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Making Friends -
Print out these cool paper friends. There's other cool stuff
too. See it all here.
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The ultimate paper airplane to print out and glue
together. |
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This one is asier to make: the "Best Paper
Airplane in the World." Don't forget to decorate the paper
first using your computer printer. Look here
first. |
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And here's a site with ten of the best airplane
designs you'll ever find. |
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For Preeschoolers |
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Cool stuff to print out and make! Calendars, models,
doorknob hangers, coloring pages and more. This is from DLTK.
Look at all these!
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Clifford the Big Red Dog |
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Hamtaro |
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Shrek |
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Digimon |
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Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends |
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Sailor Moon |
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Dr. Seuss |
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Hello Kitty |
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Enchanted Learning
- Animal Coloring Pages online
or to print
and color. |
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Shockwave,
Flash and Java Games
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MyRealBox - From Novell Corporation.
Get a free 10MB email account you can keep
forever. You can check your email from any computer using
a browser, and it has POP3 and IMAP4 access too, so you
can download your email into Outlook or another email client.
What a deal! |
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Bigfoot - Lifetime
free email forwarding. If you change your email account, just
go to Bigfoot and have your mail redirected to your new account.
Note: The free service is limited. If you want to use your Bigfoot
address very much, you'll need to pay money. But it's great
to give to friends from other countries, when you want the email
address to still work years from now. |
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Brush up on your theories of learning here.
Funderstanding.com has an excellent and VERY BRIEF introduction
to all the popular theories of learning and mental development.
Piaget, multiple intelligences, learningstyles, control theory
- it's all here in 600 words or less. Recommended for any teacher
who hasn't reviewed this stuff in the last year. And if you
never have...? Well, here is your chance at redemption. ;-) |
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"The Science of TEYL" - A very short
blurb outlining some facts and myths about ESL/EFL learning
and teaching. |
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"Repeat after me doesn't work." This, according
to one ESL expert in this story from the Taiwanese newspaper,
The China Post. |
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"Reading for pleasure does." This, according to
Stephen Krashen, Professor Emeritus, University of Southern
California. A very interesting piece. Read it here.
And Jane King, an associate professor in the English department
at Soochow University, Taiwan, makes a similar claim here. |
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More commentary on Taiwan's problem's with English instruction:
KK is out (hooray!), but with no replacement, kids are now using
Bopomofo to remember English pronunciation (Oh, no!) Read the
story here.
One teacher's realistic view is here.
More letters here,
and here,
saying Taiwanese teachers could be effective, but the emphasis
on memorization ruins public English education. Taiwan's Ministry
of Education has decided to bring in the foreigners, but not
from Philippines, India or other low-cost sources. Read it here.
Another ministry solution is to ban Kindergarten English. Read
it here.
If you think the public schools are bad, just look at the universities.
TOEFL scores are looooow. Read it here. |
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A fine collection of articles
about ESL / EFL teaching. |
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I Used to Believe - Unbelievably
funny things that people used to believe when they were kids. |
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Fonts for Kids - Great fonts.
Just unzip them to a temporary folder, and use Windows Control
Panel toinstall them. |
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Fontalicious - More great fonts
- lots for free. |
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Resources
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Learn.Co.UK - Are you serious
about doing your best teaching? Here's some free inspiration.
Brought to you by the Guardian, newspaper of London.
This site features quality lesson
plans and syllabus structure geared to the British Key Stage
system used in elementary schools. Each lesson contains a few
online activities which are good to use directly with the kids,
such as this
one on plants. Be sure to check out a few of these "On
the Web Topic" sections. Other teachers have assembled
collections of links to the best elementary-level Websites,
organized by topic. Wow! Goodbye Google. Seriously. |
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Kids Domain - Great
craft ideas, downloads, links to online games, clipart and much
more organized by age group. This is may be the only site you'll
ever need. The software links are great but mostly for Mac and
W95/98. If you use WinXP they may work anyway, but you may need
to try a little harder.. |
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Kids Domain - Holidays
section - Excellent printable coloring pages, mazes,
word searches and more, all organized by holiday themes. |
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Jann Brett's site
- Teacher and artist, Jann Brett has made her beautiful teaching
aids available to all for free. Check out these lovely alphabet
flashcards
and her certificates.
A complete list of whats available can be found here. |
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Crayola - Lots of
high-quality printables especially good for craft ideas. You
need to register and provide your email, but it's definitely
worth it. You will need Flash to use some features on the site.
