ESL Project & Activity  Center 
The Project & Activity Center provides links to sites that help students learn, practice and incorporate the language skills they need in ESL through projects and activities on the internet .
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E- Pad provides a handy tool to keep notes and results or to forward feed-back to the teacher.

I- Page is a simple Internet WebPage Creator, create and save it for presentations or to publish.

Forum is a place where you can leave questions, give answers to others and read up on the discussion.

Free Email takes you to a list of sites where you can get a free email address.

Study Buddy brings you an encyclopedia, dictionary, thesarus, the news, CIA Fact Book and many more resources.

Grammar+ leads to a vast collection of grammar links.
 
HomeWork takes you to an Internet site with links to a vast number of resources for your research.

Essential Links is a site with an unbelieveable list of sites and search engines.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Projects & Activities:
 

Writing

CyberFiction: reading and writing adventures
 http://station05.qc.ca/css/Fiction/Accueil.html
Cyberfiction
for young  students wishing to explore new worlds of interactivity via Internet.
  		 
        Cyberfiction is a Québec Internet site dedicated to enhancing writing skills and integrating art skills in primary and secondary schools. The English component of the site is aimed at ESL classes but it is also open to first language students. Using hypertext links, students develop adventures similar to "You're the hero" books. Classes and visitors are invited to read the adventures and participate in various ways. While not required, participating authors are encouraged to include their own illustrations or work with art students to complement their stories. Full documentation and guidance is offered to the teacher for different levels of participation. To your keyboards!!
 
The NeverEnding Tale
http://www.coder.com/creations/tale/
a framework for kids to be involved in collaborative story-writing, and also allows them to edit and correct
the work of others, encouraging self-editing and awareness of written mistakes.

Newsday
http://www.dse.nsw.edu.au/staff/F2.0/tilt/newsday/about.htm
a comprehensive guide to newspaper production

Research and Writing: Why the Step-by-Step Approach?
http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus/stepfirst.htm
Students beginning their first critical essays would do well to start at this site, which explains a methodical approach to essay writing in a light hearted way.

A Brief Look at the History of English
http://www.m-w.com/about/look.htm

Exchange. A Web magazine for ESL learners – Culture- recipes, etc
http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/exchange/
 
The Write site Project
http://www.writesite.org/html/newsroom.html
 
ePALS gives K-12 students and teachers a sense of what every-day life is like in a foreign country
http://www.epals.com/home.html
  SchoolNet News Canadian Newspaper 

KidPub 

The Meadow News and The NEWSONTARIO project. 

Stone Soup - The Magazine by Young Writers and Artists American Girl Homepage 

The Concord Review, high school essays 

World Writers  

Inkspot: Resources for Young Writers 

Scholastic Central 

MidLink Magazine 

National Scholastic Press Association

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 Reading

CyberFiction: reading and writing adventures
http://station05.qc.ca/css/Fiction/Accueil.html

The Case: Mysteries to solve, scary stories, magic  tricks, and contests
http://www.TheCase.com/kids/

The Two Minute Mystery Writing Club.
http://www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/schools/olp/2mmsolve/current.htm

CRAYON: create your own newspaper
http://crayon.net/index.html

Books and Authors
http://www.kidinfo.com/Language_Arts/Books_Authors.html

EDUCATIONAL TOURS
http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/et/

Welcome To Bedtime-Story - Children's Story Site On The Web
http://the-office.com/bedtime-story/

Forensic Files: adventure
http://forensicfiles.bc.sympatico.ca/

Children's Storybooks Online
http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html
This award-winning site's target audience is young children. Find illustrated stories, riddles, colouring pages, and an annotated list of related sites.
 
Lost In Africa
http://www.w-angle.galil.k12.il/studio/english/internet/Lostin.html

The Moonlit Road
http://www.themoonlitroad.com
a range of spooky ghost stories and myths from the back roads of America. The site is beautifully illustrated for maximum effect.

The Jack London Collection
http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/London/
searchable site contains not only online texts of all London's major works, but also a short biography, a selection of critical essays, guides to printed biographies and bibliographies, and links to other sites,, etc.

