of teaching and learning the English language. Joep van der Werff, in his very informative article entitled “Using Pictures from Magazines” from The Internet TESL Journal, discusses how pictures can be a good source of material for practicing speaking, listening, writing, vocabulary and grammar. In this article, van der Werff relates the inspiring story of how one student overcame his shyness and reluctance to participate in the English class through an activity involving pictures.
We will be posting pictures in our blog “A picture is worth a thousand words.” As a good way of learning how to write in English, you can write descriptions, narrations, dialogue, expositions, etc based on your thoughts and feelings about these pictures. For a good discussion on how to describe pictures, please read the article “Picture Description” from www.ego4u.com.
Below are some pictures you can use as a starting point. If you are an ESL or EFL teacher, you are free to use these pictures in your classroom activities. You cannot, however, use these pictures commercially, post them in the Internet, or publish them in yearbooks, newspapers, magazines or any other publication. The pictures below were taken by Atty. Gerry T. Galacio and have been published in the yearbooks of Rizal High School, Pasig City, Philippines from 1989 up to 1996. If and when you use any of these pictures, the credit must read, "Picture by Atty. Gerry T. Galacio, www.betterenglish.org.ph".
Using movies and videos to teach writing
Instead of photographs, you can use movies and videos in teaching your students to write descriptions, narration, dialogue, analysis, etc. For example, you can use the compelling and award-winning animation “Alma” by Rodrigo Blaas or the silent movies of Charlie Chaplin.
You can use YouTube videos like those about the inspiring story of American Idol Season 10 contestant Chris Medina and his fiancée Juliana Ramos.
You can also use the time lapse photography videos by Dustin Farrell titled Landscapes: Volume One and Volume Two to inspire your students to write about the awesome beauty of nature, man’s place in the universe, etc.
Listed below are some discussions and activities on the teaching and learning of English through the use of pictures.
Origin of expression “A picture is worth a thousand words” The so-called proverb, “One picture is worth a thousand words,” was written in 1921 by Frederick R. Barnard, the national advertising manager at Street Railways Advertising Company. First used as a marketing slogan, it was edited in 1927 to its current form. The current form appeared next to an advertisement for Royal Baking Powder and was accompanied by Chinese lettering admittedly, according to the marketing manager, as a ploy to create a “Chinese proverb.” From “Painting with print: Incorporating concepts of typographic and layout design into the text of legal writing documents”, by Ruth Anne Robbins (Clinical Associate Professor, Rutgers School of Law, Camden) |
[01]
Using
newspapers in English-language teaching, from
The
Language Connection (The
Daily Yomuiri)
Students enhance global views via English papers
English newspapers offer topics for discussion
Familiar topics stoke kids' appetite for English
Reading of English papers help exam preparation
Teacher makes newspapers fun for class
[02] Picture games, from Compass
[03] Picture Stories and Thought Groups, from Developing Teachers.com
[04] Catchy Captions: Students write captions for pictures cut from newspapers and then match the real captions to the pictures, from Education World
[05] Fun with pictures, from ELT Newsletter
[06] Here’s Me – Showing Photographs (Lesson plan: showing pictures to describe personal experiences and share information), from English Language Institute (The University of British Columbia)
[07] Activities from EnglishLearner.com
[08] Activities from eslflow.com
Adjective Gallery
Pic Tac Toe (A fun visual-linguistic lesson plan for presenting, reviewing and comparing verb tenses)
Pic / sentence prediction for present continuous
Superlative island
[09] Lesson Plan - Describing Picture Scenes, from ESL Lesson Plan (Carol Rueckert)
[10] Advanced picture dictation (science), from ESOL Online
[11] ESL Work with illustrations, from Heinle and Heinle Grammar Activity Inventory (Georgia State University)
[12] Adapting a picture story, from Malta Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
[13] Activities round a Group Picture, from Pilgrims English Language Courses
[14] Modern art (PDF) using connectors to compare and contrast, from Skyline-English
[15] Picture Stories, from Strategies for Empowering Students (Urban Programs Resource Network)
[16] Teaching ideas for using pictures, from teachers.net
[17] Activities from teAchnology.com
Award Certificate Maker
Bus Pass Maker
Grammar Lesson Plans
Grammar Teaching Theme
Ideas For Teaching Writing
Meeting New Vocabulary Graphic Org
Memory and Observation Skills Worksheets
Phonics Worksheets
Photographs
Pictures Internet Secret/Tricks
Project Rubric Generator
Sentence Building Worksheets
Spiral Vocabulary Worksheet Maker
Visual Art Lesson Plans
Word Game Sites
Writing Lesson Plans
[18] Activities from teaching English
Dating Game: describing people activity using pictures with the aim of getting students talking
Picture Dictation
[19] Junk Mail Catalogs: A Treasure-Trove for Language Teachers by Susan L. Schwartz, from The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning and Teaching
[20] Partial Pictures teaching idea, from Three Wise Monkeys
[21] Pairwork
with pictures, from Using
English for Academic Purposes
A Guide for Students in Higher Education
[22] Picture dictation, from University of Virginia
[23] Improving writing through the use of imagery, from Workforce Education LAB
[24] Lessons in photojournalism from Campus Connection
Photojournalism (01): Introduction
Photojournalism (02): "I Am A Camera"
Photojournalism (03): Lines and shapes
Photojournalism (04): Elements of form and texture
Photojournalism (05): Elements of tone and contrast
Photojournalism (06): Element of patterns
Photojournalism (07): Element of perspective
Photojournalism (08): Color or black and white?
