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Organisations

British Council

 

International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc.

Voluntary Service Overseas

Job Pages

British Council Teacher Recruitment

Dave’s ESL Cafe

Edufind Jobs

English in Britain
Find an accredited English language school in Britain.

English School Watch
LOTS of important information about "problem" ELT schools away from the UK (check out the teachers’ forums), advice on how to select a school, etc. Focuses more on South Korea, but has lots of information on schools and institutions in other countries, too.

EFL Web

Jobs.ac.uk
Teaching English for academic purposes.

International House Teacher Vacancies

TEFL.com Professional Network
Huge, searchable database.

Discussions

English Language Teachers’ Forum

English Specialist

ESL Teachers Lounge

Tile.net

Magazines

Developing Teachers
Monthly newsletter, tips, forums, etc.

EL Gazette
News and job ads from the ELT business.

English Now

English Teaching Professional
Classroom activities and ideas.

ESL Magazine
Classroom activities and ideas.

ELT News
For EFL teachers in Japan. ELT news, jobs, resources, message board, etc.

Humanising Language Teaching
Articles and ideas on humanistic language teaching.

The Language Key
Business English ideas and activities.

Coursebooks

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

English Language Teaching
Cambridge’s ELT portal – access to resources, test materials, coursebooks, etc.

Examinations
Portal for resources, etc. for Cambridge exams preparation (including the "Teaching Knowledge Test," etc).

face2face

Longman

Gold

PowerHouse

Macmillan Education

Inside Out

Reward

Straightforward

Oxford University Press

Note: All OUP online resources require free registration.

American Headway

Business Focus

Business Vision

English Know-How

Headway

International Express

Natural English

New English File

Educational Software

Free Software for English Teachers

Hot Potatoes
Allows you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Only free for those working for publicly-funded, non-profit-making educational institutions who make their pages available on the web; others must pay for a licence.

Moodle
Allows you to easily set-up online courses: create a new subdomain to your website using Moodle and add graded content and links.

Synergeia
Synergeia "provides a shared, structured, web-based work space in which collaborative learning can take place, documents and ideas can be shared, discussions can be stored and knowledge artifacts can be developed and presented. Teachers can structure, seed and guide work in Synergeia to facilitate knowledge building in their classrooms."

Software You Have to Pay For

Educational Software Products: Computer-Aided Language Learning (UK)

Karta Technologies

Sanako

Dictionaries and Translators

AltaVista’s Babelfish

Babylon

Dictionary.com

Systran

Thesaurus.com

Listening

British Council Articles on Teaching Listening Skills

 

ESL Lab

Newcastle ALE/NALE
Newcastle Academic and Non-Academic Listening Materials.

Podcasts In English
"Natural conversations; real English."

Speaking

British Council Articles on Teaching Speaking Skills

British Council Articles on Teaching Pronunciation

BBC Get Talking

Reading

British Council Articles on Teaching Reading Skills

UrbanLegends.com

NB: I have news reading resources here.

Vocabulary

British Council Articles on Teaching Vocabulary

Writing

British Council Articles on Teaching Writing Skills

Blogging for ELT

The Guardian Styleguide

WriteIt Online Courses
For academic, business and technical English.

Using Literature to Teach English

British Council Articles on Using Literature in the Classroom

NB: I have a lot of further literary resources here.

More Lesson Plans and Materials

BBC English Language Resources and Links

biz/ed
Printable business-related resources.

British Council Teaching English Webpage
Links to networking and job opportunities, as well as myriad teaching resources.

British Council Articles on Resources for Teachers

British Council Articles on Teaching Methodologies

E. L. Easton Materials for Teaching and Learning

The Good Grammar Book

NLP Seminars Group International
Neuro-linguistic programming teaching ideas.

One-Stop English
Macmillan’s excellent resources and teaching tips site.

Resource Books for Teachers

Companion site from the Oxford University Press. Requires free registration.

Teaching English
Resources and activities.

Teachnet.com
Resources and lesson plans.

TEFL Net Resources

Film, TV and Song

Drew’s Script-o-Rama
Lots of TV and film scripts.

The Internet Movie Database
Movie database with trailers.

Lyrics World
Song lyrics in English and Portuguese.

Snap.com
Searchable media/song database.

TEFLclips.com
"A site dedicated to the possibilities for YouTube and other video sharing sites in the classroom."

YouTube
TV clips database.

Games and Activities

A Game A Day

BBC RaW (Reading and Writing)

ESL Games from Dave’s ESL Cafe

ESL Games from the About website

EnglishPage.com

EnglishClub.net

Lemonade Stand Game
Make as much money as possible in 30 days – a good, fun game for Business English at least (though perhaps more sobering for the students’ teachers…)

How to Make a Pop-Up Book

Interactive Whiteboard Software

SMART Tech latest software release
Download the latest IWB software from SMART Tech. Available for Windows, OS X and Linux operating systems. Please note that you have to enter a product key after 30 days to keep this software.

SMART Tech IWB software – Linux
Use this link if you use Linux and don’t have a SMARTboard product key – you’ll get the last version not to require one (version 9.7).

SMART Tech IWB software – Mac OS X
Use this link to download the last product key-free version of the SMARTBOARD software for Mac OS X (v9.7).

SMART Tech IWB software – Windows
Use this link to download the last product key-free version of the SMARTboard software for Windows (v9.7).

SMART Resource Library
General information about and resources for IWBs.

Bookshops

Amazon.com

Amazon.co.uk

Bournemouth English Book Centre

Ebay.com
Useful for secondhand books.

Ebay.co.uk
You may find useful secondhand books here.

The International English Book Centre

Keltic
"The World’s Largest ELT Bookshop."