By María de Jesús Pérez García, Carolina Rivero Inclán , Alejandro Torres Melo and Zammantha Calderón.
Introduction:
This document has the intention of giving a sort of links that could be useful not only for teachers and learners, but also for parents who are interested on helping their young children learners with their commended homework or tasks or when they have to improve their level by means of working with extra activities. Some of the links’ description come directly from their site because we consider that in this way they are introduced to the users in a perfect way.
According to the above mentioned, this document is divided in sections for the users to locate easily the best section to solve their problems.
Analyzing the different situations the users might face, here is a list of solving problems areas:
This section is helpful when the objective is to find the meanings of vocabulary words in different ways, translation to the mother tongue, definitions in English, synonyms, examples in context, among others.
Problems related to grammar rules, explanations, examples in context can be solved by using the links in this section.
These links are concerned in helping the users with punctuation, formats, politeness, distribution, among others, needed when writing is the problem or issue to solve.
Learn to read can be something easy for some students but really hard for others. Reading is one of the hardest skills to learn but it is really useful because through reading we can get vocabulary, expressions in contexts. This section offers some useful links to get the help you might need.
Listening is one of the hardest English skills, it is common to hear people saying they understand their English teacher but they hardly understand native speakers. People face this problem as a result of the different accents the people have according to the region they are from, for that reason it is necessary to practice and listen to different people in order to become an effective listener. You might find this section interesting because it provides a list of links where you might practice and improve your listening skill by choosing different people talking with different accents and intonations.
(Pronunciation)
This section provides a guide in order to know the phonetics symbols, those funny little symbols that appear in the dictionary when you look for a word. These symbols are the phonetic symbols; they are a guide to pronounce the words. But it is important to know how to pronounce each symbol. Here you can find some useful tips in order to learn rules related to pronunciation, stress, intonation. You can also find the phonetics alphabet, so that you can develop your pronunciation skill in English.
This section is intended to offer useful links with illustrations needed to enhance a presentation, illustrate word meaning, make a task friendlier to work with and for the others to read and understand.
Science is an impressive part of knowledge, but sometimes hard for some people and if in addition one has to manage it in a second language, it becomes harder. Here, in this section, you will find some links with the intention of making this task easier and sometimes even funny.
The reading section is complemented here with some links that go deeper into knowing not only about classicals in literature, but also about famous writers, their lives, styles and other concepts.
There are some useful videos that can help you to learn. They are not only used by visual learners but also for listeners. They are a useful way to learn pronunciation and also to improve the listening skill and to learn how to do things. Teachers are going to worth it as a source to enrich their classroom activities.
The links, in this section, are guides to help parents and their children to find help to do their homework and they comprise reference works, research tools, other links, and a great variety of activities and subjects.
Vocabulary
Spanish Dictionaries
There are two free Spanish-English dictionaries, one from Espasa Calpe and another from Oxford. Each has its own strengths and the combination of the two plus the WordReference supplement is an unbeatable combination.
French and Italian Dictionaries
In addition to the Oxford dictionaries, WordReference has two of its own dictionaries. The French dictionary has over 250,000 translations and the Italian dictionary has nearly 200,000. These dictionaries continue to grow and improve as well. If you don’t find what you are looking for in any of the dictionaries, search or ask in the forums.
Language Forums
Supporting the translation dictionaries, we also have the Internet’s premier language forums. If you have a question about language usage, first search the hundreds of thousands of previous questions. If you still are not sure, then you can ask the question yourself. Native speakers from around the world will be happy to assist you. You may soon find that you are able to help others as well.
WordReference Mini
A miniature version of the site is now available for embedding in other sites, such as language learning websites.
Online Language Dictionaries
The world’s most comprehensive dictionary: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Greek, Arabic, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Medical, Legal, and Financial Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms and Abbreviations, Idioms, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one!
ARD is an English-English online dictionary which is free to use. We are a non-profit organization and running this online dictionary to help those people in need of an online electronic dictionary.
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Grammar
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Writing
Writer’s Helper site gives you
- a helpful second set of eyes.
- writing tips so you, the author, can create the most compelling writing.
- a sample edit of a piece of your work and a quote based on the services you want for your book.
- information on editing, publishing, and marketing.
- a free newsletter delivered directly to your in-box.
- free writing courses.
Writing Tips
Writer’s Helper offers these writing tips so your book will be the highest quality possible.
People respect high quality writing. If you deliver your work in a strong and error-free package, people take you seriously. Your message comes through clearly.