Photojournalism (09): Learning to see
Photojournalism (10): Decisive moment
Photojournalism (11): Creative writing through seeing
Photojournalism (12): Reading pictures
Photojournalism (13) : Cybill Shepherd, Ryan O’Neal, Mary Stuart Masterson, Robert Downey Jr, love, friendship, second chances and a roll of film
Photojournalism (14): Quality and direction of light
Photojournalism (15): Scale
Photojournalism (16): Choosing your viewpoint
Photojournalism (17): Picture formats
Photojournalism (18): Emphasis by lines
Photojournalism (19): Rule of thirds
Photojournalism (20): Foreground and background
Photojournalism (21): Natural frames
Photojournalism (22): Conveying depth
Photojournalism (23): Composition
Photojournalism (24): Types of pictures
Photojournalism (25): Shooting groups
Photojournalism (26): Shadows
Photojournalism (27): Reflections
Photojournalism (28): Silhouettes
Photojournalism (29): Shooting at night
Photojournalism (30): Shooting portraits
Photojournalism (31): Photo essays and sequence shots
Photojournalism (32): Photo essays and themes
Photojournalism (33): Photo essays using the chronological approach
Photojournalism (34): Using your flash
Photojournalism (35): Campus news photography, and working on your yearbook
Photojournalism (36): Through the lens
Photojournalism (37): Depth of field
Photojournalism (38): Shutter speed
Photojournalism (39): Correct exposure
Photojournalism (40): Where do we go from here?
Notes:
Online journalism training, from JPPROF the website for teaching journalism (by Prof. James Glen Stovall of the University of Tennessee): Discussion of skills (reporting, writing, editing, graphics design, photojournalism,, web journalism, opinion writing and broadcasting), issues (news, practices, law, history, ethics), industry (newspapers, magazines, radio and television, news web sites), and with grammar exercises for students.
Newsroom 101.com (Exercises in Grammar, Usage and Associated Press Style) by Gerald Grow offers more than 2,000 free, self-instructional exercises for journalists, writers, editors, students and others who want to review (or learn) journalistic language, as governed by the Associated Press Stylebook. Visitors to this site have completed more than 2 million exercises. For the exercises to work, you must set your browser to allow pop-ups from the newsroom101.com site. For teachers, please read the recommendations on how to use this site with your students.
AP Stylebook exercises chapter by chapter (about 450 items)
Grammar exercises (about 650 items)
Spelling exercises (about 300 words)
Newsroom Exercises (about 770 items) The original Newsroom exercises were developed by Ron Hartung from the kinds of errors made by journalists and interns working at a daily newspaper.
