ESL: English as a Second Language

With more and more of the world's content online, it is critical that students understand how to effectively search the Web to find quality sources appropriate to their task. Google has created a series of lessons to help you guide your students to use search meaningfully in their schoolwork and beyond.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced

All students need to know how to effectively and efficiently search the Internet for information they need. These instructional videos made by Google can be used to in and out of the classroom to help students learn this skill. For an in class activity, show each video and then discuss it and do the activities. There are also two assessments that can be helpful - one after the third class and one after the sixth class. Each "class" has several videos and activities to do.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Intermediate High, Advanced

Grammar Bytes has many activities for intermediate and advanced ESL, and ABE students. A contemporary looking site with an Index of Grammar Terms, Interactive Exercises with accompanying Handouts For students, and Grammar Rules. It includes PowerPoint presentations which will cut down on your preparation time and a few YouTube videos. Makes a difficult topic enjoyable.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced

This Web site has several exercises and resources for teaching writing. After teaching comma rules, a teacher could have students practice individually or do a whole-class formative assessment in class using this and/or the other five interactive exercises on comma usage. This exercise has 20 questions.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Intermediate High, Advanced

Have students use this app’s 10-question quizzes to practice and test themselves on Adjectives Word Choice, Adverbs Word Choice, Causative Verbs, Conditionals, Conjunctions, Nouns Word Choice, Prepositions, Pronouns Word Choice, Similar Words, Verb Tense, Mock Test (randomly-selected questions from each topic).

ESL: English as a Second Language

Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced