ESL Teaching Resources

Guide to using poster creation as a student-lead means of ESL practice. Uses both research and creative skills, good for a multi-lesson continuous activity.

Using peer review processes, activities to help students construct essays/paragraphs in the proper English format.

This is one example of how to use a scavenger hunt in an ESL context, but can be easily adapted to lower level students, and various other contexts.

Using story-telling to drive creative discussion. Through telling and re-telling a story, students are driven to use English in creative ways.

Speaking and writing lessons gear toward business English students. The contexts and vocabulary are specific to business and the exercises are intended for adults who need to practice specific skills.

A bit of a grab-bag of various lesson ideas, teaching tips, items to buy and affiliate links, certainly there should be something of interest to everyone.

With a variety of articles every week tailored to various skill levels, this site offers prepared lessons with a number of activities centered around news articles.

A number of activities that can be expanded upon in various contexts, with an explanation on how best to use them.

A database of conversation questions, covering dozens of topics. Excellent prompts for speaking classes, or to be incorporated into activities.

Lessons and activities to teach and practice travel and survival English. Designed for ESL students who will be travelling to English-speaking countries, but the lessons can be incorporated into any beginner or intermediate class with access to a computer.