ACTIVITY 4 TEACHING TOOLS IN ESL

ACTIVITY 4

TEACHING TOOLS IN ESL

PURPOSE: To identify the best websites in order to use in the ESL classroom and state your opinion and your experiences about it on the blog.

ESL is an acronym that is used primarily in educational settings and stands for English as a Second Language. It refers to teaching English to a person whose native or primary language is one other than English. Education laws in Colombia require schools to provide ESL instruction in the classroom to any and all enrolled students whose primary language is not English.

The need for ESL programs to help Colombian students achieve educational proficiency standards in school.

In Internet you can find different ESL webs that provide you the opportunity to work in an autonomous environment mostly at home or during the class, with this in mind Teachers should be aware about the new technologies that appear nowadays.

Here you have some interesting links in order to enrich your knowledge and tools when you are teaching English.

• http://a4esl.org/
• http://www.rong-chang.com/lsnplan.htm
• http://www.eslactivities.com/
• http://www.teflgames.com/games.html
• http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators?gclid=COHw2e6nmaUCFZRe7Aod3BctHA
• http://bogglesworldesl.com/adultesl1.htm
• http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/eslplans.html
• http://www.esl-galaxy.com/lessons.htm
• http://www.cdlponline.org/
• http://www.teachingenglishgames.com/adults.htm
• www.englishclub.com/esl-games/
• http://www.rong-chang.com/game.htm
• http://www.saberingles.com.ar/games/index.html

You can use lots of alternatives and websites to improve and enrich your classes. I extremely recomend this webpage because helps to improve students' listening skill due to this skills is the one the presents more dificulty for them.

In this site there are activities for any level, from easy to very difficult : http://www.esl-lab.com/