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"Say the word 'grammar' to teenagers and you might be met by yawns or icy stares. But don't be daunted - the experience can be positive, or even fun. On LearnEnglishTeens, you'll find fun grammar resources to use in class and for self study. Here are some ideas for making grammar teaching more teen-friendly." Some good tips (not all easy to live by, e.g., "give rules which are true.") One of the most important is probably using texts to teach grammar. Several important lesson ideas here.

"The grammar blog is a weekly assignment I use in my high-advanced reading/writing classes for pre-matriculation international graduate students.... Each student chooses a grammar error or interesting/confusing sentence to focus on each week. Students read their classmates' posts and give feedback, and then I answer any remaining questions. The grammar blog is a motivating, student-driven, focus-on-form activity that engages students in important questions of syntax (grammar), semantics (meaning), lexis (vocabulary), and register."

"Grammar-Quizzes contrasts points of grammar and provides examples, explanations, practices and interactive quizzes for adjectives, verbs, prepositions, clauses, phrases, expressions and much more!" Organized by parts of speech. A sentence-level question starts the page.

This site has 100s of grammar quizzes, but also lots of exercises for paragraph level and essay and research level questions. Good FAQs on grammar, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, and all kinds of links. Sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation of Hartford, CT, USA.

More than you could ever want to know about grammar, with accompanying interactive quizzes. Also includes a lot of information about paragraph and essay-level structures. Your students would have to be at a very high level already to make sense of everything, as they appear to be for NSEs.

The targeted audience of this website are teachers and intermediate and advanced ESL students. This rich website has a variety of resources for writing students, covering the following topics (to name a few): - General writing process - Grammar, punctuation, and spelling - Rhetoric - ESL resources - Business writing and resume - Subject specific writing - Creative writing - Research, citation, and documentation FROM Lena Shvidko The grand-daddy of all OWLs -- extremely comprehensive, both for composition and writing, and grammar, email etiquette, proofreading, etc., and includes advice for ESL/EFL writers.

If you are a fan of grammar, this site is for you. Hundreds of online lessons for further practice.

"Learn English online with the help of this free website from the British Council with games, stories, listening activities and grammar exercises. You can search for your favourites, or have a look at the site map to find out where everything is. This is a BETA site and you will find lots of new listening activities and video content in Listen & Watch. We also have a new Grammar section and new IELTS exam practice materials. Click here to return to the 'old' LearnEnglish website. Double-click any word to see a dictionary definition. You can contact us if you have a question or want to report any problems. Become a member and you can add comments to the site and ask questions to get help with your English." This site has thematic/situationally based videos.

An "automated proofreader and your personal grammar coach." I haven't tried it yet, but it's recommended by a CALL IS member. Looks easy to use and recommended by a number of universities. Probably will not be ESL/EFL specific.

How to scaffold with vocabulary and grammar to build understanding of poetry. Uses a word wall (which could be online) to keep technical literary definitions in mind as they deconstruct the poem. This would work for ESL/EFL students equally well.

These teachers demonstrate 3 techniques for teaching and reviewing grammar with an adult ESL class.

"This is one of my favorite websites for advanced sentence-level writing. The exercises on run-on sentences and fragments, for example, have lots of challenging vocabulary and funny situations. The exercises provide immediate feedback with cool (or yucky) "cyber prizes." "One caution: the exercises are only useful for advanced-level students who can understand the vocabulary and appreciate the humor." - by Nancy Overman New exercises appear to be added fairly regularly.

This site is all about grammar, so it may be of help to your intermediate-advanced students. There will be quizzes based on songs intervies, and commercials, and links to Jennifer's ESLvideos on YouTube.

All you ever wanted to know about ESL/EFL grammar for pre- to high-intermediate. Explanation, lists of parts of speech, quizzes, etc. Sorry, the page does not give a home institutuion, but appears to be a college in Canada.

Free! ESL Video uses video from around the Web (e.g. The Daily English Show), and attaches short quizes on the content, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. You can choose videos by level (beginning to high-intermediate), and track results of student quizzes. You can also make your own quizzes with video you select from the Web!

"This site is dedicated to helping teachers by providing Fun esl games for Classrooms, Powerpoint Game & Templates, Printable Board Games, Interactive Games for Classrooms, Games for ESL Kids & Adults, Grammar Games, Vocabulary Games, Reading Games, featuring Snakes & Ladders, Hangman & Wheel Games. ESL Online Games" So many of these are word games, it should be of use. Some games are printable.

thanks, as usual, to Larry Ferlazzo for the link to this site! Looks quite interesting; hope to investigate / test further soon.

"UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. Browse our grammar glossary and references of irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts and printables, and find useful links and information on English. Topics cover the spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas."

"with listening, grammar, comprehension, dictation exercises, and crossword puzzles" Covers a wide range of exercises and activities for listening, reading, and writing.

Uses free articles on CNN to create new lessons every day. pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar are included.