Resources for English as a Second Language

If you are teaching English, this website has a wide range of free resources to help you.

Look out for the special area for teachers (strangely enough, titled 'For Teachers'!)

I run the department that produces the website, so I could be biased.... but all feedback, criticism, and suggestions are gratefully received; although our resources are limited we would like to make it more useful for you..

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UK private tutor directory. Find a tutor in the UK.

A fun interactive website for children to find out all about English and other languages.

Practise your language skills online for free and get help from native speakers.

The TEEST Online English Language Proficiency Assessment is a secure, professional web-based assessment designed to accurately and reliably measure the English proficiency of non-native speakers of the language. The assessment scores indicate how well people can communicate in English in non-technical academic and business contexts.

TEEST_Brochure.pdf

TEEC's Online General English Course has been professionally designed to lift students' English langauge skills from Elementary to Upper Intermediate level in the shortest time possible.

TEEC_Online_General_English.pdf

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Solomon Training website

The NLN Materials are small, flexible 'bite-sized' episodes of learning. They are not whole courses but are designed to support a wide range of subject and topic areas. They have been funded by the LSC and are available free to all authorised organisations in the post-16 sector.

Has anyone out there taken blended learning courses?

As I understand them, they're partly online/distance and partly in person/telephone. How effective have people found them? I wonder aloud here because this site (linked) has a number of blended learning plus online learning opportunities (http://www.findcourses.co.uk/languages_e_learning___550__59.html).

What questions do you normally need answered when talking to course providers?

Thanks,
John

Saw this group are listing UK & US English as different whole courses. I clicked through to the provider's website and saw they even have Irish.

2 questions then:
1. Is it usual for Business UK & Business US English to be treated as different courses and what do they do differently.
2. With the Irish language - do they usually mean Gaelic or do we Irish qualify for a new version of English ;-)

Cheers,
JohnO

Claire and I were in a charity shop by the office, buying suits for the next Formal Friday, and overheard the assistants giving the new Japanese assistant lessons in London slang. Here are a few terms, for those who aren't sufficiently 'street' to know them already:

'peng' = good/hot
'butters' = bad/ugly (As in "dem beats is butters man")
'nang' = good
'sick' = also good
'sket' = a slut, a sexually promiscuous girl

Also enjoyed their exchange with their six-year old sister:
- 6yo: "Why can't I say 'sket'?"
- Sister: "Um... because it's offensive"

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