Many teachers of English Language Learners know about The Language Guide, which is an excellent picture dictionary on the Web that has audio, too (it also has versions for other languages).

I’ve used it for years, but didn’t realize until a student pointed it out to me this month that each page has an “options” feature which provides listening and speaking quizzes. I’m not sure how long that option has been there — perhaps I’ve just missed it for years…

It’s just another reason why it’s on The Best Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced English Language Learner Sites list.

Here are two new excellent additions to The Best Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced English Language Learner Sites:

Mrs. Haquet’s Interactive Vocabulary Exercises

Mrs. Haquet’s Interactive Books

Graph Words is a new very simple visual thesaurus. It’s not as fancy as some of the other similar applications out there, but I think some of them are actually pretty confusing to English Language Learners.

I’m adding it to The Best Reference Websites For English Language Learners.

Thanks to Richard Byrne for the tip.

I’ve just updated The Best Sites For Learning How To Tell Time and made these additions. They are collections of multiple interactives related to telling time:

Telling Time

Telling The Time

Telling Time

Renowned ESL/EFL teacher, researcher and author Paul Nation is particularly known for his work on teaching vocabulary to English Language Learners.

Just by chance I found a site where it seems he’s giving an online course on Teaching ESL/EFL Vocabulary. As far as I can tell, it’s free and open to anyone — if someone knows differently, please let me know.

It’s just started, so it may be a great learning opportunity.

Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The Summer:

Summer Is Nearly Here is the title of a series of photos from The Atlantic.

The East Coast heats up is a Washington Post slideshow.

Heat gripping half of US expected to last for days is from The Sacramento Bee.

I’ve previously written about the interactives created by teacher Mrs. Haquet from Frenchfrog’s Little English Pond. I just realized, however, that I have not included her extraordinary creations in The Best Sites Where ELL’s Can Learn Vocabulary.

All of her great vocabulary games can be found here.

Here interactive books can be found here.

I’m adding both links to the best vocabulary list.

The “Special Holiday Emergency Desk” is a wonderful application to reinforce vocabulary with English Language Learners, and it’s also a lot of fun for anybody else.

You type in the word for just about anything, and a virtual artist “draws” it for you. It’s an almost seamless use of Google Image search that converts any image into a version that appears like it’s been drawn.

It fits right in with similar apps I have on The Best “When I Say Jump” Online Sites For Practicing English, which I think is one of my favorite “The Best…” lists.

There are several “words of the year” lists that come out annually. The might be useful for advanced English Language Learners, but I think they can be more effectively used in Theory of Knowledge classes (plus, they’re fun to read for English teachers ).

Here are my choices for The Best “Words Of The Year” Features For 2010:

The Words of the Year from The New York Times, which also has links to lists from previous years. The New York Times Learning Network also has a simple lesson plan for using the list.

The Wall Street Journal has an interactive on The Words of the Year.

Merriam-Webster came out with their own Words of The Year. Both NPR and the Christian Science Monitor have articles about Webster’s list, too.

Wikipedia has an excellent section on Words of The Year.

The Top Political Buzzwords of 2010 comes from The Nation.

A 2010 dictionary (abridged) comes from The Boston Globe.

The year in language:The best and worst of 2010 comes from The Boston Globe

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I’ve updated and revised The Best Sites For Learning About The Winter Season.

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