IELI lab: Intensive English language Institute: Level 4

Today's Audio Program
Pulse of the Planet
http://www.pulseplanet.com
A short audio segment, transcript available
Special English on Radio
Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com
A Daily radio broadcasts read slowly in simple English. Scripts given.
English Listening Online
English Listening Lounge
http://www.englishlistening.com
You must join, but membership is free. Listening exercises and quizzes.
Dictations Online
fonetiks.org
http://www.fonetiks.org
Listen and write and then see the script.
Learning English Through Movies
LingualNet
http://www.lingual.net
An interesting website with a wide variety of videos and quizzes.
ELLO Listening Practice
English Language Listening Lab Online
http://www.elllo.org
A wide variety of topics with games, slide shows, quizzes.

Academic Journals and Newsletters
University of Maryland Library
http://www.lib.umd.edu
Links to academic journals and newsletters by subject: engineering, or by alphabetical list of titles. Sign in as a guest for some links
Main Idea, Details, Inference, Reading and Questions
Gallaudet University - English Works
http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks
9 readings with comprehension questions (main idea, details, inference) about famous people. Vocabulary exercises for each reading. 16 reading cloze practices with multiple choice questions. Links to grammar exercises, writing tips, vocabulary exercises, idioms, English expressions, phrasal verbs
Reading Comprehension - Globalcall Communications
ESL About
http://esl.about.com
Links on the left margin for all skills and all levels. Readings with comprehension questions and answers in pull-down link. Links to many outside sites
Timed Online Reading Passages
by William M. Balsamo
On-line Reading Lab
http://www.geocities.com/yamataro670/readinglab.htm
69 different timed online reading passages with multiple choice comprehension questions Mixed sentences practices in word order for each reading. Crossword puzzles. Links to other sites including famous speeches, famous quotes and film scripts.
Level Upper Intermediate Reading
Jamaby
http://www.jamaby.com
Read stories on a variety of topics.

Academic Word Power 2
Heinle
http://elt.heinle.com/namerica/en_us/index.html
Self-tests with fill-in-the-blank questions for each vocabulary word for each unit. Score report. Flash cards to study the words
23 Everyday Words
by Charles I. Kelly
The Internet TESL Journal
http://iteslj.org
Crossword puzzle
Medical Terms
by Vera Mello
The Internet TESL Journal
http://iteslj.org
Crossword puzzle
Daily Page for Students of ESL
by Charles I. Kelly & Lawrence E. Kelly
Interesting Things for ESL Students
http://www.manythings.org
Daily activity page with daily slang and daily quiz of the day. Link to VOA Special English site. Drop down menu for other exercises
Online English Dictionary
Merriam-Webster Online
http://www.m-w.com
Dictionary and Thesaurus. Definitions and pronunciation for each word in the dictionary mode
The Word of the Day
Merriam-Webster Online
http://www.m-w.com
A new word for each day. Definition and a sample sentence given for each word. Links to word games for each day. Links for a listening activity: Word for the Wise with script given

Present Perfect or Past Tense
by Charles I. Kelly
Activities for ESL Students
http://a4esl.org
Present perfect vs. past tense quiz. 8 items. No instruction about the tenses. Complete the sentence with the correct verb or choose the correct multiple choice answer. Score report. Quiz
What Did the Teacher Say?(Reported Speech)
by Lucimara Mello
Activities for ESL Students
http://a4esl.org
Students write answers on their own paper and then check them. No score report
Countable or Non-Countable Nouns
by Charles I. Kelly
Activities for ESL Students
http://a4esl.org
Select countable or non-count. 107 nouns. Score report
Punctuation
This quiz was prepared by Maria Lorusso, a student in Professor Karyn Hollis's Tutor Training course at Villanova University.
Capital Community College
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
Use of commas with coordinating conjunctions - levels 4+ (complex sentences) Student punctuates sentence and then checks it against the correct sentence. No score report
Online English Courses
1-Language.com
http://www.1-language.com
Grammar explanations, dialogues

Checklist for Essay Writing
by John Wong
http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/~eljohn
Use this list of 7 common sentence structure problems to use in editing writing.
The Five-Paragraph Essay
Capital Community College
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
Reading about writing. This site offers information about the parts of a 5 paragraph essay and makes suggestions about introductions and conclusions
Writer's block - Creating ideas to write about a topic
Capital Community College
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
Go to the bottom of the page to the link that gives you an area to "free write" online for 10, 8 or 5 minutes.
Clustering
Capital Community College
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
See an example of "clustering" to create ideas for a composition
Outlining
Capital Community College
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
The ideas used in the clustering activity are put into a formal cause and effect outline
Parallelism
Capital Community College
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
Good examples of corrected parallel structure
Parallelism Quiz 1
Capital Community College
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
A 9 item quiz on parallelism. Student selects the correct sentence. Score report
Parallelism Quiz 2
Capital Community College
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
A 9 sentence quiz on parallelism. Student re-types faulty sentences and checks answers against the correct sentence

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