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10 lifesaving websites for ESL teachers. Lisa has asked me for some recommendations regarding useful sites for EFL teachers and I’m happy to make a little compilation of the places I visit most often to find ideas, inspirations, betimes lesson plans if I feel exceptionally lazy (The Liberation of the Garden Gnomes by Peter Vahle is just shiny!)

10 lifesaving websites for ESL teachers

And share them with you. So, here we go – my ten favourite websites: Hope you’ll like my choice and give these sites a go. I must admit, my life as a teacher is WAY easier thanks to those wonderful people contributing there, but I also appreciate their influence when I see my own teaching style spiced up with different inspirations and ideas – I feel motivated to change, experiment, develop, to make my classes as interesting as I can.

Enjoy the recommendations I’ve shared and if you know some interesting sites, please, share them with me as well. Enjoy! Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 5 Great YouTube Channels for Lear... September 2 , 2015 Youtube is undoubtedly a great source of educational content to use in class with your students.

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 5 Great YouTube Channels for Lear...

It also hosts tons of channels that provide instructional tutorials specifically tailored for different learning needs and styles. We have already reviewed some of these channels in previous posts and today we are sharing with you some of our favourite YouTube channels for learning English. You can use them with your ELL/ESL/EFL students to enhance their grasp of English in different areas: speaking, writing, listening , vocabulary, and grammar. Språklänkportalen - Startsidan. Teachit - English teaching resources. Quill.org — Interactive Writing and Grammar. Webbresurser för att öva engelska.

Exploring English: Language and Culture — British Council. 20 Websites To Help You Learn A New Language. Although there are endless resources to learn languages on the web, it is often difficult to find quality websites that offer structured lesson plans.

20 Websites To Help You Learn A New Language

Here is a list of 20 links that I would trust when I learn new languages. Hope you find them useful too! 1. Duolingo – Duolingo offers six languages with grammar and vocabulary lessons. Earn points and unlock levels as you go along. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Interactive and multimedia learning blocks. Describing photos (comparing, contrasting and speculating)

You are going to practise language for; Describing photosComparing and contrasting photos (discussing similarities and differences)Speculating on what might be happeningReacting to photos (giving opinions) Discuss Look at the presentation.

Describing photos (comparing, contrasting and speculating)

Follow the instructions and talk about some of the photos. English skills. Grammar. Intermediate 7-9 - WebEnglish.se.se. WebEnglish. NB!

WebEnglish

This theme uses a new feature for vocabulary practice 1:1. The teacher can register their classes in order to follow the students’ progress, but this is not necessary. The students can study the vocabulary list, but to practise the words they need to log in. Otherwise, the programme would not be able to help them learn the difficult words. Even without 1:1, the teacher can project the practice on an (Interactive)WhiteBoard. Background A Part of Malala’s Speech in Oslo followed by some illustrated extracts Nobel Peace Prize winners A slideshow of all the winners.

Warm-up Timeline Malala’s life in a timeline. Vocabulary Malala Yousafzai Vocabulary Learn 50 words from this theme. Lesson Plans Honoring Malala How one teacher worked with her 3rd year EL learners. Books. » 7 Wonderful Books That You Can Read in Less Than A Day. We love Sunday reading.

» 7 Wonderful Books That You Can Read in Less Than A Day

We also love the feeling of accomplishment when finishing a book (and inching closer to our annual Goodreads goals). In honor of all this, we’ve put together a short list of short books and novellas that can be read in a day or less. So pick a book or two, pour yourself a cozy beverage, and dive in. (We love hearing from you! Be sure to let us know what you’re reading in the comments and/or what you would add to our recommendations.) Recommended for lovers of satirical dystopias. “The Zoo is a political satire with a dystopian twist. Every-Day Edits. Arbetsuppgifter kopplade mot Europeisk språkportfolio. Om ni använder er av Europeisk språkportfolio i er undervisning i språk så har jag tips på en sida där ni kan hitta material på den nivå eleverna befinner sig, dvs A1, A2, B1 och B2.

Sidan hittar ni British Council och den är sorterad efter förmågorna (skills). Nedan ser ni vad varje nivå motsvarar för årskurs; nivå A1-A2 ska du ha nått till i slutet av år 6 och nivå B1/B2 år 9, som motsvarar nivå 5. Det kan jämföras mot att det andraspråk eleverna läser i grundskolan är satt till nivå 2, dvs B2 och SVA som ligger på B2 i år 9. Läs mer här. Ni hittar fler sidor här som använder sig av nivån intermediate (där upper motsvarar B2/C1 och lower A2/B1 fritt tolkat). Språkträningssidor. Här finns länkar till olika typer av sidor som är skapade just för språkträning.

Språkträningssidor

Du hittar allt från väldigt enkelt uppbyggda ”fylla-i-övningar” för träning av vokabulär och grammatik, som kanske passar somliga av dina elever, till mer kreativa övningar. ~ ANNAS LÄNKBURKAR ~ MULTIPURPOSE ESL WEBSITES. Graham Davies: Language Learning Websites.