Set 1 Newsroom 1 - 10
Set 2 Newsroom 11 - 20
Set 3 Newsroom 21 - 30
Set 4 Newsroom 31 - 40
Set 5 Newsroom 41 - 50
Set 6 Newsroom 51 - 60
Set 7 Newsroom 61 - 70
Set 8 Newsroom 71 -
Newsroom-All Random selection from all exercises
The Newsroom 101 Review Exercises
The Editor’s Eye Train yourself to spot errors and fix them
Experimental Exercises
“Reaching Generation Next: A News Media Guide to Creating Successful High School Partnerships” from ASNE by Lisa Frazier Page (PDF book how-to for editors, newspaper advisers and principals to come together to create good scholastic journalists; complete book 41mb; also available 200+ lesson plan archive for journalism teachers)
Chapter 1 Hooking Them Early: The Rewards of Investing in Scholastic Journalism (5.4 mb)
Chapter 2 Getting Started: Creating a Successful Print or Broadcast Partnership (9.2 mb)
Chapter 3 Resurrecting Scholastic Journalism: A Look Inside Some Model Newspaper-High School Training Programs (8.3 mb)
Chapter 4 Turning Students On To Television And Radio: Broadcast Partnerships That Work (5.6 mb)
Chapter 5 Teaching The Teachers: Print and Broadcast Training Programs for High School Teachers (5.8 mb)
Chapter 6 Resources (553kb)
English for Business, Work and other Special Purposes, from about.com (Adult Education English for special purposes including Business, commercial, financial, legal, insurance and human resources sectors as well as help with resumes, job interviews and cover letters; resources include Business English Writing for esumes, letters and documents, Business Reading comprehension exercises, Business Speaking Skills for the workplace, English for Medical Purpose, Business English Vocabulary, Business Meetings and Presentations, Business English Lesson Plans for ESP and Vocational English, Job Interviewing, and Business English Role Plays - Dialogues, and Business English Level Test, a 100 question test to discover your business English mastery level)
Postcript is a self-study magazine for learners of Business English by Marcus Evans Linguarama with exercises on reading, writing, grammar, pronunciation, style, vocabulary and usage. Each exercise has an answer key so that you can correct your work yourself online. Each issue has a theme on which many of the exercises are based, for example, Sales, Personnel or Banking.
Free resources from englishmedialab.com include the following: Business English ESL Quizzes and Business English Listening (business meeting and interactive listening quiz for job interviews); Online Grammar Exercises; Vocabulary Videos; Pronunciation; Quizzes for Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Level English Learners.
English for the medical professional, from HospitalEnglish.com (free resources for medical professionals like doctors, nurses, physical therapists, radiologists, physician assistants, pharmacists, etc, studying English and medical printables for teachers; with medical vocabulary builders and pronunciation guide, patient counseling activities, disease state directors, healthcare professional articles, medical flashcards, hospital lesson plans, and ESP worksheets)
Learn English Professionals (British Council) can help you reach your professional aspirations by developing your English skills and helping you prepare for English language exams with its online test to see what level your English is according to the six levels outlined in the European Framework. Various sections include Maritime English, English for Engineers, English for Journalists, English for Finance, Legal English and English for Tourism. You can also practice your English with grammar movies or listen and watch Sanjeev use English in the workplace with the J@m movies, its cartoon series practicing English through work in a web design company. With the Specialist vocabulary builder (choose between Medical, Legal, IT, Marketing and Financial words), you can learn or test yourself on up to 100 words in each category). Choose the level of difficulty and start learning. Specialist Vocabbuilder uses the Collins Cobuild dictionary to create exercises just for you; the exercises are different every time. Start Specialist Vocabbuilder now.
Qedoc is a learning object repository, documentation centre and forum for author collaboration. The learning object repository has free, editable, redistributable, interoperable educational resources, based around interactive quizzes, with1,210 articles currently available). Qedoc Quiz Maker - a desktop application for making quizzes and interactive educational materials. Qedoc Quiz Player - a desktop application for playing back quizzes and interactive educational materials. eLearning resources include English, Mathematics, Geography, History, Languages, Science, Medicine, Computing and Business. e-learning resources are available in Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish.
Handheld English is a complete English course with MP3 lessons downloadable directly to your mobile phones; This course can be used by university students, professionals, and others who want to speak English well. If you practice one or two hours each day with the audio lessons, you should be able to speak simple English within six months. However, learning English fluently will require hard work each day. This course can be used by both beginning and advanced English students. The lessons are neither too difficult for a beginning student nor too easy for an advanced student. They can be used in an established school or when studying alone.
Testing your level of English proficiency (online diagnostic, assessment and practice exams)
Free online practice tests for learners of English, from Exam English (managed by Steve Chadwick); also available in French and Spanish
Online Assessment Tests, from World English
Activities for learners, from Churchill House School of English Language (Elementary, Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate, Advanced, Exam preparation, Phrasal verbs)
Test your English now (vocabulary, grammar, listening and reading (cloze test)
365 various quizzes to test your English knowledge, from Road to English Grammar
Cambridge ESOL exercises with optional time limit for FCE (First Certificate in English), CAE (Certificate of Advanced English), CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English), from International House Bristol
Exams in General English (KET, PET, FCE, CAE, CPE), Professional English, Academic English (IELTS), Exams for Schools, from Cambridge ESOL Teacher Support (with free teaching resources and forum)
"The
Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" from
C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia has become a beloved classic the world
over. Four children walk through a seemingly ordinary wardrobe into
the magical land of Narnia. A fantastic adventure begins to unfold as
Aslan the Great Lion is pitted against the evil White Witch. Battles
are fought, heroes are made, and one of the children has committed a
crime that demands the death penalty... What will happen? Take off on
an adventure you never imagined ...
