Student's page for first-year students Student's page for second-year students Activities on the net (lower intermediate level)

You can also consult : Sites pédagogiques on the home page.

EDUCATIONAL SITES	TOURISM / MUSEUMS
LANGUAGE exercises/activities/games	NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, MEDIA Publications in Easy English
Listening activities	CINEMA
SONGS	STUDENTS' WORK
DICTIONARIES / ENCYCLOPEDIAS	SCHOOLS (language / culture)
LITERATURE Literature on the Web / Reading Integral texts Poetry Notes on literature Literary Biographies	TEACHERS AND COMPUTERS THE WEB FOR TEACHERS SOFTWARE BIBLIOGRAPHY ON CALL  (Computer Assisted Language Learning)
CULTURE	CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CLASSROOMS
TRADITIONS HISTORY	FEATURE ARTICLES
Biographies	FORUMS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS
BOOKSHOPS	KEYPALS (e-mail correspondence)
MISCELLANEOUS	YOUNG LEARNERS / CHILDREN

EDUCATIONAL SITES FOR ENGLISH

• Lilliam Hurst's homepage for language teachers - an absolute  MUST  for English teachers!

 
• Sites for Teachers : a huge database for teachers of all subjects and levels
• English Forum : a comprehensive portal with all sorts of resources for teachers and students, including dictionaries
• English / LA Teacher Links - an excellent, very complete and interesting site
• Links for English Learning & Teaching (université de Kyoto) :
• Green's English page s (all sorts of different activities proposed: grammar, writing, games, vocabulary, etc)
• The Internet TESL Journal : for teachers of English as a second language. Lots of ideas and activities for the teacher.
• University of Ohio : Resources for English Language and culture
• Volterre: Internet projects for learners and teachers of English
• The Digital Education Network :  online English grammar, English Grammar Clinic, English Practice Pages, Education Event Finder, ELT/TEFL Job Centre, ELT/TEFL Centre
• Dave's Sperling's ESL Café : For ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World

especially the ESL Café's Cookbook of ideas for the ESL/EFL classroom : lots of fun ideas for teachers.
• The Internet for ESL teachers : useful references for teachers who wants to use the Internet with their classes
• Englishtown : a website for English teachers (grammar, games, chat, penfriends, etc)
• The Global Schoolhouse : "Linking kids, teachers and parents around the world"
• Education Virtual Library (Charles Sturt University)
• English as a second language (Rong-Chang Li)
• Linguanet
• English as a Second Language , by Kenneth Beare (About.com) : grammar, vocabulary, dictionaries, false friends, American vs British English,  chat, newsgroups, etc, etc : a useful site, proposing varied activities and links
• EduCETH : "The intention of this page is to help teachers of English and their students find material easily and quickly" - page by Hans G. Fischer, at the ETH

Excellent source of English-teaching news and information.
• Info Tree - Educational and Internet Resources - Find the educational site you are looking for...
• A Web Resource for CALL Lab Managers and for Teachers and Learners of Languages, prepared by Vance Stevens : texts, games, many activities and resources for English teachers

 
• Université de Nancy : page de liens, séquences pédagogiques, etc
• Académie de Versailles : portal for English
• Université de Nantes : English page
• Université de Lyon : page d'anglais
  

 
• For the teacher : Outta Ray's  Head : Lesson plans, handouts, and ideas. (Ideas for literature, poetry, writing, etc)
• CNN Newsroom : "a FREE instructional program for teachers to bring the world into their classroom with in-depth news stories and world & regional events designed exclusively for students."
• Campus Resource Centre (Amiens)

 
• The BBC's learning English area (The BBC World Service) : an excellent way of learning English through the news. Also possible to hear speeches, etc

 
• The British Council (Switzerland) or The British Council (Britain)

 
• PeakEnglish (Distance Learning, Inc.) : English courses, grammar guides, articles, stories (script + oral reading + film),  games, slang, dictionary & thesaurus (Merriam-Webster), chatrooms, discussion forums, penpals...

