Activities for ESL Students

Get ready to practice quizzes,listenings,grammar things.Excellent site for students and teachers as well.
http://a4esl.org

Pronunciation with the help of Flinders university

This page belongs to this Australian university, there are different areas to visit.
Check "Advice for improving your pronunciation of English".
A great place to spend some time.
http://www.flinders.edu.au/current-students/slc/whatweoffer/pronunciation.cfm#Intonation

LEARN THE PHONETIC ALPHABET

Taken from the site:
" Sephonics 1.0 is a Windows program that will teach you the English phonetic alphabet, which is a subset of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA, in short).

Sephonics includes seven different exercises for practising English pronounciation and the phonetic alphabet, including a phonetic memory game to relax between the lessons! There are also exercises where you learn to match a sound to a phonetic sign, transcribe from phonetic text to ordinary text, and much more! Sephonics is freeware."
This sofware only teaches British English.
It is full and 100% free.Enjoy.
(thanks Marianne,you are great)


http://www.wartoft.nu/software/sephonics/

CHAT WITH ALICE OR WITH GOD

Here you can chat with a program called A.L.I.C.E (or with GOD).Just go to "chat with ALICE" and prepare yourself to have a nice conversation with this program.
Do not ask complex questions.Remember it is just a software.
Have fun.



http://www.alicebot.blogspot.com/

WITH OR WITHOUT SUBTITLES

A site that shows interviews,short films,animations,etc.Everything with or without subtitles...you choose.


http://www.lingual.net/lingualproductitems/

FIRST CERTIFICATE PROGRAM FOR FREE

Taken from the page:
"The program is designed to give you special help with Paper 3 of the First Certificate exam, and in particular with the tricky Part 4 - error correction.

If you are thinking of taking First Certificate - or if you just want to improve your general English grammar - then try this program now!"





http://www.churchillhouse.com/english/downloads.html

This page is a very interesting place to practice grammar,vocabulary,listenings,etc. There are tons of exercises. Enjoy.

http://www.manythings.org/

BRAZILIAN SITE

This is a Brazilian site made by two teachers who give tips and useful information about how to learn and improve your English.
Some parts are in Portuguese. Highly recommended.



http://www.sk.com.br/

SITE FOR PARENTS

This site is for parents with children up to 12 years old ... more or less... it is a great collection of different activities and topics focused mainly on the parents.



http://www.kaboose.com/

SITES FOR KIDS

This is the perfect place for your children. Here they can play games,listen to stories,do activities,etc.
If you have kids, try this site.



http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids.htm

FOOD FORCE GAME

This page is made by the world programme with the help of the United Nations.
It is an educational game 100% free with and outstanding quality.
Check this review:
"Simulate real relief efforts in Food Force.

A major crisis has developed in the Indian Ocean and the United Nations is sending you on a mission to help feed the millions of people who are going without food!

Start by scoping out the problem with an air assessment and then start building a plan to resolve the glaring issues. Move from seeing the problems to doing strategic drops to solve the problem and finally build a long range farming plan to keep the people well fed. The goal is simple... help free people from the pangs of hunger.

A great kids game with a great message!

Are you tired of seeing your kids playing games that have questionable content and even worse, teach bad values? Food force is definately an exception to the shoot em up games out there. Designed by the United Nations, the premise of the game is to try and stop world hunger by strategic planning (though luck seems to be a bigger contributer to success than skill at times...)

You will find your kids will enjoy trying to figure out ways to make sure everyone can eat. The game is pretty large, so make sure you have a good connection before downloading.

Download Food Force today for your kids and begin more dialogue about important themes such as love, respect and generosity. "
http://www.download-free-games.com




http://www.food-force.com/

FUN PODCASTS

This page has streaming podcats with the transcript and a small vocabulary.You can also download the lesson in MP3 format.Just click on LESSONS and choose one.

http://www.china232.com/

FOR DOCTORS

This page is for doctors or people related to the area. You need to click on PODCATS and then scroll down to listen to different MP3s .All of them talk about medical issues.It is a good idea to suscribe to this site.
Some of the topics are:
Prostate cancer,urobotics,craniosynostosis,sublingual immunotherapy,primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease and a long etc.


http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/

HOW TO DO THINGS

Here you can find different videos to know how to do things. Click on categories and chosse between: health,pets,relationships,food and drink,etc.
It is possible to read what they explain because the transcript is on the same page of the video.



http://www.expertvillage.com/

ARE YOU READY?

This page is from the American government and it is about getting prepared for different emergencies.Click on READY INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS and choose one.You can download the transcript,too.The videos are online.

http://www.ready.gov/america/index.html

A SITE WITH VIDEO.

This page features songs and touristic videos from different places. They have quizzes and some of them have the transcripts.
http://www.eslvideo.com/

SECOND LIFE
This is the most famous site on Internet to chat and interact with peoople all over the world.Actually,this is more than a site, it is a way of life.
You need a fast connection and a good PC.Registration is required and the download of the program,too.
Once ready,you have the chance to create your avatar,or alter ego and interact in different scenarios... highly recommended.
http://secondlife.com/

SECOND LIFE LINKS
This is in Portuguese and features all the news and what is happening on SL(SECOND LIFE) world.There are different places to go,together with the links.
http://secondlife.blig.ig.com.br/

Improving your pronunciation with a native speaker

This funny guy,Sebastian, with a funny hat will teach you how to pronounce different words in a nice and simple way...pay attention to difference of the words PRICE and PRIZE of this video.
You can download the videos ,they are in MOV. format(QUICKTIME)
Very interesting and useful.
http://www.speakingenglishpodcast/

SOME HUMOR IS ALWAYS GOOD

A guy called Randy Glasbergen has been creating cartoons for quite a while ...I really like his sense of humor...lots of categories to laugh about it... enjoy.
http://www.glasbergen.com/

Practice your grammar with this site

An excellent way to practice your English with this page... just go to STUDENTS click on it and choose one of the categories.like ENGLISH TEST AND EXAMS or any other ... you can do tests online and have the answer in seconds...enjoy.
http://www.usingenglish.com/

Use the Internet to learn and practice English

The Net is a great place to know more and learn more... let me give you some sites that can help you to improve your English.
http://www.voanews.com/english/portal.cfm


This is a site from the American government,but the content is really great. It is about news in a special English,you can even download the mp3s and read the news!There are videos, too.


The next site is for doctors and people related to the area... Here you can see the human body in different ways.It is necessary to subscribe to use the service,but everything is for free.
The download of the components take some time depending on the machine you have,but once it is done, you do not have to repeat the process.

http://www.visiblebody.com/

This one is to practice your oral or written abilities chatting with people around the world... needs to subscribe.

http://www.sharedtalk.com/