Thursday, September 30, 2010

Present Tense Quizzes

Test yourself with these on-line quizzes!

Simple Present
http://a4esl.org/q/h/lb/psv.html

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/65.html

http://esl.about.com/library/beginner/bl_bgpressimple.htm

http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/presprog.php

Present Continuous
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_present-continuous_quiz.htm

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/quizzes17/jaeckerly/prescont.html

http://esl.about.com/library/beginner/bl_bgprescont.htm

Lab Activities October 1

1. Go to Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab. Start with the EASY General Listening Quizzes.
http://www.esl-lab.com

2.  Listen to Teardrops on my Guitar and fill in the blanks. 

3.  Go to one of the websites and practice pronunciation.
http://manythings.org/
http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/

Good Sites for Listening Practice

 

These websites combine reading and listening activities and are great places to go to practice English on your own. Good luck!

Voice of America (News stories, reading and listening, in "special English")
http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/topics_summary.cfm

CNN (News stories, reading and listening, along with vocabulary and comprehension activities)
http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/home.html

California Distance Learning (Stories to read and listen to at the same time, along with vocabulary and comprehension activities)
http://www.cdlponline.org/

Many Things (ESL listening activities on Youtube)
http://www.manythings.org/e/listening.html

Monday, September 27, 2010

Welcome to SLG2!

We'll use this blog in the lab and I'll also post connections to listening and grammar links.  have fun and good luck!