1. Not dropping them in at the deep end

Many basic conversation pages with audios

http://www.eltpodcast.com/archive/bc

http://iteslj.org/games/

http://iteslj.org/questions/

http://www.focusenglish.com/index.html

or a variety of listening resources:

http://www.englishpage.com/listening/

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/

http://multimedia-english.com/index.htm

http://www.elllo.org/english/home.htm

http://www.yappr.com

http://www.thewclc.ca/edge/issue5/index1.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

http://www.isabelperez.com

http://www.cdlponline.org/

http://esl.about.com/

http://www.real-english.com/

http://www.videojug.com

Biographies

http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/

and interviews :

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/01/lklw.00.html

http://www.hollywood.com/

Scripts :

Theatre http://scriptsforschools.com/files/

Films http://www.imsdb.com/

Most T.V. channels e.g. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/

Quotes :

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/

Speeches :

http://quotations.about.com/od/movieandtvquote/a/oscars4.htm

Jokes :

http://www.funnylessons.com/

http://www.learnenglish.de/EZine/Joke10.htm#TOP1

Pre-cooked oral practice units and advice: http://www.britishcouncil.org/languageassistant-arc-ttips.htm

2. Songs



Pre-cooked : e.g.

http://www.britishcouncil.org/languageassistant-arc-ttips.htm

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-songs-archive.htm

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-music.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/music/singersong/index.shtm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1529_songlines/index.shtml

We love guessing games (students record clues)

Hot Potatoes – Abba Sexy Thing

Miming/Charades

Using the videoclips – Robbie Williams Misunderstood

EMINEM Mosh

Lyrics for role-plays Sylvia’s Mother Said [Dr.Hook]



Situations

Logical song-Supertramp- Life [When I was young/Narrative]

Everybody Hurts-R.E.M –Life and its Drawbacks [Present Tense/When/Imperatives]

Feel-Robbie Williams- Wishes/Feelings[Present Tense-Routine?]



Topics

Biko-Peter Gabriel-Apartheid/Racism

Beds are Burning-Midnight Oil-Ecology/Environmental Problems/Recycling

Under Pressure_David Bowie- Stress/Rat Race

The Show Must Go on- Queen- AIDS (I’m a Freddie Mercury Fan- Big Time!)


Karaoke Just Another Day In Paradise [Phil Collins]

Finding

lyrics:. http://www.getlyrics.com/

Song videoclips : http://cyber-knowledge.net/videos/videos.php

http://music.download.com/

3. Interviews

Beyoncé: using questions on screen,

Printed Interviews : see above, Magazines, Yellow Press (Hello) etc.

http://www.world-newspapers.com/

http://www.ukstudentlife.com/English/Reading/Magazines.htm#Magazines

Biographies: (see above)

Famous people talking about their records/films ;

http://www.youtube.com/

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/

Ordinary people on a variety of topics:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/archive/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/feature/teenagers/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/getfresh/2003/10/teen_talk.shtml

Adolonics and ebonics:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/g.htm

4.- Cartoons, comics and humour

U-tube, Disney page, TV.com, etc. , commercial DVDs and videos

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-cartoons-homepage.htm

http://www.thinkinenglish.com/jokes_in_english.php

http://iteslj.org/c/jokes.html

http://www.englishclub.com/esl-jokes/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book


5.- Adverts:

Sources for amusing commercials:

http://www.funnyville.com/funnycommercials.html

http://www.funny-games.biz/videos/commercial-videos.html

http://giesbers.net/video/

http://www.metacafe.com/top_videos/

http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/speech.asp?url=WMlnk&dir=en&text=

Written ad bloopers:

http://www.innocentenglish.com/Funny-classifieds.html


6.- Film trailers:


Pre-cooked :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1446_entertainment/

http://www.lingual.net/lingualproductitems/

http://www.eslpartyland.com/students/nov/movies.htm


Movie pages and getting clips:

http://home.disney.go.com/movies/

http://clipland.com/index_mtd.shtml

7.- The News

Pre-cooked lessons,etc. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/index.shtml

http://www.manythings.org/voa/scripts/

http://www.manythings.org/e/voa.html

http://www.english-magazine.org/external/general-news.html

Newspapers and magazines:

http://www.world-newspapers.com/

http://www.ukstudentlife.com/English/Reading/Newspapers.htm#Newspapers

8.- Culture

http://www.soapcentral.com/soapcentral/index.php

http://www.tv.com/

Many episodes or previews of soaps are available on their TV channel page

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-podcasts-stories-poems.htm

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-culture-homepage.htm

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/dreaming/stories.html#stories

9.- Everyday Topics

http://thewclc.ca/edge/issue5/index1.html [Job interview advice and practice]

http://www.videojug.com/

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-culture-living-uk-home.htm


Messenger language etc.

http://www.stevegrossman.com/jargpge.htm#Jargon