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ePub Bud is a new online application that lets you create your own eBooks for free. It seems quite easy to use, and lets you grab images off the web as well. You can read more about it at iLearn Technology. More at The Best Places Where Students Can Write Online. BROWSERS HTTP://WWW.TIME.COM/TIME/SPECIALS/PACKAGES/ARTICLE/0,28804,1995297_1995295_1995294,00.HTML Top 10 Precarious Buildings A fun TIME Magazine slideshow. See more at The Best Images Of Weird, Cool & Neat-Looking Buildings (& Ways To Design Your Own) Basic ENGLISH and Business English Learning Sites; Books; Biographies
Basic and Essential English Oasis: Beeoasis.com is a place for learners of English to relax. At BeeOasis you can... easily enjoy many stories; at a level just right for you; improve English reading and listening; and learn about arts, sciences, and news. Sign up, for free and you can get all the stories with audio and information about prizes and new features.
A superb collection of online resources. Search for educational web sites using: Content Areas; Subject Area; and Grade Level. Bing is Microsoft's new search engine that finds and organizes the answers you need to work faster.
With Chuala, teachers or speech language pathologists record pronunciation examples and create lessons for their students or clients. Learners can practice wherever there is internet and as often as they want. Pronunciation examples can be recorded in any of the world's 7,589 languages and translations can be added if this will help the learner. J@M offers great video dialogues covering 14 language situations
Books for Beginning Readers Tar Heel Reader is a great collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible E-Books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech-enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces (i.e. switches, alternative keyboards, touch screens, and dedicated AAC devices). The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format. You may even write your own books using pictures from the huge collection at Flickr or from pictures you upload yourself.
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to help you teach ELL, ESL and EFL! (From larryferlazzo.edublogs.org page, Websites of the Year, which is actually a better place to access the lists.
Arranged Topically from A-Z by Larry Ferlazzo. A nice site available in 5 European languages with images, information, and quizzes about 85 countries around the world. The text is accessible to Intermediate English Language Learners, and the images are obviously good for students of all levels. Good quizzes about each country, and a neat feature called compare, by which you can pick any two countries and easily compare their demographic data with the click of the mouse. Visualgeography.com lets you explore the world through images, flags, money, language, maps and other information. exercises. One of the BestE for slideshows, that's so easy to use, used effectively for writing is Bookr, another great tool for anybody, including Beginning English Language Learners. You just type in a tag to search Flickr for images, drag them into a book and write about them. One of the few really effective vocabulary building websites that I've seen on the web. It's actually a social network and can help you to make friends for language exchange etc, but the core of the site is its interactive multimedia vocabulary building exercises. A tool to create comic strips from Flickr.com photos.
From The Internet TESL Journal
Type or paste your text and click the SUBMIT window button. VocabProfile will tell you how many words the text contains from 20 frequency bands of roughly 1,000 word families in size from the 100 million word British National Corpus. BASIC ENGLISH WORDLIST AND STORIES USING IT (only an 850 word vocabulary) (850 words: Click on WordList or go to page 4) Basic English is an attempt to give to everyone a second, or international language, which will take as little of the learner's time as possible. It is a system in which everything may be said for all the purposes of everyday existence: the common interests of men and women, general talk, news, trade, and science. (Using Basic English's 850 word vocabulary only)
written using only 850 words of Basic English
Created by Indiana educators and leaders, "Buddy2 develops and facilitates leading edge learning projects in K-12 school communities to increase student achievement using technology in anytime, anywhere settings." BASIC ENGLISH AND BUSINESS ENGLISH LEARNING SITES Sites for Students; Business and Company English; English for Specific / Academic / Technical Purposes for English Vocabulary and Language Learning Many Great Activities for ESL / EFL Students Vocabulary Development Practice Lessons at various levels to choose from An 850 word Simplified English to make learning and reading easier.
News in Easier English for students and teachers
Talk about company logos, image and philosophy. Create new or imaginary company letterheads or Websites. Ogden's Basic English List of 850 most essential words and website. Reading Writing and Learner's Site
Open English World provides free activities to help you learn English. The Weekly Idiom will help to improve your spoken English. Business Jargon will improve your business English conversation. Talk English will help you speak English fluently in daily life. The Forum is a place to meet students, ask questions, and discuss activities. TOP ESL BUSINESS SITES More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All March-April 2006 Issue - Vol. 2, no. 3 What is Business English? Business English is English especially used in national or international trade with English-speaking countries as well as countries where English is not a native language but is used as a shared second language. Business English touches on a variety of fields. For some it means vocabulary related to business topics. For others it is more closely linked to the communication skills required in the workplace. ESL All selected these top ten resources covering both business vocabulary and business skills in addition to material aimed at developing the four language skills (speaking, writing, listening, and reading).
By far the most widely developed British business website on the Internet. A great place to visit to learn and improve your English through business related topics. Top-quality materials only. A favourite general and business English website of ours. Provides over a thousand pages of free information and resources for both teachers and students. All materials are organized by skill and level for quick and easy access. The business section contains: Useful Expressions (with audio files in American English), Textbook Recommendations, Quick Links, Learning Strategies, Teaching Business English resources, and a lot more.
Your guide to English as a 2nd language (ESL / EFL) including an interesting section devoted to Business English. Contains resources related to Business English Lessons, Business Reading, Business English Vocabulary, Business Speaking Skills, Business English Writing and a lot more.
Business English for EFL, ESL students. Resources for learning business English, including varied sections: business correspondence, business presentations and public speaking, business vocabulary, business news and business and money. A self-study magazine for learners of English published by the Linguarama website. Each issue has a theme on which many of the exercises are based, for example: Sales, Personnel, Cross Culture, Finance, Marketing, Business Communication, Insurance, Quality, Legal English, Technology, Banking, Management, and Retailing. There are also exercises with answer keys on reading, writing, grammar, pronunciation, style, vocabulary and usage. Business English Lessons: Better English Pearson Brown, ESL teacher and author, offers free interactive exercises for many business-related topics. Some of these topics are: Business Idioms Hangman, Business Idioms of Time, Business as War Idioms, Business Adjective Intensifiers, Phrasal Verbs, Business Presentations, Survival Expressions, Signposting, and more. An interesting collection of online Business English resources put together by the Internet TESL Journal. For those of you looking for additional business resources.
An impressive list of additional resources for those interested in learning or teaching Business English. Covers Vocabulary, Business Exercises and Quizzes, Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, Telephone English, Public Speaking, Debate, Famous Speeches, Multilingual Sites, and a lot more. An interesting collection of business resources. Includes vocabulary quizzes, tests, ESL Business lessons, T.O.E.I.C ( Test Of English in International Communication).
Hundred of free business revision exercises touching on topics such as: Company (law), Joint-Stock Company, Partnership, Supply and Demand, Letter Writing, and a lot more. Site is maintained by Dr Michael A. Riccioli, the University of Paris-Dauphine. BUSINESS ENGLISH VOCABULARY AND TEXTS From Mike Nelson's Business English Lexis Site Talking English text and multimedia from PearsonLongman.com BUSINESS MAGAZINES ONLINE Top Economic News; Asia and Asia Tech Blog; Economics Innovation Investing; Europe; Investing and Newsletters; Technology; Innovation & Design; Autos; Energy Product Reviews. WORLD'S BEST ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING LINKS CHOSEN BY ESL ALL Subscribe here to get ESL All's great free monthly updates. More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All March-April 2006 Issue - Vol. 2, no. 3 More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All June 2006 Issue - Vol. 2, no. 5 More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All May 2006 Issue -Vol. 2, no. 4 More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All January 2006 Issue - Vol. 2, no. 1 More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All October 2005 Issue -Vol. 1, no. 2
More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All September 2005 Issue - Vol. 1, no. 1 More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All July 2006 Issue -Vol. 2, no. 6
More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All February 2006 Issue -Vol. 2, no. 2 More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All December 2005 Issue - Vol. 1, no. 4 More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All November 2005 Issue - Vol. 1, no. 3 BASIC LANGUAGE PROGRAMS Free Demos for learning the Basics of 64 languages. Get started! CHAT ROBOTS, CHATBOTS OR CHATTERBOTS, ALSO SIMPLY KNOWN AS BOTSE These are computer programs on online sites that simulate human communication patterns. They can mimic human conversation or chatting by using artificial intelligence (AI). Eliza was the first chatbot, made in 1966 by Weizenbaum. Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity Great list of Chatterbots from Google's Directory. Chatterbots waiting to simulate chatting with you at Geocities.com.
