Internet-Based Textbooks Several books have been published recently for ESL that are based solely on web sites. Many publishers have developed additional Internet activities to complement the language textbooks they produce. The Internet is a wonderful source of text, images, sounds and video. These media can be used to create your own teaching materials as well as for providing listening, reading, writing and grammar practice in another language. Blue Mountain Arts, for example, offers cards in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese and Chinese.
Newspapers Use news stories written in the target language.
This material can then be glossed with word processing programs to provide help with unfamiliar vocabulary. Have students listen to audio and watch video about News, Sports, Technology, Film and Comedy in Spanish, German, Italian and Japanese using the Real Player plug in. Multi-User Domain Object Oriented. These are character-based virtual words originally created for gaming. Some have been created especially for language learning.