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ESL Teacher Handouts, Grammar Worksheets and Printables. Free English grammar and vocabulary worksheets and printable handouts, for English language and English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers and instructors to use in the classroom or other teaching environment. Get our ESL handouts newsfeed: Beginner English Handouts Adjectives and Adverbs Articles Comparatives & Superlatives Conjunctions Determiners A, An, Some or One (8) General Modals Must & Can (10) Nouns Parts of Speech Prepositions Present Simple Pronouns Pronunciation Pronunciation of 'th' (10) Questions Relative Pronouns Relative pronouns- Which & Where (10) Since and For Some & Any Spelling and Punctuation Syllables How many syllables?

Verbs and Tenses Vocabulary Intermediate English Handouts Conditionals Direct & Indirect Speech Indirect speech (15) Future Forms Gap Filling Gerunds and Infinitives Idioms Singular & Plural- Noun + Noun (10) Passive Past Simple Phrasal Verbs Prefixes & Suffixes Suffixes: -dom, -hood, & -ship (10) Present Perfect Question Tags Indirect Questions (10) Which syllable is stressed? Collocation. 115 Leading Sources for Teaching & Learning ESL – Masters in ESL. English is one of the most widely spoken languages on Earth, and is widely considered the international language of business. Knowing at least some English is essential for success in many careers, and it is estimated that nearly 400 million people have learned English as their second language. Learning English opens up opportunities in a way unrivaled by other languages, and people who choose to teach English as a second language (ESL) are providing a great service to their students.

Learning and teaching ESL cannot be confined to a classroom. Immersion is the best way to truly absorb any second language. The sites compiled here offer free tools and paid lessons, general tips and specific exercises, and much more information to make teaching and learning ESL as fun and easy as possible, inside and outside the classroom. These sites covering all angles of ESL teaching and learning are a good place to start for anyone who is interested in ESL, but not sure how to begin. Back to Top. Un exemple d'EPI Histoire/Anglais 3e - Le blog de Monsieur Cador. Brainstorming Tools | Online Collaboration & Decision Making Tool. Popplet. WimpyKid SeriesTeachingGuide. Listening strategies | Welcome to English, step 3-4 (Spring 2015) Listening Listening is considered to be the most difficult skill by language learners because we not only have to understand the grammar of the language, but also the speed, pronunciation, intonation and choice of words that the speaker uses.

All these factors combined make listening very hard. Luckily, there are some tips and help for you and here I will talk about some strategies to help you become a better listener. Strategies Pre-listening Pre-listening activities are an important part of becoming a better listener. It is important to predict what you are going to hear. In your own language, in many situations you can be one step ahead of the speaker. Have you ever found yourself finishing other people´s sentences for them? – Think about what you already know before you listen: the topicgenre (news, interview, speech..)the situationthe country in which the language is spoken – Signals such as: “I´m afraid that..” -Connectors such as: , cheese and tomatoes for the main idea? Like this: No-prep warm up activities. Warm-up activities play a crucial role in the English language classroom.

Students often arrive to class feeling tired or preoccupied, making it important to gently transition them into the learning environment rather than diving straight into challenging grammar or vocabulary tasks. A well-designed warm-up can engage students, sparking their interest and encouraging active participation. It can also serve as a review of previously taught material or as an introduction to a new topic. Additionally, these warm-up activities can double as go-to fillers for those moments when your lesson plan wraps up early or unexpected issues arise, ensuring a seamless classroom experience for both you and your adult learners.

The great thing about the activities on this page is that they all require no preparation at all. However, if you keep a copy of our Collaborative Crosswords book in your bag, then you’ll have another perfect class-starting activity. Teaching Online Quick questions Mixed-up question. Flashcards. Le Serious Game, outil pédagogique puissant pour vos formations. Oxford Bookworms. English learning, teaching and testing. Internet TESL Journal (For ESL/EFL Teachers) For the Teachers – Outils. Lesson plans & ideas for teachers. Simple ESL. ESL / EFL Teachers. English Test-free online practice tests. English Worksheets. ESL Teacher Resources. Learning Foreign Languages Fluent Land. Lesson Plans to Download. This page was originally designed to share my materials with other English teaching assistants in France, especially those who have no experience in teaching ESL yet. I've also included worksheets that I used for private English lessons in France as well as some of the materials I used in my ESL classes in the United States.

