Gail Johnson put some interesting sites for ESL on the Blackboard site for our Friday morning ESL students. If your students don't have access, you can copy and paste the sites into your own Bb course. One of the sites is Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab. There are several hundred stories at three levels where students can listen, read, answer comprehension questions, and do vocabulary work (http://www.esl-lab.com). There are also very short 2 minute videos to watch followed by a few comprehension questions. I'm going to use some of the stories to supplement and reinforce vocabulary from stories we have read in class. I would suggest that you do one of the stories yourself and then use the overhead projector to show the students how to navigate through the website before they try it. This site is a great way for students to work on their listening skills as well as vocabulary.
There is also a link to Randall's Blog for ESL students (http://esl-lab.blogspot.com). This would be a great site for the advanced students to post comments about the various topics on the blog.
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Thanks, Gail, for the suggestions. I am familiar with the sites, but I haven't really looked them over in a long time. Maybe it's time to take another look.
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