Shakespeare
http://www.lynchmultimedia.com/shakespeare.html
explore Shakespeare. There are RealAudio additions to add to the experience as well as a separate classroom version to facilitate group reading. This site makes Shakespeare easy for the student and the teacher. Also see (http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/shakes/)

Aesop's Fables
http://www.umass.edu/acco/projects/aesop/
browse the tales further than the more commonly known fables, and read modern and traditional versions of the stories which are highly illustrated.

Legends
http://legends.dm.net/
exploring the history, literature, and lore surrounding Robin Hood, King Arthur, Pirates & Privateers, and other swashbuckling characters of balladry, fiction, and film, from The Queen of Elfland to Zorro.

Myths and Monsters
http://www.virgin.net/myths_monsters
full of information on monsters, ranging from dragons and unicorns to cyclops and creatures of the deep,a stimulus for creative story-writing with a twist

Environment Projects
http://eelink.net/eeactivities-general.html

Global Issues: Web Resources
http://www.countryschool.com/gisig5.htm

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Listening
 
PRACTICE listening to real English. It's easy, it's fun, and it's free. 
http://grove.ufl.edu/~ktrickel/activity.html
Thematic listening activities which incorporate native listening materials via RealAudio

The Superman Radio Serial
http://www.dccomics.com/radio/

Authentic Listening Links:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Assignments:  1 2 3  4 5 6

Initiation: Internet Treasure hunt 1. Your own E-mail address: Register for your own E-mail address at HOTMAIL and send in your address to your teacher at  _________@ ________   Instructions!
 
    What are Smileys? Choose a few smileys from the list and
send the teacher a short message using the smileys to replace some of the words.

I think they will make you :) but if finding them on the keyboard is :'-(  then select, (with mouse button down) copy (ctrl + C) and paste (ctrl + V) them from the list to your message.
 
2. Read these 2 minute mysteries and write your answer for each of the 4 examples. Hint: You are looking for something in the people's stories that indicate that they are not telling the truth and therefore are guilty.
  Enrichment  
3. Your first Web page:
Make a Web page that introduces yourself and gives links to 3 of your interests. (music, sports, etc). Using Word 97 (open new - WebPage Wizard) or Netscape (Gold 3 or Composer 4( see Gold 3) ).  
4. E-mail project: Penpals
Write to two different "keypals" introducing yourself and asking questions. Submit the best one with information on the penpal. Enrichment  
 5. Research project: Read the project outline at Build your project as a Web page  to submit (see Assignment 3). It should be in its own (new) folder and include all the required information including your name(s) and e-mail.

Enrichment

WebQuest  
6. Combine Your Grammar and Poetry Skills:
Visit this site on the Internet and follow the instructions except for submitting your work. Copy and paste your poem into an e-mail to   your teacher
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