Listen now to The Narnia Story (narration by Ray Comfort and introduction by Kirk Cameron) or download the MP3. If you have trouble extracting a zipped file, you may need to install a free program. Just click this link to download a free copy of ZipReader.
The Hope ESL Software Curriculum: This free-to-copy
English language CD ROM by Roofbreakers.org
is being used and distributed around the world by a whole range of people.
Besides the free CD, also available for download are (1) The
Hope ESL Software Curriculum Guide in PDF; and (2) A
few Simple ideas for New Language Learners and Old Ones Needing Some
New Life. You can find the Mandarin and Indonesian support
version of Hope ESL in the root directory of each CD. You can also freely
download the complete version 3 Hope ESL software (800 mb zip file).
Currently Roofbreakers.org has a specific focus on utilizing the massive global English Language opportunity to develop and distribute resources which teach and inspire students. This software project had its origins in Vietnam where an Australian English teacher developed the educational concept. Later, in partnership with mars-hill productions, Roofbreakers.org was able to produce the Hope ESL software curriculum as a free-to-copy CD ROM including the full Hope film.
Free DTP book download from www.effectivechurchcom.com
by Yvon Prehn “Back to Basics” foundational
communication skills for church communicators
Part
1: introduction, planning, grid and templates, writing for DTP (6.42
mb)
Part
2: continuation writing for DTP, typography, graphics (3.97 mb)
Part
3: continuation graphics, photography, layout and examples (4.43
mb)
Part
4: continuation layout and examples (3.92 mb)
Part
5: continuation layout and examples, DTP management (5.06 mb)
Relevant links
Family
Code Philippines
(free legal information)
Are
you a good person?
(PDF)
the
kristo (English;
available in
Spanish)
One
Solitary Life
A
Ready Defense
Jesus:
A Biblical Defense of His Deity
Isa
Al-Maseeh
Answers
in Genesis
Creation
Super Library (also available in Chinese
traditional; Dutch;
French;
German;
Hungarian;
Indonesian;
Japanese;
Portuguese;
Russian;
Spanish;
and Swedish)
Hear
Good News
Studylight
Got
Questions Ministries
Spiritual
Counterfeits Project
Probe
Ministries
Crosswalk
Women
Today Magazine (available
in French
and Chinese)
Sexual purity websites (Silver
Ring Thing, Purefreedom,
True
Love Waits)
Starting
With God
Cloud
and Townsend Resources
Love
and Respect
Real
Relationships
Living
Hope
Power
To Change (English);
for other languages, click Arabic;
French;
German;
Italian;
Spanish,
Thai,
Japanese;
Malay;
Russian;
Czech
and Chinese
Legal
Updates
Baptist
Churches in the Philippines
Campus
Connection
Salt
and Light
Do
you know for sure where you will spend eternity?
Oneplace.com
– Listen for Life and
Faith
Talk Web Radio
Another
Interview With God (see this page in Czech,
Dutch,
Bahasa
Indonesia, Portuguese
and Turkish)
I
Am Next (website for college students): academics, fun, career, living,
people, sex, love, spirituality
Chamada
(a Christian portal for Portuguese-speaking persons, provides literature, Biblical
messages, articles, tracts, magazines, book information and much more)
Relevant article and website
The untrustworthiness of news photography, by Jim Lewis
Photo Tampering throughout History: Fourandsix.com (headed by Kevin Connor, President, and Hany Farid, PhD, Chief Technology Officer) presents an overview of the notable instances of photo manipulation in history, from the 1800’s to the present. View entries by year or topic: 1800’s (3); 1900-1949 (6); 1950-1999 (14); 2000 (2); 2002 (1); 2003 (4); 2004 (3); 2005 (12); 2006 (13); 2007 (18); 2008 (11); 2009 (9); 2010 (8); 2011 (14); Body Image (15); Law (5); Marketing (10); Media (63); Photojournalism ethics (25); Politics (58); Race and gender (8); Science (7); Smoking (3); Sports (6); Unconfirmed claims (2)
Online sources of free images (Please take note and comply with these websites' term of use for their photographs)
NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from The New York Public Library’s vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
Corbis Images (more than a million royalty free stock images including celebrity, fine art, contemporary and historical images
Flat Earth (over 16,000 royalty-free photos)
FreeFoto.Com (Over 100,000 images free for non commercial use (link back and attribution required. Also non-commercial users may download web size images to use off-line in school projects, church services, cards, leaflets, etc. Images can be purchased for commercial use)
Freephotographs (Copyright and royalty free photographs taken by Blaikiewell Animal Sanctuary; may be used for commercial and personal Web sites.)
