English as a New Language, page 3
Lesson plans and teaching ideas

Make Beliefs Comix
Students create comic strips online. This tool is great for prewriting, responding to reading, creative writing, vocabulary words, ESL, and tickets out. Very easy to learn and use, it is appropriate for almost every age level.

Mansión del Inglés
This site is designed to help people who speak Spanish learn English.

MES-Games
Free Flash media games for ESL learners - grammar games, vocabulary builders and phonics programs.

Nada's ESL Island
This site includes extensive links to materials for teachers with an emphasis on students whose first language is Arabic or French.

Nik's Daily English Activities
Web-based language activities for students.

OM Personal
This awesome site from Argentina offers everything: courses, dialogues, jokes, music, self-testing. It is easy to navigate the extensive resources here.

Online English Verb Conjugation Trainer
The student chooses a tense and is presented with a model and practice sentences. Each exercise is self-correcting.

Open English World
This site provides free online lessons to help students learn and speak English more fluently. Lessons cover conversation, vocabulary, pronunciation, business English, and idioms.

The Phrase Finder
The meanings and origins of over 1,200 English sayings, phrases and idioms. Browse the site, sign up for weekly e-mail, or subscribe to the RSS feed. Another section, the Phrase Thesaurus, requires a subscription fee.

PIZZAZ! People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling
Simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable handouts for students of all ages. Designed for ESL.

Polite English
This interactive site allows students to practice common expressions.

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
An excellent collection of audio files. Requires an audio player.

Repeat After Us
An online library of copyright-free English texts and scripted recordings. Students can read along as they listen to a native speaker read poetry, children's stories, folk tales, and more. Different degrees of difficulty are indicated.

Self-Study Grammar Quizzes
Online interactive quizzes including pronouns, sentence structure, and more. Follow links to other activities.

To Learn English
Available in both French and English, this site features a variety of materials: courses, games, exercises, tests, interactive pages, plays, jokes, cartoons, chat rooms, forums, e-mail accounts, international TVs and radios, much more.

Using English
Articles, grammar glossary, newsletter, and a variety of links.

VerbBusters
Verbbusters offers fun interactive exercise for the practice of the irregular verbs with cues in English or other European languages. It offers dynamic ranking and quick search functions as well as bilingual verb lists and audio. It's free and no registration is required.

Web-based Lesson Plans for ESL
Six lessons ranging from "Introduction to the Web" to finding a summer camp. Also has information on writing grants.

Wikigogy
A wiki where ESL and EFL teachers may share lesson plans, teaching wisdom and best practice ideas

Zozanga
Links for ESL learners.

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