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April 27th, 2005 
The Moonlit Road. Short, scary stories
to read or to have read to you. Not for bedtime!
Crayon is a newspaper publishing site
that allows a student to create their own newspaper to read daily from
a list of available and free online resources. Allows the student to choose
their sources rangings from a feminist daily to Rush Limbaugh. It also
contains daily links to local weather and news. Requires registration
Topics Online Magazine looks at and explains
the art of web logs, or "blogging", the widely popular and very "vogue"
web publishing format.
Very little explaining here, instead Blogger.com
is a site that directly allows Ss to create, maintain and host a stylistic
web log. You are the author, and template chooser. They do the hosting
for all your students and classmates to see.
ESL Blues is full of grammar exercises
and focused instruction primarily for the student.
This totally cool site by the American Rhetoric
Society has full text, transcribed speeches from American leaders and celebrities.
Try listening to Malcolm X's "the Bullet or the Ballot" speech of
the early 1960's. Students could work alone or in groups to listen and
find main ideas and issues of the times or related to current topics.
Phonetic models of pronunciation. Could be used
with projector for class, or individually. Useful for linguistics
students.
The Learning Resources. Fabulously done
site that has full, transcribed audio clips of CBS News and CNN
stories. Quizzes are included. The news stories can be used for listening,
reading, or discussion exercises.
Free online Toefl test and study materials.
Has almost a full test for students to try. Requires free registration.
The Idiom Jungle has exercises, explanations,
and interactive learning tools for students. Covers essential idioms, fun
idioms and sayings, varieties of English, and slang. Provides short, quiz
type exercises to help understand differences between idioms.
The site name is, "Topics of Interest":
Contains oodles of academic themes ranging from abortion to world education.
Pages marked "our page" contain specialized exercises. Most topics
have vocabulary and reference materials or links. Use to begin a topic
discussion or writing assignment.
Blue Web'N: Database with some content
rich subject matter. "Best of the Web" sites are listed here. Contains
nice ESL section located under "subject" then, "foreign languages" with
links to some current and useful sites.Check update times as some of the
graphics are simplified in today's world.
The Virtual Mind Reader. Try it,
this is "trippy".
Click above to go to another page with
great sites to try, explore and have your students learn from.