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http://www.write-better-english.com/?gclid=CNOD8efZ2ZgCFRJexwodYya3dw
This website helps you to improve you writing skills but also your vocabulary, spelling and grammar, among other skills.
Reading
In this site, you can find some short stories with interactive exercises and also printable for teachers.
This site offers texts on interesting subjects, in order to practice reading comprehension and at the same time help you to learn new vocabulary in context.
There are different proficiency levels in order to give the user the opportunity to select their correct level. After the readings there are some comprehensible exercises and giving double click on a word there will appear the definition of the word in English or the word in Spanish. And also it is possible to print not only the readings but also the exercises.
This website is a guide to many links and topics related to reading, like short stories, English for beginners, history and culture, quotes, public domain books, etc.
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Listening
In this site, it is possible to listen to everyday conversations with adults and children’s voice; conversations are also divided into proficiency levels in order to make it easy to choose the best one.
This site offers some listening comprehension exercises in American English. There are not just common conversations and videos in real situations but also there are songs and there is a section where you can make an analysis according to the vocabulary from the listening sections. All the listening in any of the sections is divided according to the proficiency level.
This site was designed to children, they can practice not only the listening skills, but also they can make some interactive games where they can practice listening and vocabulary. The listening exercises are designed so that kids can learn communicative expressions or phrases. Another useful section in this site is the video lessons, that is composed by the video, the exercise and also it is possible to find self-grading quizzes put according to topics and the developmental stages of the students.
In this site, it is possible to do interactive listening comprehension exercises in British English. This site has a collection of some recorders about the National Public Radio and National Geographic documentary, between others.
In this site it is possible to learn and practice the listening skills through media like movies, music, videos, etc. this is one of the best ways to learn a new language. In this site you will improve your listening comprehension skills because you have the opportunity to practice English as spoken by normal people so you have the chance to learn vocabulary, colloquial expressions that are use in common situations.
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Phonics
Interactive phonetic chant: This is an excellent teaching tool that can be played full-screen and gives clear audio examples of the English phoneme set.
This site contains all the sounds related to the American and British English. The chant has British and American phonemes with one symbol, there is also available the footnotes for British-only and American-only symbols. And it also provides some useful exercises and pronunciation test.
This site is a useful tool in order to learn about all the most common symbols and you can listen to individual symbols.
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Graphics
This site offers a sort of useful illustrations that could be combined when working with vocabulary, comprehension, function, and other tasks to make them bright or be more attractive and demonstrate, in a graphical way, meaning of words and in context.
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English Clip Art Images
This site also offers a sort of useful illustrations that could be combined when working with vocabulary, comprehension, function, and other tasks to make them bright or be more attractive and demonstrate in a graphical way meanings of words and in context.
Royalty-Free Clip Art Collection for Foreign/Second Language Instruction
This page contains a growing collection of clip art (simple line-drawings) to be used by foreign language instructors. Drawings are designed to be culturally and linguistically neutral as much as possible.
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Science
Chem4Kids.com is one of many free science sites developed by the team that made Biology4Kids, Geography4Kids, Cosmos4Kids, or Physics4Kids. We even have a math site called NumberNut.com.
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http://mathforum.org/dr.math/index.html Ask Dr. Math®
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Literature
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General
We have thousands of printables for teachers, homeschoolers, and parents – and it’s all free.
This link deals with a sort of problem solving items that will be useful; getting a membership could be translated into a worth tool. Some topics are listed below.
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Video
In this website you can create quizzes and flashcards using videos and pictures to study, learn, or teach anything.
Reference Guides
Helping Your Child With Homework contributes to increase family involvement in children’s learning. As the handbook points out, children who spend more time on homework, on average, do better in school, and the academic benefits increase as children move into the upper grades.
This website is a wonderful guide to encyclopedias, dictionaries, reference works, and other resources on a great variety of subjects.
This website will help with students´ homework with the following categories: Quick Reference- dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. / online learning materials / search tools and databases / study aids, tips and tools / web directories / audio and video resources / pictures.
Students can quickly find the best teaching resources, homework help ?and educational websites for use in the classroom in this website
The Library offers free access to a number of sources that will help with homework assignments.
This website helps students between 5 and 15 years old to practice with their English through lots of links and reference guides.
This website specifically addresses parents to help their children with their homework.
This is a great and helpful website which offers self-study quizzes of grammar, vocabulary, idiomatic expressions and other subjects, for students of English as a Second Language.
This site offers a sort of tools in a wide variety of applications very useful for teachers.
Lesson plans for teachers by teachers. It offers also10 steps to developing a quality lesson plan.
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