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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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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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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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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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PLN Presentation

This is the Personal Learning Network slide presentation used at the TESL Niagara affiliate in St. Catharines today.  Click on the image below to download this PowerPoint file.  Otherwise surf to SlideShare to download.

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Incorporate contemporary music appreciation into your ESL/EFL classes

musicenglishcouk

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

USA_learns2

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

listenaminute

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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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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A bundle of Language arts activities at Interactive Sites for Education

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