(*) Use the search feature to find crafts related to
your topic. This site is produced by the world's biggest crayon
company! |
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HP - The printer
company has lots of great things to print. (*) Use the search
feature to find what you need. There is a great holidays
section. If this link is broken, go to www.hp.com and do
a search on the word 'printsville' to find their creative projects
materials. |
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Genki English -
Made by a very motivated EFL teacher in Japan. This site is
really cute. There is a kids
section which uses a lot of Japanese but is still fun and
useful. It is mostly Flash games. Check out the awesome phonics
demo. If you don't have Flash,
get it. The main English
page has a fantastic section on classroom games. |
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DLTK for Kids -
A huge collection of printable crafts and craft ideas. Some
are as simple as coloring pages. There are many sites attached
to this one, such as the teaching
ideas site or the holidays
site which is highlighted below. The DLTK site is amazing and
is all created by one mother named Leanne.. (*) Her great
collection of Fan
Links is also a source of fun and ideas. |
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DLTK Holidays Site
- More of the same, but organized by holiday themes. |
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Making Friends -
There are lots of craft ideas and printable paper crafts here,
such as this Yucky
Pizza printable from the Yucky
Crafts section. There are beading
patterns, paper
dolls and more. Check out the preschool
crafts section which includes the very-cute fruit
faces. This is another great site done by a crafty
mother. |
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Sites For Teachers
- This is a HUGE collection of links to other teaching resources
sites. It is a ranked link site with the most-visited sites
near the top of the list. You can get lost here! |
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Best on the Web for Teachers
- This is a similar site to the previous one. Check out the
key links at the very top of the page which lead to cool sections
such as Teacher
Tools. |
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First-School.ws
- An extensive site full of free materials and lesson plans
for kindergarten teaching. |
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Coloring.ws - Never
buy a coloring book again! |
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Kidzone.ws - This
site is super for topic-teaching resources. The information
is targetted at kids, but may still be a little hard for EFL
students. Check out the magic
tricks section. |
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Mazes by KidsRCrafty.com
- These simple mazes are just right for kindergarten levels.
There are more printable worksheets too, such as these tracer
pages. Check out the main
menu. |
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Enchanted Learning
- This site is loaded with craft
ideas, themed coloring
books, nursery
rhyme printouts and much more. There is a whole section
on elementary
lessons and one on K-3
themes. You could find a year's worth of material right
here. Try these shark
books for example. Or these farm animal counting
wheels. And be sure to check out the online picture
dictionary. |
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1-language.com - A packed high-quality
site. Free
flashcards, creative writing
worksheets (intermediate level), online TOEIC
tests, active discussion forum,
awesome young learner audio-visual Memory
& Match games. Another one a bit harder is here.
They also have an eye-popping online
literature library. You can be at Act IV, Scene III
of Hamlet, three seconds from now. And much, much, more. Go
visit this great site by one guy.
Very impressive quality. And totally free! |
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E.L.Easton - An
interesting collection of resources available online. There
are language teacher resources
and much more including an extensive collections of links useful
to business English. |
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Tate Art Museum - This site
is full of images to inspire your students. The kids section
has many photos of students making art (like these),
and there are themes, ideas and simple directions. The Art
Detective section is good for EFL body parts review. |
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Online
Tools for Students
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Learn The Net
- An introduction to the Internet for people who still find
it mysterious. |
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Little Explorers
- A fabulous online picture dictionary! See the mother site,
Enchanted
Learning too! |
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Ditto.com - Search
for pictures on the Web. |
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CuteDoggy - A
nice metasearch engine. Try it out. It combines results from
Yahoo, Google, MSN and other search engines. |
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Real English Online
- An online video course to show you what spoken English REALLY
sounds like. Ten sample lessons are free. You must subscribe
by email. There is also a free 7-day subscription to their
"Housekeeping
ESL Module" designed for English beginners in the
hospitality industry. These videos are high quality and have
interactive quizzes and thoughtful lessons built around them.
It was made by ESL teachers who realized classroom English
doesn't prepare you well for meeting real people. Here's their
story.
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American Heritage®
Dictionary of the English Language at Bartleby.com.
This dictionary give you sound files for accurate pronunciation!
Wow! |
Dictionary
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Bartleby.com -
Search all their reference works, which include the Columbia
Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of World History, Roget's Thesaurus,
Bartlett's Quotations, several usage guides and many more. |
Reference
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Roget's II Thesaurus
- Enter a word to find its synonyms, which have the same or
similar meaning. This is often more useful than a dictionary,
and helps a lot when writing. |
Roget's II: Thesaurus
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Strunk's Elements of
Style - This is probably the best and simplest guide
to clear and proper English writing. If you write, but
haven't read this short book, then check it out immediately.
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Aardvark's
English Forum - There is a collection of grammar and usage
quizzes for intermediate and advanced students. |
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Friends
of English School
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A site for teachers to share ideas and information. |
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The best online teacher training. The certTEYL course includes
a two week practicum. |
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whenever you see it, to get rid of ads.
and grammar games 
first. For intermediate and advanced students.
There is a kids section 
