English is everywhere now and few parents are not eager for their child to learn this language and know it well. Now there are training centers at every step offering to raise the level of English knowledge from elementary to advanced in a few months, and English tutors are in demand more than ever. But sometimes it seems that the child is not interested in it, and there is no strength to force him to study and explain every time that it is necessary. But if desired and while maintaining interest, the child himself can study, learn something new, consolidate the topics covered and improve his skills and knowledge of the language. Interesting sites or channels can attract and increase the interest. English classes can be not boring, but very exciting! Below we offer you a selection of resources that will help students (and adults) to study English with interest. Bookmark it!
Listening:
1. CNN Student News — Daily 10-minute news releases specifically for middle and high school classes
2. Breaking News English — News in English in simple language, distributed by levels. There are audio and tasks
3. BBC — School Radio — Podcasts, audio and video materials for schoolchildren.
4. https://ello.org — Not complicated audio and video podcasts with scripts. Suitable for teenagers and adults.
5. ESL-lab — A lot of podcasts of different difficulty levels with tasks
6. Storynory — Stories for children and teenagers with voice acting
7. TED-Ed is a website where you can watch small informative and fascinating educational videos from TED videos or from YouTube with subtitles
8. Lyricstraining.com — A website where you can work with songs to learn the language. In the presented clips, you can both fill in the gaps and make your own worksheets, removing any words.
Reading:
1. www.childrensbooksonline.org/library — Books and stories by levels for children and adults, there are voiced
2. English e-books — A large collection of fiction for download. The books are distributed by difficulty levels.
3. Free Kids Books — Books in English for children and teenagers that can be read online or downloaded and printed for free.
4. Short Kids Stories — There are a lot of stories that you can choose by age, length, author and even country of origin
5. Time For Kids is an English magazine for teenagers. 6. Scholastic Magazines — A news magazine in English from Scholastic. There is a section for schoolchildren
Vocabulary and grammar:
1. Learning Chocolate — A website with all kinds of online tasks for working out vocabulary
2. Vocabulary.co.il — A lot of flash games on vocabulary and more.
3. Grammar Gremlins is a fun grammar game from Cambridge English with grammar questions for different levels. Both children and adults will like it.
Pronunciation and speaking skills:
1. Cambridge English Online Phonetics Focus — Exercises and games for practicing sounds and signs of transcription (you can download applications on iPad or iphone)
2. ESL Discussions — More than 14,000 questions for discussions on a variety of topics
Online games and interactive creative resources:
1. ESL Games plus and ESL Games World are interactive online games that can be played by teams and alone. There are games modeled on the TV show (wheel of fortune, own game), vocabulary memorization games, sentence construction, online crosswords and much more.
2. Fun English Games — Educational games, interesting game ideas and various tasks, videos, humor and much more
3. Turtle Diary is a very good resource. Lots of interactive games, worksheets, videos, experiments and crafts and coloring books
