Short Speaking Activities

Student Interviews










Purpose: Introducing Students to Each Other / Expressing Opinions
Ask students to write five or more questions about this topic (students can also come up with the questions in small groups). Once they have finished the questions, they should interview at least two other students in the class and take notes on their answers. When the students have finished the activity, ask students to summarize what they have found out from the students they have interviewed.
This exercise is very flexible. Beginning students can ask each other when they do their various daily tasks, advanced students can make up questions concerning politics or other hot topics.

http://esl.about.com/z/js/o.htm?k=speaking%20english&d=Speaking%20English&r=http://esl.about.com/od/esleflteachingtechnique/a/lmh_speaking.htm

http://esl.about.com/od/speakingenglish/Speaking_English_Pronunciation_and_Conversation_Skills.htm

Improve Your Reading Skills in English

Improve Your Reading Skills in English

Free reading activities and tests 

Aptitude for speed reading

Anyone wanting to improve their reading skills in preparation for English exams such as Cambridge PET, FCE and CAE!

Elementary / Pre-Intermediate:

Intermediate:  

Advanced: 

http://www.world-english.org/improve_reading_skills.htm

http://englishenglish.com/reading_skills.htm

During my research for this Blog, I have discovered a lot of excellent resources IF you have students, who do not have English as their first language.

Selected Links for ESL & EFL Students

Interesting Things for ESL Students (Charles Kelly & Larry Kelly)

California Distance Learning Project

University of Iowa's Phonetics: The Sounds of American English
Requires Flash and QuickTime. Listen and watch how to pronounce sounds.

Dave's ESL Help Center

On-line Grammar Information

UltraLingua's Online Grammar Explanations

OWL Purdue's Help for ESL Students

The Internet Grammar of English  

WEBTOOLS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Language learning technology can have the greatest effect in foreign language classrooms where learning is supervised by teachers.   

Also can apply to any curriculum, textbook, or teaching methodology.  It should be a useful to a teacher’s teaching style.

this is a very good example of a web classroom with good support.

http://lingtlanguage.com/

Resources that are FREE

 I think you may find these useful, if you have students who do not speak English as their first language.

Free Websites for Teachers

http://www.google.com

http://www.portaportal.com/

http://delicious.com/

http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/?location=whro

http://www.thinkfinity.org/

http://discoveryeducation.com/

http://prezi.com/

http://www.jingproject.com/

http://www.suelebeau.com/freetools.htm

http://www.classnotesonline.com/

http://www.toolsforeducators.com/

http://www.theteacherscorner.net/

http://www.schoolexpress.com/

http://bighugelabs.com/education.php

http://www.classjump.com/

http://www.educatorpages.com/Home.aspx

http://www.sitesforteachers.com/

http://www.teacherweb.com/

http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/

http://www.chartgo.com/

http://cryptoclub.math.uic.edu/

http://delicious.com/haugen.ka/earlychildhood+interactive