Summer Sites 4 Your Students

Summer Sites 4 Your Students from A Journey in TEFL is a nice list of sites which can be quite useful both for students and teachers to have a good summer with English.

World Oceans Day

In Honor of World Oceans Day - 5 infographics from visual.ly that explore the deep blue sea with its life, the creatures that live there, and the problems they face today:

25 years of debris collected infographic

Free Technology for Teachers: 22 Frames - News Videos for ESL Students

Free Technology for Teachers: 22 Frames - News Videos for ESL Students: Last week I published 5 Good Places for Students To Learn About the News . In response to that post I received a few emails from people lo...

Encouraging Reading Comprehension

Blue Ribbon offers the Interactives  which are designed to improve word recognition and encourage reading comprehension in readers. These 7  interactives can become a good base for a literacy lesson.

Singing Every Country in the World

Humanities Enrichment has recently posted a nice video where Yakko of the Animaniacs sings every country in the world:

Interesting:)

A nice infographic from Daily InfographicDaily Infographic

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10 Great Museum Sites for International Museum Day

10 Great Museum Sites for International Museum Day

Interesting Facts About English

Interesting Facts About English from English Club may become a good thing to fill the lesson with interesting facts that can draw students' attention.

Powerful and Very Inspiring!

Video and Infographic Explaining the Difference Between United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England

Video and Infographic Explaining the Difference Between United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England posted by Free Technology for Teachers.

Celebrate Educators on National Teacher Day 2013 | Edutopia

Celebrate Educators on National Teacher Day 2013 | Edutopia is a good collection of resources to celebrate teachers whenever your National Teacher Day is.

Love Little Critter!

Love Little Critter? Then this place is for you - Little Critter World-Wide Network with coloring pages, the library, interactive activities, songs with downloadable songsheets, storytime movies read by Mercer Mayer,   and, of course, wonderful illustrations that will surely motivate young learners and help them explore the world of these charming creatures.

Word Central Games

Merriam-Webster's Word Central has the Games section with  Alpha-bot, Robo-Bee, BIGbot, Jumble Kids games - nicely designed and funny, these games will help students improve their vocabulary skills in an easy and active way. The games are a good thing to make vocabulary practice the students' favourite.

English-Zone.Com

English-Zone.Com - a great number of resources necessary for EFL teachers and students. The pages are interactive, some of them with printable versions - very convenient to use. Some material is free, there are for members only.

technology rocks. seriously.: Animal Habitats

technology rocks. seriously.: Animal Habitats: There are some absolutely amazing sites out there for kids to  learn about animal habitats.  Here are a few of my favorites:  ...

Wonderful Pictures

Wonderful pictures of 30 Abandoned Places that Look Truly Beautiful from My Science Academy could become a great source of inspiration, could motivate the students to speak about the beauty of the world, the way we live and the way we forget, the students may want to learn more about the places they see, to discuss why the places have become abandoned.

Like Jazz Music?

KB...Konnected has recently posted a nice collection of resources for International Jazz Day (April 30th) - watch, read, learn and of course, listen and dance to jazz music!

Infographics on Education

An Ethical Island regularly posts education-related infographics, they are nicely designed and contain information - tips, comments, ideas - which can be used to discuss the issues with teachers and parents, to use in one's own practice, to organize the information boards.

5 Sites Students Can Explore to Learn About Career Options

5 Sites Students Can Explore to Learn About Career Options from Free Technology for Teachers.

21st April - The Queen's Birthday

Kings and Queens from Teaching Ideas has a wide range of ideas and resources to help teaching children about Kings, Queens and the Royal Family.

About Hair Styles

List of Hairstyles from Wikipedia is a very good resource to support the lesson about style, fashion, hair style. The big list of hairstyles with photos and descriptions will be of much help for a teacher preparing a lesson (much new and interesting information), during the lesson presenting the topic (the students have the opportunity to see hairstyles and discuss them using the vocabulary from the table), and for students at home working individually. 

All English Games From Skillwise

All English Games From Skillwise (BBC) - reading, writing, spelling, word grammar, sentence grammar - all the games in one place - very convenient and easy to choose the necessary one. 54 games to make the lesson more interactive, productive and interesting.

Ten quotations to make you think | EnglishAgenda | British Council

Ten quotations to make you think | EnglishAgenda | British Council - very interesting and inspiring thing from Ken Wilson and British Council, surely worth watching and using the ideas in class.

Resources on Earth Day

Edudemic helps with 10 Online Resources For Learning About Our World - the links to learn about some of the greatest places on our planet.

21 Free Earth Day Lessons from Sean Banville's Blog.

Ideas for English-Language Learners | Earth Day and the Environment byLARRY FERLAZZO - much useful information and great links as usual from this author.

Career Sighted - Short Videos About Career Options

Career Sighted - Short Videos About Career Options posted recently by Free Technology for Teachers must be a useful resource for introducing and teaching the topic of jobs and professions to students.

