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More grammar support with Grammar Quizzes

Grammar-Quizzes.com is a free educational resource created to promote the understanding, learning and practicing English grammar through the use of current event stories, pictures,  sentence diagrams, and self-assessing-quizzes. Most of the content is written for intermediate non-native speakers.   This site is available to instructors and their students without charge.

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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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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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Simple Wikipedia – a place to take your ESL students

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For many ESL students Wikipedia is a frustrating experience.  Teachers often spend  a lot of time providing explanations of vocabulary and cultural issues.  Simple Wikipedia is an option for a place to take your students at the intermediate levels.

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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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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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Quickly locate keywords in texts with WordSift

WordSift is a great tool to preview text to identify keywords or concepts for lesson preparation. Teachers or materials developers can  identify images and videos to use with the text. Start with the video tutorial   to orient yourself to this useful resource.

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