ESL Web Directory

Lesson plans & teaching ideas

Large repository of free EFL/ESL exercises with 4 levels. Aimed mainly at Spanish speakers but suitable for anyone.

Free resources for teachers and students of English as a foreign or second language. News and current affairs articles in graded English, with word guides.

Very short listenings (less than a minute). Free printable handouts, downloads plus MP3 listening and quizzes

MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed, higher education, online learning materials created by registered members, and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.

Free thematic curriculum units for download, teaching materials, virtual picturebooks, videos links, realia, and more - all for teachers and learners of English (ESL/EFL), Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Thai, and Indonesian.

Free digitally animated ESL / EFL lesson plans for use by teachers, students or parents

Muchobeets offers web based flash cards to help you study for that one killer exam

For teachers of English (TESOL/TESL/TEFL & for native speakers) seeking not only a free range of worksheets and teaching ideas, but also somewhere to publish their pedagogic ideas and articles.

Free ESL handouts and online quizzes in simple English based on current events.

News for Beginners provides simple news articles which teachers can use in class and students can read online. The articles are followed by questions which the student can answer and submit to us online. Or, the teacher can go over the articles with students in class.

Free lesson plans every five days, based on current news stories. Each lesson plan comes complete with texts and dozens of exercises that you're free to mix and match to suit your group of English learners.

English grammar, and vocabulary exercises grouped by activity.

A nice collection of links to ESL, ENGLISH, READING, and WRITING lesson plans

Free, high-quality ESL Flashcards to brighten up your class!

Online and home tutoring info and resources for ESL/EFL tutors.

The Open Educational Resources Archive is a collection of educational content including coursework, study guides, exercises, and recorded lectures. It is meant for students, teachers, and self-learners at all levels.

The aim of this site is to offer teachers a varied range of classroom activities for practising oral English. Most are commmunicative activities designed to give students conversation practice, although a few have other aims. The activities are drawn from this site's author's experience teaching oral English in a Chinese university.

This site includes lesson plans and activities for incorporating PBS programming into classroom curriculum.

Create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser. Simply choose a word list and an output style.

PIZZAZ! is dedicated to providing simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable (yes, copyable!) handouts for use with students of all ages. Permission is given to use these resources for in-class, non-profit use only.

Plan ELT is a collection of ELT lessons focusing on task-based learning, critical literacy, features of spoken grammar, discovery learning, the application of technology to learning and the use literature, media and everyday texts in the classroom. Materials are free to download and new lessons are added regularly.

Students of all ages can create multimedia presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint. Teach them how using this fun-filled, online tutorial.

Free worksheets, reproducibles, and printable activities

Free interactive and print-out exercises to learn English, including grammar, idioms, phrasal verbs, slang and typical mistakes.