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).
Longman
Gold
PowerHouse
Macmillan Education
Inside Out
Reward
Oxford University Press
Note: All OUP online resources require free registration.
American Headway
Business Focus
Business Vision
English File
English Know-How
Headway
International Express
Natural English
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.
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.
Miscellaneous Materials
BBC English Language Resources and Links
biz/ed
Printable 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.
You Tube
Television and 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
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.”
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