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.

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).

10 Resources for Australia Day

10 Resources for Australia Day from Teaching News

Calendar 2013

It has been written already about Calendar for January 2013 (and other months) from Scholastic.
One more calendar resource today: 2013 Educators' Calendars from TeacherVision is an every-day facts calendar with fun and educationally relevant holidays, events, and celebrations paired with teacher resources. The calendar has online, widget, downloadable versions.

In Class: The calendar is very good for a classroom board. Its online version can be used as an every-day tradition to start the day (the lesson). There is also an idea to use the calendar for students' mini-projects about the days of the month - every student chooses the day and "present" it to others.

Worldwide Etiquette

The Ultimate Guide to Worldwide Etiquette infographic by universlabs: "Etiquette varies widely from culture to culture. What may be perfectly normal in one country can sometimes be a grave insult in another. This ultimate guide to worldwide etiquette will help you avoid embarrassing (and sometimes dangerous) mistakes during your travels abroad".

In Class: The infographic is easy to use and quite informative. However, one should not rely on the given information completely. In class the infographic can be used to compare the countries, to compare the information with the students' knowledge and experience, to read about one's own country and correct or add the facts if needed.

Calendar 2013 - Day by Day, Fact by Fact

Calendar for January 2013 (and other months) from Scholastic - a very interesting and useful thing. The Calendar gives the information about this day in history, sometimes with additional links. Why not to make a tradition of starting the day (the lesson) with this Calendar? It is also a good start to introduce the new material. Surely, every teacher will find the way to use it in his lesson.

Teach with Google

Google Art Project On the Google Art Project website, you can visit famous museums from all around the world - Madrid, New York City, Berlin, London and elsewhere - and explore famous art pieces. The Google Art Project is easy  for children to explore, making it effective even in elementary school. You can select from the list of museums, and then choose whether you want to explore the museum itself, or start examining the work of art.  Navigating down the hallways and rooms of an art museum gets kids really excited.

Google Culture Institute is the collection of 42 online exhibits telling the stories behind major events the period 1905 - 2008 (The Holocaust, Apartheid, D-Day). The exhibits contain text, photo and video information. 

OUP Britain

OUP Britain website contains some extra cultural resources on Britain. Ready-to-use worksheets include information, questions and related vocabulary, also a list of useful links to other OUP resources, Culture Focus is a good resource for learning about recent events in Britain. Interactive Britain Quiz with thirty questions Culture focus offers more about recent events in Britain, questions and suggestions related to the topic as well as some useful vocabulary. This page is updated regularly with more topics related to Britain.

News:24 hours in pictures

24 hours in pictures section in The Guardian could be a good motivational moment for a lesson - a start for a discussion, guessing the topic, arising questions and so on as far as the lesson needs it. A selection of the best images from the world each day with the information on every picture (where and what it is) is not only a nice teaching material but also a good fast and beautifully-shot way to learn what happens in the world.

ProjectBritain.com

ProjectBritain.com gives much information about the country. It contains facts about Britain, in an easy-to-read way and to understand for people of all ages and cultures. The topics covered are numerous, from the most famous, Royal Family, to really unusual, Pillar Boxes. A great resource for students' independent work.  

LearnEnglish Kids

LearnEnglish Kids by British Council is a nice helper for teaching kids at school and at home. Games, songs, stories, videos and worksheets on various topics. Especially valuable is the Parents section with helping ideas, the forum and the links to related websites.

Teacher's Pet Displays

Teacher's Pet Displays is a wonderful site full of amazing resources of all kinds. The site offers numerous downloads on different topics stimulating ideas for a lesson, nicely created worksheets will make learning and teaching fun. Posters, labels, sound displays and other materials are lifesavers for a techer who wants to make unforgettable and bright lessons.

10 Resources for World Food Day

10 Resources for World Food Day - 10 resources to make your lessons on Food topic more interesting and    informative.

Premier Skills English

The world id crazy about football! Why not use it in teaching English? Premier Skills English is organised all around this popular game and offers wonderful resources both for teachers and learners.Boys will be happy)

elllo

Much listening practice on elllo presented in Views, Mixer, Games, Videos and News sections, sorted by Level, Country, Topic, Media. Interesting topics, illustrations (in Games especially), vocabulary practice and quizes make the site really valuable for teaching English.

neoK12

neoK12 offers a wide choice of educational videos, lessons and games for school kids. The materials are given in Physical Science, Life Science, Human Body, Earth and Space, Geography, Social Studies, History, Math, Fun Video and English sections. The English section with its Phonics and Rhymes is especially interesting for EFL teachers.

Jolly Phonics - A to Z - Part 2/3

More Phonics and English Lessons at NeoK12.com  

Lessonstream.org by Jamie Keddie

Lessonstream.org by Jamie Keddie is a great place containing wonderful lessons with plans and all the materials needed. The organisation of the site is very convenient as you can search the lesson by Language level, Learner type, Time, Main Activity, Language aim, Topic, Material. The teachers'comments to each lesson give an opportunity to see how the material works in real - very convenient and useful.

Art.sy

Art.sy is of great help to prepare and conduct the lessons on art,  or just to enjoy various works of art online. It provides the large collection of contemporary art available online. Works from all cultures and time periods, the information about artists and art movement are accessible for study and enjoyment. 

Vocabulary.co.il  is a vocabulary website with flash online word games. They include an online word search, an online crossword puzzle, hangman online, unscrambles and others. The fun of the games can help both native and foreign learners of English build their English language vocabulary skills. There are word games for all levels of English.

Learning Chocolate

The bright thing I have come across today is Learning Chocolate - Vocabulary Learning Platform - USEFUL vocabulary, ready-made exercises, nice pictures. Suitable for using in class, at home with your own children, with different age groups.