Portal:EFL
It is widely believed today that English is a global language. It is used extensively across the world and is the lingua franca for the majority of business people, the shipping industry and the internet. Worldwide there are over 1,400 million people living in countries where English has official status. Millions of students across the world learn English in All of this is good news for the EFL world. With so much happening and with so much information available on so many websites, we at AboutUs have decided to collate information in this Portal to provide information to anyone who is interested in EFL whether they are teaching professionals, students or employers. The aim is to provide you with meaningful information which can be accessed easily. Institutions like language centers can add information about their courses, teachers can look for jobs, students can search out English language resources.
Gradually each week new information will be added to this portal. This can be done by anyone who would like to add something related to the field of EFL. Very soon, this site will become a rich resource for all things EFL.
Welcome to the AboutUs doorway to EFL.
This section has been set aside for short articles on EFL. The aim is to encourage EFL professionals to share their expertise with other professionals in the same field. Topics could include great lessons, good classroom practice or recent research in EFL, anything in fact that you feel could be of interest to other EFL practitioners.
What's in a Name? A Lesson about Names
This could be a useful lesson at the start of a course just after students have started to get to know each other. It lends itself to creative writing and gets children to think about how Roald Dahl, the children's story writer, used adjectives to help in creating his colourful characters.
These materials are suitable for intermediate level and above young learners.
Part 1 Roald Dahl’s Characters
Functional English is a small, friendly school with a Christian basis, located in the historic seaside town of Whitby - the heart of the North York Moors National Park. Whitby is a historic seaside town in the beautiful North York Moors National Park. Students live with host families and study together in the school building. The social programme includes home visits, international evenings, sports, dancing and country walks. Whitby welcomes students and many friendships have been made there. The school has a language laboratory and computer room. As a Christian school it has a worship service each day and contacts with local churches, but Christian activities are optional and everyone is welcome.
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ManyThings.org is a treasure chest full of activities for language students ranging from games, crosswords and quizzes to exercises to help improve your English and lots and lots of information on the everyday usage of English. A very informative website.
This is a great website that helps you find a language course in Britain that suits you best. The enquiry service allows you to give details of your requirements and they are sent to accredited course providers that fit your requirements. the site is quite user friendly and has talking portraits on some of the pages, although the woman in About English in Britain refuses to talk even if you ask her a question. But she will follow your mouse with her eyes and head when you bring the mouse close to her.
When you click one of the different regions on the map of Britain, you are given a list of language schools that are accredited by organisations like the British Council and the Association of British Language Schools. Each school gives information on the courses they offer and contact details if you would like to get in touch with them.
The ESL Kids Lab is packed with fun activities for kids. Kisi is the creator of this website and has been developing it for several years. 2000 people, mainly teachers and students, visit the site daily. Before creating English-4Kids.com, Kisi had already built two other successful websites EnglishMediaLab.com and ESL-Galaxy.com.
