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ADDRESS http://www.pbs.org Go to: Teachers http://www.pbs.org/teachers

DESCRIPTION This website belongs to the American Public Broadcasting Service which offers free online TV programs and documentaries for young people and adults in a wide variety of categories: News and public affairs, arts & entertainment, history and more; many of the programs are available for Ecuador. Also, content- related lesson plans, online activities and classroom resources for teachers at the school years described are available in these areas: Arts, Health & Fitness, Math, Reading and Language, Science & Tech, and Social Studies

2. Discovery Channel

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http://www.discoveryeducati on.com/ Go to: Teachers http://www.discoveryeducati on.com/teachers/index.cfm?c ampaign=flyout_teachers

It has educational programs for all ages. There are many free teachers resources to extend learning beyond the classroom. Lesson plans, worksheets, puzzles and many more are available for educators (K- 12 grades, i. e. 5 to 17year- old students) in various areas: Math, ESL, Social Studies and even technology. Kathy Schrocks Guide for Educators includes a list of sites for enhancing content-based curriculum and professional growth as well useful sites for teaching and learning. Discovery Education produces educational materials for people of all ages on a wide variety of content. Available are full curricula, assessment materials, and other classroom resources. The product available directly through this link is a video library of 87,000 short (approximately 3 minute) video clips on a full range of curriculum content areas, all of which are linked to state and national standards in the U.S.A and which may be adapted to any kind of syllabi. This is a site for teachers and learners of English as a Foreign Language

3. Discovery Education

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http://www.discoveryeducati on.com/administrators/curric ular-resources/streamingplus/

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mericanenglishonline/index.ht ml Go to: Teach English http://exchanges.state.gov/a mericanenglishonline/teach.ht ml

developed by the American Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The Teach English section offers the Office of English Language Programs series of English teacher training materials called Shaping the Way We Teach English including trainer lesson plans, articles, and videos. The Learn English section offers links to grammar and games, multimedia learning, reference materials, English for young learners, English for Specific Purposes and citizenship. The resources offered by the site include PDF files for publications like the English Teaching Forum, new publications (e.g. Celebrate! and Wordscapes) and e- journals.

5. Colorn Colorado

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http://www.colorincolorado.o Early childhood education (0- rg/educators/

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Teachers who work with English as a Second Language learners will find ESL/ESOL/ELL/EFL reading/writing skill-building activities, ideas, strategies to help PreK-3, 4-8, and 9-12 students learn to read.

6. ETS TOEFL

Teachers interested in international standard examinations at institutions for: 1 - 3 year Bachillerato University education
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http://www.ets.org

This is the official website of Education Testing Service (ETS). ETS is a nonprofit institution that administers worldwide testing, for example, TOEFL, GRE, and IELTS tests. The site contains practical information, free sample questions and tips about such tests, which is useful instruction for taking them. Also, it provides booklets that can be downloaded from the site, which includes more explanation and tips for each category. NOVA Education site is a collection of resources for bringing science, technology, and engineering to life in educational settings. This free digital

7. Nova Teachers

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/no va/teachers/

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library is tied to teaching standards and includes video, audio segments, interactive and much more. It includes printable teacher guides for some topics and areas.

8. The New York Times Learning Network

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The New York Times in collaboration with Bank Street College created the lesson plans for its articles. All the unit lessons were created for learners (3rd to 12th grade) and meet state educational requirements. Archives hold articles dated from the beginning of the New York Times existence. Learners can be exposed to language that is both academic and colloquial. The Learning Network blog provides lessons based on New York times content and teachers can adapt them across subject areas and levels. It is a guide to free online English learning and teaching resources for ESL/EFL settings. There are links to sites for primary school literacy, adult learning, online courses, learning videos and BBC schools. Website links for EFL teachers and learners provide fun language practice through themes and skillbased English language activities. Support for various other disciplines (Art, History, Media, etc.) is available as well.

9. BBC online learning and teaching resources

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/learnin g/subjects/english.shtml

10. BBC Learning Teachers Beta

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools /teachers/

Free teachers resources by country (within the United Kingdom), level (Early Years Foundation, i.e. 0-3, and 4 to 16 or more) and subject: Languages, Music, Science, Art, Geography, etc.

11. BBC Learning

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/

This website is fantastic for ESL/EFL students and teachers of many levels. It covers teaching/learning basic grammar and vocabulary skills to more

ESL: English as a Second Language; EFL: English as a Foreign Language; EAP: English for Academic Purposes.

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Go to: Learning English and For Teachers http://www.bbc.co.uk/worlds ervice/learningenglish/teach/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswi se/words/grammar/

advanced study of worldly events and news. Audio is provided for most of the tutorials and activities that are followed by comprehension questions so that students can monitor their understanding of articles read and informational radio programs. This website provides activities, games, and quizzes in a number of problem areas for English language learners. The site is broken down into sections: spelling, grammar, reading, writing, listening, and vocabulary. Different difficulty levels are available (Entry 1, 2 & 3 and Levels 1 & 2). BBC broadcasts on contemporary people and issues are available as audio files and can be downloaded in MP3 format. Links to further information on the people, places and issues discussed are available.

