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Alison
Alphabet songs
Assessment
Breaking News English
Don't Give up!
English Coach!
English Language Listening Lab Online
ERIC
ESL-Galaxy
Extensive Reading
Idioms4You
Journal of Teaching English with Technology
Larson, Wendy W: Vocabulary
Learn English with Pictures and Audio

Learning Chocolate

Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun
Lexical Tutor, Compleat
Loro
NewsFlashEnglish

Online NZ Resources for ESOL teachers.pdf
Online Tutoring World
Stickyball
Teaching ESL to Adults
TESLCanada
TESOL Teacher
Test your English now
The Internet TESL Journal
UK ESOL Curriculum, levels and plans
Wikiversity
Writefix.com

Suitable for primary

http://youtu.be/2h5O5qpYwcU

http://youtu.be/69b-Khwy8Hs 

http://www.writefix.com/

This website is designed for people learning English who have to write argument or opinion essays for tests such as IELTS, TOEIC or TWE..

The Internet TESL Journal- Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links

Activities for ESL Students- Free online quizzes, exercises and puzzles to help you study English

Dedicated to helping you understand English Idioms

NZ On Screen is a treasure trove of New Zealand television, film and music videos. There is a large range of locally produced material available including film trailers, documentaries, short films, and interviews with key figures working within the industry.

Digistore supports educators to use NZ on Screen resources. One of the advantages of viewing details about the resource from within Digistore, is that educators are provided with an overview of the educational value of that resource.

http://thedailyenglishshow.blogspot.com/

The Daily English Show describes itself as the world's first daily online English language show. It is produced by "studio tdes‟ and presented by Sarah, a Kiwi based in Auckland, New Zealand. There is plenty of video material on aspects of kiwi life, with accompanying written text, including a huge amount in the archives (scroll down).

http://www.tewtjournal.org/ (New website)

Journal of Teaching English with Technology - back issues available free with lots of useful articles and free resources.

http://www.teslcanadajournal.ca/index.php/tesl

Articles older than two years are available free online.

Resources from CLESOL: Wendy Whitaker Larson

Vocabulary Games

Sample words for teaching vocabulary

http://www.lextutor.ca/

Vocabulary! Lots of lexical tests in English and French.

http://www.learningchocolate.com/

Welcome to Learning Chocolate! This web site aims to help students to memorise vocabulary in an easy and efficient way, by using pictures, sounds and games. Try our games and enjoy learning, like eating chocolate.

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Learning_English_as_a_second_language

English as a second language

The goal of this site is to help people learn English as a foreign language.

www.eslnews.org.nz

Free Listening in English

for New Zealand migrants and others who speak English as a second language

• find listening difficult
• can’t understand TV and radio news
• want to know what is happening in New Zealand
• want to feel part of New Zealand society

Listen to New Zealand news, spoken slowly and clearly, using easy vocabulary.

http://loro.open.ac.uk/

LORO is a collection of resources to support language teaching and learning. Some of the materials in LORO have been specifically designed to support Open University Language courses (UK) and are deposited in LORO as Open Educational Resources to be adapted and re-used freely in any context. You are welcome to deposit your own resources into LORO to store them as your personal resources, to share them with your colleagues within the OU community or with the external language community. You can browse and search for any language teaching materials, and once you have found what you are looking for, any material can be re-used, adapted, or re-purposed for your own needs

www.tesolteacher.co.nz

TESOL Teacher

Providing Free Support and Materials for TESOL Teacher Trainers

Hint: Go to "TESOL Trainer Materials" and keep looking for further resources by clicking on "other" at the bottom of the page. Lots of help here for teachers.

Teaching ESL to Adults

An ESL tutor's website with resources for teaching adults ESL, including lesson plans, grammar tips, cloze exercises, English pronunciation tips, and ESL textbook evaluations.

http://www.newsflashenglish.com/

NewsFlash English was created by professional English teachers and aims to be the ultimate resource for ESL and TEFL teachers, offering free lesson plans every Monday, based on the latest news. Each lesson plan comes complete with texts and dozens of exercises that you're free to mix and match to suit your group of English learners. All our lesson plans are free for you to download and print, no registration required!

http://alison.com/

ALISON is a UK site with a wide range of free online learning resources. You have to register for the site (it is free) and after that you can access the courses. Some of them are not relevant to the New Zealand context but new courses are being added all the time. It includes over 400 hours of free English Language Courseware in partnership with the British Council

Online NZ Resources for ESOL teachers

http://www.englishlanguage.org.nz/tutors/resources/index.html

Tutor resources from English Language Partners

http://dontgiveup.eu

Don't Give Up! Is a European Union language project that has written a book of 48 best practices for every level of language educators (schools, managers, teachers). The best practices will help improve the motivation and the results of language courses for adult learners.

