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For teachers looking for useful ESL websites with educational material to use in the classroom, we want to provide some links to help you increase your productivity in 2015!
#01: ISLCOLLECTIVE.COM
This is a one-stop shop for teachers looking for lessons that are print & teach
ISLCollective.com, a site financed by donation only, offers a huge user-fed database of ready-to-rock lesson plans with colorful pictures and illustrations. Free registration and a fast search interface make it a great site to frequent when you need supplemental material or a last-minute lesson.
Membership: Free membership – provide Email address only
Lesson Count: Total – 49,025 (Microsoft Word or PowerPoint files)
Searchable By: Grammar Point / Vocabulary / Function / Level / Student Type
#02: BREAKINGNEWSENGLISH.COM
Perfect for bringing fresh, current events into your classroom activities
Breaking News English features a new lesson every two days on – you guessed it – a breaking news story. A story scales a variety of difficulties (word counts) with a staggering 26-page PDF version or a two-page mini lesson version. You can also find listening (various speeds and accents), vocabulary and spelling quizzes.
Membership: None required – visit and download instantly!
Lesson Count: Total – 2,018 (PDF format or use-it-online HTML)
Searchable By: Difficulty Level 0-7 / News Story Themes
#03: ITESLJ.ORG
Discussion questions out the ying-yang for conversation classes
This site has other lessons but the true jackpot is the bonanza of general discussion questions for conversation classes here. Each topic has well over 15 questions to burn up any one-hour conversation class without a problem. Copy, paste, print, ask, discuss, correct, class finished.
Membership: Free to use
Lesson Count: 300+ Topics (HTML, so copy/paste to Word)
Searchable By: Alphabetical List of Topics
40+ Lesson Plans
100 Pages of Handouts!
Try free Sample Lessons Plans:
4 – VOCABULARY BASED
2 – ACTIVITY BASED
#04: YOURENGLISHSOURCE.COM
We have put together a great team to help teachers and students with all things ESL.
2016 is going to be a productive year for YourEnglishSource.com as we dedicate the site to providing as many FREE and premium lesson plans as we can possibly produce! We have a great email course on how to really effectively use YouTube videos to center a great lesson plan around. We have 4 super unique ways to use the video as a speaking activity students will love. Learning these 4 techniques is worth it alone, but we also throw in 3 full YouTube lesson plans! The lessons focus on speaking but also touch on listening, discussion and writing practice too. Just one of many great courses we are offering for free this year.
For Teachers: We have 100’s of lesson plans, teaching tips, e-books and free courses coming.
Be sure to join the YourEnglishSource Facebook Page or Facebook Group to make use of all the free content we are generating this year and to tell us what you want to see!
#05: BUSYTEACHER.ORG
Another community-contributing powerhouse
Another mind-blowing compilation of print & teach lesson plans. Look in their “More” menu for some unique things like a word search maker, flash card builder and other ESL website reviews. They advertise their own premium content a lot but still there is so much for free, Who cares?
Membership: Free to use / Email registration to use advanced features.
Lesson Count: Total – 14,841 (Microsoft Word / PowerPoint / PDF file formats)
Searchable By: Skill / Season / Keyword
#06: USINGENGLISH.COM
Perfect for bringing fresh current events into your classroom activities
Beggars can’t be choosers. Well, here they can! Every idiom under the sun is cataloged for search with a simple regular English definition for students. Teachers can compile handouts like idioms used in Australia or idioms about animals. Plus you can use the site’s keyword search to access what you like.
Membership: Free to use
Lesson Count: Total – 3,757 Idioms (HTML, so copy/paste to Word)
Searchable By: Alphabetical / Category / Country / Keyword search box
#07: ESLVIDEO.COM
Listening practice made fun and interesting for students of all levels
This site plays a YouTube video and provides a multiple choice quiz right beside the video. Submit answers and the site returns a score instantly. Register and create your own quizzes with online video content. Your students can email you their results right from the website also.
Membership: Free to use / Email registration to create quizzes of your own
Lesson Count: Total – 2,500 (online video quizzes with YouTube videos)
Searchable By: Level / Keyword / Newest / Creator / Archive Lists
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100 Pages of Handouts!
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4 – VOCABULARY BASED
2 – ACTIVITY BASED
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Dear colleagues,
Thank you very much indeed for the useful information provided.
it is highly appreciated.
All the best
Harry
You are most welcome Harry! Thanks for the positive feedback.
thanks for all those sites, they were really helpful.
Glad I could help a little.
Thank you so much! wondeful!
Hi there Murray,
This is a fantastic list, your #1 is also my #1, and your #’s 4 and 6 are ones that are new to me and I should be using a lot more. #7 I found to be a bit of a loser for producing quality lessons that I quickly gave up on using after trying it a couple of times. The main problem is that those quizes are really not much as far as lesson content is concerned. I ended up making my own quizes for the videos on the site but then quickly realized there is too much already prepared material on the internet to not have to do that.
Here are some alternative suggestions:
http://www.lyricstraining.com – Your students want to listen to a song? go to the website and put on the song as they listen and yell out the words while, as the teacher, you type in their suggestions. Also good for students to practice at home. Especially good as a back up plan.
ESLflow.com – not sure what the number of lessons is, but it’s got quite a number
http://www.eslcafe.com/ideas – this is a very disorganized site, but there’s tons of content to find something that you can use for you next class fairly quickly
Happy teaching!
Thank you so much for this!!! Some awesome websites!!! You have just made my life so easy!!
Hi there! Yes these are great sites! If you want more I’ve curated over 100 ESL sites for teaching English in the classroom or one on one. I’ve broken these suggested links into skills, themes, news online and getting creative in the classroom. As well, there are new links posted every week based on the post’s topic. Please feel free to add some of your favorites on http://www.eslmadeeasy.ca!
What a fantastic list you have made Carolyn! And your site is full of great resources too! I hope the users here find their way over there, highly recommend everyone!
Here is the direct link to the list Carolyn mentioned http://www.eslmadeeasy.ca/p/blog-page_1.html
A useful list indeed for busy teachers who need resources. Thanks. Teachers looking for ESL writing materials might take a look at http://www.eslwriting.org. Many free writing lesson plans and ideas are to be had there.
I can also recommend authentic-teaching.com with ready-to-print lesson plans 😉
Great find Jo, I like their TED Lessons 🙂
Busy Teacher is one of my go-to sites. They rate all of the materials and categorise them nicely. Thumbs up for them.
And I just want to chip in my own contribution, Grammar Quizzes and notes, smartphone-friendly: http://www.roadtogrammar.com
Thanks for sharing!
I had already collected together a pretty decent list on my blog http://www.intercambioidiomasonline.com , but some of these were new to me. Thanks a lot
That’s a great list Marc. Love the Images you have used to, great work!
Thank you for the list. It’s very usefyl😃 I would also add esl-kids.com This one offers a great tool for making worksheets. Also, I like englishteacherscorner.com
It’s new I guess. Some of the resources are free and some paid. I often visit them both.
Peter78
If I may, I’d like to add http://www.eflmagazine.com to this list. We have hundreds of articles on English teaching.
Fantastic!!!!
Thanks for the list! I love it! may I add http://www.moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.com? I found it quite useful in my classes. Thanks again!!!