Welcome!

A site full of links for ELICOS teachers at Hales institute, Melbourne and for any other interested teachers. This is not supposed to be a comprehensive list but is a short sharp edited list of what sites have worked at HALES so far.

In terms of the L1 supported sites I can't verify how good they are, but many students value them highly. I used a translation engine using searches like ' English grammar' and by asking students themselves what they found useful.


Teacher Tools

Sentence scrambler
http://esl.visarus.co.uk/toys/sentence_scrambler.asp

An easy way to batch process lines of sentences into scrambled sentences for worksheets


Cloze exercise generator

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/ef_teachertools/preint/

Crossword generator

http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html

Paragraph scrambler

http://davidbrett.uniss.it/eLearningTools/paragraph%20scrambler.html

Conjugation Generator
http://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-english-verb-eat.html

http://www.past-simple.com/
Some interesting visual graphs of tense forms and usage. More for teachers but could be good for students.

http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/l1thai.html

A fantastic table of pronun errors amongst different language groups with appropriate chapters in different books to assist.


http://www.teflclips.com/
A website for teachers featuring short videos / youtube clips suggesting ways to integrate video into classes. Suggested by Pat.

http://www.esldesk.com/esl-quizzes/frequently-used-english-words/words.htm
a list of the 1000 most common ESL words with a dictionary- great for ILC

http://www.usingenglish.com/files/pdf/common-ipa-international-phonetic-alphabet-symbols.pdf
Handy Chart for IPA symbols ( phonemic chart )

http://www.flashcardexchange.com/
Make your own cards, find cards made by other teachers, students can study Online during ILC

http://www.eslsite.com/ some interesting ideas with full lesson plans.

Dictionaries and student tools

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ - free dictionary

http://www.manythings.org/ -- > useful for lower lever students in ILC
http://a4esl.org/ -- > ILC games

Chinese
http://sh.dict.cn/
What seems like a good Dictionary for Mandarin speakers with speech support but have not had any feedback from Chinese students on how they find it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/china/learningenglish/mediaenglish/index.shtml

Excellent articles with support for Mandarin speakers - When you open the site the blurbs are in Chinese but click an article and it will show the English with vocab notes in L1.

Greek
http://www2.e-yliko.gr/htmls/agggymn.aspx

Basic grammar overview

Russian
http://www.ispol.com/Learn-English-Fast/lessons.html

Hindi - Generally speaking Hindi and Punjabi are quite similar in writing. So use these for all tribes!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/learningenglish/

When you open the site the blurbs are in Hindi but click an article and it will show the English with vocab notes in L1.

Hindi
http://www.grammar.agoodplace4all.com/
This site gives a good basic summary of English tenses, and basic rules.

Punjabi
http://www.punjabonline.com/

( one of the few Punjabi English dictionaries I can find, quite limited ( very!) but in some cases useful )



Polish
http://www.tlumaczenia-angielski.info/angielski/angielski.htm?PHPSESSID=f8cfad1e434fe464a57fb0b7e220f213

A general explanatory site of English grammar in Polish and English


Thai
http://www.english-room.com/ ( good basic grammar work for thai students )


http://www.tookaa.com/ ( grammar explanations for Thai students with interactive excercises )


http://www.yindii.com/ref/grammar/index.htm Blow by blow explaniation of English grammar, but no exercises.

Spanish
http://www.mansioningles.com/Gramatica.htm
Spanish / English grammar rules, quite comprehensive


Portugeuse
http://learnlanguagefromluton.net/learnlanguagefromluton.html
A collection of word files that go through grammar rules in English with 1st language support. Suitable for Binbinga through to Gagudju / Djinang level.

Portuguese
http://www.inglesonline.com.br/exercicios-de-ingles/

http://www.inglesonline.com.br/gramatica-basica-resumida

Fantasic resources for Portuguese speakers: 5 stars. Has exercises, great for ILC


Japanese
http://www.englishpod101.com/

Pass this to Japanese students, an excellent site with many free downloads.