ENGLISH LANGUAGE RESOURCES

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Some virtual addresses on English language resources for teachers as well as students. I hope they can be useful to you!!!

Levi F. Araújo

‘Resources for Writers’ at Indiana State University

http://isu.indstate.edu/writing/writers.html

Comment: Teachers who conduct classes in a room without computers may find this site very useful, for they can print out the exercises and use them in class as a test or review materials.

Olof Ekedahl’s ‘English Language Quizzes’

http://www.englund.lu.se/quiz/qizzes.html

Comment: Ekedahl offers seven quizzes “on grammatical and lexical patterns in English,” each containing 30 questions. The quizzes are all interactive. An interesting feature of the quizzes is that they can recognize several alternatives as the correct answer.

Jane Straus’ ‘The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation’

http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/fr2_gram.html

Comment: The Blue Book is quite cryptic and is deal for those who want grammar information in a nutshell. All the exercises and tests are noninteractive. Since the author of the book currently markets a printed version of the Blue Book, she does not allow “reprinting without express permission”.

The New York Times ‘Learning Network’

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/

Comment: As a site hosted by a preeminent newspaper, the Learning Network is not only rich in resources but also professional in quality and free from nuisances like pop-up ads and blinking banners. There are so many archives of news stories, lesson plans, and “special packages” that learners and teachers will find the site a reliable source of reading materials.

BBC World Service ‘Words in the News’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/words/index.htm

Comment: This is a news-related section of the larger “Learning Englisgh” site hosted by BBC World Service. The opening page shows two or three “extracts” (short news reports or interviews), each preceded by a spear icon. If you click on the icon, you can listen to the extract as you read it on the page. Difficult words in each extract appear in bold type, and immediately below the extract, these words are defined in simple English. Since each extract is only about 100-words long and about 10 percent of these words have annotations, learners may find it relatively easy to read.

Angela Ackley’s ‘Using Newspapers in the Classroom’

http://www.knownet.net/users/ackley/news.html


Comment: Ackley’s ‘Using Newspapers in the Classroom’ is a 780-word collection of practical ideas designed for “fifth and sixth grade educators” in the United States. After giving six reasons to convince teachers why they should use newspapers in their classroom, Ackley presents her innovative and interesting suggestions. As an experienced elementary school teacher, Ackley comes up with extremely simple effective means of educating learners.