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TEFL teacher and author Shelley Ann Vernon began creating her own materials partly in response to  using “the driest textbooks imaginable”. Throughout her site Shelley stresses the importance of fun when teaching (more…)

eslHQ offers a number of resources for English teachers, including forums, articles, flashcards, and job listings. This site is a community of teachers sharing ideas. When you join for free you can access the unique lesson plans and ideas that other teachers post. For example, a teacher posted instructions on how he had adapted the playing card game ‘Kings’ into a grammar game for ESL learners. One of the most (more…)

Lanternfish, previously known as bogglesworld, is a true teacher’s helper. This site offers fun, yet educational, activities and exercises including movie lessons, role-plays, game boards, and flashcards. This is a great site for teachers who need supplementary worksheets for beginner and intermediate learners. Lanternfish also offers plenty of holiday themed (more…)

Regardless of where you are teaching in the world, you are undoubtedly familiar with the BBC. But did you know that the BBC has been helping students learn English since 1943? In 1996, the BBC launched its Learning English site. Today Learning English has about 1.5 million unique users.  The site, written and produced by UK experts in the ELT field, features video and audio activities with (more…)

Though published by New Zealand’s Ministry of Education, English Online is a wealth of resources for ESL teachers around the world. The site offers full teaching units for Years 1-13, with complete lesson plans on a wide variety of topics. Learning objectives are classified as oral, visual, written, or other, making it easy for teachers to scroll through and find appropriate lessons.  (more…)

ESL-Library is a great site for teachers who have little or no resources in the classroom. With hundreds of ready made lessons and thousands of flashcards (available in English, French, and Spanish), teachers can rely on this site like a core textbook. New task based, student centered lessons are added every month, in categories such as Mini Debates, Everyday Dialogue, and Living in English. ESL-Library also offers an online filing system, called My Library, where teachers can store items (more…)

This site was created in the UK as a resource for teachers of primary school levels. With its free downloads and regularly updated materials, Sparklebox also serves as an excellent resource site for ESL teachers of young learners. Printables include everything from power point presentations to lessons, worksheets, flashcards, and reward certificates. Sparklebox is

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Teachitworld is a library of ELT materials compiled by an online community of teachers who understand the benefits of sharing resources. Numerous resources are free to download in PDF format, while paid members have access to thousands of ideas, lessons, and tips. As well as a topic based lesson library, there are other goodies such as audio lessons, “Whizzy things” and an extensive image bank. Subscribers can edit, adapt, and (more…)

English-to-go is a unique resource library for ESL teachers and learning institutions with lessons based on Reuters news stories. The ready-to-use lessons include pre-reading activities, comprehension questions, grammar exercises and extension activities. English-to-go also offers weekly warmers and grammar and vocabulary worksheets. Teachers or administrators (more…)

ELT games offers free activities and games that will bring students and teachers hours of fun in the classroom. Grammar and conversation activities are categorized by level and are available to print at the click of a button. Using ELT games is truly as easy as (more…)

In Japanese, the word “genki” means fun and energetic. Creator of Genki English Richard Graham fell in love with this word while teaching English in Japan. He currently uses it to describe his teaching method, a secret he (more…)

Updated twice a week, Breaking News English is an excellent whole language resource for ESL teachers. The site features extensive, well-organized lesson plans based on current events around the world. Each graded (more…)

This well-organized, easy-to-navigate site for teachers is composed of 200+ handouts ready for teachers to use at a minute’s notice. Paying members can have access to supplementary worksheets (more…)

ELT author and teacher, Judie Haynes, has created an excellent site to share her knowledge and ideas with ESL teachers around the world. This site is easy to (more…)