12. BBC Skillswise English

Teachers for: - Adult learners who need to develop literacy skills in English.

13. BBC World Service

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worlds ervice/

14. British Council

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http://www.britishcouncil.org/

It is the British Councils (UKs international cultural relations body) official page. There are links to popular pages for learning and teaching English like the Learn English Kids, Learn English and Teach English with free materials and resources for both students and teachers. Teaching English is a website produced by the British Council in partnership with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). This site provides information on a wide range of topics including reading, speaking, listening, writing, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. These sections allow users to investigate theoretical and pedagogical journal articles, to access and contribute teaching materials such as lesson plans, quizzes, and activities, to participate in an interactive community of blogs, discussion forums, and interest groups, and to benefit from information on training, and professional development. This site provides transcripts for a wide variety of topics, including interviews, current events, and speeches from world leaders. The homepage displays

Go to: Teach English

http://www.teachingenglish.org. uk/

15. CNN

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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TR ANSCRIPTS/

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broadcasted video programs, which include American Morning or Anderson Cooper 360. http://esl.fis.edu/vocab/index -e.htm This site provides resources for beginner English speakers. The vocabulary activities on this page are based in reading and matching pictures to printed words. Activities are designed according to categories; including clothes and accessories, body parts, food, feelings, countries and languages, and more. Most activities are designed as picture quizzes, and word quizzes. General advice to help learners is also provided for teachers and parents. This website is a compilation of word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and other activities to support English language learning for beginners, with heavy emphasis on vocabulary development. These activities can be used as independent practice with reading, spelling, and matching vocabulary that has been previously taught.

16. First Words

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17. Easy things for Beginners

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http://www.manythings.org/e /easy.html

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18. Starfall.com

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www.starfall.com

This website was designed by Starfall Education. It provides a range of differentiated audio-visual games and read-alongs that allow ELLs to practice English alphabet letter and sound recognition, keyword vocabulary, concepts of English print, and reading of connected texts. Additionally, the website provides links to printable worksheets that can be used to supplement instruction or practice that is done with the website.

19. U.S Congress library

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www.loc.gov

The website of the US Library of Congress provides an immense resource for teachers looking for ideas and extensive references for students. The educational resources link includes lesson plans that are organized by gradelevel and historical topic. The Online Activities link has word search activities, map activities, and links that are useful for placing current trends and cultural debates into a historical context. The online digital collections and services link offers access to some surprising searchable resources, including historic newspapers, images and photographs, comic books, recordings, sheet music, and many more.

20. Smithsonian Museum and their special site for educators

Teachers in content- based courses at institutions for: Early childhood education (04 year-olds) 1 - 10 year EGB 1 - 3 year Bachillerato University education
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www.smithsonianeducation.o rg/educators/

This website has lesson plans for teachers grades Pre K- 3 and 4-12. The lessons address native speakers of English in content-based classrooms in four domains: Art and Design, Science and Technology, History and Culture and Language Arts. The resources provided can be adapted according to specific needs in ESL/EFL courses.

21. ESL/EFL Teaching techniques

Teachers at all educational levels: Early childhood education (0-4 year-olds) 1st - 10th year EGB 1st - 3rd year Bachillerato

http://iteslj.org/Techniques/

A wide variety of good articles with guidelines on teaching techniques in 26 categories (ranging from teaching specific age groups, e.g. adults, and the four skills to technology and humor) is offered.

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22. Conversatio n questions for the ESL/EFL classroom A project of the Internet TESL journal

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http://iteslj.org/questions/

This is a collection of over 2,000 questions on 33 topics that can be used for conversation practice. Some of the many topics include animals and pets, Christmas, family, health, sports and social problems. This site is directed by the Internet TESL Journal.

23. One stop English ESOL lesson plans

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http://www.onestopenglish.c om/section.asp?sectionType=l istsummary&catid=58063

In the Skills for Life link there are lesson plans prepared for ESOL students and aimed at a range of different levels. They include topics like The alphabet and telephone books, Driving and the highway code or Contract for employment. In the Beginner Lesson Plans there are lessons especially prepared for beginner ESOL students. They include topics like the comparative and superlative form of adjectives or pronunciation of the ed ending of verbs. There are tabs that take you to resources for children and teenagers as well. News in 45 languages plus a Learning English link (didactic texts and audio)

24. Voice of America

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http://www.voanews.com/en glish/About/

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25. English Raven ESL/EFL Resources

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www.englishraven.com/Main. html

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(lots of online materials some free) In spite of a very busy and even overwhelming appearance, this is a great resource for lesson ideas and materials (some are free downloads and some must be purchased). Some of the links go to a different website while some stay on English Raven; one is able to tell only once clicking on them. The site is not clearly divided into sections for teachers and students but and it may be more difficult to navigate if one is looking for something specific. However, the site is still a possible resource to help brainstorm ideas. N.B: An interactive e-book may be downloaded for free to work and can be used with high-school learners to read and talk about environmental issues in EFL classes.

