2010
November’s Nuggets
Boggle’s World: ESL Activities for Adults (mainly paper and pencil but can easily be converted)
EFL web.com – Activities for Adults
Grammar: Present Perfect Self-Study Resources
Mighty Book.com – Animated award winning children’s stories – very cute and great vocabulary builders for ESL students!!!
Weekly English Lesson – Health
October’s Offerings
A cLiL to CLiMB (Sounds of English)
Antonyms and Synonyms page: http://bit.ly/diyOpx
Cybraryman’s Parts of Speech
English Words Don’t (Usually) End with “U”
ELT/ESL Teacher Training Videos
Medical and pharmaceutical English Games & Worksheets
One Word : Sixty-Second Writing Prompts
Sounds Right A pronunciation site
Speaking Class Activity: Pictogloss
Story Match: An Activity for Gerunds and Infinitives (Does not use technology)
Teaching the Use of the Verbs Take and Bring
The Easiest Speaking Game in the World
The Origins of 10 Food Phrases http://bit.ly/crd5Gq
Top Speaking English sites Reviewed
September Sites
Combination of Past Tenses (Video)
English Language Lab Asturias (ELLA)
ELT Materials Design and Use (Part 1) – a visual tutorial covering some basics
How to Write a Resume in English
Reading Skills Stories (for Adult ESL Students)
Six Favourite 5-Minute Activities (that aren’t really five minutes)
Telephone English-Tips for Getting People to Slow Down
The Best “Fun” Sites You Can Use for Learning, Too 2010
August’s Assets
7 Commonly Mispronounced English Words
Basic English Conversations to help beginning learners get started
Common Mistakes in English: both … and, neither … nor, either … or
Creative Use of Music-Song Stories
Difference between OF and FROM in English
DO NOT use an article when you are speaking about things in general.
Emphatic Expressions-Strong Collocations
ESL Vocabulary Lesson Plan – Opposites for Intermediate Level Learners
How to Improve Your Vocabulary
(Re)Introducing Phrasal Verbs to ESL Students
Learning a Language Through Laughter: Using Online Comedy Materials
Phrasal Verb Demon a complete guide to phrasal verbs
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
Skimming – used to understand the “gist” or main idea
Superlative Form- Understanding the English Superlative Form
Top Ten Websites for Learning English
Using “This Week in History” in the ESL Classroom
What’s in a Surname?-In Europe, Quite A Lot!
Where in the World….? Helping students use articles with languages, countries, and nationalities
July’s Jewels
Basic English – Essential Lessons for Beginning English Learners
Pronunciation: Changing Meaning with Word through Stress
English Lesson Plan on Bastille Day
Get students making questions/speaking with these dice! http://bit.ly/96zVmV
Inside Evidence Inside Evidence is an innovative publication for the learning and skills sector, bringing as it does relevant research and developments in teaching and learning to the attention of practitioners, curriculum leaders, subject learning coaches, and senior leaders.
Kerpoof! Scholastics (Quite elementary but contains some adult-worthy ideas & material)
Lanternfish-for a variety of language game boards
Latest video tutorials for iBT TOEFL speaking and writing
StoryHome: original and classic children’s audio stories (podcast): http://tinyurl.com/ns5jh7
Jubilant June
Awesome Stories featuring articles and video on such topics as the oil spill in the Gulf, tension in the Koreas, biographies of world leaders and more!
Cloze Test Creator with Tutorial
ELTWeekly Research Paper: Technology in ELT
How to Write English Sentences Using Articles
Learning Chocolate – Activites for Learning English … http://tinyurl.com/38sjjqt
Say It Right from My Words
Summer Movies from ESL Imaginarium
The Environment: Online Quizzes, Games & Worksheets
The Use of Technology in Language Teaching and Learning
World Environment Day from ESL Holiday Lessons.com
The Lovely Month of May
6 Activities You Can Do Online with Songs and Music from Nik Peachey
10 Resources for ESL and … Miscellaneous web resources
A Q&A English-Learning Blog Carnival Learning the Language on Education Week!
Ayo bermain! Games for the ESL classroom.
babla Top 100 Language Blogs 2010
BBC Learning English Quiznet: Gerunds and Infinitives
EFLClassroom2.0 Podcasts about language/teaching/linguistics
E is for Error An essay by Scott Thornbury on error correction
ESL Video Learn English through Songs and Video
ESOLCourses.com US Festivals and Holidays-Online Quizzes and Activities
Free ESL Materials Assessment strategies
Image-Based Speaking Activity with an IWB or Projector – Nik Peachey
Lanternfish Jobs, Worksheets, and Flashcards for the ESL and TEFL Teacher
Lucy in the Sky w/Diamonds-A Preposition Fill-in Exercise
My Learning Diary: Learning Words and Making Mistakes A great read for 2nd language teachers!
Nik’s Daily English Activities Write a “Blues” Song in English! Creative, fun & inspirational!
Random ELT Blog generator Click and read a random ELT blog!
Open Cities Lessons about migration/immigration
Sheppard Software This has a lot of kids’ games, but many are applicable for ESL.
Storyfix.com A quick wordplay challenge. Fun!!!
TEFL.net Everything imaginable for tefl teachers
TeflTeacher Creating listening tasks from writing tasks
The Best Site for Learning About Immigration in the United States a Larry Ferlazzo list
The Best Site to Learn About Arizona’s New Immigration Law
Three Steps to Brain-Based Language Learning
More on the Arizona Immigration Law
Phonics Builders and Sentence Navigator To build students’ reading and writing skills
The Darwin Awards Excellent short texts for ESL (British humor)
The International Business Edge Color Meanings by Culture
