ELD
(English
Language Development)
Last
Updated on 3/30/2005
Babylon
- A free download from The New York Times. This program
offers "on-screen"translation of English words and expressions
in Windows applications,giving words, phrases, acronyms, a
list of available translations, plus idiomatic usage.
It's
the ideal aid for non-English speaking users of textual English
Windows applications, such as an Internet browser, an encyclopedia,
or even the instructions for the latest cool game. When you
read through such text and encounter a word you wish to translate,
a single mouse click will display the translation for the highlighted
word or phrase, to the language you choose in a pop-up box just
above the word. http://www.nytimes.com/partners/babylon/
Note: Works only on Windows.
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Acronym
and Abbreviation Server
- You type in the acronym (a bunch of letters that stand for something
else, like UN, YMCA, UCLA, NATO, and it tells you what they mean.
Dave's
ESL Cafe - Open 24 hours a day for people from all
over the globe. Idioms, quizzes, slang, links for students, links
for teachers, graffiti wall. A fun place to go.
Electronic
Magazines by and for ESL Students - See what
they're doing in other schools. (Why don't we have one of these?)
ESLoop
- A collection of sites for those involved in teaching or learning
English on the web.
Exchange
- An on-line newspaper for ELD students. This is a place where they
can practice their language skills , find resources to help in learning
the language, and to provide everyone with insights into different
cultures. From the University of Illinois.
Grammar
Now! - If you want to check your spelling, grammar,
or punctuation of your essay, and such, then head on over here to
Grammar Now. The site contains information about how to check your
writing with it's own set of links to other sites. Plus, you can copy/paste
your essay or questions in a text box, and send it to people to look
over it for punctuation errors, and such. Note: you MUST have an
e-mail address for this to work!
Grammar
Safari - A fun activity....searching for English "as
it is spoken on the web."
Linguistic
Funland - Resources for teachers and students
of English as a Second Language. Lesson plans, web resources that
others enjoy, and more. Check it out!
Tower
of English - idioms, games, tutors, and lots more.
A hodge-podge of things that might be of interest to ELD students.
Translation
Service - You type it in in one language, it translates
it to another. HOWEVER, you might not always get what you wanted using
this translation service. That goes for all of them out on the web,
too.
Vocabulary
University - Build your vocabulary while playing word
games.
- Acronym
Finder - finds definitions for more than 35,000
acronyms;
- Alta
Vista translation service
- you type it in in one language, it translates it to another
- American
Slanguages - choose a city and learn to talk
like the locals
- Americaspeak
- speak like our ancestors
- Ambigrams
- An ambigram is a word that can be read in more than one way
(i.e. right side up and upside down.) Create your own here.
- Anagram
Genius Server
- how many words can you make out of YOUR name?
- Anagram
Hall of fame
- best and brightest of all times (dormitory=dirty room)
- Antagonyms
- a single word that has meanings that contradict each other.
- More
Clichés
- Phrases to say in Times of Trouble.
- Phone
Anagram Generator
- finds letter equivalents of a phone number.
- Broken
Rules Page
- background on grammatical conventions.
- Bulwer-Lytton
Fiction Contest Home Page
- A literary competiton that challenges entrants to compose the
opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.
- Canonical
Abbreviations/Acronyms List
- Chinese
Character Flashcards
- learn 1,000 most frequently used Chinese characters.
- Cliché
Finder
- Click here to find just the right cliché for the occasion.
- The
Collective Noun Homepage
- an exaltation of larks, an ostentation of peacocks and more.
- Common
Errors in English
- Crossword
Solver
- enter the letters you know, click on "What is it?" Get an answer.
(Is this cheating?)
- Eponyms
- a word derived from someone's name (i.e. bloomers were named
after Amelia Bloomer).
- Etymology
of First Names
- An
Evening with Tom Lehrer
- lyrics to "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park," "The Element Song"
and others.
- Fake
Out! The Definition Guessing Game
- choose a level and a word and see if you can guess its defintion.
- Foreign
Languages for Travelers
- The
Heteronym Homepage -
words that are spelled identically but have different meanings
when pronounced differently.
- InvestorWords
- 4,000 investing terms and 15,000 links between related words.
- I'd
like to have a WORD with you! -
Obscure words.
- Jennifer's
Language Page
- How to say "hello" in Danish or "Thank you" in Kurdish, and
more.
- Word
Search Puzzles
- The
Klingon Language Institute
- dedicated to promoting, fostering and developing the Klingon
language.
- Linguistic
Phenomena/Devices -
stuff we use in writing. You probably know what they are but just
don't know what they are called. Now you do.
- Little
Explorers
- multilingual (English, English-Spanish, English-French) picture
dictionary with wonderful graphics and links.
- Medspeak
-- The Dictionary of ER
- what does it mean when Dr. Benton says: Get me a thoracotomy
tray, stat!" Find out here.
- Native
Tongue -- Discover the Hawaiian Language -
with audio clips.
- Nautical
Expressions in the Vernacular
- Never
Say Neverisms
- William Safire's hints of what not to do when writing.
- The
New Hacker's Dictionary -
slang terms used by computer hackers.
- New
Words in English
- Oly-hay
Ible-bay
- the Bible in pig-Latin.
- On
Finally Achieving Perfect Copy
- an ode on the perils of computer spell-checkers.
- PhoneSpell
- enter a number and find out what the number spells.
- Puzzlemaker
- create word searches, criss-cross, cryptograms,
fallen phrases and more.
- Rhetorical
Figures
- all the figures of speech.
- Rhyming
Dictionary
- Richard
Lederer's Verbivore Page
- a site designed to remind us that "ours is the only language
in which you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway and that
night falls but never breaks and day breaks but never falls."
- Semantic
Rhyming Dictionary
- Silva
Rhetoric
- The Forest of Rhetoric terms of classical and Renaissance
rhetoric.
- Spelling
Test
- an interactive spelling test with 50 commonly misspelled words.
Also, tips for improving your spelling.
- Steven
Wright Quotes
- sample: "I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any
time.' So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance."
- Tom
Swifties
- Travalang's
Translating Dictionaries
- online dictionaries in German, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish,
Italian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Frisian, Afrikaans,
Hungarian, Dzech, Esperanto and Latin.
- Valley
URL
- translate text into Valleyspeak.
- Vanity
License Plates
- includes a retelling of Oedipus the King entirely with vanity
plates (Oedipus, the King of the Road.)
- A
Word a Day - another way to build your vocabulary.
- The
Word Detective
- excerpts from "Words, Wit and Wisdom," a syndicated newspaper
column.
- Word
Frequency Indexer
- creates a word list of any text.
- The
Word Wizard
- answers language questions, finds new words, snappy quotes and
elegant insults and more.
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