ESL Sites

On this page you will find carefully selected sites that may be useful in the classroom, when preparing lessons or simply sites you can recommend to your students!

Videos :

• TED, Ideas worth spreading : http://www.ted.com/
• National Film Board of Canada : http://www.nfb.ca/
• English Business Meeting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_kZT8t75J4

Podcast :

• Business English Pod : http://www.businessenglishpod.com/

Ready-Made Lesson Plans :

• BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/teachingenglish/plans/witn_archive.shtml
• Vocabulary Building Lessons : http://esl.about.com/od/vocabularylessonplans/Vocabulary_Lesson_Plans_for_English_Learners_at_All_Levels.htm

Vanessa Herrick’s Suggestions :

• Other fun games for TESL teachers : http://www.teflgames.com/games.html
• When you have advanced learners who want help with negotiations – send them this link : http://www.how-to-negotiate.com/
• This site might be useful to your low level French students learning English : http://www.anglaisfacile.com/
• If you are at your wits end on how to motivate a particular student, try having them read this article :  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3794479.stm
• In the spirit of the season – a Halloween vocabulary lesson and exercises : http://www.englishpage.com/holidays/weeklylessonhallo.html
• Hey teachers – check out this resource site that has all kinds of exercises for all levels – including video based comprehension work! Working with video might be a nice change for some of you. http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/index.html