| Activity/tool | Resources | Who directs the activity | Type of activity | |
| Classroom material, such as pictures - ESL Action Photos by Barry Bakin, University of Victoria's Language Teaching Clipart Library, or clipartconnection.com song lyrics -www.lyricserver.com ; www.classiclyrics.net word searches - online or download shareware from KidsDomain tongue twisters- www.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/twisters.html |
T,I or sw | Teacher | Handouts | |
| Word templates - at the
Office Template Gallery
|
T or C (or T/S), Word |
Teacher or students |
Group |
|
| PowerPoint templates- at the
Office Template Gallery
|
T or C, PowerPt |
Teacher or students | Individual or group | |
| Computer and Projector: Electronic whiteboard |
C,P, wp |
Teacher |
Group work |
|
| Language experience approach |
C (P), wp |
Teacher or adv. student |
Pair work |
|
| Find and correct the errors in a word-processed document with
or without grammar help, spell checker |
C,P, wp |
Teacher or students |
Individual or group |
|
| Concordance program online:
titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html
(faster) or
titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/direct_demo.html
(better) Shareware: WinConcord downloaded and a corpus, such as a sample of spoken English or literature from Project Gutenberg . |
C,P (I or software) |
Teacher or students |
Pair or group |
|
| The
LinguaCenter Grammar Safari
|
C,P,I |
Teacher |
Pair or group |
|
| Companion websites for classroom texts, such as
Prentice-Hall's
|
T/S,I | Teacher |
Handouts or group | |
| Create Hot Potatoes exercises - download the authoring program
|
C, Hot Potatoes |
Teacher and students |
Group |
|
| Using email: Keypals – start with Kenji Kitao's
Keypals page
|
C/S, I |
Teacher and students | Individual or group |
|
| Grammar hint of the day via email at
Daily Grammar
|
C/S; I |
Student |
Individual |
|
| Word of the Day via email at
A Word a Day
or Merriam-Webster
|
C/S; I |
Student |
Individual |
|
| Professional mailing lists -search at
CataList
|
C/S; I |
Student |
Individual |
|
| Emailed homework (can use Insert Comments, Track Changes) |
T,I,S, wp or Word |
Teacher and student |
Individual |
|
| Free online activities organized by skill and level (a sampling) Randall's Cyber ESL Lab - listening activities with pre- and post-activities by Randall Davis ESL Independent Study Lab by Michael Krauss ESL Study Hall by Christine Meloni ITESL-J student activities ESL Gold - free activities for students and lesson plans for teachers More listening sites include The Learning Edge, an audio magazine with exercises and CNN's Learning Resources, audio and readings with exercises. |
T,I or C,I | Teacher or students | Individual or group | |
| Skill-building programs - find free/shareware at KidsDomain and by searching for <skill> shareware, such as vocabulary shareware, reading shareware | C; I or sw | Student (guided by the teacher) | Individual |
Go to the workshop home page:
oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/catesol/
See Lab and High Resource
Options
Deborah's Attic
English Language Institute
Oregon State University