BEST ENGLISH EDUCATION BLOGS
Bookr is a document reader for the Play Station Portable (PSP) that currently supports plain text (.txt) PDF, and new for this release; text only basic HTML files. http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/kLNfFgf9DEz6 Bookr is a tool to share and create and share images in your Photobook as Flickr Images. Bookr is a simple, fun, web-based program that lets users search Flickr photo program. Bookr is a great resource for beginning readers and writers. More of the world's best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All September 2006 Issue, Blogs, Vol. 2, No. 7. Welcome to this selection of the BEST ESL (English as a Second Language), EFL (English as a Foreign language) and Business English Blogs! A weblog, or blog for short, is a type of website where entries are made (like a journal or diary) and displayed in reverse chronological order. These ten blogs provide news, comments and information on English learning and teaching. A typical blog contains mostly text, but can also contain images, and links to other resources and blogs, web pages, and other media related to the topic under discussion. These blogsites cover a wide range of topics dealing with general and business English, topics that can be useful to both English learners and teachers. The last suggested link provides a collection of close to 100 other English learning blogsites available for free on the web. Happy blogging! A high-quality English-learning related blog for teachers and students managed by Jeffrey Hill. Valuable comments and resources for English learning. Archives. Links to other blog sites. A place where English instructors and students meet to discuss and learn. Covers the field of English as a whole. Great links and resources for English as a Second language, and other related disciplines such as composition, literature, rhetoric and linguistics. Also features ESL Coffeetalk, ESL Forum Buzz, and Scattergories. Edited by Lee Hobbs. Lesson plans, teaching locales, tips, tricks and budgeting advice mostly for novice and veteran ESL instructors, but also contains very interesting material for ESL students. Features Recent Entries, ESL Jobs, Hot Discussion Topics, and Cool Links. Edited by Carol Rueckert.
Te4Be.com: Ideas and observations about the day-to-day teaching of Business English as well as site visitors comments and experiences. Includes the following sections: Teachers, Technology, Web Links, Students, and FAQ. Edited by Barney Barrett and Pete Sharma.
Business English Blogs: A list of high-quality blogsites for those who are interested in Business English. Ideas, reflections and conversation about language learning and teaching, business and communication, entrepreneurship and technology. AskDoctorEnglish.Blogspot.com: Ask Doctor English your ESL and English language learning specialist. Ask whatever you like about the English language. Doctor English is an ESL Teacher, based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. UsingEnglish.com: ESL learners and teachers online blog. Ideas, thoughts, uses of English and other language-learning related issues. Features many discusion categories, ESL archives and links to other blogs. Very useful material for language learners. A very interesting blogsite for ESL learners. Contains general thoughts and ideas on language learning as well as great language links. Featured sections are: Dictionaries and References, ESL Learners, ESL Teachers, Quizzes and Exercises, Links to other Blogs on the web, and a lot more.
For those of you who would like to explore more blogsites not listed in this newsletter, here's an interesting collection of blog-related links of interest to teachers and students of English as a Second Language.
(with Slideshows). THIS IS A BLOG RELATED TO THE ICT4LT WEBSITE AT HTTP://WWW.ICT4LT.ORG IT AIMS TO ENCOURAGE FEEDBACK ON THE ICT4LT SITE IN PARTICULAR AND THE USE OF ICT IN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING IN GENERAL. BlogsESearch Engine: Technorati is the major search engine for blogs, which you can interrogate with an advanced query form by keyword (try Academic or Language learning or browse via their blog index. Run by students at Sweden's Ume University's humanities lab, a place where the humanities, cultural studies and modern information and media technology can meet and work together, both in real and virtual termsE
discusses her research on virtuality and conversational multi-tasking.
focused on intercultural exchanges. BLOGS FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
LoudBlog is a sleek and easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) for publishing media content on the web. It automatically generates a skinnable website and an RSS-Feed for Podcasting. Just upload your audio/video files, add some notes and links, and you're done! E-LEARNING BLOGS This list represents some of the more active e-learning blogs Gabe Anderson has found or read regularly. As he says: each of these is great in its own way -- be it the in-depth analysis, the industry headlines, the technical prowess -- but all will get you thinking about learning and technology in new ways. From learning theories to content design, metadata to LMSes, survey data to industry trends, these blogs have it all.E Information and resources for teachers of English as a Foreign Language. Includes a forum, job vacancies, flashcards, and activities. LexioPhiles recently published "The Top 100 language Blogs" here.
