Getting a Grip on

Grammar

Using

Interactive Grammar Games

Audio Visual Links

This is a blog of YouTube videos for ESL students. Also featured here are Listen and Repeat videos to improve intonation, rhythm and pronumciation.

ESL Blues

ESL Blues features animated grammar, pre reading and reading, writing and vocabularly tutorials. Printable worksheets are available to download.

Grammar and Vocabularly Games

Vocabularly Learning Games

This web site aims to help students memorize English vocabularies in an easy and efficient way, by using pictures, sounds and games.

ESL Games World

Follow the links to grammar games and quizzes that focus on Tense and Verbs. Hangman and Snakes and Ladders are games that deal with Present Tense. Other games focus on past simple, past progressive tense.On this site you will also find games that focus on vocabularly, reading, spelling, pronunciation and listening skills.

BBC Skillwise

This website offers free printable worksheets as well as interatcive exercises and games in grammar, reading, writing, spelling,listening and vocabulary. Skillswise also offers online tutoring.

English Grammar 101

The interactive capabilities of the computer provides an efficient teaching strategy for learning complex concepts in language. Students learn language concepts and experience the language at the same time. Immediate feedback of responses is available by clicking on ' test results.'

QUIA - Quintessential Instructional Archive

Quia offers instructional material for teachers as well as interactive grammar games and worksheets for students. The Shared Activities areais a great starting point for new users with more than 3 million activities ready to be played.

eslflow.com

eslflow is a web guide for teachers. It offers an extensive range of lessons in grammar and parts of speech that are available for download in PDF format.

Game Zone

Game Zone is an annex of English-online.org.uk. The games range in difficulty. Some are aimed at begginners while others challenge intermediate and advanced grammar students.

Available games include the Frog Game where students try to get the frog across the pond. If you click on the lily with the correct past tense form of the verb, the frog will jump there.

The Weather game is an audio visual spelling game where letters float around the screen. Listen to the hint then spell the word.

Make sure the sound is on for the audio hints.

Welcome!

Students for whom English is a second or third language (ESL) have a keen understanding of how languages work because they have to deal with competing cultural expectations and competing languages. ESL speakers are often excellent students with a high degree of motivation. Their problems seldom involve a lack of ideas. Primarily their problems involve difficulty expressing concepts and ideas in English. Meaning seems far more difficult to determine where missing parts of speech and a lack of connection between words and ideas impede understanding for both the learner and the listener.

With the use of information technology and the Gamesing theory reported by Markey (2003) this webpage endevours to make learning grammar less daunting. Markey successfully used structured games to teach early fraction concepts to students who are deaf or hard of hearing. By using computer games that utilize multiple choice grammar questions and audio visual technology aimed at capturing the attention of students the learning of grammar concepts can become enjoyable.

The hotlinks included on this page are linked to interactive grammar games, podcasts and ESL videos. Enjoy.

ELC Study Zone: Adjectives and Adverbs

It is important for an understanding of grammar explainations to be able to recognise and identify the different types of words in English so that the right word can be used in the right context. The English Language Center is an outreach of the University of Victoria and focuses on lower intermediate grammar topics. This site has discriptions of the different parts of speech as well as interactive excerises.

Activities for ESL Students

This site offers thousand of quizzes, puzzels and exercises to help ESL students learn English. The contents of this site have been contributed by ESL teachers. The site offers bilingual worksheets as well as English only worksheets.

Audio for ESL VOA Special

Many Things.com features Special English Programs in a Podcast RSS feed.

English (Listen and Read Along) Read while you listen. Lesson material is presented in MP3 and Flash format

The 30 Newest ESL Podcasts

A podcast is an audio file that you download from the Internet. After downloading, you can listen to it on your computer or on an MP3/portable music player. Podcasts include conversational tips and phrases to change the course of conversations. Others focus on travel, daily life, how to describe different people and ordering coffee at a cafe. As well as relationship and privacy phrases.

By registering at ESL Podcast members gain access to additional vocabularly material.

Grammar Bytes offers interactive exercises focusing on fused sentences and comma splices, fragments, pronouns and irregular verbs and other parts of speech. You can follow your progress using printable worksheets available from the site. Tip sheets are also available for download. To view the worksheets an Adobe Reader must be installed on your computer.