General Language Sites

NEWwww.englishonline.org.cn/en/teachersNEW
A site with interesting and helpful tips and advice for teachers of any language

www.uebersetzung.at/twister/
Tongue twisters in 117 languages. Great for fun in classes and excellent pronunciation practice.

www.mlgpublishing.com
Miniflashcards Language Games
Visual prompts for multiple uses. The original Miniflashcards are available in eight topics, Food & Drink, Leisure, Travel, Weather & Calendar, People & Jobs, Vital Verbs, Happy Holidays and Round the Town and 40 cards in a pack. Their applications are limited only by your imagination, but some ideas are included in the pack.
For more easily photocopied visuals, look at the Miniflashcards Picture Bank Books. Series A and Series B are available with line drawings of all the cards laid out 20 to a page. Photocopying rights are included in the price. The books contain other visuals ready for photocopying plus plenty of ideas for exploiting the material to the full

www.richmond.edu/~jpaulsen/cvanetgv.html
The Global Village. Helpful links for teachers of all languages from all over the world, put together by the University of Richmond and Central Virginia .

carla.acad.umn.edu/VPA/vpa.html
The Virtual Picture Album. Access to hundreds of photos to prompt conversation. Aimed specifically at the less commonly taught languages, the photos feature aspects of daily life in many Scandinavian and Mediterranean countries and are therefore useful to all of us. The site also suggests topic areas for discussion, structures to use and grammar points and functions to practise using the printed pictures.

www.bilingual-supplies.co.uk/newweblinks.html
This company, devoted to supporting bilingualism in children, has put together a remarkable list of links to Internet sites offering materials, resources and ideas for teaching and learning a wide range of languages. Its focus is children, but as always, much of the material will appeal to adult learners.

www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/default.html
Royalty-free clip art for foreign language instruction. Pages and pages of simple illustrations specially designed with language teaching in mind. Organised in categories, you can copy and paste or download as much as you like, providing you don't intend to use it for profit.

www.lingualearn.co.uk
This interesting website is used regularly by thousands of individuals, universities, schools and companies from all over the world - and contains information on jobs, professional development, training courses, language learning/teaching resources and a regular newsletter. If you haven't already discovered it, why not visit Lingualearn and find out for yourself?

www.bbc.co.uk/education/lzone/index.shtml
Check this site for the current BBC languages programming schedule with all the details of what's on the Learning Zone till June.

www.cilt.org.uk
The Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research is the national centre of expertise on language teaching. The website gives language news in all sectors, details of courses and events and there's a special site dedicated to professionals in adult education, Netword on the Net.

www.ipl.org./reading/news/
The Internet Public Library, with direct links to newspapers from 130 countries. A fascinating resource.

www.cornelsen-teachweb.de/
The site of the German publishing company, but with teaching materials for English, French, German, Greek Italian and Spanish. Some materials are linked to their course books, but others are made from news items or on a theme, such as Festivals & Traditions. Take a look. On the red menu on the left, click on Erwachsenenbildung (Adult Education) and then on the language of your choice. All sorts of activities & exercises are available.

www.languagelearn.co.uk
The homepage of the ALL (Association for Language Learning). Here you will find all the latest language news, plus details of training days and other events, both regional and national.

www.allo-languages.org.uk
Don't be put off by the description of this site: "the site for young UK language learners exploring the web". It has much to interest adult learners too, with activities, links to other useful sites and not least, a quiz to celebrate the European Year of Languages 2001. Questions in English, French, German and Spanish, with more promised in the future.

www.nuffieldfoundation.org
The Nuffield Languages Inquiry was set up to evaluate the UK's capability in languages. It's final report has a section on adult language learning. On their website there's a summary of their conclusions, information about the Government's response and how to get hold of the full report.

www.linguanet.org.uk
A virtual language centre with links to foreign language sites and useful for teaching.

www.bbcworldwide.com
An online guide to getting the most from the BBC Talk series for beginners, with extra activities and suggestions for managing classes.

www.modlangs.co.uk
Work sheets and activities at three levels for teachers and learners of French, German and Spanish. For the full list, colleges must subscribe, but samples are available free.

www.iti.fr
Maps, town plans, traffic reports and tourist data of European countries. At present this link will take you to www.mappy.fr/.

www.itp.berkeley.edu
The best of the foreign language sites for materials. Arabic, Yiddish, Czech and Swahili as well as all the more common languages.

www.bbc.co.uk/education
Online activities, advice and downloadable material together with GCSE revision help.

www.well.ac.uk
Website enhanced language learning. A joint project of several universities to promote language learning over the World Wide Web. Links to useful sites for ten languages.

www.travlang.com/languages
Offers language learning in 70 different languages. Free e-mail word of the day service,translation, translating dictionaries and a fee downloadable multi-lingual dictionary programme for Windows called Ergane.

Non Language Sites

www.worldatlas.com/graphic_.htm
For anyone wanting free, colourful maps of continent and countries follow the link and then clik on 'Graphic Maps'. The site also offers a lot more like flags, and customisted versions of maps for a price, but often free to non-profit making organisations etc. They are ideal for internet and intranet sites, but also overhead projector work (OHP) work. If interested contact their Mapmaker and mention Cheshire Netword. The world and continent maps used on this site are good examples of their work.