Group 1

This page is a collaborative effort of the participants in the course. They have analyzed different sites which provide online exercises and their comments are included in the 3 tables shown below:

Content	Site Name	Description	Level	URL	Why selected
Vocabulary and Grammar	Activities for ESL Students	Provides different self-assessment types at each level: JavaScript. Flash, HTML; Provides quiz generator	Easy (Level 1&2)	http://a4esl.org/
			Medium (Level 3&4)
			Difficult (Level 5&6)
Vocabulary and Grammar	ESL Independent Study Lab	Says it provides 4 levels but only 3 specified; this is a reference site to many other interesting and good grammar/vocabulary resources, including other reference sites	Level 100: beginning/ advanced	http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.htm
			Level 200: intermediate
			Level 300: upper intermediate/ advanced(?)
Vocabulary and Grammar	The Tower of English	Provides 300 websites in 34 categories. 20 vocabulary sites include serious (assessment), silly (made up words), and useful (those creating immediate dictionary support for any text). 8 grammar sites combined supply a little of everything: assessment, explanation with practices, sometimes a quiz or activity. However, some links did not work.	Levels not indicated in descriptions but most seem Intermediate-Advanced	http://towerofenglish.com/index.html http://towerofenglish.com/vocabulary.html http://towerofenglish.com/grammar.html	Explanations for the sites are clear. I liked the suggestions (Your Turn) given to learners for what they could do while or after using the site.
Vocabulary and Grammar	E.L. Easton	This comprehensive website is for learners and teachers of languages. Under the tab, labeled English, there are several useful subcategories. In the section of vocabulary websites are word lists, quizzes (e.g. idioms, slang, dictionary skills, and categories of words), online machine translators, and varieties of English. In the grammar section websites are explanations, exercises, and quizzes on various grammar points listed by topic, also handbooks.	All levels but not organized in this way	http://eleaston.com/ http://eleaston.com/vocabulary-qz.html http://eleaston.com/grammar-qz.html http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html	This website is attractively organized. In addition to links for vocabulary and grammar, there are other resources for learning, teaching, and testing these skills including links to websites for creating quizzes and courses.
Vocabulary and Grammar	The English-Zone	Provides self-assessment exercises at different levels; sometimes provides lessons with nice examples; must subscribe although parts are free	Easy	http://english-zone.com/index.php	Very interesting and engaging exercises; very similar to level and format I teach with
			Medium
			Difficult
Vocabulary	Compleat Lexical Tutor	Aids working with word lists; 3-way assessment; text to speech (needs Speech Plugin), concordance and dictionary features; lexical support for reading texts; ready made quizzes and quiz builders; research tools; demos; multilingual	Advanced	http://132.208.224.131/	Contains many different kinds of support for the learner, teacher and researcher. Includes practical ways of using a concordance for vocabulary study.
Grammar	English Works! The Grammar Index	Exercises grouped by common grammar problem areas. Immediate feedback and encouragement given to students as they take the quizzes.	All Levels	http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/exercises/main/grammar.html http://tinyurl.com/c6mze	I discovered this website when I was giving writing assistance to several deaf students. The context of the cloz exercises is often student life at Gallaudet University.
Vocabulary	The Townsend Press	These exercises correspond to an ESL college vocabulary textbook; limited online exercise/quiz format: contextual and definition, 10 words each	Basics	http://www.townsendpress.net/apps/tpexercises/bookmenu.php?bk=4	Site chosen because it is more advanced vocabulary oriented to college-level students; plus it matches a textbook
			Groundwork	http://www.townsendpress.net/apps/tpexercises/bookmenu.php?bk=17
			Building	http://www.townsendpress.net/apps/tpexercises/bookmenu.php?bk=6
			Improving	http://www.townsendpress.net/apps/tpexercises/bookmenu.php?bk=11
			Advancing	http://www.townsendpress.net/apps/tpexercises/bookmenu.php?bk=2
			Advanced Word Power	http://www.townsendpress.net/apps/tpexercises/bookmenu.php?bk=13

