ESL Teaching Resources

Isolation, contrast, minimal pair, and word stress activities to help students practice correct English pronunciation. Also includes links to full lessons as well as the British Council's handbook on teaching pronunciation.

Students and teachers can check back daily to see the word-of-the-day, or they can sign up to have it emailed to them.

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Worksheets, lesson plans, materials and activities for beginner to intermediate levels.

The entire syllabus for Cambridge, a widely used publisher of ESL course materials. A useful reference for any teaching using (or thinking of using) their materials.

English Club offers teaching ideas and activities to practice speaking skills from small talk to presentations and public speaking. Negotiation, agreeing and disagreeing, and interview skills are practiced, along with a number of dialogues on a variety of topics.

Speaking and listening activity focused on the pros and cons of part-time as a student.

A large collection of articles and research on teaching ESL, from classrom-specific subjects such as grammar and vocabulary, to broader classroom approaches and teaching methodologies such as CALL (Computer Assited Language Learning) and ESP (Education for Special/Specific Purposes).

How to use various teaching techniques to reach students who may not learn in traditional ways. Methods to stimulate visual auditory and kinaesthetic learners.

A variety of signs from native-English-speaking countries that contain some type of grammatical or spelling error. These can be used as discussion starters for speaking and conversation classes, or as reading and proofreading practice.