Kim Oliver ESOL Web Links
Tech up your teaching! Every good teacher knows that the resources outside the classroom are as important as those inside for students to improve their mastery of the English language! The internet is now a gold mine of resources, but some are more helpful than others! So I have created a page with the best of the best web resources available for ESL teachers and students.
My Personal Favorites:
These top four are the sites that I always come to first to find specific verb tense explanations and exercises for my students to do after class.
1. Rachel's English
Home Page - Rachel's English (rachelsenglish.com)
Very comprehensive site in which you can click on a letter, and it takes you to a video of Rachel explaining and demonstrating the sound.
2. Sounds of English
http://www.soundsofenglish.org
This has a great list of minimal pair and word stress explanations and practice.
3. English with Jennifer
http://www.youtube.com/user/JenniferESL
Jennifer has over 40 videos just for pronunciation, another 70+ on things like vocabulary, grammar, mistakes and slang.
Jennifer's Sentence Stress Lessons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbs5aoqFtVQ
This is the first of three videos that covers a lot of the rules concerning content & function words and rhythm.
Jennifer's Sentence Rhythm through Rhyme videoJe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N86BsL3l5ZQ
This is a series of three videos in which Jennifer shows the rhythm of English through a few nursery rhymes
Eva Easton
This is a really nice page with lots of examples, practice, links to toher sites and quizzes.
English Meeting
http://www.englishmeeting.com/
Only a few English videos for pronunciation & listening, but this guy is very funy in a dry humor way. Good video for the two "th" sounds.
English Pronunciation: Advanced Practice by Sunny Tseng
This site has some good work on sound reduction, sentence stress, and rhythm. Not all of the exercises have active links, but most do.
Spoken skills—Classroom activities
http://www.spokenskills.com/student-activities.cfm
Another good site for students supplementary practice; lots of phonics, with the ability to record and listen to yourself compared to the original. Has some tongue twisters as well. “ESL Oscars Video clips” has clips several seconds long from the scene of a tv show; good for intonation. There isn't a huge amount of phonetic work, and the site hasn't been updated in a while, but it has some good resources.
Sozo Exchange
This site has a series of videos with idioms, pronunciation, quizzes, etc.
Talk English
This is just audio based, but it has some nice explanation and samples.
ESL Flow
http://www.eslflow.com/pronunciationlessonplans.html
This is a well-known site that links to other sites for activities
Phonetizer
This is a great site for teachers or students who want to use IPA for pronunciation. You just type the text in one box, hit transcribe, and it changes it to IPA for you!!
My Ovient--sentence Rhythm
Category Archives: Rhythm (myovient.com)
Videos with explanatory text
English Club--Word stress
Word Stress Worksheets | ESL Worksheets | EnglishClub
Variety of recognition worksheets and games
Paul Knoll--English sounds
Clear English Sounds (paulnoll.com)
Shows charts for mouth positions, has exercises for minimal pairs and rhthym
Vowels:
ESL Charts--Vowel chart
English Vowel Sounds Chart - ESLCharts.com
Useful English--Vowel chart
Useful English: English Vowel Sounds
Pronuncian--Schwa
Really Learn English--Schwa
English Pronunciation, Lesson 08 - Schwa Sound (really-learn-english.com)
Difficult Consonants
Really Learn English--TH
English Pronunciation, Lesson 30 - TH Consonant Sounds (really-learn-english.com)
Speak Method--TH
English Pronunciation with Speak Method: Sounds of TH
Home Speech--Voiceless TH
250+ Voiceless TH Words, Phrases, Sentences, & Paragraphs by Place & Syllable (home-speech-home.com)
Ted Powers--Consonant Clusters
Consonant clusters (tedpower.co.uk)
Let's Learn and Speak English--tense and lax vowels
English Vowel Sounds Chart - ESLCharts.com