• Activities: (Student Center) This useful site provides a number of good activities focusing on reading as well as other skills. These activities are suitable for all skill levels, so come check em out.


• ESL Links:Check out this great source of ESL links covering almost every skill area you can imagine. In particular, try theReading link.


• ELI at the University of Florida:Looking for a really great site filled with excellent activities for your students?; then this is the place for you. I spent the first few years of my professional career at UF's ELI and built their web site.


• Questions:This work in progress contains a set of discussion questions for a number of popular short stories.


• Englishtown:Englishtown is basically a site for everything English; including downloadable class materials, lesson plans through email, and much more. I have one warning about this site. Once you link to their homepage it will not allow you to 'BACK' to this page. So if you want to return here, I suggest you add my site to your bookmark/favorites list.


• The ESL Center: is yet another good source of reading material and activities for esl students. I particularly like the section on urban legends and I think your students will too. After entering the ESL Center just click on the 'reading and writting' link.
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Integrated Skills lesson Plans

• a one week sample beginner-level lesson plan corresponding to Interchange Intro Book A : Intro Book Chpt.1
• a one week set of lesson plans for intermediate-level students entitled: Leading a Class Discussion in which students lead a 20-25 minute interactive discussion. This set of plans includes lessons on choosing and narrowing a good topic, selecting and using interesting presentation material, and creating fact-based and opinion-based discussion questions.
• a jigsaw reading/writing lesson and activity entitled: Alan's Terrible Day incorporating perfective verb aspect, narration, group work and peer correction.
  Reading Lesson Plans
• Lesson PlansClick here to see About.com's complete list of online esl lesson plans; or to save some time just click on one of the links below:


• Reading Skill Types:Skimming - reading rapidly for the main points; Scanning - reading rapidly to find a specific piece of information; Extensive - reading a longer text with emphasis on overall meaning; and Intensive reading - reading a short text for detailed information; are skills addressed within this lesson.


• Intensive Reading: What's Wrong? Intermediate to upper-intermediate lesson focusing on developing intensive reading skills through close examination of texts containing inconsistencies of syntax and other vocabulary problems (such as homophones).


• Reading Comprehension:Based upon a thought provoking excerpt from The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, this upper level reading comprehension lesson takes a different approach to reading comprehension.


• Reading Skills: Scanning:Help students employ one of their natural mother tongue reading skills in English. Uses a TV schedule as a basis for comprehension exercise.


• Internet TESL Journal-Lessons Here's an activity involving creatively filling-in missing words from a text.

Book Suppliers
• Good Books:This helpful site contains a listing of several really good short story collections which I used while teaching in Korea.


• Linguistics Funland's TESL Page:If you're looking for a good online bookstore for those hard-to-get ESL/EFL books, check out the Linguistics Funland's bookstore.


• Project GutenburgThis site contains an excellent archive of online fiction and non-fiction material.


• ESL Super Store:If you're looking for quick and easy access to over 30 ESL publishers, check out the ESL Super Store.


• Book Link:If you can't find what you're looking for at the ESL Super Store then you'll definitely find it here.

• Image Design Tutorial | Link Design and Citation Tutorial


• Image Design How-To Page


• Frames Design How-To Page


• Image map(small town America)


• Free GIFs


• Free Homepages (Geocities.com)


• Free Web Tools: (Tu cows)


• More Homepage Tools: (Dynamic drive)


• Source of Good Words


• Free Food Donation for the Poor


• More Lessons!

Citations

• The Internet TESL Journal. TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links:ESL[Online] Available http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/links/ESL, May 20, 2000.
  
• Christine Meloni. The ESL Study Hall[Online] Available http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gwvcusas, November 16, 1999.
  
• (No author listed). Englishtown[Online] Available http://www.englishtown.com, May 20, 2000.
  
• Kathy142@aol.com(no other name listed).The ESL Center[Online] Available http://members.aol.com/eslkathy/esl.htm, May 17,2000.
  
• Kenneth Beare. About.com: English as 2nd Language[Online] Available http://esl.about.com/education/esl/mbody.htm, May 20,2000.
  
• Mehmet Ali Akgün. A Fun Reading Comprehension Activity[Online] Available http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Lessons/Akgun-ReadingComp.html, October 1997.
  
• Kristina L. Pfaff-Harris. Linguistics Funland's TESL Page[online] Available http://www.tesol.net/tesl.html, 1997.
  
• (No author)Project Gutenburg[Online] Available http://www.promo.net/pg, May 7, 2000.
  
• (No author)ESL SuperStore[Online] Available http://members.tripod.com/~eslss/index.htm, Copyright 1999.
  
• GREA Corp. BookLink Site[Online] Available http://esl.about.com/education/esl/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.intac.com/%7Ebooklink/esl.htm, May 23, 2000.