Interesting Sites & Homepages

Dave's ESL Cafe  This is one of the best known ESL sites. It is Dave's ESL cafe. It has lots of interesting bits and pieces. The slang page is extensive and is interesting to visit.

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab  You need Real Audio to be able to use this page effectively. There are lots of listening and sound discrimination exercises.

Horoscope    A site to read your horoscope. A bit of fun.

Song Lyrics  Simpy type in the song name or the artist name. You can find the lyrics for lots of songs. A great classroom resource or great to just wander through in search of the lyrics to your favourite song.

More Songs   You can find lyrics here in English and in other languages.

WWW Newspapers  An index of newspapers on the web. You'll find newspapers from around the world.

Tongue Twisters  A challenging site chock full of shockingly silly tongue twisters.

Movie Web   Sneak Previews of Movies coming out soon and movies that have already come out.

Movie Scripts  You can find the full transcript for a movie so that you can read it as well as watch it.

Movie Reviews  Information, news and movie reviews.

(For information about writing email, look at Hints on Using the Net.)

Discussion Lists  This site is for TEACHERS to get their students subscribed to discussion lists. It is a great site for topics as varied as business, movies, sport and general discussions.

A site to find penpals   Find a penpal for one person or for a class.

schmooze    A great place to chat and make friends from around the world. You have to have a telnet or 'moo' program on your computer to go to this site.

There are many penpal sites on the net, but many are open to all comers and this makes the environment a little uncertain. It is a good idea to look at controlled lists or for teachers to make direct contact with other schools for email pals.

Hints on Using the Net

How to write email    A great piece on how email writing is different to other forms of writing. At the end there is a useful summary.

Writing Email Business & Personal   This piece gives a few ideas abour writing email to a business.

Emoticons    A basic tutorial on using emoticons.

Using Emoticons    Scroll down to see lists of emoticons. How many do you know? How many do you use?

Netiquette Quiz     A great little quiz to teach/test you. You get immediate feedback on whether your answers are correct.

Evaluating Web Sources    Criteria for evaluating websites. Click the 'EXAMPLES' link on the left to see some sets of websites on the same topics. Use the criteria to evaluate them.

The Web as a Research Tool: Evaluation Techniques    Useful tutorials and techniques for evaluating websites.