Nice Video) about Spelling

Humanities Enrichment  has recently posted a really nice video, short but quite useful, about the words which bring students much headache)

The English Blog: Online Magazine: TeaTime-Mag

The English Blog: Online Magazine: TeaTime-Mag

Duckie Deck - 125 Educational Games for Toddlers

Duckie Deck - 125 Educational Games for Toddlers posted by Free Technology for Teachers  with comment and applications for education as usual. The games are really nice, why not to use them in teaching English in primary school ? The students could comment what they are doing, what they are seeing - a good practice to speak about everyday activities.

April Full

                                                 Feel free to download  April Full and enjoy)

Happy Class

Happy Class - Automatic Classroom Seating Chart Maker - creates classroom seating arrangements based on your students’ needs and relationships; each student’s unique needs are taken into account when generating seating charts; HappyClass automatically determines which seat will make each student the happiest - all this sounds really nice, so why not? Students love fresh ideas, computer-based ideas. Happy Class can really help the teacher make class organisation more pleasant and less tiresome.

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The Happiest and Unhappiest Jobs from Forbes

CareerBliss.com released its new list of The Happiest and Unhappiest Jobs In America, based on analysis from more than 65,000 employee-generated reviews in 2012. Here are the 10 happiest jobs and 10 unhappiest jobs, according to CareerBliss data, with the article from Forbes. The resource is a good start for a discussion: comparing jobs, comparing job rates in different counrties (in America and in the students' place), listening to students' plans for choosing a job.

April,6,7,8

Feel free to download  April,6,7,8 and enjoy)

For Young Explorers

National Geographic presents Young Explorer - a classroom magazine for kindergarten and first grade. It is the collection of interactive books with audio and wonderful pictures. The resource is great to use in class or reading with your child at home - much interesting information - in English! The children will love predicting the story by its title, listening and reading the issues, giving more facts about the animals and plants, revising what animals or plants they have seen discussing what new they have learnt. The fact that each story is read is very important, it helps improve listening, pronunciation, intonantion, and reading skills.

April,5

Feel free to download  April,5 and enjoy)

Come in for the next new poster tomorrow.

technology rocks. seriously.: Tick Tock- TIME!

technology rocks. seriously.: Tick Tock- TIME! - the post with a great collection of teaching time resources. It often happens that when students learn how to speak about time in English they are not sure about understanding the time at all. These resources will surely help children
both read clocks and tell the time in English correctly.

April,4

Feel free to download April,4 and enjoy)

Come in for the next new poster tomorrow.

April Day Posters

Spring has not come yet to many places of the world - Winter is still fighting. But it is April, 2 on the calendar, and we hope it will bring spring at last:

 

Feel free to download April,2 and April, 3 and enjoy)

Come in for the next new poster tomorrow.

Grammar Bytes!

Grammar Bytes! - much about grammar: detailed definitions of common grammar terms,  interactive exercises, handouts to accompany the exercises, teaching presentations, YouTube videos, tips and rules. The teacher will surely find something very useful for the lesson (the level is mostly upper-intermediate and advanced).

Travelling UK

The UK's Most Popular Attractions from Cheap.co.uk is a good thing to get the information about the most popular attractions in the UK. The interactive map, with a very nice design, gives a quick link to the name, the picture, the number of visitors per year, and the official site of the attraction. The resource is very convenient to use in class, and suitable to advise students to use it at home.

April Fools' Day in the Classroom from Edutopia

April Fools' Day in the Classroom: Six Resources for Teachers | Edutopia

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How 10 Famous Landmarks Get Clean from mental_floss

How 10 Famous Landmarks Get Clean from mental_floss is a very interesting thing with pictures and video about the ten famous landmarks getting cleaned. The resource is quite suitable to use in class to speak about a number of topics - jobs (interesting, unusual, dangerous), places of interest (their everyday life). It can be a good reading exercise (intermediate students), especially practising numbers.

Besides, the story can be a good example to speak about the place where the students live - a nice start for a project "How My City Famous Landmark Get Clean", "The job I find very interesting (unusual, dangerous, useful...):

- the students read and discuss the given article;

- choose the attraction they want to speak about;

- search for the information about it/think over what they can say about it 

- present their work (in the form required).

technology rocks. seriously.: Fabulous and FREE Apps Daily Email

technology rocks. seriously.: Fabulous and FREE Apps Daily Email: Apps are becoming an integral part of everyday education both in school and at home. Having the access to the world of numerous educational Apps is great. The site (one of the greatest in technology for education) has posted the link to Free Apps Daily Email which is of course absolutely useful.

Visual Recipes

Visual.ly presents a collection of 20 visual recipes: pancakes, carrot soup, cupcakes, and others. The idea is really nice. The teacher can use the infographics to help students speak about cooking and eating. The infographics are different in style, vocabulary. The teacher chooses the one he needs for his class.

Pancakes! infographic by Wildyles.

If The World Were 100 People

If the World Were 100 People - an interesting infographic from Visual.ly - global statistics if the population of the world was 100 people. The infographic may be a good way to practise Conditionals - to introduce the material, or to check how the students can use it in speech (for example, giving the infomation from this infographic).

