FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS OF ENGLISH
AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Welcome to our page. TRENDS
(Home page) is
a European project for the training of the teachers of Secondary Education
and Official Language Schools in the use of information technologies
and telematics, and in their application to the teaching-learning process.
We hope you and your students will find this page helpful and also have
hours of fun using it.
There are links to the following areas:
Rule
Britannia (music only)
Welcome
to the Ten Downing Street Web Site 10 Downing Street Web Site. Live broadcasts,
open discussions, U.K. today. Government
Information service Perhaps the two most useful additions to this
indispensable site about government and its functions are the Official
British Monarchy site, and the searchable transcripts of the House
of Commons business from the House of Commons and House of Lords (Hansard).
To find Hansard choose the 'organisational' index and then select Hansard
choosing House of Commons or House of Lords. Surely the most significant
British Studies resource to appear on the WWW to date.
Royal
Network More light-hearted than the official site.
The
Prince of Wales Online forum
The
Victorian web. Very good interdisciplinary overview of the Victorian
period. Attractive easily navigable site especially suited to survey courses
looking at Empire and the antecedents of British 20th Century Culture.
A
salute to flag day Fourteen activities to help your students to
celebrate June 14th Flag Day. Each one of these entries is a page and it
offers many others but I leave it to the curious teacher/student.
The History of Flag Day (a page)
The Pledge of Allegiance (a page)
The History of the Flag (a page)
Evolution on the United States Flag (a page)
And many others to follow.
Ireland
through the ages:
American
recipes Travel: countries
and cities Understanding
American Football This is a recently published book which explains
the game, its vocabulary and its role in U.S. culture for people from other
countries and/or whose native language is not English.
The
White House Guided tour. Give some advice to the president.
CIA
World factbook Perfect for a school project though not quite
enough for a military takeover.
Library of Congress America's story in words, sounds and pictures.
Described as one of the seven wonders of the Internet.
Museums
around the world
TOEFL OnLine Official Toefl page and sample exam questions
Language
testing Links to many official exams.
Bank
of exams and exercises Specially
designed for teachers of 3º- 4º de E.S.O. , 1º-
2º de Bachillerato, 1º- 2º- 3º de BUP y
COU.
Idioms The
Weekly Idiom Every two weeks, The Comenius Group provides
a new idiom to assist students of English.
JOBS
TimePlan Empresa de trabajo temporal por internet especializada
en sustituciones en secondary schools
en el Reino Unido por profesores extranjeros.
Con toda la información precisa incluyendo un
útil resumen del sistema educativo británico.
Listen to spoken English Worldwide radio schedules
Sounds
and sights Make use of the many radio stations that broadcast
by streaming sound files, no download! Listen to accents, use news and
other programs as listening exercises, discuss current events.
Live concerts Police scanner Live police, fire, aviation and racetrack scanner
feeds piped into real audio. Listen in to real busts in progress.
BBC World Service BBC News Choice of audio or video.
MAGAZINES,
JOURNALS AND NEWSPAPERS
Internet
TESL Journal Soon
online magazine An easy-English web magazine for the world. Free
copies posted for class.
EFLWEB is
an on-line magazine for those teaching and learning English as a Foreign
Language.
Topics:
an online magazine by and for learners of English People News, puzzles, games, chat, links to many other
publications.
Time Economist The on-line subscription is cheaper than the
print one and offers a wonderful archive service
(with, among others, a style guide for writing
and a search machine that gets you everything
published about your requested topic since 1995).
Encyclopedically addictive.
Registration is free and includes access to five
full articles.
Reader’s
Digest The Times,
Sunday Times, Times Literary, Education and Higher Education Supplements
(TLS, TES and THES):
Virtually complete e-versions of the daily and
Sunday newspapers plus highlights from the two supplements but few pictures.
Registration is required but the site is free. The Times Literary Supplement
now includes an archive of past issues older than six months if you subscribe
to the print version and there are similar benefits for THES readers.
The Electronic
Telegraph Almost complete e-versions of the daily and Sunday
newspapers with a few photos. Good search/archive facility. Its obituaries
are particularly well-written and useful. Registration is required but
the site is free.
The On-line
Mirror The Daily Mirror on-line features a generous
selection of its reports and features and a camera watching the building
progress of the Millennium Dome from the vantage of Canary Wharf in London's
docklands.
The Guardian Not an electronic version of The Guardian daily
but a high quality selection of themes: sport, key articles from the previous
year, a very good job finder, and perhaps most fascinatingly, the feature,
Notes & Queries, questions and answers to such head-scratchers as "Why
is a full cooked English breakfast (amongst other things) sometimes referred
to as "the full Monty?"
Online
newspapers Links to newspapers all over the world, including
the unreported news.
BOPCAS:
British
Official Publications Current Awareness Service.
