ESL Links

Lesson planning is tough and time consuming, especially if you're new at this and don't have any guidlines, resources or help. How people managed before the internet is a mystery. But now, there is so much ESL stuff online, it can be overwhelming to sift through. Here's the links i found most useful.

Ready to Go Lessons: (the good stuff): Of course every lesson must always be adapted for your class. But there are nice teachers out there sharing complete lessons that only need a little adaptation. Don’t be an asshole; if you borrow lessons from others, reciprocate with some of your own.

http://waygook.org (fantastic)
http://epikforum.org/forum/ (good, but not much for high school)
http://www.eatyourkimchi.com/esl_resources/ (powerpoints galore)
http://gepik.ken.go.kr/contents/tbl_e_04_01/main_pds_list.asp (a gov. site with pretty solid demo lessons, which will only work if you actually team teach)
http://eflclassroom.ning.com/index.php (free to sign up; lots of downloadable materials like worksheets, and powerpoints on this site, but it can be overwhelming).

Worksheets: Cloze style, fill in the blank worksheets; useful for upper level adult classes, but a paper waster for younger students with no motivation to participate. Good filler though, for unexpected classes or hopeless cases.

http://www.pearsonlongman.com/adult/teachers/resources.html
http://www.pearsonlongman.com/totalenglish/resources/downloads/
http://www.esl-galaxy.com/themesheets.html (more worksheets, and links)
http://www.eslbase.com/worksheets.asp
http://www.eslpdf.com/esl_vocabulary.html (basic vocabulary based worksheets)
http://eslprof.com/handouts/ grammar based; upper levels

Young Learners

http://www.english-4kids.com
http://genkienglish.net/

High school (or Middle)

http://jhsenglipediaproject.com/jep.aspx (really useful site from Japan;some ready to go stuff)
http://www.esljunction.com/conversation_questions/school_life.html (free talk prompts; good for warm ups)
http://garrettgonekorean.blogspot.com/ a teacher outlines his lesson plans
http://ageekyteacher.wordpress.com/category/lesson-plans/ same as above

Adults/Upper Levels

http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeadult/resources.htm#ESL (links to other online resources for mature learners)
http://www.tefl.net/esl-lesson-plans/esl-worksheets-tp.htm (free talking ideas)
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/advising/esl/american_culture/social_skills/sm_talk.htm
http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?sectionType=listsummary&catid=59392 (you need to sign up for some lessons. I find them really inadequate as is, even for higher levels. Good starting point to make new lessons though.)
http://www.businessenglishonline.net/InCompany/worksheets/preintermediate.htm

Ideas: Helpful for brainstorming new lessons. There’s many good ideas you could adapt to High School, but in my experience, free talking based exercises don’t work on their own.; without structure, or a worksheet to complete, most students don’t know what to do, including adults.

http://www.hltmag.co.uk/sept04/less.htm
http://canada-esl.com/lessonsindex.html
http://www.eslgo.com/resources.html
http://larryferlazzo.com/english.html
http://www.footprintsrecruiting.com/lessonsearch.php
http://iteslj.org/Lessons/
http://iteslj.org/links/TESL/Lessons/p2.html (free talk questions; adult level only. Good luck “free talking” in a public school class).
http://durhamliteracy.org/home/esol/spring06themes (could be used to adapt curriculum for adult or high school classes. Organized by theme and links to resources).
http://www.mes-english.com/ putting this classic site under “ideas” because I haven’t found any easy, ready to go materials here, at least for my classes.


Games: These games seem better suited to younger learners; tried them and my high school students don't participate. but, they suck.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/3472/ (pretty much ready to go game plans)
http://www.eslsite.com/rd/Drama-Role_Plays/bank_robbery.html
http://topergames.blogspot.com/ (low tech game ideas)
http://www.teachenglishinasia.net/tefl-tesl-games-and-activities-directory
http://www.eslcity.com/english/?doc=bbs/gnuboard.php&bo_table=kinder_game&sselect=wr_name&stext=mike&ssort=wr_hit&sorder=asc&soperator=&page=1&wr_id=55

Literacy: Online Stories (higher levels.. or to kill time in between classes)

http://www.miguelmllop.com/stories/index.htm

Pronunciation: Probably best suited to advanced learners. But pronunciation is an area where I feel competent, and actually necessary.You can download whole PDF lesson guides for a total English pronunciation course. Could plan a whole teacher’s class around them.

http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/

Audio Visual: Useful materials, if you have a TV and Computer in the class

http://www.real-english.com/ (dated, but useful; good for padding lessons)
http://www.eslvids.com/
http://www.gatm.org.uk/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
http://www.lingual.net/lingualproductitems/index.php
http://www.englishmeeting.com/resources.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/
http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj/FLClipart/Verbs.html (useful clip art)
http://www.pdictionary.com/ (useful clip art)

Professional Development: Informative Podcasts about ESL teaching

http://www.eslteachertalk.com/

Teaching Guides, Books: *also search sites like www.scribd.com for free downloadable ESL textbooks

http://www.scribd.com/doc/186156/Teaching-English-as-a-Second-Language
http://www.finchpark.com/books/wnew/contents.htm
http://www.finchpark.com/books/nyt/index.htm
* check out the resource section here for downloadable text books:
http://eflclassroom.ning.com/index.php


Jobs:
http://www.footprintsrecruiting.com
http://www.epik.go.kr/

Korea Blogs, Teacher Forums

http://www.eslcafe.com/
http://metropolitician.blogs.com/
http://joshinggnome.wordpress.com/
http://www.koreabridge.com/forums/index.php
http://blog.galbijim.com/
http://populargusts.blogspot.com/
http://www.rjkoehler.com/
http://thegrandnarrative.wordpress.com/

Links and Links

http://eslflow.com/
http://eslprof.com/ESLlinks.htm
http://iteslj.org/links/