Different modules : slang of the day, Active Grammar, etc.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

English exercises and activities to do with students

• English language center (University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) : grammar, vocabulary, exercises, reading comprehension... : many interesting and challenging activities for learners of English of different levels
• English Pages : grammar, exercises, quizzes, crosswords, databank on  various subjects, etc
• Tests/exercices on-line : self-study quizzes for ESL Students
• Resources for English Language Learners (Ohio University)
• Activities for ESL students (interactive quizzes, grammar, games, customs and traditions, etc)
• Doug's interactive English exercises
  

 
• Language Games : a list of resources for basic level students contributed largely by Ed Moore, MLI, Abu Dhabi
• English-to-go : photocopiable lessons for teachers of English + get a free English lesson in your e-mail every week

 
• Listening activities
• ESL Independent Study Lab
• Ohio ESL : Listening for English Language Learners
  
  

Software to create on-line language exercises

• Martin Holmes' Hot Potatoes

The freeware Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice,
 short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword,  matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web
• example of a matching exercise

example of a drag-and-drop exercises: putting the words in the correct order
• Funbrain

 

Language games

EFL games (Sakuragaoka Highschool)

Language (vocabulary, idioms, corpus, etc)

• Idioms: Collins Cobuild : every day, a new idiom
• Dave Sperling's PHRASAL VERBS
• Dave Sperling's IDIOM PAGE
• Peak's Slang Dictionary
• American Slang
• Introducing plain language : a guide to effective writing (for teachers or advanced students)



 Grammar

The Online English grammar
Better English


  

SONGS

• Fun Songs : English language action songs
• Music Archive : many songs from different countries
• Folksongs of various countries
• RISA Song Lyrics Archive
  

Other Lyrics servers:

Platomic Lyrics

Leonie's Lyrics Page

Biz Zone Lyrics Search Engines

  DICTIONARIES / ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Dictionaries

Webster Dictionary (online)

Travlang's On-line free dictionaries (also French-German)

Babylon Dictionary : you can download it for a test period of 100 days, and install it on your computer. When you click on any word with the button on the right (mouse), the translation appears in a window above the word. Very convenient.

Enyclopaedias:
Encyclopaedia Britannica online
Funk and Wagnalls : adictionary, a thesaurus, an encyclopedia, an atlas, etc
 

LITERATURE ON THE WWW

• Shakespeare on the Net : all Shakespeare's work on Internet
• Literature on WWW
• The On-Line Books Page
• The Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature Main Page, page by Alan Liu, English Dept., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
• Reading Resources for English Language Learners (CALL Lab, University of Ohio)
• Literature Help , by Ruth Vilmi
• Dave Sperling's Café Web Guide : Literature



  READING

• Short Stories on the Web
• Penguin Dossiers (on different subjects; not quite one page; they are free)

 

  INTEGRAL TEXTS

Project Gutenberg (USA): classical literature, essentially in English, French and Latin as well
University of Virginia E-book library : 1,200 publicly-available ebooks from the University of Virginia Library's Etext Center, including classic British and American fiction,  major authors, children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American documents, the Bible, and much more.

POETRY

• Poetic terms



 NOTES / HELP ON LITERATURE
Cliffs Notes and Study Guides (to be downloaded with a small payment)
Classic Notes : free, extensive notes on many literature works
Laurie's Education and Resource Network : extensive list of short stories / poetry that are accompanied by a complete unit of study. The writers range from mid 19th to mid 20th century.
 

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES

Authors on the Web : A Collection of Biographical Sketches

CULTURE

Traditions

• Tony's Traditions Page
• Holidays on the Net : cultural information about different holidays (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, etc)
• The Holiday Page (Wilstar site)
• Folklore, mythology.. (Belinus Press).

 

Thanksgiving :

• History of Thanksgiving (Learning Network : TeacherVision)
• The Pilgrims and America's First Thanksgiving
• The American Thanksgiving tradition
• Links proposed by the Académie de Versailles
  

Halloween

• Halloween Central : all about Halloween
• Links proposed by the Académie de Versailles
  

 

Christmas:

• Christmas stories and poems
• Links proposed by the Académie de Versailles
  

 

Traditions : Miscellaneous

• Valentine's Day
• Pasadena Tournement of Roses
• The Nottinghill Carnival

 

History

• Spartacus Encyclopedia of British History
• England, a narrative history
• An Outline of American History

Biographies

• Biography.com (with a section "Born on this day")
• Biographical Dictionary

 

Miscellaneous :

The British Monarchy

 

BOOKSHOPS

• Blackwell's (GB)
• Keltic (in London) : EFL bookshop
• Amazon ("Earth's biggest bookstore!") (USA)
• Barnes and Noble (USA)

 

TOURISM

• Time Out (WorldWide City Guides)
• Visit Britai>

MUSEUMS

•   World Wide Web Virtual Library museums pages : a comprehensive directory of on-line museums and museum-related resources

 

NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, MEDIA

• Les journaux sur le Web (Webdo site) : a good starting point. You can find any newspaper in any language, in any country
• Arts and Letters Daily : an updated report of news and reviews. Lists newspapers, magazines, book reviews, columnists, etc... on the web
• AJR News Link : a site of reference to find online newspapers and magazines in the world
• The BBC on-line
• The BBC Learning Zone
• The Electronic Telegraph
• The Economist : some articles are free, but others can be read only by subscribers
• The Guardian/The Observer
• The New York Time on the Web : free of charge, but you have to subscribe
• Time
• The Financial Times
• CNN Interactive
• CNN Interactive Learning Ressources Very useful : stories in their original and simplified form, with exercises (vocabulary, comprehension, etc)
• CNN Transcripts : transcripts of the last 10 days...
  
• For those interested in science : SCITECH Daily Review

Publications in Easy English

• SOON, the Easy-English Web Magazine : stories, etc. (Religious orientation)
• World of English : A magazine for Students of English published bi-monthly (Poland)
• CNN Interactive Learning

MISCELLANEOUS

How stuff works:
"Have you ever wondered how the engine in your car works or what
 makes the inside of your refrigerator cold? Then How Stuff Works
 is the place for you!" Explains how things function in the world around us.
This Day In History :  Important events, birthdays, and links

CINEMA

Film scripts or transcripts : Script-O-Rama
The Internet Movie Database : a data of over 117,000 movies

STUDENTS' WORK

• An Evil House of Cheat - over 9500 students' essays on-line in over 40 categories
• Welcome to Cheater.com : to be a member, you have to contribute with an essay of your own.
• Academic paper s : more than  3000'0 students' essays in different fields.

 

LANGUAGE SCHOOLS

In Geneva

Information for Genevese students : Centre de séjours à l'étranger (Genève)

ASC (72, rue de Lausanne, 1202 Genève)

 

In Great Britain

English Culture Courses, Cambridge

Eurocentres (different languages in different countries)

NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education)

Academy International, English Language School , London

COURSES FOR TEACHERS / ADULTS

  TEACHERS AND COMPUTERS

THE WEB FOR TEACHERS

ESL-Web guide

 

SOFTWARE

WIDA

Question Mark

Hot Potatoes : free software to create language exercises on the web (University of Victoria)

Hot Potatoes : tutorial translated into French

Help Read freeware : Free software that "reads" aloud any text typed on a computer.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY ON CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning)

Bibliography on CALL, created by John Higgins

 

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CLASSROOMS

• The AT&T Virtual Classroom is a free online educational program for elementary, junior and senior high schools around the world.
• AT&T : LEARNING CIRCLES
• E-mail keypals for language fluency , by Thomas N. RObb, Kyoto Sangyo University : an interesting article giving practical ideas about how to set up an exchange between students. Also gives the necessary links to relevant sites.
• Netpals :

       "NetPals is an email penpal service for people aged between five and 19.
       It is here to help you learn and share information about other people, in
       the UK and overseas. Using NetPals is a great way to learn how to use
       email. "
• International Tandem Network : language learning in tandem via the Internet. The Tandem Agency brings tandem parteners from all over the world together, free of charge.
• Intercultural E-mail classroom connections (St Olaf College)
• The Global Schoolhouse : "Linking kids, teachers and parents around the world"
• IEARN : "The International Education and Resource Network enables young people to undertake                    projects designed to make a meaningful contribution to the health and welfare of the planet and its people" (costs about $ 300.-- for a school).

 
• International EFL/ESL email student discussion lists

 

FEATURE ARTICLES

Margaret Riel's article on " The Future of learning on the Web "

Guidelines for Educational Uses of Networks

 

FORUMS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Foreign language teaching forums (State University of New York at Cortland)

Two lists based at CUNY (City University of New York)

TESL-L    Teachers of English (to Speakers of Other Languages) - List

TESLCA-L    Teachers of English (to Speakers of Other Languages) interested in CAL

To take part, send a message to the following address:

LISTSERV@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU

E-MAIL / CORRESPONDENCE

E-mail Pen-Pal Opportunities for Students

Volterre-fr : Keypals and penpals / Correspondants électroniques

 

YOUNG LEARNERS

Young Learners : Web ressources

The Global classroom

Bedtime stories : Bedtime Story

I hope this page has been of some use to you.

If you have any comments, or questions, feel free to contact me !

Florence Durand (Geneva, Switzerland)

20 April 2001