:: SPELT Archives ::

• 18 pages of excellent links including teacher resources, student resources and authentic materials, click here.
• Another comprehensive list of links - 17 pages in total, including lesson plans, teaching organizations, jobs, online exercises and instant lessons, click here.
• The ESL Centre's links, 7 pages of exercises for pronunciation, listening, vocabulary, games and news, click here..
• A very comprehensive site of links including tons of authentic material, resources, lesson plans and information, click here.
• Possibly the best all-round site for English learners, with plenty of links to other sites.

Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias	Grammar	News
Puzzles & Games	Skills	Songs
Story Sites	Teacher Resources
For Your Learners & Teenagers
Search Engines	Teens	Young Ones

Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias
• The Longman online interactive dictionary. Lots of activities and ideas for all levels, click here.
• Search four Cambridge University Press dictionaries on line, click here.
• Offers many different dictionaries and directories including a multitude of languages, Roget's Thesaurus, and language discussion forums, click here.
• Ideas for using Encarta in the classroom, click here.
• A desktop dictionary that can be used to check the meaning of words whilst surfing the Net in many different languages, click here.

Grammar
• The British Council UK's offering of activities for children, teens and adults at a range of levels, including games, poems, and grammar.
• Loads of activities for all sorts of grammar, vocabulary, idioms, jokes, hours of self-access material for students and activities for teachers.
• A mix of grammar, vocabulary and idioms for a range of levels.
• Includes grammar page, downloads of EFL games, tips for teachers, easy to move around and use, especially useful for self-access.
• Simple activities for intermediate levels.

News
• Links for newspapers from all over the world.
• Probably the most useful and user-friendly newspaper site, with a search facility so that you can find articles on, say, Venezuela at the touch of a button.

Puzzles & Games
• Just as it says . . .and other puzzles too
• Every kind of puzzle you can imagine
• Random collection of activities and puzzles

Skills
• Excellent listening exercises in real-audio with activities.
• This site gives all the stages for effective writing.
• Help with story writing

Songs
• An excellent site with links and suggestions for using music and songs in class. A very lively and usable site.

Story Sites
• Great kids' site with the Grimm fairytales
• Includes lesson plans and methodology and a great story library.

Teacher Resources
• A good variety of resources and research tools.
• Resources for English as well as math, science, social studies. Includes sites for students too.
• Reuters provides online news. A, free lesson every week, but you need to subscribe to receive endless lessons.
• Enter the English Zone for everything from reference material to resources to chat.
• Very comprehensive site of links from planning lessons, to web authoring.
• A very comprehensive site pitched at 3 levels elementary, pre-intermediate and intermediate.
• Worksheets can be copied into word for use in class, includes vocabulary, grammar and dictation at intermediate level and above.
• Lessons for the movies, - include a plot summary, a list of characters, a glossary of vocabulary and various cultural references and questions for ESL class discussion
• IATEFL Associates
• Very big resource for everything from grammar, TOEFL to clipart.

Young Learners & Teenagers

Search Engines
• A search engine that provides for "safe surfing".

Teens
• Stories to read and mysteries to solve, as well as scary stories and magic tricks!
• Answers all you problems with grammar, - send an email and wait for the answer. Also has help with other

Young Ones
• Quizzes and activities.
• Nursery rhymes and songs for kids.
• Excellent educational site for young kids with stories, theme-related activities, great potential once you know what's on there.
• Billi Bear's kids site. Just a small page which can be used alone or with the Muzzy series of books and videos.
• The BBC phonics page.
• On line help, advice, cartoons, and idioms.
• A nice site for resources for young learners (but is intended for native speakers), has stories, poems and quizzes.
• Create your own comic strip.
• Resource of rhymes and activities for use with young ones.