This document provides summaries of 20 websites for teaching and learning English as a second language. It summarizes the purpose and main sections of each site. The sites cover a wide range of skills and topics including vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, reading, listening, videos, games and resources for both students and teachers. They are organized by level from beginner to advanced and include references, audio recordings, quizzes and forums for practicing English.

1. Stefania Imberti
Assignment 8 TICs class
2014/2015

2. http://www.usingenglish.com/
 It is a site which contains
resources for English as a
second language.
 In the main homepage,
there are several sections
with tests and quizzes,
English references, articles
to read, tools and
resources, a forum and a
section dedicated to the
teachers.
 In the lower part of the
page, the reader can find
what’s new in the site.

3. http://www.colorincolorado.org/e
ducators/
 Colorin Colorado is full of
information, activities, and
resources for ELL teachers,
especially up to third grade
level.
 There are also sections for
administrators, librarians,
families, books and authors
and a final glossary.
 One section is dedicated to
the topics which are dealing
also with issues such as
disabilities or multicultural
education.

4. http://capl.washjeff.edu/index.php
 It is a site that offers images
demonstrating the true
meaning of the word.
 It’s divided in 4 main sections
which are home, browse,
about and pictolang.
 In the second sections there
is all the material related to
several languages. Each
section is then diveded in
more aspects of a nation life
and clicking on it shows
images about a specific topic.

5. http://www.real-english.com/
 It’s a site whose aim is to teach
through videos from real English
speakers, quizzes and
community support.
 It proposes to download the app.
on a tablet or a smartphone.
 The real lessons start from very
basic subjects such as
introducing oneself, the
alphabet going to a B1 level of
english.
 There is also a section dedicated
to all the videos related to the
lessons and including exercises.

6. https://www.eslpartyland.com/tea
chers/Tinitial.htm
 The site has lesson plans,
strategies, worksheets,
flashcards, quizzes, games,
and vocabulary resources.
 It’s divided in 4 sections
related to teaching,
learning, resources and
about them.
 Teaching is related to
different stategies such as
music, videos, internet,
vocabulary, listening,
reading, speaking and
writing.

7. http://www.fonetiks.org/
 It’s a site dedicated to the
pronunciation with instant
sound and samples by native
speakers.
 The pronunciation samples are
divided following all the
varieties of English such as
British, American, South African
etc.
 There are also resources like
dictionary with Instant Sound,
English dialogues,an interactive
reading course,English
dictations, pronunciation of
names of people, cities and
countries, words with
controversial or difficult
pronunciation.

8. http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_bl
og/
 It is a podcast to share
English language learning
opportunities with
students.
 On the left there are all the
archived articles while on
the main page the is a
reading test which offers
synonimes to some specific
words.
 The podcasts related to
some daily topics and
offers links to the learning
guide.

9. http://painintheenglish.com/
 The site is a great resource for
explaining gray areas of the
English language to the
students. So it is designed for
advanced learners.
 It is divided in 4 sections:
Home, Ask, About and Login.
 Home shows issues related to
the language and explains
them. Are issues which are
not usually dealt with in class.
 The ask section is interesting
because it can help the
learner to solve some issues
by asking them on the page.

10. http://www.inspirationlane.blogsp
ot.com.es/
 This site is designed to be
an interactive reading
activity to share with the
ELL classroom with new
learning content every day.
 It includes a quote of the
day, an article and a
reading related to what
happened in this specific
day.
 It also includes a section in
which students can write a
caption.

11. http://www.eslgold.com/
 The site has learning resources
for English. Students can
practice pronunciation, find a
book to study, and even talk to
someone in English on this site.
Plus, teachers can find a job,
search for textbooks, discover
games ect.
 It is divided in student and
teacher sections.
 The first one includes all the
skills that students can perform:
Listening, Reading, Writing,
Grammar, Vocabulary, Business
English, Pronunciation, Idioms.
 Teachers can find materials, text
books and other resources.

12. http://en.bab.la/games/
 Bab.la is a site for ELL
learners, with reference tools
like a dictionary and
vocabulary, supplemented
with quizzes, games, and a
community forum.
 The main sections are
phrases, dictionary,
conjugation and games.
 Finally there is also a section
with more material which can
be found in more by bab.la.
There are interships,
professional translations
lexiophiles ect.

13. http://repeatafterus.com/
 It is an online library in which
students can get access to a
huge collection of English
texts and scripted recordings.
 The contents are divided by
genre: poetry, drama,
children’s stories etc.
 Ther e is a section in which
the material can be found
searching by authors’ last
name
 The last section is about
browsing folloging the
authors, titles, readers or
recorded texts.

14. http://www.reading.org/Resources
/ResourcesByTopic/EnglishLearners
/Overview.aspx
 It is an association of literacy
professionals with resources
for literacy educators,
including journal articles and
an educator community.
 There are three sections: the
first one gives an overview,
then there are reources such
as readings for the teachers,
articles and journals and
finally a section dedicated to
a community with a forum to
interact.

15. http://www2.ed.gov/nclb/method
s/whatworks/edpicks.jhtml
 This site helps to find
practices for teaching
Literacy in English to
kindergarten through
fifth-grade learners.
 It offers online resources
and links to actual texts.

16. http://www.onestopenglish.com/
 It is designed for English
language teachers, One Stop
English has a monthly topics
series, news lessons, and an
app for on the go ELL
teaching.
 It has several sections well
divided in more specific
topics.
 It has a look on ESP,ESOL,
exams, grammar, practicing
skills, methodologies, games.
 It is interesting because it has
a sction for children and
another one for teenagers and
related topics to each age
area.

17. http://www.english-test.net/
 It is a site for students to self-
test themselves. It offers free
English tests, grammar
exercises, and worksheets.
 It is divided by level:
elementary, intermediate and
advanced.
 It offers tests which help
students to practice for
certain exams such as TOEFL
GMAT SAT GRE MCAT
PCAT ASVAB.
 It offers all type of tools and
instruments to develop and
improve the language.

18. http://www.online-literature.com/
 The site offers searchable
online literature for the
student or educators.
 The sections are related
related to authors, religion,
references, quotes, forums
ect.
 There are online quizzes and
a section where it is possible
to find summaries.
 On each section regarding
the authors there are the
works, the biography and
quizzes about it.

19. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservic
e/learningenglish/grammar/vocab
ulary/science.shtml
 The BBC site offers a section
dedicated to the languages.
 This part is then divides in
general and business english,
grammar and vocabulary
quizzes, for teachers ect.
 In the particular part of the
vocabulary students can see
english applied to specific
subject matters such as
science and the related
vocabulary, words and
phrases, clichés ect.

20. http://www.classicreader.com/
 The site is designed to
learn from classic pieces.
 The sections are: Fiction
Non-Fiction Young
Readers Poetry Short
Stories Drama Classical.
 Each sections is related to
an index of authors and
their pieces.
 Below the learners can find
recent titles and authors
inserted in the site.

21. http://www.esolcourses.com
 This section from the ESOL
classes help the students to
learn English listenning to
the songs. This can be a way
to have the students
interested in the learning of a
foreign language.
 The sections are divided in
listenning, quizzes, song for
kids, christmast song, songs
divided by level of difficulty
and notes by the tutor.
 The main page offers video
with subtitles for the
learners.