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Kelly Brothers' Website

Interesting Things for ESL Students
Quizzes, Puzzzles, ...
www.manythings.org

Songs Are Not Only Fun, They Have a Serious Purpose for Language Learning (Akis Davanellos)
PDF File: highly memorable, motivating, personal, part of everyday life, etc.

Spice Up Your Spelling Words (Lee Shiney)
40 ways to make spelling fun.

Successful Classroom Discussions with Adult Korean ESL/EFL Learners
By Hye-Yeon Lim & W. I. Griffith, The Internet TESL Journal, May 2003

teach-nology.com
Not specifically ESL/EFL: Offers Lesson plans, worksheets, ...

Teacher Time Saver - Teacher Ideas--Lesson Plans--Activities Page (G. Gallagher)
Get an idea or post your own ideas. For elementary school teachers.

Teacher's Tips: Online Grammar Teaching and Learning
By Caroline Ho Mei Lin, The Internet TESL Journal, December 1997

Ten Ideas for Conversation (Lingolex , Granada, Spain)
Speaking for 1 Minute, Yes/No Game, Call My Bluff, Board Games, ...

TESL Resource Guide - Main Page (New Brunswick Department of Education)
A 'slide show' presentation. Understanding Second Language Learning, Tips for Tutors, Activities, Teaching and Learning Methods, ...

The Adjective Quiz (Costas Gabrielatos)
Activity for vocabulary practice. Published in Current Issues, 1995

The First Day of Class (NoFirstNameListed Clement)
(http://www.teachingenglishgames.com/3-5.htm)

The Random ESL Idea Generator (Hall Houston)
Requires JavaScript. 1 idea randomly-selected from a group of 37 ideas each time you press the button.

Three Wise Monkeys [FRAME] (Ed Edgar)
a collection of teaching ideas

Tips for Teaching Conversation in the Mulitlingual ESL Classroom
By Cara Pulick, The Internet TESL Journal, April 2005

Two Cents Cafe - Classroom Tips (Timothy M. Nall)
Directed specifically at teaching in Taiwan

Using Creative Dictation to Manage, Motivate, and Activate Large Groups of False Beginners (Robert W. Norris)
An article on new ways of using an old technique.

Using Newspapers in the Classroom: A Personal Experience
by Thevy Rajaretnam, Karen's Linguistics Issues, July 2002

What to Do When You Are Given the Beginning ESOL Class and You Are a New Teacher
PDF file. 9 ideas on what to do. Hands on English, Vol.8. No.3

Writing Language Teaching Materials (Richard Slessor)
Some factors to consider. Market Research, Overall Feel, Topic Content, ...

www.e-mesh.com's Teachers' Centre (Paul Sanderson)
Articles on teaching skills in PDF and some quick tips.

www.ELTnews.com - Teachng Ideas (EigoTown.com Ltd.)
On a website aimed at teachers in Japan, but some ideas are usable anywhere.

www.englicious.com - Randomness (Dmitrij Lebed)
How to unleash the unexpected to spice up classroom activities.

www.englicious.com -Chains For All Occasions (Dmitrij Lebed)
Chain activities for classroom fun.

www.English-the-International-Language.com - Advice (John Finnis)
Advice for prospective, new and established ESL and EFL teachers.

www.english.hb.pl - Tips and Tricks for English Learners (Pawel Kowalczyk)
Mnemonics and Mind Maps, Harness the Power of Google, Song Lyrics

www.EnglishInTaiwan.com - Teaching Tips (Dale Mackie)
Speak slowly, don't use a lot of slang, make class fun, learn names, ...

www.ESL-Teaching.net - Tips (David Smalley)
Set up like a weblog with tips from the Administrator.

www.ESLgo.com - Oral Test Evaluation Grading Rubric (James Trotta)
I use this when administering oral exams to my EFL students in Korea.

www.ESLkidStuff.com - Tips Library [FRAME] (Jeremy Cowling)
Classroom Supplies, Crafts, Theory, Literature, Classroom Management, ...

www.ESLmania.com - Ideas for Teachers (Nancy Gregory)
Get classroom ideas and exercises for students

www.eslreading.org - Course content suggestion by Rocky Nelson (Kieran McGovern)
For extensive reading

www.etprofessional.com's Hints
This is the first in a series of hints for ESL teachers.

www.everythingesl.net - 25 Resources to Teach About Diversity (Judie Haynes)
How to teach students about peace and tolerance for diverse cultures

www.everythingesl.net - A is for Apple (Judie Haynes)
Thematic unit for young students on apples

www.iravani-toefl.com - English for Non-natine Speakers (Hasan Iravani)
Some downloadable .doc files

www.LetsLearnEnglish.co.uk - Teachers' Tips (Educational Software Products)
Helpful tips for busy teachers, arranged by skill. Reading, Writing, etc.

www.MusicalEnglishLessons.org - How to create ESL worksheets for use with songs (Bibi Baxter)
How to create ESL worksheets for use with songs

www.teachefl.com - a Polish site for teachers. [FRAME] (Marcin Stanowski)
Various resources for teaching English as a foreign language

www.TeachEnglish.ws (Keith Taynton)
Game ideas and bingo generator

www.TeacherJoe.us - 5 Principles for Motivating ESL Students (Joseph DeVeto)
Motivate ESL students to speak out using these five basic ideas.

www.teaching-esl-to-adults.com - ESL Verb Tenses (Debra Garcia)
How to teach forms and functions of all English verb tenses.

www.teaching-esl-to-adults.com - Teaching Reading to ESL Students (Debra Garcia)
List and description of steps to develop an effective reading lesson plan.

www.teaching-esl-to-adults.com - Writing Lesson Plans (Debra Garcia)
How to write and evaluate lesson plans. Developing objectives, activities, eval.

www.teachingenglishgames.com (Shelley Ann Vernon)
ideas for teaching young children

www.teachingideas.co.uk/english
Idea submitted by visitors to the website. Not specifically ESL or EFL.

www.TESOLacademic.org (Huw Jarvis)
Videos of teachers talking about their research and its impact on practice.

www.themoderninstitute.eu's Teaching Tips (Thomas Topham and David Read)
A Moodle 'course.' The enrollment key is 'freestuff'

www.winterwitch.co.uk/gpage.html
Feel free to use this exercise in your home education or literacy work

z_ESL Infusion Video Series - Middle School Leve
Watch the videos, then discuss the questions with other teachers.
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web.archive.org/http://eslinfusion.oise.utoronto.ca/middlevideo.html

z_Must Have Materials for the ESL Classroom (Robin Tim Day)
Small rooms, one large central table, noise control, calendar, world map, etc.
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z_Pz_arent Guide to the ESL Standards for Pre-K?12 Students (Emily Lynch G?mez)
What are ESL standards? and other questions answered.
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