If the World were 100 People infographic by KVSStudio.

Spell Check

A very interesting spelling quiz Spell Check from The New York Times (with answers:)) - a real challenge for advanced students and even tecahers:

We Are What We Eat

We Are What We Eat - a set of infographics on the topic of healthy (or unhealthy) eating with an interesting visualization of over 500,000 foods in the world with good, medium, and poor healthy rating. As many other infographics, the resource is a good way to organise some kind of discussion in class. Showing the eating topic from various angles gives the teacher an opportunity to organise students' group work, where each group presents their part of the problem:
We eat less healthy than we think,
When we eat matters,
Where we eat matters,
Who eats what,
Eating habits are contagious.

Find Your Line

Humanities Enrichment has recently posted a very interested video - Find Your Line - a good source of inspiration and motivation for the students, a good start for a discussion.

New on Printables Page

April, 1st: download and enjoy! (April Words Calendar on TpT)

Get Ready for World Water Day

World Water Day is held every year on 22nd March to remind people about the importance of freshwater and encouraging the sustainable management of freshwater resources. 10 Resources for World Water Day from Teaching News will help teachers plan and conduct the lesson on this important issue.

More on About Words Resources Page

The Half-Life of Metaphors from The Economist  and  Do you salad or sandwich? The verbing of English from OUP with interesting examples of what is going on in English, why, and how we use it.

DIY - Become a Maker!

DIY - "a community where young people become Makers. They discover new skills, make projects in the real world, and share their work online to inspire and learn from each other." The resource may seem to be very far from learning English, but the idea itself is very interesting and can get children interested in the process, improving the language along the project. The resource is suitable both for working with the class and individually with a student or one's own child.

Much for Inspiration

Venspired is a great site with inspiration posters from Kessy Venosdale. The posters are beautifully designed, with great words from well-known people or the author herself - a very good resource to use in the class for inspiration, motivation, discussion. The posters will look wonderful on the classroom board. There are downloadable posters from the author.

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Talking about Food

52 English Lessons to Talk about Food from PhraseMix is of much help for both teachers and students to in rich the vocabulary on this very important every day topic. As usual, all the phrases are with listening and word explaining.

More Language Games from Macmillan

It has been written already about Irregular Verbs Wheel from Macmillan Dictionary. Here there are more language games to keep students interested and motivated. Red Words Game  (testing your intuition on word frequency) and Phrasel Verbs Game (practising the knowledge of phrasel verbs) will help students to learn more aboutthe language.

Today is World Literacy Day

10 Resources for World Literacy Day from Teaching News. The resources are very useful and can be easily used not only on the World Literacy Day, but of course, in everyday practice.

Pronunciation Practice

Need more pronunciation practice? Look at the following collection of pronunciation resources for a number of sounds and letter combinations. There are videos, minimal pair exercises, tongue twisters, dictations and other things to work with the sounds. As an example:

Unit One: TH, as in THINK, BATHROOM, and TEETH.

• Watch this QuickTime movie on the word 'Thought' to see how to correctly make the 'TH' sound (894k).
• Minimal Pairs (178k) In this exercise, you will hear pairs of words that are the same except for one sound. In this case, TH is being compared to other similar sounds. Listen and compare.
• Try this Dictation to practice the differences between TH and other sounds.
• Here is the complete lesson from our workbook in MP3 audio , as well as the PDF version.
• Here's a video of Brian explaining the differences between the voiceless and voiced TH. (7.8mb)
• Listen, practice, and record your voice to have a conversation with a native speaker (microphone required).
• Practice these tongue twisters to improve your TH (microphone required).

Need Ideas?

Need ideas? Why not look at Ideas to Inspire helping teachers with a lot of things in various spheres. The short presentations give tips and links how to use this or that tool, where to find necessary information, what to do in a certain situation. A very useful resource for whose who needs ideas and inspiration.

Printing Press

Printing Press from ReadWriteThink is a very helpful resource. With Printing Press students can create a booklet, a flyer, a brochure, or a newspaper. The thing could be quite interesting for presenting students' projects and research work.

Language with Skillwise

BBC Skillswise is a free-to-access website for adult numeracy and literacy tutors and students, with printable worksheets and factsheets and online games, videos and quizzes that can be used in class or by students at home.  
Skillwise English has Reading, Writing, Spelling, Word Grammar, Sentence Grammar, Speaking and Listening Sections. The sections contain one-minute videos with transcripts, quizzes, games.

Pronunciation Exercises

Perfect Pronunciation Exercises from Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary  - 15 pronunciation sessions with 5 pronunciation exercises each. The exercises are quite suitable for class work and independent practice. The full list of exercises is given on one page what is convenient for a teacher to choose the one he needs. As an example, Session 1contains Exercise 1: [f] vs. [v]  (fear vs. veer) Exercise 2: syllable stress Exercise 3: forth/fourth, ascent/assent Exercise 4: [oʊ] vs. [ɑ]  (bold vs. bald) Exercise 5: sentence practice.