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The Best ESL Websites for Practicing at Home
Submitted by admin on Thu, 04/29/2010 - 12:32Banking: Compare Banks and Credit Unions
Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 13:17Go to bank and credit union sites and compare checking and savings accounts and car and home loans. Here are some bank sites to get you started:
A great site for comparing rates from lots of banks is www.bankrate.com
When you are done, put what you find in a Word table.
Banking: Matching Exercise
Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 16:02Here's a matching exercise on asking a bank employee about information. Click on the attachment.
Banking and Money: Non-ESL Sites
Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 11:40Here are some sites that teach about money, but aren't made for ESL
Hands on Banking- An education site done by Wells Fargo that has four different levels
SmartMoney.Org- A consumer finance and banking
Practical Money Skills- Games that teach money skills
Bankrate.com Financial Literacy Guide
Mymoney.gov -Government information about money, credit, and banking
Banking and Money: A4ESL
Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 10:49Banking: ESL-Lab
Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 10:40Here are ESL-Lab.com exercises on money and banking:
Grammar: Present Perfect
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 13:36English Tenses with Cartoons- (Be careful...there are lots of ads you can click on by mistake
A4ESL- Present Perfect or Past?
A4ESL- For/Since
Youtube Video on Present Perfect (Watch at home)
ESL Points Present Perfect video (watch at home)
Manythings.org Random Present Perfect sentences
OWL explanation of Present and Future Perfect
Present Perfect Continuous (Includes British and American English examples)
Present Perfect tense exercises
Step Forward: Oxford University Press Site
Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 14:31Oxford University Press has online activities for their texts. Here's the Step Forward site's page.
Jobs: ELLLO Stories
Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 06:59Here are some ELLO conversations that talk about jobs. Don't forget to check the questions and vocabulary explanations on the right hand side of the page.
Jobs (This is and older lesson on the site and works a bit differently. See the link for the transcript above the screen)