FreeStockPhotos.com (nature, landscape, wildlife, outdoor recreation, and cityscapes for commercial or personal use, plus links to public domain government photographs)
The Stock Market Photo Agency (stock photographs and royalty free images in an online searchable database, and free research from a library of over 3 million images)
The Ultimate Image Archive from Pics.am, The Homeworld of Pictures (archive of thousands of free high quality pictures in various categories, free to use as desktop wallpapers or a part of any design)
Online magazines
Women
Today Magazine Femmes
Aujourd'hui
Chinese
Women Today
Relationships; Sex & Love; Advice; Beauty;
Fashion; Food; Money; Work; Chat; Online Studies; Life Stories; Wellness
& Spirit; Self-Esteem; Family & Home; Health & Fitness; Wit
& Wisdom
SOON
Online Magazine
Learning English Index
free world-wide easy-English literature programme; free
hard copies available on request
Men Today Online (A high adventure magazine for men)
Read 6000+ online newspapers at ThePaperboy.com
Improving your vocabulary
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary now
has more than 40,000 audio recordings in British and American
English you can perfect your pronunciation.
Learn the pronunciation and spelling of thousands of words using
an image based interface, with supported languages as English,
French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Italian,
Greek, Chinese, Chinese (traditional characters), Hindi, Japanese,
Korean, Arabic, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian
A Word A Day, from Wordsmith
Explore the world of words, share, and delight in the joy of words with a community of more than 600,000 linguaphiles in at least 200 countries, from Australia to Zimbabwe
British to American / American to British - Vocabulary Converter
TOEFL Vocabulary, from English Daily
Over a thousand real multiple-choice questions for TOEFL test preparation
Online resources for reading and listening
The Reading Room - English Comprehension, from English The International Language
Practice your reading skills and improve your vocabulary through selected Articles and Stories, with instant feedback in the True/False questions
100 free short stories for ESL learners (with listening, grammar, comprehension, and dictation exercises), from Rong-chang Li
Wired for Books, from WOUB Center for Public Media, Scripps College of Communication, Ohio University
Hundreds of hours of spoken audio in English of a tremendous range of poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for children and adults
Online Language Laboratory, from www.fonetiks.org
BBC - My Story (hundreds of extraordinary true stories of achievement, bravery, survival and more from the whole of human experience from across the UK and beyond)
Asia's Center for TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) accredited by Cornerstone University of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. For more information, please contact Jurene Breidenbach at jureneb@actesol.com or Sam Kuka at director@actesol.com, or call office phone 922-9561.
Christian alternative to YouTube with videos, music, prayer wall, Bible reading and chat room; This website does not necessarily endorse all the views, comments or opinions expressed in GodTube. Viewers must be persuaded in their own minds (Romans 14:5), consult their Bible teachers, and must be like the Bereans who in Acts 11:10 "... searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so."
Google eBookstore (over 3 million eBooks to read on the Web, Android, iPhone, iPad, Sony and Nook) General categories: Biographies & Memoirs; Business & Investing; Children's Books; Computers & Internet; Cooking, Food & Wine; Fiction; History; Humor; Lifestyle & Home; Mystery & Thrillers; Parenting & Families; Politics & Current Events; Reference; Religion & Spirituality; Romance; Science; Science Fiction; Fantasy; Sports; Travel
British Council resources:
IELTS
- International English Language test
(British Council English exam centres in
over 100 countries offer IELTS tests up to 4 times a month)
Learn English Gateway - Learn English Language and Grammar - British Council (Whatever your level in English, we can help you test and develop your English language skills. There are a variety of English courses in the UK, in your country and online. Explore the exciting learning opportunities the British Council has to offer you to improve your English Language skills)
Teaching English Gateway - Help for English Language Teachers - British Council (Whether you are new to English language teaching, or whether you are taking the next career and development steps as an English teacher, you will find valuable help and opportunities here to assist in achieving your goals)