WORD PLAY
 
 Word games : at WORD PLAY Alan Cooper's Homonym List Words, like "caret" and "carrot" that are pronounced the same, but are spelled differently, and that have different meanings. This list was compiled with a true appreciation for "the prime numbers of the English language."
http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym.html Amanda's Mnemonics Page A mnemonic is a device, such as a formula or rhyme, used as an aid in remembering. Amanda collects them and has organized them into handy categories. To spell arithmetic correctly remember "A Rat In The House May Eat The Ice Cream."
http://www.frii.com/~geomanda/mnemonics.html The Amazing Run-On Sentence Page Help create the world's longest run-on sentence.
http://members.aol.com/laninaia01/runon.html American Slanguages Choose a city and learn to talk like the locals. http://www.slanguage.com/ Ambigram.Com Ambigrams are a word or words that can be read in more than one way or from more than a single vantage point, such as both right side up and upside down.
http://Ambigram.Com/ The Anagram Genius Server "Did you know that rearranging the letters of "Ronald Wilson Reagan" gives "A long-insane Warlord", "Madonna Louise Ciccone" gives "Occasional nude income" and "William Shakespeare", "I am a weakish speller"??! With The Anagram Genius you can find out what lurks within the letters of YOUR name, or that of your boss, employer or anything else that you choose." You supply the name or phrase, tone, gender, context, use (or not) of vulgar words, and number of requested responses. Submit this information with your email address and your anagrams arrive promptly in your inbox. Awesome!
http://www.genius2000.com/anagram.html Anagram Hall of Fame Here you'll find a list of the best and the brightest anagrams of all time, such as "The Morse Code = Here Come Dots," "Slot Machines = Cash Lost in'em" and "Dormitory = Dirty Room."
http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/hof.html Animated American Sign Language Dictionary Learn to sign letters and words, with animation to help you.
http://www.feist.com/~randys/index_nf.html Antagonyms An antagonym (a term the author coined) is single word that has meanings that contradict each other. For example: Cleave, which means to adhere tightly and also to cut apart. Antagonyms are also known as "contronyms."
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cellis/antagonym.html Automatic WWW Text Borkifier Enter your English text and press "Borkify" and it is instantly translated into Mock Swedish (as spoken by the Muppet's Swedish Chef). As they say in Mock Swedish, "Cuul."
http://astro.queensu.ca/~dursi/borker.html The Big List of Cliches and Other Fun but Stupid Things to Say Cliches -- the spice of life, the bread and butter of any great conversation, the greatest things since sliced bread, the...well, you get the picture. Enjoy!
http://shoga.wwa.com/~briangel/cliches Brain Bait The Creative Writing Site. Lots of ideas to help get your creative juices flowing.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/3995/ Brendan's Amazing Anagram Generator This amazing program will take an English name, phrase, and so on, and rearrange the letters to form other English words. Submitting "word play" yielded 48 anagrams, including "yap world," "pal rowdy," and "wary plod."
http://mmm.mbhs.edu/~bconnell/anagrams.html Brendan's Phone Anagram Generator This program finds the letter equivalents of a phone number. For example, "439-2665" is equivalent to dialing "HEY-COOL." Most of the results you generate will probably be meaningless, but there might be a couple or so that are real or semi-real phrases.
http://mmm.mbhs.edu/~bconnell/phoneagrams.html Broken Rules Page
Here you will find some background on the "never end a sentence with a preposition" rule as well as lists of words that violate the "i before e" rule. [New URL]
http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/broken.rules.html
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Activity Sites
 
John’s - ESL/EFL Activities
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/4459/act.html

Linguistic Funland : Activities for Students
http://www.linguistic-funland.com/teslact.html
 
PLACES TO GO AND THINGS TO DO... different activities for kids

American Yo-Yo Association ~ How to Yo-Yo Tips for yo-yo turning and other info from the land of yo. http://www.pd.net/yoyo/ 

Audio Arts "The Belch Page"
Interactive games and sounds available here for play online.
http://www.rahul.net/renoir/index.html   

Colgate-Palmolive: Kid's World
Children's exploratory site. Go on a quest to foreign lands and join the No Cavities Club.
http://www.colgate.com/Kids-world/index.html 

Games Kids Play
A collection of brilliant ideas for rainy and not-so-rainy days. Includes the rules for such classics as Duck Duck Goose and Dodgeball.
http://www.corpcomm.net/~gnieboer/gamehome.htm 

String Figures from Around the World
Cat's cradle and beyond comes to cyberspace.
http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~darsie/string.html 

Incredible Bagel Maker
ACEKids is a 100% kid safe and friendly site with links to over 1000 other such places as well as wholesome and fun original content. We also have education information and software ...
http://www.acekids.com/bagels1.htm 

Interactive Web Games: Pick and choose

Yahoo list of Interactive Web Games

Java games on the Cybersite Innovations page
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Internet project suggestions:

There are several Internet based projects available such as: Internet Projects as WebQuests

The Time Machine:

Choose an ancient culture and develop lifestyle portfolios or realistic portrayals on the rich and poor. ( ancient Egypt, Roman Empire, etc.

World Disasters:

Choose a disaster (Titanic, Pompei, etc.Yahoo, Disasters & Catastrophes  ). Read about the event, imagine and relate the experience of a participant.

Music (or TV shows or movies)

  1. Investigate an emotion or concept through song and music. Love, happiness, culture or historical experience could be the targets of a research. MuchMusic Lesson Plans
  2. Compare how different songs and music communicate similar feelings.

    3. Learn more about those who sing your favorite song(s).
    MUSIC  MOVIES  MOVIE REVIEWS 
Travel: WebQuests
http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests.html
 
 
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