Tools for ESL Teaching

Description:  Englishgrammar.org provides detailed grammar explanations, with downloadable lessons and online exercises. It also offers some useful tools like plagiarisma, wordcounter and grammar checker.  Website:    http://www.englishgrammar.org Uses: A great reference site to check grammar, to offer grammar lessons and self-correcting exercises. 

Description : Larry Ferlazzo's websites of the day offers a huge organized database of websites. There are a number of collection of different topics. Webpage:  http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/  Possible uses: This website is really useful as a starting point to search for resources about a number of topics.    Advantages and disadvantages: Its main advantage and disadvantage is the same: the great amount of resources that it storages. Therefore, sometimes looking for resources it's quite time-consuming. Many times, the classification of  the level of the students it is directed to is not very clear, nevertheless, this is a great resource for ESL teachers.

Description : English Profile is a webpage hosted by Cambridge English which provides a description of the use of different words and grammar point in the different levels of the CEFR. Webpage : English profile Possible uses :  The main use of this database is to provide a searchable tool to teachers to understand what is required at each level of the CEFR.

Description: BBC Learning English is a platform that contains several resources to practice grammar and contains different podcasts. They cover different topics and levels. Its quality is guaranteed by its host: The BBC. Where to find it: BBC Learning English Possible uses: I generally recommend this to my students as a tool for autonomous practice outside the classroom.