The Independent It has a section on education: education +
Network
(BBC World Service) Journals
and publications The TEFL Farm Tefl on-line publication
MAILING LISTS FOR EFL
Name: TESL-L Address: listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Name: NETACH-L Address: listserv@thecity.sfsu.edu
Name: UNTILL Address: majordomo@man.ac.uk
Name: WORDPALY-L Address: MailServ@levels.unisa.edu.au
Address: listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu
English-L
Online Community English-L is a mailing list where international
learners discuss studying English as a Second Language (ESL).
eMail
Classroom Exchange (ECE)
epals search engine provides students with an
opportunity to meet and correspond with other students from around the
World! Search our on-line database of classrooms or add yours to our search
engine for free. Entertaining, fun and educational - Email Classroom Exchange
is perfect for cultural, history, science or geography projects. Through
electronic Mail, Internet voice communications, and the WWW, photographs,
images, sound and video clips can be shared at virtually no expense.
Pen
Pal Directory For young people and teachers.
ESL slang
page Common
American Slang Over 280 expressions
Bad
language This series will tell you the best kept secrets
in the English language. Because the British are shy when it comes to talking
about their bodies and what comes out of them, foreign learners often spend
their lives not knowing the correct language for the most important things
they do. The authors think that you should not only understand what the
various words and phrases mean, but also learn when and when not to use
them.
Bad
language 2 WARNING: This site contains sexually explicit
language learning material.
Dave's ESL café Englishtown Trinity
College London To be launched in the near future
Club
de Colaboración Académica Club for academic collaboration. Notes, assignments,
links, exams.
The Digital Education network English exercises, dictionary, courses in different
countries.
LinguaCenter
Homepage Web
Basics for Beginners How to use the web for learning English.
Sesame
Street (For the very young and not so young)
Aprender Inglés Learn and improve your
English The easy English advice help page for learners
Many EFL/ESL/ESOL
Links Charles Kelly Daily
page for students of English The
Comenius English Language Center The Comenius group is developing this site so
that students of English from around the world can have online access to
relevant materials, services and products.
Digital
Education. English language teaching and learning section Resources, forums and information for those teaching
or learning English as a foreign language.
English for Internet Free online English language classes in grammar,
reading, speaking, reading, writing, TOEFL and ESP.
Andreas
Lunt: English as a second, a foreign, another language The following links, activities and projects
are useful for teachers and learners of English as Another Language (including
English as a Foreign or Second Language [EFL/ESL]).
BBC
World Service Language
learning This page contains information and resources
for teachers and students of English as a second language (ESL) and English
as a foreign language (EFL). The articles give
practical hints and suggestions for learning and teaching any language
quickly.
English Learning
Funsite Grammar, Idiom, Vocabulary, Slang, Pronunciation,
Accent Reduction & Listening Comprehension Activities. Some free activities.
The
ESL Hub The informative site for EFL students. The author
says: "I've found that my students like to use the internet for lots of
different things; finding travel information, learning idioms and slang,
reading newspapers, and learning about American culture, among other things.
In creating the ESL hub, I've tried to incorporate these elements. I also
wanted to give students a place where they could easily come into contact
with each other - through a chat room, and through my keypal list. And
last but not least, I've found very few resources for ESL students seeking
online tutorials, and even fewer proofreading and editing services intended
specifically for learners of English as a second language, so I've added
those services to the ESL Hub as well."
ESL
Study Hall Planet
English For students and teachers of ESL/EFL including
language lessons, chat, message boards, bookstore, software jobs, and study
grammar.
Volterre-FR
English and French Language Resources Resources for teachers, learners, lovers of English
and French.
English
as a second language Organised in a similar way to this page.
Wicked
stuff for English learners The
Linguistic Funland Linguistic
Funland! World of English ESL/EFL
for teachers and students EFL resources ESL-EFL
resources English Now Kid Pub No drinks served here, just thousands of stories
submitted by kids worldwide.
Kids' Space Free hideout for kids to swop art, music and
stories with new friends across the world.
Karin's
ESL Partyland There are 25 discussion forums, an interactive
quiz center, links, and more.
Mansión inglés Se trata de una web totalmente gratuita en español
destinada al aprendizaje del idioma inglés. Contiene una gran cantidad
de material educativo, incluyendo un completo curso multimedia de aprendizaje,
gramática, ejercicios, libros, lecturas, programas educativos para
descargar, y todo un conjunto de recursos complementarios para
profesores y estudiantes.
Web for Schools is a project involving over 700 European
secondary school teachers. The goal of the project is to enable and assist
those teachers, their colleagues and pupils, to demonstrate ways in which
they can use the Internet in the educational process. A detailed explanation
of Web for Schools is contained in CONTEXT
magazine.
Page created by: Ana González (EOI Burgos) Jaime Macho and Conrado Álvarez (IES
Leopoldo Cano, Valladolid) Yolanda Pérez (EOI Logroño) Emma de la Torre and Susan Thurgood (EOI Jesús
Maestro, Madrid)
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