ESL Web Directory

cloZure will create cloze tests on a variety of subjects (there are more than 2 million articles to chose from). You can set the difficulty level (ranging between one word missing in 9 to one in 5); select texts from the main wikipedia site or the simple English version; and choose between attempting the tests online or in a printed form.

A selection of printable handouts for English language and English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers and instructors to use in the classroom or other teaching environment.

Features grammar worksheets, provided free for teachers and parent-teachers to copy for their kids. Use them for teaching, reinforcement, and review. Looking for lesson plans? Many of these worksheets can serve as lessons. They're most appropriate for upper elementary through middle school years.

Featuring free reading comprehension worksheets for teachers and parents to copy for their kids. They include original stories, poems, essays, and articles. They are most appropriate for upper elementary through middle school years.

Resources for ESL teachers, especially for the Cambridge ESOL suite of exams, KET,PET,IELTS

A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.

Database of free TEFL teaching materials on social, global and environmental issues

Free worksheets available from Bradley's English School, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan

Free ready-to-use EFL / ESL lesson plans in Word and PDF. Graded news articles, listening, podcast and communicative activities.

On-line support for language teaching professionals from the people who bring you the exams

ESL site with online and pdf grammar exercises and quizzes

A new approach to teaching English through ethnic minority community centres. This website provides resource materials for use by ESL teachers, which accompany a written report.

Coolhood is a free ESL website that is designed to enhance bricks and mortar learning by providing more opportunity for students to practice their English, while increasing the linkages between students, teachers and schools. On our website students can access articles, as well as video and audio clips, which use day-to-day English and cover topics that will spark the interest of language learners. Moreover, Coolhood tracks the efforts of your students and reports the results directly to you.

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The Dolch words are the 220 most frequently found words. Students who learn these words have a good base for beginning reading. Many of these words cannot be sounded out because they do not follow decoding rules. These words must be learned as sight words. Click on a picture to download the full sized artwork or click on the link below each picture to download the PDF version.

The EFL / ESL / ESOL Resources site contains a large collection of freely available PowerPoint presentations and worksheets that can be used in teaching and learning English as a foreign language.

A collection of lesson plans in PDF format for use in class

Here you can find free, printable teaching materials to use with your classes. These lessons, together with the other resources on this site, focus on a set of contemporary, theoretical and practical understandings of the role of lexical phrases in language acquisition.

Free, easy-to-use grammar games and communication activities for the English language teaching classroom. No downloading - just print out and go.

Use interactive quizzes and activities to introduce students to the internet and give them control over their own learning. We are not suggesting these sites are used in isolation. Some are ideal for group work (use with data projector or interactive white board). Others are more suited to individual or paired work.

Lesson plans and tips for teachers and students across the galaxy

Links database for online materials.

A New Zealand site for English teachers (years 1-13) with fully resourced teaching units, links to sites, an internet tutorial, projects for students and an English forum

Free English audio and video lessons on a variety of funny and interesting topics.

Free fun stories, dialogues, miniplays and games with worksheets at intermediate and advanced level