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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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Free Shared Whiteboard thanks to Twiddla

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Need a Scientific Calculator?

My daughter is now in high school and sometimes forgets to bring her math book and calculator (not to mention an eraser and pencil) home.   No longer is forgetting the scientific calculator an excuse for not doing homework!  It covers all of the following functions: Complex Numbers Equations Graphs Linear Algebra Percent Standard Functions  Statistics …

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Another source of legal images – FlickrCC

FlickrCC, Flickr Creative Commons, is a tool that searches Creative Commons images from the Flickr site itself. This means that you can bypass the Flickr advanced search option. The display is very appealing to the eye.  It displays image thumbnails,  attribution information and a text definition.  A full image editor that can be instantly accessed …

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Visuwords for discovering word relationships

Learn the nuances of words through word relationship diagrams you can quickly create at Visuwords.  Word associations such as synonyms, homonyms, part of speech, derivation, and much more can be found by simply typing the term or phrase in the text box and pressing search icon.  Visuwords draws its data from Princeton University’s open source …

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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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