JellyBean Writer and JellyBean Scoop. Many More Free EBooks for Beginners Through Early to Middle Advanced English Language Learners. We Give Books has a free, new ebook, Starry Sky ( that is suitable for Levels 3 and 4.
Not everyone likes fiction, so this is a non-fiction book that is about astronomy. I always love the DK books, because they are full of rich illustrations. These will help you derive meaning from words without having to look everything up (remembering, of course, to use word parts to help you as well). As always, with the free ebooks on We Give Books, you do have to join, but there is never a cost or any spam. They will just send you notifications for other free ebooks!!! Another free ebook suitable for Levels 3 and 4 is about children’s book author Wanda Gag: The Wanda Gag book is my personal favorite of all of these books. Free Professional Development with the Electronic Village Online. (This is a repost of the EVO2015 Call for Participation from Nina Liakos.)
Dear EFL/ESL Educator, Since 2001, the Electronic Village Online, a project of TESOL’s CALL Interest Section, has been offering free online professional development sessions to language teachers world-wide. It is my pleasure to announce the Call for Participation for the Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2015. This year, we are offering 13 fabulous five-week sessions on a variety of topics, including teaching pronunciation, using Moodle, creating electronic textbooks, flipped learning, making Machinima in Second Life, using Minecraft to teach English, and more.
For a complete listing and abstracts, visit the Call for Participation at To enroll in a session, follow the instructions on the session page. English Learning Websites. Excellent Web Tools to Help Students Learn English Pronunciation. May 19, 2014 English language is a stressed language (I mean stress in linguistic terms) and as such it poses some daunting challenges to learners particularly EFL learners.
I speak four languages and I have been teaching English to EFL students for several years and I know exactly the hardships students encounter when learning English pronunciation. Unlike other languages, mal-pronunciation in English can result in a completely different meaning than the intended one. Some examples of the problematic words EFL learners have issues with include : fear/fair, tank/thank, read (present tense)/ read(past tense), got/gut. As a teacher, you definitely can not model the pronunciation of every single word for your students and this is where the importance of web tool such as the ones below is highlighted. Anytime students come across a new word they haven't seen before, they can check its pronunciation using these tools. 1- Howjsay. 7 ways to make time for learning English - Botanical Linguist. Do you find it difficult to find the time for learning English?
With a job, family, hobbies, and social life it’s very easy to feel we just don’t have any spare time for anything else. I know I feel like this sometimes. And I’m not going to pretend that I never waste time, because I most certainly do some days! I know that I sometimes spend too long on social media, and that research on the internet can take me a lot more time than I anticipated because there are just so many excellent reference websites online! On the other hand, if you’re enjoying how you spend your time then it’s not really wasted.
List of language exchange websites - Botanical Linguist. PicLits.com - Create a PicLit. Create a PicLit. Eight Ways to Use Video With English Language Learners. Using Photos With English Language Learners. Teaching ESL Students: Some Tips for First-Timers. Irregular Verb Wheel Game. eLearning Tools-Resources-etc. The Ultimate English Language Test. If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labor to reading six lines aloud. Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I Speaky Good Engleesh. Yup, sometimes even the geeks get it wrong.
Typos are ok, bad English just isn’t. We’ve got to curb this before we literally start talking gobbledegook. Brush up on your grammar with this infographic that spells out a few of the common mistakes in today’s world. Ingles 360 Bilingual Resources. Does more technology mean more communication? You are going to discuss technology and communicationlisten to a short radio program about technology and communicationdo a sentence ordering exercisediscuss, plan and write an IELTS style argument essay on the questionpractise some information and communication technology (ICT) vocabulary with a crossword 1) Discuss What kinds of technology do we communicate with?
Is it easier to communicate now than 50 years ago? Why? 2) Listen You are going to listen to Rory Cellan-Jones, the technology correspondent of the BBC. 3) Read Look at the sentences below. Which sentence makes the best introduction? 4) Discuss Look at the sentences again.How does Rory introduce the topic he is going to examine? Nowadays the way many people interact with each other has changed because of technology. In what ways has technology affected the types of relationships that people make? Plan your essay. 2. 3.