Classroom Resource Links: General ESL Web Sites I

MES-English — ESL resources / EFL resources for teachers of young learners includes printable flash cards, handouts to match, phonics cards, ESL games and activities.

Making Writing Lessons Meaningful for ESL/EFL Students by Dorit Sasson

efl-resource  – This Web site offers a large number of lesson plans and ideas as well as Topic-Based EFL Materials.

Developing Teachers.com – This Web site contains a large selection of lesson plans focusing on specific language skills mostly for intermediate and advanced learners.

Using Pinterest to Share ESL Resources and Ideas - ESL teachers are using Pinterest to share +ideas and resources with others. Here are a few Pinterest boards maintained by ESL educators.

Resources for ESL/EFL Teachers – This is a teacher’s blog on which he offers a variety of resources including board games, activities ideas, and handouts.

SPRK English : This web site offers several interactive activities: a personality test, an activity on the vocabulary of objects found in a bedroom, virtual postcards. You can also read a virtual “Fortune cookie”.

anglomaniacy.pl – This is a site for kids who are learning English as a foreign or second language. Young ESL students will find here lots of online activities and hundreds of printable worksheets that can help them with their English. This is also a resource site for parents and teachers of young ESL learners. We offer tons of free, ready-to-print teaching materials including flashcards, quizzes, games, song lyrics as well as a big collection of useful links to other ESL/EFL websites.

Making Writing Lessons Meaningful for ESL/EFL Students by Dorit Sasson

Talking Dictionary: Do You Enjoy Playing with Words? – A variety of interactive activities with videos and animations focusing on vocabulary, expressions, idioms, proverbs…

The Amazing Word Tamer – Words are wild creatures which need careful handling.

Pizzaz – Simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with printable handouts.

WordSpark - Learn English with music, movies, art, reading, puzzles, cloze worksheets, labelled pictures from the day's news, and unique activities for ESOL teachers. Fun online communicative English language learning!

Travelling Exhibition of Political Cartoons Depicting 40 years of Language Debates: A Perfect Language Learner Assignment by Sarah Du Broy

English Now: An Online Tutorial – An online tutorial developed by the Vanier College Language School that covers grammar, reading comprehension, vocabulary development and listening skills.

Writing Centre Resources – Writing resources including lists of the most often misspelled word and most often mispronounced words and phrases in English.

Literacy interactive resources – The site hosts a collection of interactive resources, games and activities for primary students.

Interactive Learning Resources for Literacy - Here you will find lots of interactive activities to support children's learning. Although the activities are matched to the National Curriculum for England and Wales, visitors from other countries will find the site useful.

ESL Desk - ESL Desk is a site for ESL students who want to learn English online. You will find vocabulary lists, grammar help, ESL quizzes, spelling tests and reading help tools.

www.ManyThings.org - offers word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and much more.

Second Language Education Center (SLEC): provides SL educators with current information related to SL learning and teaching. Their Web site includes:

• Teaching Units - unit plans have been developed by students specializing FSL and/or ESL teaching. The site is organized into themes, subjects and age groups and units are available both in English and in French.

Onestopenglish.com – offers free teaching materials and lesson plans, as well as methodology texts, the Lesson Share competition and news lessons.

Oxford University Press - Student Sites - "Dozens of Web sites for primary, secondary and adult learners of English."

Adele's ESL Corner - "Online interactive exercises focusing on grammar, listening skills, and vocabulary development."

Everything ESL - "Created by a veteran ESL teacher, this site offers tips, lesson plans, discussion topics, answers to your ESL questions, and and extensive list of web sites for elementary students." - features lesson plans, teaching tips, downloadable classroom activities, discussion topics and resource picks.

The UVic English Language Center Study Zone - Grammar and reading exercises graded by levels: 200 - 330 - 410 - 490 - 570.

The English Professor - variety of resources for beginners and more advanced students including: grammar worksheets, games, stories, jokes and sound files in RealAudio format to develop listening skills.

Do you speak English? - A bit of humour in this short video.

General ESL Web Sites II