Tuesday, November 20, 2007
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English as a Second Language Resource

English As A Second Language

Best resources for both reading games, traditional Language Arts and interactive Childrens Books Online that integrate technology into the classroom. Best resources for both traditional Language Arts and modern communications sites and applications on the web.



Online stories and activities
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BookPals Storyline features online stories for children. You can see videos of bedtime stories read by mothers, with subtitles and some pictures of the books. Those stories can be used by students level A2 and above to improve their listening comprehension. Note that for some books you can also access the script as reader's theater : the story turned into a play!
I chose "my rotten red headed older brother" (a story with lots of comparative and superlatives), and here is the reader's theater: and then "Pigasso and met Mootisse" based on the characteristics of Picasso and Matisse. A teacher's guide is provided with lots of activities to do around the story, and links to sites to discover the lives and works of the real painters so as to understand the references.


California literacy teacher Larry Ferlazzo". From "the homepage, click on "English"
http://larryferlazzo.com/english.html
and you'll see nine categories of ELL materials (including science, geography and world history).
http://larryferlazzo.com/englishthemes.html
[ ELL, ESL, EFL stand for English Language Learning, English as a Second or Foreign Language. All those are English for students who are not native speakers. The site lists topics by themes, and for each theme there are dozens of links to interesting pages.
For example in animals,
http://larryferlazzo.com/englishthemes.html#animals
I selected "elephant" and one of the addresses was that page from the CBBC, Newsround, with a text and the audio file.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4720000/newsid_4720700/4720716.stm
Explore this site, you'll find lots of resources such as songs, simple texts, audio files and educational games for beginners.



"How 2" is a new podcast from BBC Learning English. This audio podcast is about how to talk about funny or unusual things that happened. In each file, you hear someone speaking, and there is a commentary stressing what vocabulary is used an how the speech is built and presented with a stress on expressions used to introduce and conclude it. it ends with a recap. It could be useful for intermediate adults who want to learn by themselves. You can subscribe to the podcast to receive a file automatically each week.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/how2/
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/how2/how2_20071114-1700.mp3


Adolescent Literacy -Coaching


New York : listening comprehension exercises
On his site "Soundguide", our colleague Rodolphe Maurel offers lots of useful exercises around videos or audio files on different themes.
http://www.soundguideweb.com/index.php?lng=en
The most recent addition is the pages about New York : a full guide (12 pages with videos) and her holidays in New York described by a British student. Those documents can be used in class, in the computer lab, in the library, and also by students working on their own at home.
http://www.soundguideweb.com/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=52
http://www.soundguideweb.com/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=211



A lesson about Guns
On e-teach, Catherine Tertre from Rennes recommends this ready to use Instant Lesson from English-to-go about guns and gun laws. The lesson includes a warming up, texts and diagrams with comprehension exercises and follow up work. It is easy, level A2, with lots of figures and names of countries. it will be perfect for older students or adults with a weak level who need to take confidence.
http://www.english-to-go.com/english/free_lesson.cfm?CFID=1577058&CFTOKEN=99038739




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