Links to Resources
All-purpose Sites/Lesson Planning
American English Online
USDOS web portal.
Special English
Voice of America: - links to downloadable mp3s.
TESOL, Inc.
TESOL International website with some great teaching ideas and lesson plans
from other TESL teachers.
Dave’s ESL Café
Site for teachers, lesson plans and ideas, activity ideas, also includes a job board.
Lanternfish
Activity worksheets, handouts, flash cards, etc.
California Distance Learning Project
Topic-based site mostly geared toward adult ESL, good for exploring day-to-day
life in America.
ESL Lesson Plans and Resources
Sample lesson plans and activities.
ESL/EFL Teaching/Learning Resources
ESL Galaxy
Lesson plans and materials for teachers at a variety of levels.
Interesting Things for ESL/EFL students
Hundreds of fun activities for the classroom—word games, crosswords, and
links to teaching speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Hot Potato—Quiz Creator
A quiz creator you can install on your computer to help create tests and quizzes.
Discovery Education
Content-based lessons from the Discovery Channel, mainly focused on science.
Great high-school level resources that could be easily adapted for an EFL context.
Rong Chang
A great site with lots of everything ! A great first step if you’re initially exploring
some topics. Lots of topics, levels, skill sets, etc.
ESL Flow
Lower level everything page. Lots of links to a variety of different topics.
Resource downloads for vocabulary
Link to someone’s professional page with links to downloads for pedagogical
material.
Teacher Support Plus
Pedagogical booklets & academic presentations.
Activities for ESL students (grammar and vocabulary)
Quizzes on grammar and vocabulary, some bilingual ones in Indonesian.
Breaking News English
Topic-based site with lots of lesson plans on news and pop culture.
English Club
Great everything page. Has resources for both teachers and students on all four
skill sets with a page on tips for new teachers.
Boggles World
Worksheets, jobs, flashcards, lesson plans, and activities for teaching ESL and
EFL.
Internet TESL Journal
Articles, papers, lesson plans, hand-outs, etc.
Language Acquisition
Glossary.
Civics Lessons for ESL Students
Speaking/Pronunciation
Phonetics: The Sound of American English
More technical phonetics and pronunciation website.
Sounds of English—Pronunciation
Pronunciation website with tips for teachers
Minimal Pairs
If you’re working with pronunciation, this is a good website with word lists to
compare sounds.
Conversation Questions
Great database of conversation questions organized by topics.
English Central
Speech recognition records your voice and provides instant feedback on
pronunciation.
Language Exchange
Connects people who speak different languages, but are practicing each other's
languages through a/v chat software such as Skype.
English Practice
English pronunciation practice activity. Allows students to practice commonly
confused sounds (such as l vs. r, p vs. f, and s vs. th) outside of the classroom.
English Pronunciation
Podcasts for ELLs who want to improve their English pronunciation and speak
with an American accent.
Listening
Voice of America News
Wonderful site with current events, listening, and reading with simplified
language. Links articles to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary for easy access to
unknown words. The Classroom site has lots of great ideas for classroom
activities
BBC Learning English
Similar to Voice of America, but based out of the UK. Good for comparing
British and American dialects.
ESL Lab
Lots of short audio clips, grammar quizzes and mini lessons or activities.
Primarily for listening.
Movie Trailers
English through listening to movie trailers.
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
Ello-Listening online
Listening with a variety of topics in a variety of dialects. Lots of current events
and pop culture stuff applicable to a wide range of students.
Online Radio
Listening, a variety of online radio stations
Many things
This website has many "listen and repeat" exercises with transcriptions student
may listen and read along.
Ted Talks
Videos of talks from many topics including technology, entertainment, and
design which are translated into over 70 languages.
5 minute English
This website has many transcribed English sound files of commonly used
vocabulary, phrases and grammar. Each file includes a corresponding lesson and
activity that may be used in the ESL classroom, or by ELLs themselves.
English stories/podcasts
A list of links to English mp3 files and podcasts of stories, lessons and
conversations in different topics and subjects.
English Listening Lesson Library Online
ESL/EFL Listening Resources
With reviews of web sites.
Listen to English and Learn English with Pie (EL podcasts)
Reading
News Stories Reading
Learning resources using news.
Reading Skills and Strategies
Great resource on how to use learning strategies in the classroom.
Reading Topics
Useful links to reading passages categorized by level.
Online Newspapers
English language newspapers from around the world, some Indonesian-specific.
Reading exercises and worksheets
Comprehension exercises that include stories, poems, essays, and articles in
English. Each exercise has a print-ready activity worksheet.
Simple English Wiki
Simple English version of Wikipedia that can be translated into any language.
Teacher’s help
This website has a reading section with activities and tests available for
download.
Short stories and comprehension questions
Short stories for ELLs with corresponding exercises that test the reader's
comprehension.
Writing
Write Fix
Advanced writing tips.
Advanced Composition for NNS of English
Good website for beginning to write for Academic Purposes.
Purdue OWL
Most comprehensive academic writing website. Useful resources for citation and
research as well as specific issues for non-native speakers.
Richmond Writing Center
University of Richmond Writing Center, good resource for academic writing.
Boggles World
This website has a collection of creative writing assignments available for ESL
educators to assign in class.
ESL Galaxy
This website contains a list of pre-made and printable ESL writing lessons and
activities for use by ESL educators in the classroom.
Auto English
Worksheets available for download. The activities cover grammar, vocabulary,
and writing.
Other
ESL student Resources
University of Ohio Linguistics page with links to the four skills. Designed to aid
ESL students.
Using English for academic purposes
High Intermediate and Advanced level academic English designed for university
students.
English Page (grammar)
Mostly a grammar page.
Phrasal Verb Demon
Site devoted to mastering phrasal verbs.
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
Word usage reference guide.
British National Corpus
Word usage reference guide.
MysteryNet.com
Learning English by solving mysteries.
Centre for Independent Language Learning
Guide designed for independent study. Lots of grammar stuff, but has some
other things too.
Merriam-Webster’s Learner Dictionary
Great resource with simplified, yet still English-English dictionary definitions.