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A Memorial Day lesson for Memorial Day

In the United States of American next Monday 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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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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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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Looking for ESL Podcasts?

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ManyThings.org is a web site for English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. Resources include quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities.

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Interactive Vocabulary Activities (Hot Potatoes)

Thanks to the Language Centre at University of Victoria, Canada and their  Gerry’s Vocabulary Teacher and Hot Potatoes, there is a free offering over over 700 online activities based on 2000 words that can be used by English language learners at English Vocabulary Exercises. Teachers may also incorporate the Weekly Study Guide into their courses.

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Free Lessons and activities at esltopics.com

At ESLtopics there is a mountain of learning opportunities waiting to be used by ESL or EFL teachers.  Teachers can supplement their  speaking, reading and writing classes with the  word banks,  quizzes and activity handouts. Alternatively, they may mix and match and create their own complete lessons!  Oh did we mention that these are also …

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MoodleReader module for encouraging a culture of reading at your school

The MoodleReader module is a plug in for the Moodle learning management system.  It can be used at your centre’s Moodle or if you do not have Moodle at your institution, you can request access to the MoodleReader module’s features for your students at MoodleReader.org.  Graded readers are an excellent tool to create a culture …

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Resources to improve your teaching from the BBC

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The BBC Teaching English Learning offer a collection of ELT publications available in pdf to download.  Highlights include the ELT Research Papers series, the Innovations in ELT book series and resource packs for teachers. British Council publications are evidenced-based and address important issues facing ELT practitioners worldwide.  The Books and resource packs are an amazing …

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