Videos

Learning Resources: Written Materials


 ESL instructional links


Some of the textbooks currently used by the ESL department have a companion website that you might find helpful.

Please note that the exercises on these websites are not your lab assignments, unless your instructor especifically assigned them to you.

To go to it just click on the website address.

ESL-Grammar

Classes Textbook Name / Website address
Grammar
Grammar
Grammar
Grammar
Grammar
Grammar
Reading
Reading
Conversation
Conversation
Conversation
Writing

Online Reference

 SBCC Eli Luria Library library.sbcc.edu

Cambridge University Press Journals online

Encyclopedia Britannica

INFOPLEASE

NETLIBRARY

PROQUEST DIRECT

Cambridge Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
MSN Encarta

Suggestions for Listening Practice:

 Basic English Grammar  (CD)
 CNN Video: Development Composition  (CD)
 Concepts and Comments  (CD)
 English Discoveries  (CD)
 Focus on Grammar  (CD)
 Focus on Pronunciation  (CD)
 Issues for Today  (CD)
 Music Activities  (CD)
 Rosetta Stone  (CD)
 Quick English (General or Business)  (CD)
 Side by SIde  (CD)
 Stories Worth Reading  (CD & DVD)
 Top Notch TV: Fundamentals  (DVD)
 WorldLink  (CD & DVD)

Available Software and Activities

Level Grammar Writing Reading
1
*Focus on Grammar – Basic (PC)
*Azar Interactive
(as ref.)  (PC)
*typing papers
*bulletin boards
**E-mail use
*Mavis Beacon
*Spell-Deluxe
*Side by Side Videos
*Oxford Picture Dictionary CDs
*English Discoveries (Let's Start and disc 1)
*Outside of class assignments:
*Career Center
*Other Campus Services
*Educational/Vocational Programs
*Community Services Projects
2 *Focus on Grammar- Basic (PC)
*Peinado’s Program, Grammar To Go(PC)
*Azar Interactive
(as ref.) (PC)
*typing papers
*bulletin boards

*E-mail use
*Mavis Beacon
*Spell-Deluxe
*Side by Side Videos
*Oxford Picture Dictionary CDs
*English Discoveries (discs 3 & 4)
*Outside of class assignments: *Career Center
*Other Campus Services
*Educational/Vocational Programs
*Community Services Projects
3 *Focus on Grammar – Int. (PC)
*Azar interactive
(as ref.) (PC)
*Peinado’s Program, Grammar To Go (PC)
*typing papers
*bulletin boards

*E-mail use
*Mavis Beacon
*Spell-Deluxe
*Quick English
**Outside of class assignments: *Career Center
*Other Campus Services
*Educational/Vocational Programs
**Community Services Projects
4 *Focus on Grammar Adv. Int. (PC)
*Peinado’s Program, Grammar To Go (PC)
*typing papers
*bulletin boards

*E-mail use
*Mavis Beacon
*Spell-Deluxe
*Quick English Business
*Videoms
*Outside of class assignments: *Career Center
*Other Campus Services
*Educational/Vocational Programs
**Community Services Projects
5 *Focus on Grammar Advance (PC)
*Grammar 3D (PC)
* typing papers
*bulletin boards

*E-mail use
*Mavis Beacon
*Spell-Deluxe
*Videoms
**Real Thing Video
*Outside of class assignments:
*Career Center
*Other Campus Services
*Educational/Vocational Programs
**Community Services Projects

Companion Websites