http://martinmcmorrow.podomatic.com/

International Student Podcast

This is a free resource aimed at helping students to develop their listening, reading, vocabulary and knowledge of academic research and New Zealand culture. There are more than 250 programmes on a wide range of topics, including science, management, history and sociology. Each programme has listening practice of about 15 minutes, together with text, photos and links on the page. In addition, there are tasks and supporting vocabulary for news reports and online interviews with local and international experts in their fields.

www.englishcoach.com.ar

This web site, of free access, was conceived by a team of English teaching professionals and graphic designers, with the aim of offering teachers material for the improvement of English Language teaching; and tools which facilitate the diffusion of the language. English Coach! offers teachers of English a diverse range of activities for various levels and age groups: support material, exercises, tests, posters, picture cards, amusing masks to colour, a collective visual dictionary, stickers and much more; all regularly updated. See FLYER.

http://www.my-english-dictionary.com/

Learn English with Pictures and Audio (US)
This website is a free, online resource to learn English words in a fun way. The site has over 400 words and photographs, ranging from animals to kitchen appliances. Beneath each photograph, there is an audio button to click and hear the word.

www.yourenglishonline.com

Your English Online (Pascal Brown)

Themes (global, workplace, technical, business, hotel, academic, job search,
health, retail, police) with texts and quizzes at three levels.

http://www.elllo.org/

ELLLO is a free online listening resource of over 1,000 listening activities designed especially for ESL and EFL students and teachers. Most listening activities include images, an interactive quiz, transcript of the audio and downloadable MP3.

http://www.tki.org.nz/

TKI is a bilingual portal-plus web community which provides quality assured educational material for New Zealand teachers, school managers, and the wider education community.

Specific secondary resources for ESOL can be found at the ESOL Teacher Resource Exchange.

http://esolonline.tki.org.nz/

Back to Index

http://www.tki.org.nz/e/assessment/index.php

TKI Assessment: You will find information about all aspects of assessment, including research and readings, online workshops, new assessment tools and resources.

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/asttle/index_e.php

asTTle stands for Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning (He Punaha Aromatawai mo te Whakaako me te Ako). It is an educational resource for assessing literacy and numeracy (in both English and Maori).

http://www.eric.ed.gov/

Educational Resource Information Centre

http://www.vocabulary.co.il

Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun - a vocabulary oriented site that aims to be educational, fun, simple to use and friendly.

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com

Breaking News English - Ready-to-use EFL / ESL lesson plans based on current affairs. Graded news articles, listenings and communicative activities uploaded daily.

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http://www.test-your-english-now.net/

http://www.onlinetutoringworld.com/

http://nzliteracyportal.org.nz/

The New Zealand Literacy Portal is a rich source of free online information for people interested in adult literacy. It is designed to provide a knowledge base of adult literacy information contributed by both New Zealand and international organisations.

The New Zealand Literacy Portal provides access to:

• Items on topics including e-literacy, ESOL, financial literacy, health literacy, learning disabilities, literacy, numeracy and Te Reo Maori
• Practical resources for teachers and learners
• Resources for professional development
• Research reports and case studies
• Journal articles and newsletters
• Local and international events

http://www.dfes.gov.uk/curriculum_esol/

This interactive website is designed to enable teachers to search and explore the UK Adult ESOL curriculum, then save, store and/or print relevant sections in the notebook facility for use in learning plans, schemes of work or lesson plans. The website also features page numbers from the original document for easy reference between the electronic and paper versions.

There is coverage of the four skills, supported for impaired learning of various kinds, standards and levels, progression tables, key grammatical structures, the UK equivalent of Unit Standards, and sample activities.

NOTE: This site has been decommissioned. You will be redirected to an archive.

http://www.esl-galaxy.com/

ESL Lesson Plans , Materials & Activities

ESL Galaxy offers over 2368 free printable worksheets for ESL lesson plans and ESL Activities; and there are more additions every other day .The worksheets include: Board Games, Crosswords, Grammar worksheets, Vocabulary Worksheets, Theme or Topic lesson plans, Pronunciation, Survival English, Song and Video Activities, Word Search Puzzles, Festivals & Holiday Worksheets, Prefixes/Suffixes Word Formation,ESL conversation & Communicative Activities, Game and Writing Templates, Cloze & gap fill exercises, We also have ESL Games and ideas for ESL Classrooms, PowerPoint downloads, Matching & Collocations, Reading & Writing Exercises, Complete Lesson Plans.

Also: Olympic Games -Beijing 2008, China Worksheets, ESL Grammar & Vocabulary Portal, ESL Downloads: PowerPoint, Video Slides, E-books

http://www.extensivereading.net/

This site is a repository for information on Extensive Reading, with an emphasis on its application to Second or Foreign Language Learning. We hope that this site will continue to grow and evolve as more people contribute their own resources to the collection.

Numerous links to other sites, including Free downloadable materials and information on The Extensive Reading Foundation.

http://www.stickyball.net

Stickyball ESL Resources. Great Resources for the Frustrated Teacher. Free grammar and phonics worksheets and handouts; ESL dialogues and conversation; adult ESL, plus tons of games, ideas, writing activities, and GEPT ideas.