BLACKBOARD offers free 1 month trial to set up any online course. BLOGGING & FILE-EXCHANGE PROGRAMS Find a Language Partner to practice with for 113 Languages in over 170 Countries! Free! Lang-8.com is a great place for free Language Exchange! Allows you to start your own Japanese Language Blog, which natives speakers will help correct for free! Corrections will be highlighted so you can easily learn from your own mistakes. Sample recommended Language Blogs include: Edmodo is a site that is "a private micro-blogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other;" students do not need an email address, just a code obtained from the teacher. Gliffy is a Graphic Organizer program BIBLIOGRAPHIES
by William J. Rapaport NEW SITE FOR EXTENSIVE READING HEADQUARTERS! Extensive Searchable Research Reference List with Abstracts. BOOKS (available via Amazon.com) Books (and software) listed on this page have been selected by EFL / ESL teachers of the English Specialist Group on the purpose of helping language teachers and students with finding good resources for their work. Cheapest prices online or off for inspiring faith-building books, music, and software. Atlases. World's largest online marketplace for books. Huge travel selection! BRITISH COUNCIL from the British Council Includes practical lesson plans, articles, books, downloads, etc. to keep your teaching fresh. Network with over 10,000 teachers via this English Language Teaching Contacts Scheme (ELTeCS).
Hornby Educational Trust runs regional workshops to benefit language teachersEdevelopment.
Use this powerful search engine to help build up your links with others in the CALL and Language Teaching Community worldwide. Regularly updated links, materials and tips to help improve your language assistance and teaching. Essential data for career development in language education. Find suitable language programs and qualifications for your future success here (EU-related). Having offices in 110 countries, the British Council has many local webpages to assist area teachers. They work with education ministries, and provide support to teacher associations such as electronic newsletters. BIOGRAPHIES
Biography of America is a very ambitious video and text U.S. History presentation. Much of it isn't accessible to English Language Learners. However, Ferlazzo's U.S. History page will lead you to a series of links to short interactive Flash exercises that should be accessible to Intermediate English Language Learners. Theyfre each images that have a number of "hot spots" you can click on for further information. Each era in U.S. History has one of them.
There are 20 people in each of these five sections: Arts, Business, Politics, Science and Society.
(All Males here)
Search by field of activity or categories. Famous person anagram or quiz. Famous PeoplesEQuotations. Can be searched by category and author. to compare with your own. guide for writing about famous or infamous people. Current celebrities site Older Famous People, famous people now deceased, writers, politicians, scientists, etc may be found under Yahoo! Sections. BIBLE-RELATED RESOURCES
Bamboo is an online Christian Bookstore with this stated aim:
This is a parallel corpus of the entire Gospel of Luke in 30 languages, which allows full-text searching and side-by-side comparison of up to seven languages. Bible Resources makes the Bible freely available online in multiple languages (20 major ones at this time) and translations with Bible Answers, Free Online Concordance Keyword and Passage Searches, Bible Tools, Bible Aids, Bible Studies, Bible Stories, Bible Devotionals, Bible Reading Plans, Bible Memorization Techniques. Most versatile free site on the subject known. The Blue Letter Bible now has over 4,000,000 links onsite to over 165,000 pages of concordances, lexicons, dictionaries, commentaries, images, and Bible versions! A program devised by Mark-Jason Dominus from Pennsylvania University, and applied to King James Authorised Version of the Bible. The program includes other corpora such as: Topical Bible (Nave), Bible Dictionary (Easton), New Topical Textbook (Torrey), Thematic Subject Guide, Dictionary of New Testament Words (Vine) and Bible Names Dictionary (Hitchcock). Here you can look for any quote/word from the Bible. The program also provides information about the different senses of a word and the corresponding concordances for each sense. for searching English Bible versions online. Offers free Bible commentaries and Bible helps in 21 languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali, Mandarin, French, Hindi, Magyar (Hungarian), Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Tagalog, Telegu, Thadou (India), Turkisn, Urdu, Vietnamese, and of course, English. BIBLE LEXICONS AND FREE SOFTWARE This site offers free lexica and dictionaries that can be used in any SWORD API based Bible program. To download, simply click on the links given for free Chinese, German, English, Greek and Hebrew support. FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING BOOKSELLERS A London foreign language-learning bookstore for all living languages from Afrikaans to Zulu (they say), with a particularly deep range in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. (enquiries@grantandcutler) OTHER
Give it a listen in your native or Target Language! BBC Website for learning English via news, entertainment, music, sport.
