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WEB RESOURCES

FUN LEARNING ENGLISH - GAMES AND MORE

www.beritsbest.com
Berit's Best websites for children, links to 1000 websites for children including games, homework help, art, animals, holidays, penpals, and much more

www.5minuteenglish.com
Learning English as a second language (ESL) is not always easy, but it should be fun. 5 Minute English has been designed to give you short and easy explanations and exercises.
You can also find answers to questions that other students have had about confusing things in English. This is under the Question and Answer section. Take your time and come back to 5 Minute English often.  You'll be surprised at how much English you can learn with a little dedication. (Link suggested by the students at Brighter Futures Charter School)

www.english-at-home.com/
English @ Home
This website gives students the opportunity to learn English grammar, vocabulary, verbs and speaking with games of all types. ESL teachers can also use this website to access many online websites.

www.englishclub.com
Learn English grammar, listening, reading, and writing - play games, learn English jokes, and more resources

www.eslcafe.com/
Dave's ESL Cafe
This award-winning website is run by Dave Sperling, a well-known ESL teacher, writer, and college professor from California. The site offers many fun activities for students, as well as lesson plans and ideas for teachers. It also provides ESL job postings, an ESL chat rooms, and many links to reputable ESL websites

www.esl-lab.com/index.htm
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
This website is designed for self-directed use. Students can choose the topic and level they want to study. Teachers may also choose to use this site as part of their instuction. The listening quizzes, long conversations, and listening exercises are categorized according to their degree of difficulty.

www.eslpartyland.com/
Karin's ESL Partyland
This website offers over seventy-five interactive quizzes, fifteen discussion forums, and interactive lessons on a variety of topics, a chat room and lots of great resources for ESL students. There are many quizzes available for varying degrees of difficulty. Teachers are provided with a gamut of lesson plans and reproducible materials that can be used in class. Discussion forums, ideas for communicative practice activities, a chat room, a job board, and links are available for teacher use.

www.funbrain.com/index.html
Funbrain.com
K-8! Parents, teachers and students! Parents will enjoy the infant to school age information. There are interactive activities for parent-to-child interface. Teachers will find quizzes and quiet-time activities. Students will enjoy the challenge presented by this fun and manageable site.

www.gamekids.com
A gathering place for kids and teenagers from around the world, to exchange games, activities, recipes, stories, photographs, and much more

www.kidprintables.com/
Kid Printables - Creating Online Fun for Kids
This website has many fun things for young children to do such as: bookmarks, coloring pages, word searches, puzzles and games, calendars, jokes and riddles, and math challenges.

pbskids.org/lions/anywhere/index.html
Between the Lions: Games to Play Anywhere
1001 Bag of tricks and time-consuming activities to test and entertain inquisitive children including stories, songs and games. This is a valuable PBS sponsored site.

www.petersschool.com/
Speaking English Online in Peter's School
This free website gives students the opportunity to speak English with other English language learners. Peter's School sets up either a voice conference (using a mike) or a video conference (using a web cam) with another country. Students are encouraged to do the following things during their voice or video conference: keep speaking English rather than their native tongue, and to conference for at least thirty minutes.

www.rong-chang.com/
English as a Second Language website - links to many English as a Second Language websites for games, dictionaries, pronunciation, and activities

www.teflgames.com/interactive.html
Have fun and improve your English with these online word puzzles and games. Includes interactive games to help you learn opposites, synonyms, verbs, capitals, and more

www.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html
Pizzaz - Creative Writing
This website provides a forum for students to publish poems and works of fiction. Take your children through the basics of creative writing with the help of template programs. From form to freedom, students learn the writing ropes.

www.vocabumonkey.com
Simple game to help learn common English nouns including names of numbers, animals, shapes, foods, body parts, and more

MULTICULTURAL WEBSITES FOR STUDENTS

155.187.10.12/flags/nation-flags.html
See flags from countries around the world

members.aol.com/bowermanb/101.hml
Geography information on earth, weather, erosion, population, and more! Also geography games, puzzles, quizzes, and trivia - includes many links to information on Pennsylvania geography, United States geography and geography of other countries too

www.elbalero.gob.mx/
Mexico for kids - Website for kids, to learn about Mexico - site available in English, Spanish, French and Italian - learn about Mexico's history, government, biodiversity, and news

www.ga.k12.pa.us/academics/MS/6th/MCGAMES
Multicultural games - students learn and teach games from around the world

www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/index.html
Multicultural Calendar - includes holidays from around the world, and can be searched by month, holiday, or country - also check out its home page http://www.kidlink.org available in many languages

www.mamalisa.com/world/
Mama Lisa's World - children's songs and rhymes of all nations - learn rhymes from different countries, in many languages

www.yesican.gov/kidszone
White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans

DICTIONARY & TRANSLATION WEBSITES FOR STUDENTS

www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/index.htm
Jennifer's Language Page - teaches you to say English words and phrases in hundreds of different languages, and includes links to language-related websites

www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html
Picture dictionary with about 2,000 words, and includes dictionaries with French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish

www.yourdictionary.com
Search words in English and HUNDREDS of other languages - also includes a thesaurus and translation - and learn a "word of the day" in different languages

 

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