Peace Corps
Peace Corps: Looking at Ourselves and Others
Adapted lesson plans, used by the Peace Corps to prepare their volunteers, are divided into three suggested grade grouping: 3-5, 6-9, 10-12. These activities introduce students to the concepts of perspective, culture, and cross-cultural...
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Esl Kid Stuff: Teaching the Alphabet
Dynamic classroom activities for teaching the alphabet -- includes a few classic methods and some great new ideas. All are hands-on; many are group or team oriented.
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Es Lnotes: English Learner Movie Guides
Detailed overviews of popular movies written especially for English language learners by an ESL instructor. Each guide includes a plot summary, descriptions of major characters, and an extensive glossary of words and expressions used in...
Starfall
Starfall: Pete's Sheep (Long E Listening Practice)
Learn the long E sound in English while enjoying an animated story about sheep. You can listen to the story over and over again and watch the story come alive with animation.
British Council
British Council Learn English: Jokes
A new cartoon joke weekly and an archive of previous strips organized by topic (animal, family, doctor). All involve a pun or play on words, and are drawn in a non-busy, ELL/ESL friendly style.
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybemps: Edgar's Easter Eggs
Read the Easter egg story about sharing and then play all the games. Follow directions to decorate eggs, find the hidden eggs, match the egg with the bird, and more.
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybemps: Animal Riddles
Who-am-I riddles that have young learners using clues to figure out what kind of animal is being described. "I have wings but I'm not a bird." "I can breathe through a hole in the top of my head." Simple language and colorful...
British Council
British Council: Learn English: Secret Coder (Where Is Ratty?)
Crack the secret code in five messages to try to find the villainous Ratty.
British Council
British Council: Learn English Words for Clothes
Play Teddy Dresser and learn the English words for articles of clothing. Game reinforces the learning of common words for clothes (hat, jeans, and shirt) and of more challenging clothing words too (helmet, tiara, and trousers).
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British Council: Learn English Words for Different Jobs
Play Job Mixer. Learn the English words for different kinds of jobs while helping each man or woman dress in the clothes needed for each job.
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British Council: Goldilocks Porridge Puzzle
Play Porridge Puzzle with Goldilocks to uncover words from the familiar childhood tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears."
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Imagination Voyages: Travel Simulation Activity
A WebQuest for older or adult ESL learners that simulates a group planning a trip to the Grand Canyon. Members must plot out their transportation, lodging, activities, and more within a budget. Good for high school or adult ESL students.
Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)
English for Little Children
This is an interactive site intended to teach English as a foreign language to young children. It is a helpful multimedia resource for EFL teachers. There are ten themes, each with two levels of difficulty, that allow children to...
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Eigo21: Daily Hangman
A site for self-study of English for Japanese speakers. Instructions are in Japanese. Maintained by a private afterschool "English cram" program. This section has an interactive Hangman game that updates daily. Play today's game or let...
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Tefl Interactive Esl Games: Matching Phrasal Verbs
There are ten levels of interactive phrasal verb matching games on this site, starting at the elementary level, and going to more advanced level words to help English language learners practice their skills.
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Using English: English Language Quizzes
Over 200 short self-quizzes for English learners at beginner and intermediate levels. Quizzes span topics including spelling, grammar, vocabulary, and punctuation.
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Robot Rampage Game Grammar Man
Fun way to practice the verbs. Help Robot Rampage and his friends to find the right answer (you need to choose the correct sentence to keep playing) to save Verbo City. Two different levels of play: elementary and intermediate.
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Esl Writing Wizard Multiword Worksheet Wizard
Make practice worksheets for children learning to write letters of the alphabet and words. You can create version for print or cursive. Examples of other worksheets created by teachers are also available for printing.
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Esl Independent Study Lab
This is a great resource for ESL/EFL students; it presents a collection of more than 250 sites where you can find reading and writing exercises, games, vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and more. Rather than present a straight list,...
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English & Fun: Photocopiables Games
30 printable games, activities, and worksheets you can use to practice English. Includes themed activities -- the World Cup, Halloween, New School Year, Dinosaurs -- and activities related to specific skills like learning the alphabet,...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: Tuneful Bugs and Birds
Arts Edge at the Kennedy Center provides this lesson plan for teachers of ESOL students that integrates music into language arts. Students create their own poetry while listening to music about bugs and birds.
British Council
British Council: Paint It! (Learn Basic English Words)
Learn the words for colors, for parts of the face, for shapes, for sea creatures, for types of clothing, for household objects, and for types of moving vehicles. Excellent reinforcement using audio and picture cues.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Context Counts in Second Language Learning
Discover how contextual factors count when learning a second language.
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Esl Kid Stuff: Classroom Games & Activities
Great variety of classroom games and activities for PK-2 ELL/ESL students, submitted by teachers. Organized alphabetically by game name, the current collection includes activities designed to help the student practice a wide range of...