Four Pages of Links
There are four pages of Links in this section, and I have tried to separate them into the following categories:
1. Links for Education and Teaching (this page)
2. Links for Teaching Higher Levels - such as this Institute (next page)
3. Links for Using Music in Education (another page)
4. Links about Improving English Language Proficiency (another page)
1. Links for Education and Teaching (this page)
2. Links for Teaching Higher Levels - such as this Institute (next page)
3. Links for Using Music in Education (another page)
4. Links about Improving English Language Proficiency (another page)
1. Links for Education and Teaching
Games and Activities for the ESL Teacher
There are lots of useful ideas on this Games and Activities site, and remember: everything can always be adapted to suit your situation.
Lesson Stream
This website has a lot of ready made lessons for a variety of levels. There is a video of the lesson being taught, and then a lesson plan to follow. Well worth a visit!
ESLactivities
ESLactivities is a great site for creating Bingo games, word searches, crosswords and the like. I have used it often.
Busy Teacher
The Busy Teacher site is full of ideas, worksheets, and tools to create your own worksheets such as word searches.
If you sign up (for free) they will email you regular ideas and information about new materials as they post them.
If you sign up (for free) they will email you regular ideas and information about new materials as they post them.
English Online
Letters and Sounds
Teaching READING? This is material from the British Department for Education about teaching phonics and reading to young learners. There are a series of FREE downloadable units, full of information and practical pedagogy.
It is delivered in six "phases", but this is not year 1-6, each "phase" is only a few weeks.
It is delivered in six "phases", but this is not year 1-6, each "phase" is only a few weeks.
English Club
Teacher ideas, tips, forum - English Club has pages for teachers and learners, and a club you can join as well.
Stuff 4 Teaching
Does the Internet seem huge and overwhelming? The Stuff 4 Teaching site claims that it wants to shrink the Internet for teachers.
Bogglesworld
BogglesworldESL has been around for a long time, and has a good stash of ready-to-use lesson plans, games, and ideas for ESL. I have used some of their Role Play ideas especially.
(Nowadays it goes by the name "Lantern Fish", but it still uses the Bogglesworld URL)
(Nowadays it goes by the name "Lantern Fish", but it still uses the Bogglesworld URL)
One Stop English
OneStopEnglish has been around for a long time and has a lot of really good material, lesson plans, resources, articles - everything. Not everything is still available for free but a lot of it is, and the site is well worth visiting.
MacMillan English
MacMillan English has a lot of high quality material for both teaching English and improving your own proficiency.
BBC News Learn English
Simple English News
Breaking News English
This is a great site with hundreds of FREE 13-page downloadable lessons based around news storied in not-too-difficult English (and yet not too simple, contains challenging words to improve vocabulary).
Heads Up English
Heads Up English is another site with graded lesson plans based aroun carefully selected news items.
Free technology for Teachers
Here is something FREE, so definitely check it out! It has "free resources and lesson plans for teaching with technology".
ESL Videos
ESL teachers have placed short videos on this site, and created quizzes to go with them. Some of these are mentioned and referred to on our Videos page.
ESL Partyland
Getting it Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn
An interesting article from Scientific American that should be read by all our lecturers and trainee teachers. Find the article here.
About.com
This site has lots of areas where you can have questions answered and learn new things. Kenneth Beare writes theESL sectionand has a lot of useful ideas, information and lesson plans. There is also a section on Education in general.
English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions
Expressions that are fun to learn but hard to teach because there are so many of them and you are never quite sure if you have got them all right ... English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions is a page well worth visiting many times.
Edutopia
Kubbu
Kubbu is free, you have to register as a teacher, and you can create interactive (online) vocabulary quizzes, games or puzzles, and then it will help you analyse the results.
English Raven
The English Raven site has a lot of resources for teachers. You can register, and pay whatever amount you choose ($5 and up, I think), but there is a lot of stuff for free, a lot of free samples.
Word Stash
WordStash is place for resources to improve vocabulary - dictionary, flash cards, word lists and all that.
ESL Library
Bright Hub
The Bright Hub is a site with ideas and lesson plans for teaching English as a second/foreign language.
Phonemic Chart
The Phonemic Chart page has a lovely clear chart, with key words, and as you click on each symbol it copies it into a box which is then easy to copy and paste into any document where you need to use phonemic symbols.
Dictionary.com
Besides being a place to look to find the meaning of a word, there are lots of good lesson ideas on Dictionary.com.
Making Books website
The Language Menu
The Language Menu is a site for Language teachers. It has tools and worksheet generators for creating worksheets in 35 different languages - unfotunately not including BM. You need to register, but it is free.
Balanced Reading
The Balanced Reading site says it is "developing research-based resources for the balanced reading teacher".
Learning A-Z
This site has a lot of resources ... some of them you have to pay for, but there are some free samples.