ELTWeekly Issue#7, Useful ELT resources
By Tarun Patel
*** Macmillan English Campus ***
The Macmillan English Campus (MEC) is an online practice environment for learners of English as a foreign language.
The concept behind the Macmillan English Campus is that language learning can be greatly enhanced by an effective combination of face-to-face teaching and online support materials.
It is this blended learning solution that makes the Macmillan English Campus unique. It ensures that MEC users enjoy the best of both worlds: they continue to receive face-to-face tuition and contact with their teachers whilst remaining free to study online within a controlled learning environment.
Who is MEC for?
The Macmillan English Campus (MEC) is a blended learning solution for students and teachers.
Improve you teaching with MEC
Using the Macmillan English Campus with your students is very simple – and it really improves your teaching.
Here are some of the unique benefits that the Macmillan English Campus will bring:
- Guarantee the quality of your teaching resources
- Introduce greater variety into your teaching presentation
- Address mixed language levels amongst your students
- Save time on homework preparation and marking
- Access to authentic English
- Access indispensable reference materials
- Take advantage of valuable exam study resources.
*** UsingEnglish.com ***
UsingEnglish.com is a general English language site, specialising in ESL (English as a Second Language) with a wide range of resources for learners and teachers of English, and has been running since the beginning of 2002. Different varieties of English are used; there are contributors from the United States, Canada, Pakistan and non-native speakers, but much of the site uses British English as it was set up in the UK. A list of staff members and site contributors can be found here.
Here are the links to latest posts of UsingEnglish.com:
- New Phrasal Verbs Quizzes: Intransitive, Separable and Inseparable - February 29
- Rollout Rollup - January 31
- UsingEnglish.com Adopts reCAPTCHA - October 18
- New Idioms Web Feed - July 22
- New: Graded Text Analysis - June 30
- Submit An Idiom - May 4
- Updated: Teacher Handouts - April 29
- Updated: Reading Comprehension - April 7
- Updated: Irregular Verbs Download - March 31
- Advanced Text Analyser – New and Improved! - January 31
*** Curriki ***
Curriki offers free, open source instructional materials for Grades K-12.
All of Curriki’s learning resources are contributed by teachers or by publishing partners.
Curriki has thousands of free worksheets, lesson plans, exams, project ideas and activities for English language arts, math, science, social studies, technology integration and other subjects.
Becoming a member is completely free and allows you to publish your own best materials.
Explore Curriki here: http://www.curriki.org.
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ELTWeekly Issue#7 
January 25th, 2009About... Tarun Patel
This author published 569 posts in this site.Tarun Patel (http://tarunpatel.net/blog/) is an ELT and Communication skills teacher, working with Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT - http://charusat.ac.in/). He has been dealing with the Language learning processes for last seven years. 'Technology in Teaching English' is his favorite domain and he has presented several research papers in national and international conferences on the same theme. He is the founder editor of ELTWeekly (http://eltweekly.com/), India's first weekly ELT eNewsletter which reaches in more than forty countries and benefits more than 1600d teachers of English and Communication Skills. Have a look at his personal blog http://tarunpatel.net/blog/.
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