User:Teresayeung

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About Me
I am a secondary school teacher. I am a graduate of the University of British Columbia and I have been teaching English in Hong Kong. I enjoy cooking, drawing and reading. Drama is now my favourite!

Websites I Recommend
Tenses Cartoons Learn Tenses by Watching Short Cartoons

The Idiom Connection A good website to help you learn idioms

Idioms, Phrasal verbs, and more A good ESL learning site (newly added)

Website of the Week
Audio English Lesson Learning idioms through listening!

Phrases, sayings, and idioms Another good site to learn idioms and phrases

Reference Materials
Cambridge Learners' DictionaryThis has to be the best online dictionary available. It provides examples of usage from the corpus, all words derived from any root words that you enter, collocations and set phrases, pronunciation, differences between American, British and Australian usage and many other features.

Pronunciation - IPA Phonetic Symbol Chart for English

Online Dictionary

Online Thesaurus

Reverse Dictionary If a word is 'on the tip of your tongue', type in a definition and this programme will give you possible words to fit it. Visuwords Online graphical dictionary/ thesaurus. Enter a word and see it in the context of a neural network of associated words.

Dr Grammar Frequently asked grammar and usage questions.

Online Rhyming Dictionary

Idioms Dictionary of idioms with examples of usage in context from literary works.

Word Origins A site where the origins of idioms are explained.

Wordname Origins of words and names.

Online Instant Translator

BBC News

The South China Morning Post

Crossword DictionaryUse it to search for words with the same sequence of letters

Puzzlemaker Build your own printable crossword puzzles.

Linguist List Includes "ask a linguist" discussion board.

Behind the name Check and see if you pronounce your name correctly

Grammar and Writing
Skillswise This site has a wide range of authentic situational exercises, quizzes and games to develop grammar, vocabulary, punctuation and writing skills. Should be particularly useful for junior forms.

English learning for beginners ABOUT ESL

Ambleside School, Cumbria An extraordinary site put together by students at a school in the Lake District - limerick and haiku generators, a silly story engine, exercises on easily confused words, homophones, comprehension and lots more. Fun stuff for junior students. The site also has links for many other subjects across the curriculum.

World English Website Grammar, vocabulary and comprehension practice, quizzes, games, writing guides, lists of the most common words in English, speaking and listening resources.

English Grammar Online An online resource with a lot of exercises similar in nature to Tensebusters.

A fun prepositions exercise

Flash animated grammar exercises

Reading and Phonics
Young Post Registration required.

Time for Kids Children's edition of the American current affairs magazine]

American Stories - Comprehension Exercises

Giggle Poetry Fun poetry lesson plans, games and activities.

Nursery Rhymes

Starfall Online books for less confident readers, with animation and audio.

Created By Teachers Resources for early learners and remedial classes including basic vocabulary and sight-reading lists, flashcards, wordsearches and crosswords.

Usborne Quicklinks A directory of websites recommended by the educational publisher across the curriculum, including a number of sites for English language and literature.

Storyline-Online It's a great pleasure to have a story read out loud to you - especially by a talented actor! At this site, there is video-feed of actors and actresses reading from young people's storybooks, together with printable activities.

Short Stories

Listening
Living English The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's programme for elementary level English listening.

ESL Lab Try out the easy and medium exercises as well as the exercises for vocabulary building.

Miscellaneous
Wordsmith A site where you can design anagrams.

Primary NET Resources This is a huge repository of links to teaching resources maintained by NET teachers in Hong Kong primary schools. Includes online story books, songs, games, phonics activities and much, much more!

Enchanted Learning

Listening and Multimedia
BBC World Service Learning English

Student Standard A site where you can listen to and read articles with an emphasis on social/ interpersonal issues, and find questions for discussion.

English Bites The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's programme for language learners with documentary and general interest videos,transcripts, glossaries, explanation of grammar and usage, tips and practice for speaking and writing.

Nexus Online video documentaries and transcripts for intermediate language learners.

Listening Lab Online Over 700 audio clips with slide shows, quizzes, songs, listening games and transcripts; a wide variety of regional accents; can be searched by level of difficulty.

ESL Lab Try out the medium and difficult exercises.

Writing and Grammar
Sentence Sense This is a self-taught online guide to writing coherent sentences and organising ones ideas in writing.

English Biz A guide to language and literature designed for British GCSE and A Level students, with guidelines on how to write a wide variety of essays.

Web English Teacher A very extensive directory of online resources –everything from elementary English to Shakespeare

Fridge Magnet Poetry Online version of the poetry game - "magnetic" tiles with words or suffixes that can be moved around to create poetry.

Grammar Book More advanced grammar exercises.

Teaching English Activities and lesson plans.

Grammar at Pen and Page

Grammar Index

Grammar Notes and Quzzies