ESL/EFL websites

Your next assignment is to find and analyze a website that can be used for learning English. You will have to send your analysis to my email address (groups 141a, 141b, 142a) or present it during our last class (142b).

Here you can find an example of how to do that and 4 questions you have to answer while analyzing your website (all the questions in bold).

Website
What features (services) does the website provide?
You can read the news from all over the world. Also you can listen to some of the news and learn new vocabulary from them. As well as listening online you can download the article, exercises and the mp3 file so that to work with it in an offline mode.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2010/11/101110_witn_mcdonalds_page.shtml
There are different categories. For example, you can choose between GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY and PRONUNCIATION, or GENERAL and BUSINESS English.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/index.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/index.shtml
Also you can find cultural references from which you can get to know a lot about different cultures (not only about British). For example, there are 2 categories: COSTUMES AND CELEBRATIONS and RECIPES where you can learn a lot about different holidays and national cuisine of the country.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/specials/
To addition there one can also find crosswords, quizzes, blogs and numerous discussions.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/quizzes/crossword/101119_crossword_school.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/quizzes/index.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/community/index.shtml

What do you like about it?
You can work with it for free (including the download of the files). I also like the great many of services that I described in the previous question.

What don’ you like about it?
You can forget about time if you get to the website, because it really makes one interested in what’s going on there.

How many points would you give this website (out of 10)? And why?
10 points, because it is possible for everyone to use it: for people from every part of the world (with Internet), and with all levels of knowledge.

Listening to English

One of the best ways of learning foreign language is listening to it and watching videos. There are numerous websites where you can do it.

Your assignment for this class will be to make a "media library entry" of resources on the particular topic (the one that you subscribe to here 141a 141b 142a 142b).

You can use the resources below and the ones you find by yourself. There should be at least 10 resources in your "media library entry". Only one link from each website is allowed!
Add your resources to the "Media library" wiki page here 141a 141b 142a 142b.

Audio resources

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/newsaboutbritain/2009/02/090127_soaps.shtml (and don’t forget about bbc.co.uk where you can listen to the live radio)

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/listen-and-watch

http://www.englishmeeting.com/esl_podcast_page.htm

http://www.englishclub.com/listening/index.htm

http://www.manythings.org/ (go to “Listening and Reading” and “Singing” parts)

http://www.podcastsinenglish.com (only listening – the rest of the features are paid)

Video resources

http://www.youtube.com/

http://www.sidereel.com/_home (TV shows, movies, TV programs in English)