Cultural Notes

This is an excellent site for cultural information about your student.

http://www.cp-pc.ca/english/index.html

Preparation for Learner's Permit

Once your student has studied and learnt the book Drive Safe, he/she can go to the government website designed to give practise for the theory test needed to gain the Learner's Permit (L-plates):

http://www.dpi.wa.gov.au/licensing/learnerdrivers/1465.asp

Update ESL Websites

We are grateful to Dot Butler for sharing the following useful websites:

www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml

http://www.usingenglish.com/

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/literacy.htm

www.english-to-go.com

UPDATE USEFUL WEBSITES 2007

Here are more websites which you and/or your student may find useful:

1. http://www.ameswa.iinet.net.au/pclab/

This website is primarily for students, but there are some interesting links for tutors, particularly if you have a student from Africa (go to the link Teachers).

2. http://www.onestopenglish.com/

This website has useful information and resources for both tutors and students. If you have an email address, you can subscribe (free) and receive a monthly newsletter with lesson plans, ideas & tips. Although the plans and activities are geared to the classroom, many of them can be adapted to use in a one-to-one situation. The worksheets are photocopiable so can be downloaded to use with your student.

3. http://iteslj.org/links/
Tutors: Browse list for Teachers has hundreds of useful links including how to teach, lesson preparation tools, activities & games and printable handouts
Students: Browse list for Students has a bilingual section in many languages, as well as grammar, crosswords, quizzes, etc

4. http://a4esl.org/

This website has loads of quizzes your student can use online. The 3 levels -easy, medium and difficult cover grammar, vocabulary & crosswords. Also includes bilingual quizzes

5. www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/grammar

Tutors: loads of lesson plans & reproducible materials as well as ideas for communicative practice activities, etc
Students: interactive quizzes, etc

6. www.usingenglish.com/

Tutors - free grammar & vocabulary handouts, printable lesson plans
Students - grammar & vocabulary quizzes beginner, intermediate levels

7. http://www.greeneclipsesoftware.com/eclipsecrossword

This free website allows you to create crosswords.

8. www.virtualilc.com.au/

This valuable (Australian) website provides listening and other activities for your student. It requires a user ID and a password.

9. http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/reading/

This website has 6 stories about Nasreddin with Comprehension, Recreating the Story and Summarizing the Story: Gap-fill Exercise which can be done online by student.

10. http://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/index.htm

Online activities including hangman, crosswords, jumbled words, matching games

11. http://www.schoolhousetech.com/Products/Vocabulary/

Tutors - free vocabulary worksheets provide practice in challenging vocabulary activities and basic language skills. Includes crosswords, word searches, word jumbles

12. http://donnayoung.org/penmanship/redines.htm

Good site for penmanship especially for students unused to holding pencils. Starts from traceable lines and flows and progresses to cursive script. Lots of printable worksheets available.

13. http://english-zone.com/index.php

Good for low levels as much of the work is illustrated.

14. http://www.tchtrainingproject.com/pdf/prelit.pdf

Site contains a 116-page printable booklet full of useful strategies for pre-literate adults. The book "Making it Real: teaching pre-literate adult refugee students" is published by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services.

15. www.esl-kids.com

Tutors can choose a theme and customise worksheets with random lists of words on topics such as Body Parts, Clothes, Days, Family, feelings, Shapes and Things at Home. The site also includes printable flashcards and worksheets.

USEFUL SITES FOR HOME TUTORS

http://www.eslcafe.com/

Dave’s ESL Café is an established site with a wide variety of worksheets which can be copied. Most of the material on the site is more suitable for post beginner and intermediate level students. There are plenty of grammar quizzes and a long list of English idioms with explanations provided.


http://esl.about.com/od/beginningenglish/

This is a US site which contains a lot of advertising. However it does contain a lot of beginner level dialogues that can be copied and modified.


http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/

The British Council host this site which contains lots of advice for teachers. If you want worksheets go to:
www.learnenglish.org.uk/download/quizzes.shtml


http://www.mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/mhcs/topics.html

This is part of the NSW Health department site which contains information about pregnancy and birth in several languages.