My country, Tunisia, is rebuilding itself in the path of the transition to democracy and education is one of the main fields in process of reshuffle. Thus, I strongly believe that as a teacher I have an important role to play in this process. For instance, last weekend the country had its first REAL and transparent elections.
All Tunisians were involved, even those who don't have the right to vote yet like my students. These politically inexperienced teenagers surprised me with their awareness and understanding to what is going on around them.
Therefore, such minds need to be developed and enriched. To help me, I found a website called "Breaking News English Lessons" available at: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/. I t is a website that provides several interesting and "fresh" topics with their text and questions. Have a look, I highly recommend it!
There is another website http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Krajka-WritingUsingNet.html, which is actually a great and very inspiring article. It also provides readers with different kinds of writing .
· Besides, the reading part in Lauri’s ESL Website (http://fog.ccsf.edu/~lfried/stories/stories.html) is diversified, stories for different levels through several interesting theme. The grammar part (http://fog.ccsf.edu/~lfried/grammar/grammar.html) is clearly presented and the quizzes could attract the student’s (or the user in general) attention.
However, the use of this website could be restricted to an “e-use” and unfortunately the majority of my students won’t have access to it.
ESL Independent Study Lab: http://legacy.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html. I found this website well structured with different resources for different levels. I forgot myself exploring it!
Many Interesting Things for ESL Students is another discovery.
That was an overview on some of the websites I had the pleasure to explore for this week.
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