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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Intermediate Level

For Students 9th - 10th
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish-speaking students. It is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension,...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Beginning Level

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish speaking students. This section is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening...
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English Club

English Club: Six Common Mistakes in Esl Writing

For Students 9th - 10th
This EnglishClub tutorial provides a list, with brief explanations, of the most common writing mistakes made among English as a Second Language students.
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Other

Using English: Content Analysis Tool

For Students 9th - 10th
How are your English writing skills coming along? This online text analyzer will help you assess word usage, sentence complexity, and other writing features. Copy and paste your text into the box and click to view statistics. This is...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Food (La Comida): Listening/dialogs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Wonderful, extensive site for Spanish-speaking ELL. In this section, students listen to a couple of short audio clip dialogs in English and then answer interactive comprehension questions. Several activities provided - instructions in...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: House (La Casa): Pronunciation/sonidos

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Extensive site focusing on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition - contrasts "b" and "v" sounds as in "very/bury." Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a "Teacher's...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: School (La Escuela)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Useful, extensive site for the Spanish-speaking ELL. This grammar section focuses on use of the articles "a/an" and plurals. A variety of interactive, self-correction exercises are provided. A "Teacher's Lounge," section is available...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for Ell's

For Teachers K - 1st
Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
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St Online / Japan Times Ell Newspaper

For Students 9th - 10th
The companion site for Weekly ST, which the Japan Times publishes to help young audiences learn English. You can read articles, some in English, some in Japanese, and listen to the audio version. The English article comes with online...
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Other

Hong Kong Education City: English Campus

For Students 9th - 10th
English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...
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Other

Fonetiks: Phonics Practice

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This English pronunciation guide is useful for young English speakers, as well as English language learners of all ages. It offers practice in reading, pronunciation, and writing of vowels and consonants and of vowel and consonant...
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British Council

British Council Learn English Central: Listening and Watch

For Students 9th - 10th
A selection of 20 or so mp3 listening files, with audioscripts, that you can download and play on your computer or portable player. Each comes with a follow-up activity -- these can vary, e.g., an offline writing assignment, online...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Understanding Maps and Directions

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive site for teaching Spanish speaking ELL. The theme of this unit is the directions - An "e-mail" is presented, giving directions to a house party - Interactive exercise follows, asking comprehension questions - A guided writing...
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Other

English & Fun!: Strip Cartoons & Stories

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a collection of printable cartoon and reading activities teachers can use with their younger ELL/ESL students. Materials include writing prompts, role and finger plays, limericks, and an activity on superlatives and comparatives.
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Other

Musical English Lessons

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn English vocabulary and grammar through songs from a wide range of famous pop artists from the Beatles and Elvis to contemporary standouts like Avil Lavigne, Good Charlotte, and James Blunt. Find an exercise by grammar or vocabulary...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Family (La Familia)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Extensive site focusing on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition - contrasts short "e" and "i" sounds as in "bill/bell". Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a...
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TESL Journal

Bilingual English Portuguese Vocabulary Quizzes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers vocabulary-building quizzes that can be used either by learners of English or by learners of Portuguese to test knowledge of the English and Portuguese words for colors, days, months, seasons, greetings, fruits,...
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English Club

English Club: Punctuation Styles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub tutorial expounds upon the differences in punctuations styles that exist among individual writers, British and American authors, and publishers.
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Other

Zhongwen: Chinese Characters and Culture (A Genealogy and Dictionary)

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource. Zhongwen's Chinese-English dictionary helps learners understand the origins of Chinese characters and their interconnections, with interesting information on character roots. In the readings section, English...
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Other

English & Fun: Photocopiables

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Photocopiable activities that ESL teachers can print out and use to help students learn English. A wide selection of materials, all designed to reinforce basic skills, are provided: vocabulary exercises (including math vocabulary); games...
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Other

Using English: Academic Word List

For Students 9th - 10th
Word lists by letter of advanced vocabulary with links to definitions and other related information. Useful for essay writing or test preparation.
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Pearson

Practice With Colors Game Longman Backpack

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Short, fun game younger English learners can use to practice colors. Ocean creatures say (in writing) what color they are and students indicate the correct color (two different rounds; total of 2-4 minutes for the whole game).
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Hot or Cold

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains 10 phrases that should have either the word hot or cold in it. The students should use the Activotes to vote if they think the missing word is hot or cold. Space is there for...
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ESL4kids

The Efl Playhouse: Games for Learning English

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Use these adaptations of familiar children's games to help foster language development. Each game has a write up detailing how to play, what materials are needed and what adaptations can be made for non-English speakers.