Sean Banville's Other Sites
- ESL Discussions.com: Over 13,000 conversation questions, hundreds of Word and PDF handouts. Controversial and everyday discussion topics. For speaking practice in and out of class.
- Listen A Minute.com: One-minute listenings with downloadable, printable exercises, online quizzes and Flash activities.
- Famous People Lessons.com: ESL / EFL lessons using biographies and profiles of over 150 famous people from sports, politics, popular culture, movies and more. Free Word and PDF downloads plus MP3 listening.
- ESL Holiday Lessons.com: Lessons and activities on holidays, anniversaries, commemorations and other notable days in the world calendar. Free Word and PDF downloads plus MP3 listening.
- News English Lessons.com: ESL lessons on current events in simpler English. Free downloads plus MP3 listening, interactive activities and flash quizzes.
- Sean Banville on Twitter: 140-character updates on all of my sites.
- Sean Banville.com: My blog - Stuff from my head about teaching and technology.
- Free ESL Materials.com: A site containing links to free materials for ESL teachers and students.
- Business English Materials.com - Business English Materials.com: Free 20-page printable handouts, downloads, MP3 listening and online quizzes.
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Other Free Current Events Sites
- The Week in Rap: "Hip-Hop in the Classroom" - A weekly rap and video on U.S. and world news. Professionally sounding raps with lyrics for students to follow.
- BBC Words in the News Listening and vocabulary from BBC World Service news stories. There is a weekly lesson complete with teaching notes and student worksheets.
- New York Times: Daily lessons based on NY Times articles. Primarily for students at grades 9-12 but useful for more advanced ESL learners.
- Voice Of America: Daily listenings that are read at a slower pace, with a core vocabulary of 1500 words. Shorter, more simple sentences.
- Simple English News.com: Daily news headlines and very short articles behind the headlines.
- HeadsUpEnglish.com: Lessons plans and materials for upper-intermediate and advanced ESL & EFL learners.
- NewsFlashEnglish.com: Weekly lessons on news of Slovakia. Word and PDF handouts.
- Newsy.com: A multi-perspective online news source that analyzes world news and produces 2-to 3-minute, streaming video clips that compare different news agencies covering the same event. Clips are available on both web, and mobile platforms.
- Global Issues in Language Education: Excellent newsletter (click "Back Issues") to "promote global awareness, international understanding, social responsibility and action to solve world problems through content-based language teaching...."
Recommended ESL/EFL Blogs and a Ning
- Free ESL Materials - Blogs: A page outlining 130+ (May, 2011) ESL and ELT blogs.
- Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day: A constant source of very informative posts, links and updates on all things ESL, ELL and EFL from one of ESL's best bloggers.
- Teaching Life: A not-to-be-missed blog for 21st-Century teachers on teaching, language, testing, tech.... Written by 21st-Century teacher and blogger Chris Cattaneo.
- The English Blog: Blogger Jeffrey Hill updates this blog several times a day with video, cartoon and newspaper gems on today's latest trends and news.
- Free Technology for Teachers: A review of free technology resources and how teachers can use them. Ideas for technology integration in education.
- EFL Classroom 2.0: An extremely comprehensive ning for teachers and students. Check out the impressive site map for anything and everything EFL/ESL. From David Deubelbeis - "When one teaches, two learn".
- Classroom2.0: A social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education.
- Teacher Reboot Camp: Shelly Terrell's posts on the latest developments and tools available to educators, from Twitter to Second Life.
- Jason Renshaw's Web Log: A blog from the maker of EnglishRaven.com. Jason writes about the very latest (and traditional) ESL resources and activities. He also gives us his thoughts on the world of ESL and teaching.
- TEFLtastic with Alex Case: A very comprehensive and informed analysis of many issues in ELT.
- Web 2.0 Classroom: Steven Anderson blogging about the Web 2.0-connected classroom. A blend of technology and education.
- Kalinago English: Musings, information, ideas and reviews on ESL teaching and educational technology from blogger Karenne Sylvester.
- The Marxist TEFL Group: Extremely thought-provoking blog containing intelligent analysis of issues related to EFL/ESL. It does valuable work in highlighting the shadier side of our profession.
- Burcu Akyol's Blog: Impressions, reflections, reviews, tips and resources from an extremely entusiastic and hardworking English teacher and pioneer of using technology in the classroom. Tales of real-life, ambitious projects.
- Ozge Karaoglu's Blog: About teaching, learning, reflecting and being a 21st century learner & teacher. Contains excellent reviews of the very latest digital tools for the classroom.
- TEFL Matters: From Marisa Constantinides - Thoughts on language teaching, language teacher education and new technologies.
- ESOL Courses: Well crafted and imaginative lessons from Sue Lyon-Jones using YouTube videos and other interactive technology.
- Share and Smile: An amalgamation of articles, poems, short stories and grammar lessons from Sudam Chandra Panigrahi.
- The Educator's PLN: From Tom Whitby - A ning site dedicated to the support of a Personal Learning Network for Educators. 6,000+educators (as of May, 2011) ans growing.
Sites for Teachers and Students
- ELLLO: English Language Listening Lab Online. Listen to English speakers from all over the world. Over 400 listening activities that include quizes and texts. New listening every day.
- Teacher Training Videos: Videos to help teachers to incorporate technology into their teaching. Easy step-by-step screencast guides to the latest classroom technologies. From Russell Stannard.
- Activities for ESL Students: Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles. Has thousands of contributions from teachers.
- Interesting Things for ESL Students: Quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities.
- Using English.com: Online ESL resources for students and teachers - for ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP.
- eslflow.com: Acollection of links to lessons sorted by theme and level.
- ESL Topics Magazine: Online magazine that offers learners of English an opportunity to express and publish their ideas in English.
- Teachers-Pet.org: A free tool that quickly and easily creates many vocabulary activities from MS Word texts. An add-on to the Word menu bar.
- EnglishClub.com: A compendium of resources for teachers and students, plus information on international schools and ESL worldwide.
My Favourite School in Japan
- Princeford English College: Located in Umeda, Osaka, Princeford provides a very personal, at-home and fun learning experience. Private and group lessons available as well as TOEIC, TOEFL and speaking classes.
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