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Useful ESL Websites and Resources

Useful ESL Sites and Resources:

Lessons: 
https://www.immigratemanitoba.com/community-stakeholders/instructor-resources/

Beginner: 
https://www.sqa.org.uk/files_ccc/ESOLLiteraciesNational2AlphabetNumbersPhonics.pdf
http://en.copian.ca/library/learning/handson/handson.pdf

Grammar: 

Head's Up English offers many different exercises on grammar points at different levels:
http://www.headsupenglish.com/index.php/beginner-english-students/beginner-skill-builders/beginner-grammar/325-conjunctions-because-and-so

Scott Thornbury is an expert on grammar. Here's his website:
http://www.scottthornbury.com/talks.html

Here's a practical site from the University of Victoria with loads of information on teaching specific grammar points:
https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/grammar.htm

ESL Gold has grammar activities divided into different levels:
https://eslgold.com/improve-grammar/resources-by-level/

Busy Teacher has lots of resources on teaching grammar, but here is a specific one on teaching the verb 'to be': https://busyteacher.org/3934-how-to-teach-the-verb-to-be-to-beginners.html

ESL Authority has lots of activities and suggestions for teaching grammar.  Here is one on teaching verbs: https://eslauthority.com/resources/tips/teaching-verbs/

FluentU has many blogs on various aspects of ESL teaching and lots of activities.  Here is one on Communicative Language Teaching: https://www.fluentu.com/blog/educator/communicative-language-teaching-lesson-plan/

This site 'Guide to Grammar and Writing' is useful for grammar definitions and examples for teaching: http://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/

This site has many useful suggestions about how to teach grammar and is also full of activities:
https://eslspeaking.org/how-to-teach-grammar/

Here's an article all about using 'noticing' in grammar lessons:
http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Noonan-Noticing.html

 A site that has some fun games and activities for grammar review:
https://busyteacher.org/14455-grammar-review-6-super-esl-games.html

Another useful grammar games site:
https://www.fluentu.com/blog/educator-english/esl-grammar-games/

Here is a website with links to several useful grammar activities and information.  It's hosted by the grammar guru Betty Azar:
http://azargrammar.com

ESL Talking Points offers many different grammar specific activities as well as many other activities (but I'm not sure if they are all free):
https://www.esltalkingpoints.com/category/discussion/grammar-esl-conversation-questions/#google_vignette




Pronunciation: 
http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/interactive_phonemic_chart/
cambridgeenglishonline.com
https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/173841013676/the-international-phonetic-alphabet-consonants
allthingslinguistic.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeeDQXgFgWA
https://www.udemy.com/how-to-pronounce-the-vowels-in-british-english/

Reading:
https://centre.bowvalleycollege.ca/esl-literacy-readers

Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) Gov of Canada Publications:
https://www.language.ca/publications/

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