Resources

Links or downloadable resources

• http://www.abc.net.au/technology/techexplained A great site which explains new technologies and devices eg. Facebook, YouTube, e-book, Podcasting etc.

• http://mylanguages.org/index.php  1oo languages!!! If you're trying to learn new languages and need some grammar and vocabulary boost, this site should help with useful resources that you might enjoy for free such as: lessons, grammar tips, vocabulary, phrases, language tools, and audio files to download.

• How to use Milk Bottle Tops (on Youtube) as a free and fun teaching resource.

• TaiwanEnglish TaiwanEnglish is the best place to find games for the ESL classroom. Use our searchable database, organized by age, focus, materials, and many more variables, to find the game that best suits your classroom. With hundreds of games and more added each day, you won't be disappointed. Come check us out today!

• 'Digital Dialects' This website has simple language learning games in 60 languages. http://www.digitaldialects.com/

• 'Languages Online'  Here you can find many free resources for teachers and students. It is an excellent site with many downloadable worksheets already made, which can be changed into your language. It has also the computer programs to make your own interactive computer games http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/default.htm

• Photostory 3 for Windows
  Photo Story is a multimedia program that can be used in a wide variety of ways for educational purposes. Photo Story is free to download from Microsoft.With Photo Story you can create a slideshow of pictures with labels, sound and/or voice background and you can add special effects to your pictures.
  Please find below 2 articles on 'How to Photo Story'

• Big Books
  Big Books are an excellent resource and an example of how the Big Book 'Handa's Surprise' can be used for several lessons is downloadable below. Included are Big Book lesson plans, activity sheets, resources and class photos. This was developed by Devi from the Balar Malar Tamil School. Also see the animal masks.

• What is a Barrier Game? Please find a download below

• Links to language learning activity sites. For: Arabic, French Spanish, Japanese, Indonesian, German, Chinese, Korean, etc. http://delicious.com/CLIsites2see/S2S%20secondary%20languages

• A Guided Writing Project http://wwwfp.education.tas.gov.au/english/targeting.htm#descriptive

• Convert PDF files to Word files (it is slow, be patient) http://www.convertpdftoword.net/Default.aspx

• 1000s of free teaching resources to download http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/index.html

• Outlined Letter How to make you letters just as an outline, so that students can colour them in or trace them, please view below 'outline font'. Please find a download below.

• Word search: A word search is a handy vocabulary revision activity. Teachers can also use these as time fillers for students who have finished their main class work and meanwhile waiting for other students to finish work on their word search. It is also a fun home work activity. The following website lets you create a word search very quickly. All you have to do is either print it out or copy and paste it into a worksheet.http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/WordSearchSetupForm.asp
  Or you can extend the word search activity by letting students make their own. They can exchange it with their partners and solve it either in class or as homework. Find below a blank word search worksheet to download as an example.

• Make a puzzle now! It's free! Choose a type of puzzle from the list below and make your own puzzle online for classroom or home use. http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com

• A very useful tool for creating online quizzes can be found at:http://classtools.net/education-games-php/quiz/ This allows teachers to create 5 different games from one set of questions. It is recommended as a fun way to use interactive whiteboards, or to enable students to make up quizzes for each other. The information is that very active students might enjoy the “Manic miner”, which requires them to solve questions to avoid flying pigs.

• The Curriculum Support Unit has developed some units of work. You might be able to adapt them into your language. Please find download below.

• What is a cloze passage? Please find download below

• Excellent! Make your own computer language games for your students: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/games/memory/index.htm

• Quia! This site offers already made computer games. Find your language or become a member and make your own. http://www.quia.com/shared/

• Ten Word Games: These games are to reinforce and practise words the class is currently learning from their word list. Please find a download below

• How to type your language specific letters on the computer.Please find a download below.

• Clip Art for Teachers. This site has roayalty free clipart of line drawings, which are easy to photocopy. http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj//FLClipart

• Free pictures sorted by language teaching topics http://hcmc.uvic.ca/clipart

• About Animals 25 classroom activities for the Animal Topic. Please find a download below

• The King's Card Game - a word memorising and speaking game. Please find a download below.

• Running Dictation - this is a fun way of practising reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Please find a download below.

• TextToys is a free download program, which lets you make two different web excercises. The Help button gives you easy guidance. Have a short text ready for practicing.   http://www.cict.co.uk/software/textoys/download.htm

• EdHelper - Make your own worksheets with EdHelper http://www.edhelper.com

• Beyond Borders is an award-winning, collaborative learning community, offered for free by Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning, Australia. http://beyondborders.edu.au/info.

• What is a Dictogloss? Please find a download below.