Resources
This section has some useful websites that will help both you and your mentee.
English learning websites for mentors
There are many useful sites you can use for teaching English to your mentee. Below are just a few suggestions:
A wide variety of information for both teachers and students, including grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation exercises. It also has great teaching ideas and many workshops that can be downloaded.
www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish.htm
This website is for those with an intermediate level of English. It’s an easy to use website packed with a wide range of activities, including listening, reading and writing exercises.
www.usingenglish.com
This sight has lots of useful short activities to use with your mentee, including lesson plans, worksheets, tests and quizzes.
www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise
This site contains lots of factsheets, worksheets, quizzes and games to help improve grammar, spelling, reading, listening, writing and vocab.
iteslj.org/games
This site contains lots of games and activities for teachers to use with their students to help them improve their English Language skills.
English learning websites for mentees
Your mentee is likely to need help at first learning to navigate the sites and finding an activity that matches their level of English. However these sites can be an excellent way for them to practice and improve their language skills.
This contains lots of activities for learners, including bilingual activities for Arabic, French and Somali speakers, as well as lots of other languages.
www.manythings.org
This is a good site for learners as it contains lots of speaking, listening, reading and writing games.
www.learn-english-online.org
This website is aimed at beginners, or those with little experience of English. It contains numerous lesson plans covering conversation and grammar. Mentees can also listen to the pronunciation.
www.usingenglish.com
This sight is useful for intermediate to higher level learners. It includes idioms, verbs, grammar glossary and teacher resources, test and quizzes.
www.learnenglish.de
This sight has lots of useful tutorials for beginners, intermediate and advanced. Including exercises and games that learners can practice their grammar and vocabulary.
This website contains many useful activities for teachers, including grammar and vocabulary lessons with games and competitions.
An excellent online spelling activities on the Web. Tutor creates a list of words to spell. Learner has the option to hear the word on its own or in a sentence before typing it into a text box. Has 'test me' and 'teach me' options.
www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise
Video exercise for spelling using; look say, cover, write and check.
(Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English – the most user-friendly, with pictures and example sentences)
http://dictionary.cambridge.org
There are also a number of bilingual online dictionaries.
www.babylon.com/define/98/English-Arabic-Dictionary.html (Arabic)
www.urduword.com (Urdu)
www.punjabonline.com/servlet/library.dictionary (Punjabi)
www.redsea-online.com (Somali)
www.gujaratilexicon.com (Gujarati)
Excellent introduction to using the mouse, single and double clicking, drag and drop and getting to know the keyboard. Learner controls the pace of the lesson.
www.baycongroup.com/tutorials.htm
Online structured and detailed tutorials on various computer related topics.
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