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A Memorial Day lesson for Memorial Day

In the United States of American today is Memorial Day. Breaking News English has a complete lesson set for your to explain this day of observance to your students.

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365 ESL Short Stories

How could I have missed this one?   This is a great set of interactive learning resources for ESL learners.  Each story, geared towards lower-intermediate learners, has the written text, an audio reading, a set of yes/no questions, cloze practice, a crossword puzzle, single term dictation practice and a vocabulary list with links to definitions. This …

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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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Make 6 minute English a routine learning event in your class

Another great resource from the BBC, 6 Minute English, is a weekly teaching and learning of common situations in English.  Every Friday a manual is published to enhance this learning activity.  Each six minute episode is designed to improve English usage.  Students can progress independently with this resource. Podcasts cntent can be downloaded or subscribed …

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Missed National High Five Day? You need this resource….

Breaking News English has an ESL holiday lesson for just about every day of the year.  You could easily have one holiday celebration for each week of the year.  For example next week you can choose to celebrate the following holidays next week. Earth Day National Jelly Bean Day World Book and Copyright Day Anzac Day …

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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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Incorporate contemporary music appreciation into your ESL/EFL classes

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Music English is a real option for teachers of ESL or EFL wishing to generate discussion based on music appreciation.  Level appropriate worksheets are available for some of the songs.  As a teacher however, you might consider creating discussion a sheet of prompts/questions for your classes.  It might even be a good idea to forward …

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Free, fully online literacy courses

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This site is a must for consideration of ESL or S(Spanish)SL instructors or students who wish to have an independent learning resource.  U.S.A. Learns offers full virtual courses that can be tailored by the student. There are three levels offered.  Teachers should look into the course offerings before taking their students to this site.  It …

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Listen A Minute

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Sean Banville, thanks again! Another resource that is useful to language teachers blending technology into their courses.   Listen A Minute has 454 audio tracks accompanied by learning activities sections (Gap Fill, Correct the Spelling, Unjumble the Words, Write Your Own Questions, Partner Task, Free Writing, Extended Tasks) One minute a day is all you need …

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