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I have put together a Wiki for my students to use. I have stressed that it is not part of their regular course but is there for them to visit and assist them in learning English. It goes for 16 weeks (the length of their course) and every week it has sections on Reading/Writing, Grammar, Litsening and Speaking. I also included sectioins on TOEFL, Environmental video and Pronunciation. There are exercises (links) for the students and all in all, it is a fun site to visit. If you want to join the Wiki and make material postings... make yourself at home. Please keep in mind that I AM in Oman and most of my students are young Omani university girls 18-20 years old. They are not the most liberal minded people and not prone to Adult entertainment. They are great students who are willing and eager to learn and a true pleasure to teach. Check it out and tell me what you think. Positive and Negative comments are welcome. So, send your students, send your enemies and even your enemy's students. Feel free to post bills on the local Metro, buses and outside your favorite adult beverage establishment. Gary Harwell www.teachergary.com

A huge list of materials online related to listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and general study skills. Teachers need to review and select from sites to use them effectively in an academic program. Prepared by Christine Bauer-Ramazani for her Academic Skills courses.

"The following are some of the best free tools available online that can help teachers create quizzes." This blog links to some 16 online quiz makers with very short descriptions of each. For college/adults and K-12 also. Some sites have pre-made tests in such subject areas as history, geography, and grammar. Most allow different types of quizzes and some have games as well.

Lots of interactive games on the word/grammar level. Try a few -- click to play, no sign-in.

Recommends Ferris & Hedgcock and Kroll

The article has some great ideas for using corpora as a class activity to help students learn appropriate sentence patterns.

A free visual dictionary and online thesaurus. Enter a word to see related vocabulary. R Byrnes: "Snappy Words could be a good resource for students that are stuck in the rut of using the same words and phrases repeatedly in their writing. Snappy Words will give those students access to alternative words and their definitions much faster than thumbing through a thesaurus."

This is a BYU-sponsored archive of a wide variety of copora. May be of use in vocabulary work. Includes a Wikipedia corpus, TIME Magazine, Google Books in American and British English, as well as Spanish.

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This stie combines the best of a thesaurus and a concordancer. A word search produces loads of combinations in actual usage, with a red or green bar to indicate good and bad connotations. An alternatives link shows other words that can be substituted. Should be a nice accessory to non-native more advanced writers.

A nice app for your iPad by a language teacher in Brasil. Free version has 80 sentences, but the pro version is only $1.99. Practice prepositions and phrasal verbs sentence by sentence to cross a flowing river of lava.

For adult learners, mainly in the U.S., but also of generally wide application. These teacher training videos use the Whole-Part-Whole approach to teaching literacy.

Worksheets for a variety of academic essay types as well as graphic organizers to help with pre-writing, and some short elementary writing activities. Recommended by Nancy Overman.

This old favorite has resources, exercises, an advice on writing. It also offers online help with writing.

A recent lesson from Mike Marzio. These are invaluable and carefully details to make the best use of the videos. Select a grammatical form or vocabulary set to review. Mostly for adult learners.

VIRTLANTIS is a Second Life-type community on OS Grid (a sort of open/free version of SL) used as a community for language practice. A virtual meeting takes place M-F noon GMT.

Fun ideas using visual prompts to help students practice the prepositions of place. This blog also has more general ideas and links to resources for teachers.

"Reading Bear is a free service that offers narrated lessons on recognizing and pronouncing letters and words. There are also some lessons on prefixes and suffixes. Students can control the pace of each lesson to match their needs. "After each lesson on Reading Bear students can take quizzes to test their skills. The quizzes present a picture and a set of words. Students have to match the correct word to the picture that they see. Through the narrator, students receive instant feedback on each question in the quiz." I am not convinced that these topics are a good idea for K-3, but if this is in your curriculum, this site might be a good option.