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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM: LEVELS 7 AND 8


GRAMMAR

Online English Grammar  (Click on Table of Contents)

* an overview of some basic grammar points

Hypergrammar

* covers parts of speech, clauses, punctuation, verbs, spelling and writing practice

Grammar Help Page

* this site includes rules and lots of practice exercises on most important grammar points

ESL Help Center

* provides 24-hour help for ESL students from a team of ESL teachers

Grammar for English Language Learners

* provides practice exercises, grammar rules and a help service. Gives links to a number of sites at various levels of difficulty

A Guide to Grammar and Writing

* offers exercises and explanations of grammar points

Definite and Indefinite Articles

Instructional Systems Traditional English Grammar

* Unit I includes the parts of speech: nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions

UVic's Grammar Page

Dave's ESL Cafe

ESL Cafe Help Page

* at this site, help from ESL/EFL teachers from around the world is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you are having problems with grammar, writing, TOEFL, vocabulary, idioms or any other aspect of English just ask a question.


WRITING

Researchpaper.com

* lots of hints for the whole process of doing research and writing research papers

Purdue University Writing Lab-Handouts

* an excellent source that covers almost everything to do with writing

* click on Research and Documenting Sources                  General Writing Concerns (Planning, Writing, Revising)     Grammar, Spelling, punctuation

Writing Resources for English Language Learners

* a very complete site that covers many different aspects of writing

Writer's Web

* a highly recommended site that covers many aspects of writing including sentence structure, language mechanics and writing papers

Writing Argumentative Essays

* an excellent step-by-step tutorial to develop, organize and write strong and effective essays of argumentation

Paradigm On-Line Writing Assistant

* an excellent source that includes revising and editing as well as writing various essay types

Introduction to Research and Research Writing

* this on-line research course provides links with information on all stages of writing a research paper

Writing Help

 

WRITING RESOURCES

Dictionaries

* this site provides links to most online dictionaries

Roget's Thesaurus

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary

 

MULTI-SKILLS SITES and LINKS TO EVEN MORE ESL SITES

English as a Second Language Home Page

* this is a good starting point to a number of ESL links in listening/speaking, reading, grammar/writing

Selected Links for ESL Students

* this site includes "the best of the best" links to ESL sites in all skill areas and at all language levels

ESL Independent Study Lab

* this is a complete study lab with a great variety of exercises and activities in 9 different skill areas.  It also has links to 125 other sites. A find!

Tower of English

* this site provides a variety of activities and projects

Ask an Expert

*this site links to experts (with e-mail addresses) on almost any topic. Topics are divided into categories. Excellent.

BlueWeb'N

* an extensive 1ist of categories offers links to sites in the English(#800) area.. Each English skill links to numerous sites

Matching Quiz of Commonly-Heard Proverbs

* this quiz covers 235 proverbs (47 sets of matching exercises with 5 questions each)

 

READING

Reading Resources for English Language Learners

* links to a variety of reading materials at all language levels including short-stories, poems, magazines and learning materials

Reading Resources

*click on Lessons or Reading Tests

English Language Centre Study Zone

* this site is from the University of Victoria and offers extensive reading and grammar exercises.  Click on 410, 490, 570 or Extras.

CNN Newsroom and Worldview for ESL

* a weekly news story followed by exercises. Past stories and exercises can also be accessed.

Macleans Magazine

* by clicking on keepers, stories from a number of past issues can be accessed

CNN Interactive Learning Resources

* a number of different activities are designed around various news stories. Excellent!

The Ottawa Citizen

Chatelaine Magazine

Time Magazine

The National Geographic

Exploratorium

* an amazing science site

The National Wildlife Federation

Canada's SchoolNet

* Click on English, then on Learning Resources - choose a category of interest

 

VOCABULARY and more

CNN Newsroom and Worldview for ESL

* a large selection of news stories followed by vocabulary and grammar exercises. Updated weekly. Stories of past events can also be accessed.

Spelling Test

*a short but good practice exercise

Vocabulary Resources for English Language Learners

*this site provides links to many other sites with vocabulary and idiom practice

Vocabulary University

*a number of vocabulary exercises and puzzles

Idioms

Slang

Proverbs

 

LISTENING AND SPEAKING

Listening Resources for English Language

* provides links to a number of sites with varied listening activities

Speaking and Pronunciation for English Language Learners

* provides links to numerous sites that focus on various aspects of speaking and pronunciation including accent reduction



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