Useful Links

1. http://www.esl-lab.com/ : (Elementary to Upper-Intermediate)

   This website focuses solely on listening skills. You can find lots of different tracks (easy, medium, and difficult) according to your level. What we recommend for this site is that you first do the warm-up questions, discuss these questions, do the listening exercises and answer the multiple choice questions. There is also a transcript for every listening track. You can see your score at the end of the quizzes. Listening situations and dialogues are mostly from real life.

   http://www.ted.com/ : (Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate)

   This website is highly recommended to higher level students. On this website, you can find around 1900 videos of people from different fields, from literature to economics.Throughout these videos people talk about significant moments in their lives, like how they became a writer, singer or scientist. All the stories are touching and you can relate many of them to students’ lives. By watching these videos, doing a listening activity will be both very entertaining and educating. You can prepare your own activities and questions for each video.

   http://www.teach-this.com/ : (All levels)

   This website is mostly for the use of teachers but students can benefit from it too. It contains different types of activities to be done as in-class speaking activities and exercises for certain grammar subjects.

   http://www.onestopenglish.com:

   This website has various materials and activities designed for each skill (listening-speaking-writing-reading) for the use of teachers and students.

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/ : (Pre-Intermediate-Intermediate)

   Mainly designed for individual language learning, students can find units with many diverse activities, all with high quality presentation. This is perfect for students who want to do more than just listening and/or reading activities by themselves. You can find free language courses of BBC on this website.

   http://www.livemocha.com : (All levels)

   This website is based on online chat with other people from different parts of the world and is very useful for practising your writing. After signing up, you can log in with your account and start chatting. The main idea is that you try to teach your mother tongue to others who want to learn it, and in return they teach you English. You are given some tasks to write about and your writing is controlled by native speakers.

   http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org and http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org : (All levels)

   These are websites built by the British Council to help foreign students learn English. These sites contain a lot of high quality writing and listening materials. The activities are both fun to do and educational. The writing exercises show the students how to build a decent paragraph, supporting their ideas by first giving them the necessary vocabulary in short activities, then by showing them clear examples of how an essay is written.The listening activities are based on situations the students may face every day. This is very useful for students and teachers.

   http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/ : (All levels)

   Actually built for German students, this site can be used by anyone who wants to learn English. Containing around 750 different exercises ranging from vocabulary to grammar games and tests, this site is pretty useful for students who want to practice their language skills. Moreover, the site contains an English forum which you can use to ask questions.

   http://www.talkenglish.com/Speaking/listBusiness.aspx : (All levels)

   This website can only be used as a source page. It focuses on basic business English and contains activities to teach English through speaking as well as a section on useful phrases.

   http://www.eslflow.com/ : (Elementary, Pre-Intermediate- Intermediate)

   This website contains activities and worksheets based on the four main skills for Elementary, Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate levels. Some of the activities also integrate different types of skills.

   http://www.duolingo.com  : (Elementary)

   Perfect for elementary students, duolingo can both be accessed from a pc and downloaded to a smart phone as an app. This app contains many different language pairs like Turkish-English and English-French. You choose the language you know, then the language you want to learn and the app directly gives you some exercises to do. It contains vocabulary exercises, translation exercises and also speaking and listening exercises.

   http://www.voanews.com : (Upper Intermediate)

   The Voice of America, an American news site, is very useful for high level reading and listening skills practice. It is suggested that teachers direct students to visit this page regularly.

   http://www.dailyesl.com/ : (Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate)

   This website contains many activities, each containing exercises for all four language skills. Recommended both for students and teachers.

   http://esl-bits.net/ : (Intermediate, Upper Intermediate)

   This web site contains lots of different listening and reading activities with hand-outs and printable worksheets. It is good for listening practice with high level students. It is useful for both teachers and students.

   http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ : (Intermediate, Upper Intermediate)

   This is another news website for high level students. It contains news from all over the world. It can be used for both reading and listening practice.