26. Story Arts on line

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This site is specifically designed for storytelling. There are suggestions about storytelling activities and lessons. Suggestions are practical and can be used in classroom right away. The collection of activities on this site was developed by storyteller and author Heather Forest for her workshops with students, teachers and librarians.

27. dMarie Time Capsule

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http://www.dmarie.com/time cap/final.asp?unique=39672.7 824652778

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This is a U.S historical database of facts from the 1900s through about 1995. It is really user- friendly and has one set template with categories for a specific date: birthdays, main events, music and even food prices. One has to only enter the date one is interested in (for example, ones own birth date) to instantly get a page with all the information about the year one was born, what famous people share ones birthday, how much a gallon cost, etc). It also has an advanced template on which teachers can create their own categories to be included into their time capsule worksheet. It can be used for project based themes.

Teachers at the following http://www.coe.uh.edu/digita 28. The educational levels: educational l-storytelling/ uses of st rd digital 1 - 3 year Bachillerato storytelling - University

This is a great tool for students to work on a long term project in creating journals and stories using technology. It contains a handful amount of useful information including descriptions, articles, examples, steps and tools that users can refer to. It is highly student-centered and language-focused, thus it can serve as a good device to integrate technology with language learning in an engaging way for students. Since the process of creating the story might be complicated for some students, they might get frustrated through the working process. Also, this is totally computer-based, so, if there is any problem with computers or the internet, students might have difficulties for processing the project. Still, this is a useful classroom tool to deeply explore historical themes and regarding ESL/EFL, storytelling will assist both visual and auditory learners. Strivney is a free, online program for learning to read English with phonics. Over a thousand interactive, animated learning games, exercises and presentations provide a quality educational experience. Free ESL resources are available and gifted (pre-K to 5 year-olds) and/or dyslexic children and slower learners can benefit from it. The activities are accompanied by free printable worksheets.

29. Strivney: where learning to read is fun.

Teachers whose learners are at the following educational levels: Early childhood education (0-4 year-olds) 1st - 6th year EGB

http://www.strivneyenglish.com/index.asp

Focus: Phonics

30. Highlights Kids

Teachers whose learners are at the following educational levels: Early childhood education (0-4 year-olds) 1st - 7th year EGB

http://www.highlightskids.co m/

This web site is designed for younger learners (ages 5-12). The activities include animated story telling, interactive hidden pictures that are pretty challenging, fun animated stories with subtitles that allow learners to follow the stories as they heart them. The teachers and parents links provide ideas and advice from people whose work or research has had an impact on children and parents and a toolbox with printable puzzles, crafts, stories, poems for fun in the classroom that educators can make use of.

31. Free Rice 2.0

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www.freerice.com

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Free Rice is a non- profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program. This website is geared towards building vocabulary and helping end hunger. Students can work independently since they receive immediate feedback and for each answer they get right, the sponsors donate 10 grains of rice to the UN program. A great way to learn while contributing to an honorable cause.

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32. Books should be free

http://www.booksshouldbefre e.com/

This website has thousands of free audible books in mp3, iPod or iTunes format to download. Many genres (e.g. children, fiction, fantasy, romance) are available. The majority of the books are classics such as Peter Pan, Sherlock Holmes, Romeo and Juliet, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

33. Voice of America News and Information: Special English

Teachers at the following educational levels: 1st - 3rd year Bachillerato University

http://www.voanews.com/sp ecialenglish/index.cfm

This website is great for reading up on and listening to radio broadcasts of current events. It is an extension of the online news source and broadcast system Voice of America. The link provides English Language Learners with up to date world news articles and broadcasts that they can follow along to in transcript format. The website also provides English Learners with a glossary link, word games and an online television news broadcast that has been slowed and is accompanied by captions so that the listener can follow along as he/she hears the story.

34. NPR (National Public Radio)

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http://www.npr.org

35. KCRW

Teachers (especially in contentbased courses) at institutions for: 1 - 3 year Bachillerato University education
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http://www.kcrw.org

NPR.org offers banner links including programs, transcripts, and both written and audio archives, links to news, health and science, people and places, books, music, arts and culture, diversions, opinions, and blogs. Click on Podcasts for dozens of topics produced by the news network. Or click on Listen and then choose the Hourly News Summary for 5-minute recordings of the daily news. Scripts available. KCRW is a public radio station that is the official public radio station of Santa Monica College in Santa Monica California. It is an important cultural voice in terms of current trends in arts, music, news, and opinions. It includes a show called Bookworm featuring an in-depth, hour- long interview with a contemporary author.

FOCUS: Listening practice through authentic materials.

36. CNN

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http://www.cnn.com/services /podcasting/

This website has both audio and video podcasts of the programs presented on their channel.

37. Marketplace News

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http://marketplace.publicradi o.org/

Students can post comments on each show. There is news about current events taking place in business, world news, technology and others, which contain audio and the transcript. On the right side of the screen, you can find past stories by topic/segment. Scripts are available as well.