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Links to Our Members' Favourite ESL/EFL Materials, Information and Resources for Teaching and Learning English

July 18th 2013

Here we have a collection of sites recommended by our members for the teaching and learning of English as a Foreign, Second or Additional Language. This is by no means meant to be an exhaustive list. Do you know a good site for material, information and/or resources? Please send us your suggestion along with a review by email or by posting it to our Facebook group. We would be happy to enrich the list on this page with your contributions.

Terminology

ELT (English Language Teaching) EFL (English as a Foreign Language) ESL (English as a Second Language) ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) ELL English for Language Learners) EAL (English as an Additional Language)...

Pete's Power Point Station - FREE Presentations in PowerPoint format

While these power point presentations are meant for children who are native speakers of English, some may be useful in an EFL context either as is or with adaptation. All the presentations can be adapted and reused. Examples are presentations on Shakespheare, native American stories, Aesop's fables, globalization, social stratification, stereotypes, etc.

Englishtips

A Russian community for the sharing of English language educational material. To share scans and fotocopies of worksheets and other educational materials with colleagues check out this website which makes them available usually in pdf format when you register as a member.

Free Online Learning at GCFLearnFree.org

This website is meant for the independent learning of adolescents and adults. It is a useful resource for EFL students. It is particularly useful for exposure to practical English and for lessons with a practical focus in addition to a language focus. Lessons in English on the practical skills of "personal branding" are useful, up-to-date opportunities for students to enrich their real-world skills in a realistic English language context.

Check out the index and the ESL activities. "By delivering over 750 different lessons to millions of people in over 200 countries and territories ABSOLUTELY FREE, GCFLearnFree.org is a worldwide leader in online education. Watch VideoView one tutorial. Complete a whole class. We believe there's freedom in the ability to learn what you want, when you want, regardless of income or circumstances.

LANGUAGES ONLINE

AUSTRALIAN SITE FOR LANGUAGES - NOT ONLY ENGLISH EFL

Languages Online contains free resource for language students and teachers. Game Makers can be downloaded and used to create interactive language games in ANY language. Ready made interactive tasks and worksheets are also available for students learning French, German, Indonesian or Italian.

Linked to Macmillan publishers, this is an excellent resource site with quality material for Teachers of EFL/ESL. While many free resources are available, full access is through subscription which may be considered a bit expensive. Nevertheless, there is an excellent search function to sift through the hundreds (thousands?) of materials and it is always worth it to search for what you are looking for even if looking only for free stuff. The material is well thought out and many there are many articles to keep you up to date with what is going on in the English teaching world--making this a good professional development site also.

ONESTOPENGLISH

Games in the Foreign Language Classroom

Questa risorsa può essere utile anche per l'insegnamento di altre lingue straniere e la si può provare a leggere utilizzando un traduttore automatico. E' una compilazione di moltissimi giochi attivi validi per l'esercitazione e il consolidamento della lingua parlata. This resource offers many childhood game and classroom game ideas that are useful for actively practicing and developing oral language skills.

Teachitworld

Teachitworld offers many useful ready-made lessons, presentations, worksheets and other lesson ideas/formats to its members. Free registration allows access to many pdf.'s To make full use of all resources a subscription is needed. It is similar to One Stop English but it is cheaper and it is share-based: you can share your own materials. The ELT lessons are of good quality.

British Council's Learn English Teens

This is an excellent site for teenage and even young adult students to practice and learn English in a relaxed, fun and social way. It is worth a look for teachers too for ideas, possibly materials and a link to the part of the site that is for teachers. The direct link to that part is here: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/

UsingEnglish.com

This link will take you to a website full of resources: lesson plans for teachers, explanations for students, grammar references for both students and teachers, quizzes, handouts, printables, slang, idioms, phrasal verbs, worksheets, text analyzer, essay writing, ask a teacher forum, etc. etc.! There is a wealth of information for everyone. Make sure to navigate all through the site and explore all the options.

engVid

Learn English for free with 531 video lessons by experienced native-speaker teachers. New classes are added three times a week, covering grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, TOEFL, and more. Join over ten million ESL students worldwide who are improving their English every day with engVid.

The Internet TESL Journal

The Internet TESL Journal published articles from 1995 through 2010.

This website is now an online resource book for teachers who can refer to our published articles on teaching techniques and other things of interest to EFL and ESL teachers.

The ESL-Library

ESL-Library is a resource site for language teachers. Though ESL-Library started as (and continues to be) a printable resource site for teachers, we are hard at work developing new online versions of our content, for students to access on their own. We offer language teachers instant access to a huge collection of lesson plans and flashcards . Our site is set up as membership service. A paid membership gets teachers access to all of the content in the Lesson Plan Library and Flashcard Library sections. ESL Library is a perpetual work-in-progress. We're constantly trying to improve the site and add more value for teachers and students alike. We love ESL-Library, and hope you do too.

USA Themed Resources

Great resource for teaching the often very relevant culture, history, customs and current events of the U.S.A. while focusing on improving language skills and expression. "Put your cowboy hats on and give us a yeehaw because we’re sharing our best resources with you on North American history, culture and current affairs! Take your pick from a large selection of audio resources, readers and lesson plans which span topics from Columbus to Obama."