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Useful ESL Websites Suggested by Sophie Pietrucci, TESOL France

Some film trailers with activities and worksheets, to work on in class (check streaming first)
http://www.english-trailers.com/index.php

Worksheets to go with famous songs to work on grammar, speaking and writing
http://www.englishdatabase.com/music.aspx

To find transcripts of famous films to do a fill in the gap exercise or make students perform a specific scene of a film (for pronunciation)
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie-transcripts-m.html

Listening material with transcripts and worksheets
http://www.elllo.org/english/NewsCenter/N26-Phone.html

To listen and read along (to improve pronunciation)
http://www.manythings.org/listen/

A fun visual thesaurus to look at related words to brainstorm for essays or discussions (free but you have to reset the page every 3 words (click on “login” and “try it now”)
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

Film trailers with cloze exercises, transcripts and quizzes (the layout is not really pleasant but it can be fun once to do it in class). You will need broadband.
http://www.english-trailers.com/index.php

Material for ESL Class Activities: Suggestions from Sophie Pietrucci, TESOL France

Newspapers and magazines online:

lists available at

http://www.metagrid.com

http://www.world-newspapers.com

http://www.newslink.org

http://www.wheretodoresearch.com/International

Cartoons: http://www.cagle.com

Getting activities by email:

http://www.insideout.net/profile/emailservice.asp

http://www.guardian.co.uk/GWeekly/teflupdate

Class-linking activities: