ESL -WEB BASED RESOURCES

ESl-WEB BASED RESOURCES

Ready Made Activities to add flavor to your lessons

Oral English Activities

Grammar Activities Worksheets

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Webcasts and your Professional Development

Webcasts

a revolutionalised electronic media featuring video broadcasts to watch on your computer.
Developing your professional teaching experience is within your hands.
Colorincolorado offers scores of video broadcasts where high pofile experts in education discuss ESL-related issues related.Every webcast is 45 minutes long accompanied with Powerpoint slide presentation.In addition to the video bradcast ,Transcripts, recommended readings and sample dicussion question are also within your hand.

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Teaching general English Vs teaching academic English

In this video,

Olwyn Alexander

sheds some light on the difference between teaching General English and academic English.

What Can you Do With VOCABS

wordle is an interesting instructional tool that gives its users the ability to generate a " Word cloud" through the text they feed in.As such, The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.Incorporating this in classroom activities is rewarding.
Lately ,I used the word cloud game as a lead to introduce my target languge of the lesson 'job tiltles'.The lesson was targeted to company trainees ,intermidate level.I used the 'word cloud'for the prediction stage.Then a task was asssigned to learners to find the words that go together to make a job title.Then afterwards I assigned another matching task.Learners now are asked to match the job titles they find with descriptions of each job.Below is how the job title word cloud looked like.The students really enjoyed the activity and the lesson main objective is attained.
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Teacher's Resources

I've just come across this site and I think it's ,par exellence worth exploring for classroom materials.

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Create You Own Comic-Strip

Here is a fun way you can use spoken phrases to create comic strips using the Make Belief Comix website. You can use these either to remind your self of any new phrases you are learning, or just to enjoy creating your own comic strip.

HOW:

• Go to: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ and click on 'Enter Here' below the comic strip.
• You will then be able to see the comic creator. Think of some spoken phrases that you have learned recently. Think about how they would be used in conversation and how the people you are talking to might respond.

Now create a comic strip using the phrases and making them part of the dialogue. It's simple to make a comic strip. You just click on the first character you want to use, then scroll through different emotions that you would like them to have.

LEARN ENGLISH AND HAVE FUN

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Job Interview:"Why Should We Hire you?''

A Job Interview in English

Interviewing for a job can be very stressful in any language, but if you have to do it in English then getting some extra preparation is a must.The easiest way then is to put down some questions you may be asked by your interviewer and theire is no remainder that profiling maximum information of the company and its activities is much recommended.

E-Microsoft'>http://www.emicrosoftinterview.com/">E-Microsoft Interview website.
Here's a sample answer to a very popular question "Why should we hire you?"




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