Thursday, January 18, 2007

ESL website review

The site that I chose to review is http://a4esl.org/. When I was working at Lakeshore Catholic School the teacher who was mentoring me used this site so, I decided to check it out for myself. I found it very good because it assists you in making a quiz for your students, it has academic activities for students as well as fun vocabulary activities like crosswords. This site could help if you needed something for the students to do in a pinch. So if you are supply teaching and the teacher left you nothing, you could send the students to this site until you got yourself organized with a lesson.
The TESL Ontario website has a lot of ESL learner websites where students can practice many skills and teachers can find resources for their classroom. I will be looking at more of these websites but if you the reader would like to explore some more options go to: http://www.teslontario.org/new/links/links_learners.htm
There are so many more but for beginners it is best if you just keep them in one spot on the internet as it can be overwhelming to have to search. Just be careful with the TESL ontario website because there are some activities were students just read and others where they need the technology to listen. Makes sure before you send your students somewhere on the web that you first check it out for yourself so that you can anticipate problems and be ready!

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