Eallows students to study using current news articles. He paraphrases current news into a one-page Word or PDF along with various activities for teachers to create a lesson with. Maintained by Sean Banville, who also supplies an audio file of him reading the article allowing each lesson to be made into either a listening or reading focus.
(Online Interactive Links to Conversation Games) Loucky, J. P. (2004). Gaining Speaking Confidence by Mastering Basic English Questions: Using Enjoyable Games within a Simple Framework. Mankind always needed a common language to exchange and share ideas. Today, it is a certain form of English, with a sentence building that is not too demanding, no trouble with accents, and a small set of useful words (1 ,500). This language is so different from formal English, and more limited that it must given a different name EGlobish. English is spoken in England, and Globish can be spoken in the global village, everywhere by everyone. They can be called Globiphones. Native English speakers have great difficulties when they want to reduce their words down to the 1, 500 key ones. As a simple globiphone, you are satisfied as soon as language is just understandable. Globiphones are at least seven times more numerous than Native English speakers . We should accept the evidence that a new language has appeared!
These are 225 book reports written by Doshisha University students to help you decide what books you would like to read. Choose either Low or High Intermediate Levels
Blogging posts from the foreign language category at Gadling.com. Multiple links to other blog topics. Probably the best brief, one page site and set of definitions.
Try listening to their online Video News! BBC's World Challenge helps support innovative self-help economic development projects in developing countries. in association with Shell, is a global competition that seeks out projects and businesses that not only make a profit, but also put something back into the community. World Challenge 2007, brought to you by BBC World and Newsweek, in association with Shell is all about rewarding individuals or groups that truly make a difference through enterprise and innovation at a grass roots level.
Robin Good's VERY GOOD Online Collaboration Blog
BrainHoney is a free online personalized learning platform that allows teachers to track student progress against state standards, supplement instruction with online resources, or even teach online.
25 Old and New Testament Stories (Macmillan L.H.) BIRTH PROCESS: "In the Womb": Amazing 4-D Footage of Growing Baby The two-hour National Geographic documentary "In the Womb" is now available on YouTube in 9 parts. Originally aired in 2005, the documentary used revolutionary techniques in computer imaging and 4-D ultrasounds to present stunning images of the developing embryo, taking viewers through the amazing journey of the unborn baby from conception to birth. The video presents a remarkable visual apologetic for the pro-life message that human life begins with fertilization. Showing the continuous development of the unborn child from conception to birth, it shatters all attempts to pinpoint any other time as the beginning of life. Skill Series (Longman-Pearson) BASIC ENGLISH
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by Prof. Yoshiko Aizawa in his new book on BASIC, published in Japan in 2007. Blogs for English Learning BlogAbroad.com chronicles the adventures of four students as they study abroad in different countries. You can interact with the students and give them advice or learn from their journeys. Blog with Interesting Stories & Pictures Bookgoo allows you to highlight and annotate your documents in the same way you would mark up a piece of paper with a highlighter and pen!
from Nik Peachey's Learning Technology Teacher Development Blog.
http://CALL4ALLUS.en101.com  Internet-based, interactive audio-visual English learning center with instructions in 21 languages. Free Demo and great online Business Opportunity! Click on a flag to choose a language. 
 ESL Lounge Free ESL Lesson Materials for teachers. Grammar, worksheets, song lyrics, board games, pronunciation and more. All free and printable.   Online Conference/Classroom Nellies English Projects is an educational website for students and teachers whose aim is to motivate students for lifelong learning. It provides resources for teachers on how to integrate technology into the classroom by means of project based and experiential learning using WebQuests. The site provides many educational resources, articles, lesson plans, evaluation rubrics, reading practice and collaborative writing ideas. Powered by IP2Location.com
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