Content	Site Name	Description	Level	URL	Why Selected
Vocabulary	Wordsurfing	Provides a potpourri of links to games, readings and sounds, language exchanges / student forums, webquests and weblogs, topics and tests, writing tips, grammar quizzes, teacher forums, websites designed for teachers, WWW-based vocabulary cards, vocabulary books, and many other resources	Intermediate Upper Intermed. Advanced	http://www.wordsurfing.co.uk/	Assigned
Vocabulary Grammar Listening Reading	Interesting Things for ESL Students	Provides a variety of self-study activities for ESL students: quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities.	Not indicated by site. Intermediate Upper Intermed. Advanced	http://www.manythings.org/	Assigned
Vocabulary Grammar Culture Pronunciation	Isabel’s ESL Site	Provides grammar, vocabulary, culture, and pronunciation exercises and quizzes Lists links to practices by difficulty and topic	Targeted at high school age students Elementary Intermediate Upper Intermed. Advanced	http://www.isabelperez.com/	Assigned
Vocabulary Grammar	English Quizzes for ESL Students	Vocabulary is one of three sections. The other two are Playing With Words (grammatical categories—"adjectives, nouns, verbs, prepositions, and everything else") and Surf the Web ("external links to dozens of sites"). One subsection ("In Sickness and in Health") focuses on health-related sites.) Vocabulary is divided into four subsections: people, animals, house and garden, and it’s a small world. Grammar exercise topics include nouns, adjectives, prepositions, verbs, and interrogatives. Exercise formats include matching ("drag and drop"), fill in the blanks, and crossword puzzles.	Elementary Intermediate Upper Intermed. Advanced	http://www.geocities.com/tereza_neves/	Assigned
Vocabulary Grammar	Phrasal Verb Demon	Contains grammar explanations with clear word order diagrams, quizzes, games, a dictionary, and a corpus/collocation tool all focused on phrasal verbs.	Intermediate Upper Intermed. Advanced	http://www.phrasalverbdemon.com/	Exercises were easy to use. Collocation tool provided many in context examples. Site’s single focus makes the info accessible.
Grammar	EnglishPage.com	Contains tutorials, grammar lessons, games, and dictionaries Lists grammar categories and links to other sites with related grammar exercises	Elementary Intermediate Upper Intermed. Advanced	http://www.englishpage.com	The site is a robust collection of grammar lessons. Students could be directed to specific modules for self-study.
Vocabulary	English: Vocabulary Guide \| Vocabulary Guide: English	This site from Language Guide.Org features a large collection of pictures and vocabulary items. When students drag their cursors over a picture, they hear the term pronounced (in American English in the ones I checked)	Elementary Intermediate	http://www.languageguide.org/english/eng/	These materials are excellent for building basic vocabulary, in my opinion, and also in hearing how vocabulary items are pronounced.
Grammar	Interactive Grammar Exercises for English as a Second Language	This site has interactive fill-in-the-blanks on a limited range of grammar topics, all with a "check" feature. British English is featured and a few of the items are a bit "forced" and artificial, but still these exercises are useful, I think.	Upper Intermed.	http://www.projectx2002.org/interactive_grammar.htm	Useful exercises on verbs and nouns.

· Contains the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online (an online version of the LDCE, updated version). It's somewhat slow to load, but has quite clear definitions and examples. Some (but not all) of the headwords are also pronounced.

· Displays a link to a Yahoo Group which has a focus on helping students create an individualized vocabulary notebook.

· Tests to determine one's vocabulary level. The first one gives results up to a determined vocabulary of 8,000 words; it was difficult—partly because sometimes it tested for identification of synonyms, sometimes for closely-related words.

· Links to multiple "pages" of an "Audio Pictionary." The beginning levels focused on matching illustrations with lexical items; when selected, an item's pronunciation was heard; students then did several types of matching exercises (often ending with one like "Concentration"). The more advanced ones had a format which focused on matching with restatements or synonyms. The stress was sometimes peculiar in the pronunciations, but generally this was very useful material—and it should be noted that it included lexical items from both British and American English.

· The amount of information available could be overwhelming. Teachers will need to direct students to specific activities that reinforce classroom topics

· Lists exercised by learning point and difficulty. Easy-to-use practices allow students to check their accuracy as they go.

· Displays pop culture content that would be interesting to high school age students

· The exercises are clever, bright, and fun—or seem to be: many of them didn't load when I tried to launch them.

· The exercises are rather limited in scope, but if they all work, I think students would have a lot of fun with them.

· People: The Family Tree, Clothes, Out of this World, The Human Body, The Face, Occupations

· Animals: Animals 1, Animals 2 (both fill-in), Animals Crossword Puzzle, Birds, Sea Creatures, Giant Octopus (all fill-in)

· House and Garden: Flowers (matching), Fruits and Vegetables, In the Kitchen 1, In the Kitchen 2 (all matching), In the Bathroom 1, In the Bathroom 2, Objects 1 (all blanks), Objects 2 (matching), Objects 3 (blanks)

· It's a Small World: Numbers (cardinal), Ordinals, Proverbs 1, Proverbs 2, Transportation (fill-in), Capitals of English-Speaking Countries (blanks), Nationalities

· Many of the exercises did not load. The exercises that loaded were made with Hot Potatoes.

· All of the exercises have a "check" feature which indicates whether responses were correct and also gives a percentage grade.

· Some of the exercises have a "hint" feature which provides help in determining the answer.

· Some of the "correct" answers are actually comma-splice sentences: *"We heard the phone, we didn't hear the doorbell." (The comma after phone should be a period [full stop] or semicolon.)

· Pages load quickly over my DSL—not sure if slower connections would experience frustration

· English Grammar Book lists grammar categories and connects to many other sites with exercises on those topics

· Mini-tutorials provide 1-page explanations of typically confusing grammar points, such as Who-Whom-Whose

· Two exercises for each of these topics: spelling basic verb forms, simple present / present progressive, making negatives, question tags

o Exercises on these topics: first, second conditional; disagreeing / agreeing; must / have to; don't have to / mustn't; past forms: modals; used to / be used to; must / have to (2); mustn't / needn't; didn't have to / needn't have; conditional: type 1, type 2, type 3, all types

· Exercises on these topics: plural (5 exercises), genitive (3 exercises), articles (2 exercises)

· The site was fast to load and also worked very smoothly on a high-speed connection. It would be good to know how it works on a dial-up connection, though.

· Group II: the body, men's clothing, the body 2, women's clothing, family, fruits, vegetables

· Group III (Animals): farm animals, mammals, pets, reptiles and amphibians, insects, African animals, birds, sea animals

· Group V (The Home): the den, the bedroom, the home, the dining room, the bathroom, the kitchen, the bathroom 2, the kitchen 2, the utility room

· Group VI: jobs, business, electronics, the car, art, fantasy, tools, miscellaneous, school, money, computers, land travel, music, land travel 2, construction, the farm, religion, communication, travel, food, kids, military, the city, the outdoors, science, medicine, food 2, baby, games