Feel free to use them as you'd like. Some of the lessons listed under the Assistant section can also be used for private lessons and vice versa. There is a page of English grammar if you need a review. If you want to use videos with subtitles in your classes, Yabla and FluentU offer many videos on a variety of topics. Buy English as a Second Language Lesson Plans! Buy ESL Lesson Plans Book Recommendations If you are new to teaching English to non-native speakers, I recommend trying some Teaching English courses at Udemy and the following books: English Assistant in France Lessons Classroom Conversation and Speaking Pronunciation Listening Random Vocabulary & Grammar.

Language worksheets. English Activities and Exercises. Learn English Online. ReadWriteThink. Teach them English – Adam Simpson's Blog. Teacherplanet.com. Complete Guide to Asking Questions. Lesson Plans For Teachers. 37 Ways to Help Kids Learn to Love Reading. Posted 03/26/2015 9:46AM | Last Commented 12/29/2015 4:56AM “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons These are powerful words, and they speak to the power of reading to open doors to empathy, adventure, and learning. That's why we put together a presentation of some of our favorite ways to help kids learn to love reading, gathered from the contributions of Edutopia's educators and parents.

As we compiled this presentation, we noticed four major themes: Choice: Children are more likely to read when their interests are taken into account and they have control of how and what to read.Availability: Opportunities to read should be plentiful and books (and other reading material) available in all the places children visit.Safety & Support: Safe, comfortable reading spaces encourage visitors. You'll find all 37 tips in the presentation below.

English Listening Level Test - How well do you understand English? Which English exam is right for you? More than 20 free listening tests for IELTS. This is my selection of the best free practice listening sites for IELTS on the internet. Not all of these tests are exactly formatted to the IELTS exam but they are excellent for practising your listening skills. Before you go there may I suggest you check out these pages and resources: Tips on how to improve your listening skills How to understand IELTS listening questions IELTS band score calculator Download the listening answer sheet Pearson Longman iTest – top recommendation This is an excellent place to start if you need to want to find out your approximate level. I-Tests,com BBC 6 minute English This is a fantastic resource for IELTS listening. 6 minute English Parapal This is a very interesting site to explore. Working from home e-learning cars Again, these are not formatted according to the exam.

Open Forum 1 – Pre-Intermediate Open Forum 2 – Intermediate Open Forum 3 – Upper Intermediate to advanced AApress Download Academic listening Randall”s ESL Cyber Listening Lab practice 2 – part 1. English Listening Level Test - How well do you understand English? Which English exam is right for you? 10_principes_de_la_memorisation. Les 4 piliers de l'apprentissage d'après les neurosciences. D’après Stanislas Dehaene, psychologue cognitif, neuroscientifique et professeur au Collège de France, les neurosciences cognitives ont identifié au moins quatre facteurs qui déterminent la vitesse et la facilité d’apprentissage. 1. L’attention L’attention est la capacité que nous avons à nous ouvrir à la réalité : l’attention ouvre notre esprit. Audrey Akoun et Isabelle Pailleau, auteurs de La pédagogie positive, la définissent comme Le mouvement cérébral qui va nous permettre d’orienter notre action en fonction d’un objectif, d’un centre d’intérêt… Grâce à elle, nous captons, par nos cinq sens, les différentes informations en provenance soit de notre environnement, soit de notre ressenti émotionnel ou psychologique.

Stanislas Dehaene ajoute que l’attention sert à sélectionner les informations, module massivement l’activité cérébrale et facilite l’apprentissage. Mais l’attention peut être sélective. Quelles conséquences pour l’enseignement ? 2. Stanislas Dehaene écrit : 3. 4. Learning to learn / Learning to learn / Media gallery / