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ManyThings.org has many interesting and useful activities for ESL learners

Interesting things for ESL students is for students of English as a Second Language (ESL) or (EFL). included are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other CALL activities. This is a non-commercial for TESL teachers to use with their students.

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Try Wikimedia Commons for millions of free files

Wikimedia Commons permits the use of over 10 million media files. This media file (images, sounds, and video clips) repository  allows accessibility to public domain and freely-licensed educational media content. Great for budget challenged teachers across the globe. Locate media by topic, location, type, author, license and by source.

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Free Shared Whiteboard thanks to Twiddla

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Shahi, a visual dictionary that uses Flickr images!

Shahi is this is a nice variation on the visual dictionary concept.  It uses Wiktionary content with Flickr images.  I would preview terms before assigning them to students just in case inappropriate images appear.

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A quick but fun task, create an Ecard with “someeecards”

If you need a warm up activity or an end-of-week reward activity try someecards to allow the students to create their own card.  The focus on this lesson can be satire or factual information based on the abilities of your students.  You may want to use these as introductory brain teasers or language models for …

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Quickly order word lists with The Alphabetizer and more….

Paste a list of any sort into the “Enter Terms”  box and the list can be sorted. A list can be comma delimited using this tool.  This is very useful when creating “CSV” files for course glossaries, quiz questions and student records to automate data entry.  A huge time-saver!  Among other features is a strip  …

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Record-a-Poem Group Opens on Soundcloud

The Poetry Foundation has opened a Record-a-Poem Group on SoundCloud.  This is an opportunity for your students to write, read and share poems online.  The guidelines for this group are displayed below: 1. Poems only without music. 2. Please tag your poems with the keyword “poem” and “poetry” and name your files TITLE by POET, …

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BBC Active

  In cooperation with Pearson, BBC active provides a single gateway to the myriad of BBC online educational resources.  

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Free ESL Games for Children

This resource has a wide assortment  of interactive games and exercises for young ESL learners. The activities/games include : Snakes and Ladders, Hangman, Spelling games, Wheel of Fortune, TV Games(Betting Game), Mazes, Memory Games, Matching exercises, Sequencing exercises, Picture Quizzes and more.   Games also in PowerPoint, Word templates and printable worksheets are also available at …

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Design Thinking for Educators Toolkit v. 2

Design Thinking for Educators is a creative process that helps educators design learning opportunities.  The free toolkit provides instructors or developers with instructions to explore Design Thinking while they are creating learning opportunities. this enhanced version of the Toolkit is available online to inspire and guide educators through the design process.

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