eltclinks

"Enter an English word here to see its collocations, each with an example sentences from the corpus."

Lovely blog about phonetics and phonology

Self-made teachers' sites are challenging the established ELT portals by Nik Peeachey

Virtual autopsy

Brilliant. Although possibly not for the squeamish - it tells you all about a death and then you can guess the cause. You can click for gross pictures of various organs, but you don't see anything too disgusting unless you click.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide.

"ELT Magazine (English Language Teacher Magazine) is an ezine for language teachers, emphasising practical teaching ideas with a global appeal."

Click on Library for vocabulary tools and on Language Activities for games, etc.

WordNet® is a large lexical database of English. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept.

Technical vocab dictionaries

List of songs you can use for discrete grammar points.

Australian man explains what cohesion is, with examples

Introducing a series of videos designed to act as springboards for story telling. Made for primary education, but easily adapted for us.

You have to register - but it's free to do so - to get inside here, but once in, there are 3,500 videos from the now defunct Teachers TV.

My new learning technology portal is now live at: http://www.scoop.it/t/learning-technology this will be replacing... http://fb.me/B5X5cF8f

Links to a few sites that help students with vocabulary learning - mainly by sending the students daily links

Learn English while watching videos. Includes a speech recognition platform that allows you to practice SPEAKING with any video you choose and then get INSTANT FEEDBACK on how well you are doing.

The pack offers resources for exploring many issues relevant to the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Curriculum Framework . The resources provided an opportunity to develop critical awareness of language and culture, to encourage learners' self determination by valuing their own identity and choices, and to celebrate difference and diversity. * language choices in speech and writing * concepts of identity and self image * cultural practices * stereotyping and prejudice. The teaching materials included a DVD and transcript and suggested approaches and materials for working with individual learners and groups.

Web 2.0 teaching tool links

There's a short introduction to each song or tune, high quality audio file along with song lyrics and the musical notation for almost every tune.Why not start by finding your favourite Scottish song? Brilliant.

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