ICT 4 ELT Portals

Vocabulary for pre-intermediate students and their teachers

Compiled and annotated by

Magda Struhárová,
Gymnázium Otrokovice

This webpage contains links to Vocabulary for pre-intermediate students and their teachers.

• English on the Internet – vocabulary

  http://www.aj.cz/vocab.htm

  These websites are ideal for the revision of vocabulary that is arranged according to themes (there is a word / phrase, pronunciation and the Czech equivalent). These websites also help to practise phrasal verbs, business English, slang and false friends. Moreover, they contain interactive tests for various levels.

• Look It Up Quizes

  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/classroom/lookitup/

  This is an amazing tool for looking up information concerning various areas (e.g. food, geography, US history). The information is presented in an attractive way. Students can look up various information related to a particular theme in a text or using pictures. There are also worksheets to be printed.

• BBCCzech – Global Issues

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/czech/specials/1417_global_issues/page5.shtml

  There are thirty units called 'Global Issues' that deal with topics such as safety, genetically modified products and globalization which are supposed to practise the language of the news.. Each unit contains a short text accompanied by a short recording, followed by a word list (English words / phrases and the Czech equivalents).

• Activities for ESL Students

  http://a4esl.org/

  These websites contain a variety of quizzes, interactive tests, exercises and puzzles. The exercises are organized thematically.

• English-Zone.Com

  http://english-zone.com/

  There is a Teacher´s Zone filled with ready-to-print materials such as worksheets and quizzes. The activities are organized thematically. There are interesting links such as Dolch basic words list including the 220 most frequently found in books that students read. However, it is necessary to pay $30 USD per year to use all the activities available.

• CZEnglish

  http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/projekty/lexdb/czeng.cgi?mode=contents

  These websites are suitable for practising grammatical and lexical features of English as they deal with some common mistakes made by Czech speakers of English. They are probably based on the book "English-Czenglish" by Don Sparling. There is a list of words arranged in alphabetical order, and there are English sentences with some mistakes and a comment in Czech.

• BBC World Service – Learing English

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

  There are short courses, quizzes, grammar, vocabulary, audio and video. There are also articles on teaching, lesson plans and practical downloadable activities. Students will particularly appreciate NEWS ENGLISH (words in the news).

• New English File Cloze Maker

  http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/ef_teachertools/preint/

  Here you will find the tool for making cloze tests. You can use your own text by copying and pasting it into the Cloze Maker and when it is created, you can edit the text. The students can be given a list of the missing words at the top of the page, or they can be provided with a clue by having the first letter of each missing word in the blank (gapped texts with no clues are also possible).

• OneStopEnglish

  http://www.onestopenglish.com/

  There are hundreds of worksheets and lesson plans with teacher´s notes on this page that the teachers can use after they have registered without paying any fees.

• Mary Glasgow Magazines

  http://www.link2english.com/teacher_index_top.asp

  These sites present free printable worksheets (aiming at vocabulary as well as grammar) with teacher´s notes that extend the content of the graded magazines published by Mary Glasgow.