Website compiled by Rolf Palmberg. Last updated on December 3, 2012.
Basic tools for language teachers
- TEFL.NET's Worksheet Generator Three types of worksheets, ready to print out and copy, complete with answer sheets.
- Worksheets 4 Teachers A collection of puzzle makers and worksheet generators.
- My Teacher Tools A comprehensive directory of teaching tools for various purposes.
- Bingo Card Maker A bingo-card generator that uses words of your choice.
- Puzzlemaker A puzzle generation tool that creates and prints customised puzzles of various types with your own word lists.
- Puzzle Choice Various types of printable and interactive crosswords and a selection of puzzles, jigsaws, mazes and memory games.
- Wordle A tool that generates “word clouds” from blocks of text (or word lists) that you provide.
Survival skills in foreign languages
- Your Dictionary A gateway to online dictionaries in about 300 languages.
- Google Translation A program that automatically translates text to and from more than 50 different languages.
- Google Language Tools Another version of the above program.
- YAHOO! Babel Fish A program that automatically translates blocks of text to and from a dozen major European and Asian languages.
- THRASS Calender charts Basic words for early learning of major European, African and Asian languages.
- TravLang - Foreign Languages for Travelers Words and phrases in 80 languages to read and listen to.
- Goethe-tests Vocabulary tests in 25 languages and 600 language combinations.
- Quick Fix - Essential phrases in 40 languages Essential phrases to be taken along on an mp3 player or as printouts.
English language tools
- Web Vocabulary Profiles A program that presents the vocabulary profiles of texts, i.e. tells you which (and how many) word types (from four different frequency levels) a text of your choice contains.
- Text-Based Concordances A program that makes a concordance for all the words in a text of your choice, i.e. an alpha-list with accompanying contexts.
English language sites and activities
- English Club A multi-purpose gateway for learners and teachers.
- ESL for Teachers A multi-purpose gateway for teachers.
- TEFL.NET An independent online resource network for teachers.
- ELTWeekly A newsletter that features articles, videos, popular blog posts, and real life examples and advice for teachers and students.
- Communication Weekly Newsletter Another newsletter that features articles, videos, popular blog posts, and real life examples and advice for teachers and students.
- ESL Partlyland A collection of useful sites for both teachers and learners of English.
- 5 Minute English A collection of short and easy explanations and exercises for various proficiency levels.
- Project Britain: Your Guide of British life, Culture and Customs A-Z information about Britain for students doing school projects and visitors to Britain
- British Culture, British Customs and British Traditions More basic information about Britain
- BBC Video Nation Archive A collection of short video clips about various themes.
- Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab A collection of listening-comprehension exercises for different proficiency levels and purposes.
- Wacky Web Tales A program that creates short tales using words to be filled in based on different types of clues.
- English Language Teaching and Learning Friday, Smiley and other vocabulary and text-based exercises.
- The Storyteller Traditional and contemporary stories from all over the world, with teacher notes.
- Brain Food Realistic lateral thinking puzzles (some of which, however, are rather morbid).
- LearnEnglish Kids Language games for young learners.
- Talking Point Worksheets Worksheets that promote pre-intermediate-level learners' fluency through stimulating discussion questions.
- Language Guide A collaborative project to develop interactive, sound-integrated language-learning resources.
- Repeat after us An online library and language lab.
- English Tongue Twisters
- A.L.I.C.E. Artificial Intelligence Foundation Communicate with ALICE, the latest result in artificial intelligence.
- George Communicate with George, an artificial-intelligence avatar.
- English Grammar Express Video lessons and activities with printable worksheets. Sample lessons: In, On, At (time), Countable and Uncountable Nouns, There Is / There Are.
- About.com's English Grammar Help Grammar instruction, rules and practice including worksheets, exercises, grammar guides and lesson plans.
- KS2 Bitesize A program that practises learners' knowledge of spelling and grammar.
- Quia A game that practises learners' knowledge of irregular verbs.
- Webbmagistern Two webpages that practise learners' knowledge of irregular verbs [select Oregelbundna verb I-II from the menu entitled 'Engelska'].
- Nik's Daily English Activities A collection of vocabulary activities for autonomous learners.
- Operation MathLog A web-based maze for logical-mathematical language learners.
- Animate Your Vocabulary A vocabulary-resource website.
- English Vocabulary Games with Pictures Various types of vocabulary games (including memory) to reinforce learning.
- Word Ladder A vocabulary game that requires you to change a word into another by altering a single letter at each step.
Finnish language sites and activities
- Selkouutiset News, information and stories.
- Finskan opetukseen tarkoitettuja linkkejä A collection of vocabulary and text-based exercises.
- Luetunymmärtämiskurssi A reading-comprehension course for learners of Finnish as a foreign language.
- Miellä päin Suomea Eight young Finns from different parts of the country read the same text in their own dialect.
- Quick Fix - Essential phrases - Finnish Essential phrases to be taken along on an mp3 player or as a printout.
- Kielivoimistelua Tongue twisters.
French language sites and activities
- Yahoo! France A gateway.
- Le Point du FLE Free courses and exercises.
- BBC French An interactive website for learners.
- Quick Fix - French essential phrases Essential phrases to be taken along on an mp3 player or as a printout.
- Révision de grammaire Grammar exercises.
- La-conjugaison.fr A gateway that provides verb conjugations, synonyms, a translation tool (about 50 languages), language exercises, and grammar rules.
- LearnEnglish Kids French language games for young (English-speaking) learners.
- Language Guide A collaborative project to develop interactive, sound-integrated language-learning resources.
- Virelangues Tongue twisters.
German language sites and activities
- BBC German An interactive website for learners.
- Yahoo! Deutschland A gateway.
- Goethe Institut Another gateway.
- Themen aktuell Yet another gateway.
- Siri Lundin Kellers Linksammlung A collection of links for learners and teachers.
- Quick Fix - German essential phrases Essential phrases to be taken along on an mp3 player or as a printout.
- Webbmagistern Six webpages that practise learners' knowledge of verbs [select Glosor 1-3 or Starka verb 1-3 from the menu entitled 'Tyska'].
- Zungenbrecher Tongue twisters.
- DVG Deutsche virtuelle Grammatik Grammar rules and exercises.
- Deutscher Grammatiktest Grammar exercises.
Miscellaneous
- English Language Teaching Methodology A comprehensive and informative gateway for foreign-language teachers.
- bio.True Story Information about famous people.
- Fact Monster Information and games for young learners.
- Universal Currency Converter A program that converts every world currency into any other currency.
- World Weather World weather and latest news from all over the world.
- Multiple Intelligences Inventory W. McKenzie's MI survey.
- Multiple Intelligences for Adult Literacy and Education An interactive assessment form based on T. Armstrong's MI questionnaire.
- Learning Styles Online Learning Style Assessments & Community.
- The Memletics Learning Styles Inventory Discover your learning styles - graphically. Free, but requires registration.
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