Lesson Plans, Activities and Ideas

• Lesson Plans (for entire lessons)
  • Daily lesson plan based around a New York Times news article. These are aimed at American high school students but can easily be modified to suit upper-intermediate, advanced or conversation classes.
  • ESLLessons provide ready made lesson plans that you can print out and use. Be sure to read them through carefully first though, as they have not been checked by an editor.
  • The Guardian's TEFL pages offer lesson plans.
• Ideas and Activities (individual activities with materials to print out or ideas for games)
  • Handouts for Classroom Use links from the TESL journal site.
  • Tips and Ideas collection from the TESL journal
  • Ideas Cookbook at Dave's ESL Cafe
  • Warmers, general games and ice-breakers
    • Tips and Ideas for the First Day of Classes
    • GET warmers
    • Icebreakers from Dave's ESL Cafe
  • Listening
    • Dean's listening and speaking guide
    • Listening ideas from Dave's ESL Cafe
    • Also see the audio section of the Computers in the Classroom page.
  • Speaking/conversation
    • ESL Partyland's conversation teaching page
    • ESL Partyland's listening and speaking page
    • Speaking ideas from Dave's ESL Cafe
    • Conversation lesson question ideas from the Internet TESL Journal
  • Pronunciation
    • The Internet Tesl Journal's links for teaching pronunciation
    • ESL Pronunciation Work Page
    • ESL Language Learning Links: 1, Consonants
    • ESL Language Learning Links: 2, Vowels
    • ESL Language Learning Links: 3, Suprasegmentals
    • Pronunciation web resources list from Sunburst Media
    • Rhyme generator
    • Different English dialects from around the world
    • About.com's pronunciation lesson plans
    • Also see the audio section of the Computers in the Classroom page.
  • Reading
    • Intermediate reading texts with comprehension activities
    • ESL Partyland's reading, writing and vocabulary page
    • Reading ideas from Dave's ESL Cafe
  • Writing
    • Troy Writing Center Handouts
    • About.com's writing lesson plans
  • Vocabulary
    • About.com's quick vocabulary activities
    • About.com's vocabulary lesson plans
    • The 250 most commonly used words in English
  • Grammar
    • Ideas Cookbook: Grammar at Dave's ESL Cafe
    • About.com's grammar lesson plans
    • English Zone printable worksheets classified according to grammar aim.
    • Grammar Safaris get your students to find grammar in context, doing this on the web makes it faster and more fun.
    • Also see the grammar reference section of the Reference page.
  • English for Specific Purposes/Technical English
    • See the Technical English page.
    • Also see the Business English page.
  • Teaching Kids (see also: Useful Links for Teaching Kids)
    • Classroom games and activities by ESL Kidstuff
    • About.com: ESL Lesson plans for kids
    • Frankie's ESL Worksheets
    • Creative writing for teens, High School English lesson plans These links are aimed at mother tongue teenagers, but might have some good ideas that can be transferred to the ESL classroom.
  • Teacher Training
    • Ted Power's free online materials for teacher trainers
    • The Teacher Trainer magazine
• Lists with more links
  • Loads of useful links with good descriptions compiled by Marty Levine.
  • Links for lesson plans from English Zone
  • British Council's Orb list
  • Resources for Teachers from English Zone
  • miguelmllop's Interesting Web Sites for Teachers
  • ltsn The TEFL page of the Learning and Teaching Support Network. Extensive list of useful links.
  • Internet Resources for Language Teachers and Learners