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 Teaching English
Find articles, lesson plans, teaching tips, activities and more from the BBC and the British Council.
LearnEnglish LearnEnglish is a free site that helps learners and teachers of English. LearnEnglish comes to you from the British Council, the United Kingdom's international organisation for educational and cultural relations.
LearnEnglish Kids
LearnEnglish Kids offers topic based games, songs, stories and activities for young learners.
BBC Learning English
The BBC and the British Council have developed a site for teachers that contains articles and advice on teaching, teaching tips, lesson plans, downloadable materials and much more.
Support for English Language Teachers
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), is especially useful for teachers preparing their pupils for the Cambridge exams, but also for others: practical tips, dos and don’ts, activities to download as well as links to further Cambridge ESOL resources such as handbooks and past papers.
Teachers helping Teachers
This site offers free worksheets, games and flashcards for teachers to use.
Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers
This site is designed for primary school teachers. It contains ideas for lessons and activities submitted by teachers for teaching maths, science, art, music etc.
English Language Teaching Lesson
This is an excellent site which includes ideas for lessons and lesson plans for teachers of elementary, pre-intermediate and intermediate levels.
OneStopEnglish
This site offers solutions for English teaching. Once you register, you will have unlimited access to free resources.
InsideOut
Want to make your teaching life easier? Register and you will have exclusive access to topical e-lessons with teacher’s notes. All this is free!
English-4U
If you earn your living teaching English as a foreign language and need new, exciting free English lesson plans, you have found the right place.
English Listening Activities
A resource site for teachers offering over 700 listening activities to choose from.
BBC Business English
Download materials for personal use or copying and using in the classroom. Fantastic ideas - all about business English!
Lesson Plans
Free lesson plans for all teachers who teach Business English. Try it out!
l Learn-English-Today
Free lessons and activities designed to help you improve your knowledge of English, develop your business skills and test your progress.
English Club
A site that will help you learn or teach English as a second language. Access to all pages is free. You'll find everything from lessons for students to jobs for teachers, including interactive pages.
Business English Online
This site offers you a wealth of additional English Language Teaching resources to add that extra dimension to your Business English lesson - wherever you teach.
Longman Business English
Lots of online activities and free resources for learners of business English. Try fun online activities, download free support materials and get helpful tips on learning and teaching English
Business Education
A web site for students and educators in business studies, economics, accounting, leisure, sport & recreation and travel & tourism.
Better English
The site contains a huge number of exercises which are used regularly both by students working alone and by teachers with their classes.
Fun and Crafts
Featuring a variety of fun, printable children’s crafts, colouring pages and some of children’s favourite characters.
Making learning fun
An early childhood education website filled with free printables designed to do just that, make learning fun!
Resources for Teachers
Free EFL/ESL resources for teachers of young learners – flashcards, handouts, games and activities all ready for printing!
English Club
A fun site for teachers and kids. Colours, numbers, the alphabet – you name it, it’s all there! Access to all pages is free.
Teaching Children
Free lesson ideas, worksheets, flashcards, games, songs and a lot more. A fun site to visit!
EFL Resources
A comprehensive list of EFL/ESL resources for Young Learners.
ESL learning and teaching
Specifically for ESL learning and teaching including: games, lesson plans, songs, fun activities and teaching techniques, as well as other sites of interest to ESL educators.
ESL-Kids
ESL stuff for kids including flashcards, worksheets, classroom games and children's song lyrics.A great resource for teachers of ESL kids.
ABC Fun Pages
This is the place for kids, parents, student teachers, and teachers. Free printables: 5000+ free printable pages and worksheets.
Teacher Trainer
On-line version of the Teacher Training magazine, aimed at teacher educators.
Humanising Language Teaching
Humanising Language Teaching - Pilgrims pioneering free web magazine read by over 4000 teachers world-wide every week
OneStopEnglish Magazine
Onestopenglish Magazine – Macmillan publishers free magazine for teachers of English
ELT Newsletter
NetLearn Solutions' weekly publication by and for teachers of English. It is also available as a weekly e-mail. It has articles on teaching tips and ideas, discussion of current teaching methodologies, book reviews and a discussion forum.
English Next
‘English Next’ was written by researcher David Graddol – a British applied linguist, well known as a writer, broadcaster, researcher and consultant on issues relating to global English. The report draws attention to the extraordinary speed of change to issues affecting English identified in the 1997 publication: The Future of English? Read English Next (1.89MB - PDF) and find out why global English may mean the end of English as a foreign language.
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