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(1) Adult Education ESL Teachers Guide
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This site provides Beginning and Intermediate Lesson Plans and Accompanying Teacher Training Modules. It also presents a general orientation for teaching of ESL.
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(2) BC TEAL
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This site includes conference information, membership info, newsletter highlights, TEAL Professional Certificate, and other links.
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(3) Canadians and Their Government
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is a resource guide containing ready-to-use material for various types of learning environments. The activities use creative tasks, role-playing, research and discussion-oriented tasks to illustrate how government works. The information provided within the guide gives a comprehensive and concise explanation of how Canada has developed, and continues to develop, as a strong democratic country.
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(4) CALL@Chorus
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is a teacher's resource which offers web resources, online teaching and learning links, and reviews of CALL books and software. It also features demonstrations of the latest in Cutting Edge CALL Demos.
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(5) Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks
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The CCLB lesson plans were compiled as part of a cross-Canada project. ESL teachers submit samples of successful lesson plans for learners at Stages 1 and 2 of the CLB (CLB 1 –8). These lessons outline ideas for activities and tasks to help learners develop CLB competencies in all four skills.
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(6) Comenius English Language Links
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An easy-to-read teacher and student reference site for finding ESL websites.
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(7) English Language Institute at UBC
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This site focuses on the essential role of lexis in language acquisition. It has extensive online resources, a selected bibliography and free, printable and interactive on-line teaching materials.
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(8) E. L. Easton's English Online
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A teacher's resource website with links to materials for teaching such as country profiles, holidays, libraries and museums, pronunciation, sports and teaching ideas as well as links to online courses in English and other useful ESL websites.
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(9) English Bridge Program
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This site with many resources for ESL teachers and students: English Language Resources, Phonetics and Pronunciation, Dictionaries, Grammar and Language Aides, CBC Radio, Vancouver Sun, Globe and Mail, etc...
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(10) ESL from The Mining Co.
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This is a resource website that has innumerable links for ESL teachers on every conceivable topic from teacher training to employment to classroom activities to an ESL bulletin board.
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(11) ESL Lesson Plans/Activities and Resources
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This is mainly a teacher's resource website but also has links for ESL students. It includes links to CNN Newsroom and Worldview for ESL, Conversation and Questions for the ESL/EFL classroom, ESL Lessons and Games, ESL Teacher Connection, Dave's ESL Web Guide, etc...
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(12) Essential Skills for the Workplace
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Links to TOWES-Test of Essential Skills, HRDC-Occupational Profiles, Authentic Workplace Materials, Workplace Skills Training Project, Conference Board of Canada- Employability Skills 2000+, etc.
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(13) Holidays
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A Canadian site for holidays and holiday activities. This site also links to other Teacher Resources, Lesson Plans, Projects, etc.
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(14) Holidays on the Net
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Another teacher's resource for holiday celebrations on the World Wide Web. This site provides information on each holiday celebration including its history and related activities.
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(15) Internet Projects for Learners and Teachers of English
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A compilation of links to websites for Internet projects from around the world.
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(16) Jim Edgar's ESL/LINC Learner Links
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A comprehensive hypertext listing of ESL Learner websites with Canadian Language Benchmark rating for reading, writing, speaking/listening activities. Each site includes host country, interactivity rating and Jim's star rating.
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(17) Puzzlemaker
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Teachers can create different types of puzzles online such as mazes, crossword puzzles, word searches, cryptograms, etc. Puzzles can be saved online or printed.
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(18) The Red Book Online
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is a complete online guide to community, social and government agencies and services across the Lower Mainland. It provides detailed descriptions of over 4,000 agency listings offering a variety of services including: counselling, health, employment, housing, etc.
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(19) TESL English Lessons
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This is mainly a teacher's resource website but also has links for ESL students, such as reading comprehension activity, vocabulary game, advanced English skills for ESL Students, etc.
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(20) The Tower of English
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An interactive magazine for ESL students and teachers which requires a lot of sifting to find the content but has a wide variety of activities and material.
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(21) The Virtual CALL Library
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This site is a central point of access to Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL) software scattered across the Internet and available for downloading. Most software linked from this page is shareware or freeware. In addition, it provides links to sources of commercial CALL software, CALL organizations, forums and journals.
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(22) Azar Grammar Exchange
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An Online Resource for ESL Teachers and a Companion Website to the Azar Grammar Series. The new and expanded Azar Grammar Exchange is a global community of ESL teachers. It provides a forum where teachers can share ideas, questions, and grammar-teaching materials for the benefit of students around the world.
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