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.

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:  ...

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!

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

Learning English

Learn English from GCFLearnFree.org is a good way to introduce or practise vocabulary with children. There are the sections: Action, Art, Conversation, family, Financial, Food and Beverage, Geography, Government, Plants and Animals, Quantity, Questions, Science, Shapes and Colors. In each section there are four activities: Word Explorer, Text Explorer, Video Dictionary, Fill in the Blank. Among these activities which are numerous and interactive the teacher can choose the ones suitable for the lesson.

Paws in Jobland

Paws in Jobland is a great way to explore the world of jobs with kids. This fully interactive resource combines jobs presentations (images, descriptions), quizzes about various jobs, the test for students about choosing a suitable job. The information is really useful and colorfully designed. The teacher can use the information in class to present the material, to check students' knowledge, to have some fun-time at the lesson. The resource is good for students' individual work - preparing the project, doing homework.

The Literacy Shed

The Literacy Shed is a wonderful place with a great collection of visual resources suitable for the classroom. The author supports the teacher not only with the resource but also with his ideas how to use it in class. From the author: "The Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources that I have collected over my 10 year career as a primary school teacher.   I trawl youtube, vimeo and other sites looking for suitable resources to use in the sheds. The sheds are broadly thematic but sometimes a resource could go in 2 or more sheds, I slot it in where I think it works best." 

St.Valentine is Near

St. Valentine is coming and there are numerous materials appearing on the web every day, the teacher is free to choose whatever he needs, wants, and likes. Here are some resources that seem really nice to use in class:

Valentine's Day Fun - many links to games, stories, printables, apps and more. Heart Writing Fun section is especially interesting.
"Keep your students busy and focused on skills with some fun Valentine's games that can be used on your SMARTboard or in the lab for individual, small group, or whole group fun."
Hearts in nature: naturally occurring and man-made heart shapes photographed from the air from The Telegraph is fascinating.

WingClips presents Featured Category: On Valentine's Day

About Excellence

Personal Excellence - a wonderful resource "for people passionate about achieving excellence in life". The site offers much material on motivation, way of living, life wisdom, famous quotes and so on. Every teacher will find something absolutely necessary for his students here, something suitable for a lesson. There is much on the site for a classroom board, wallpapers and other things.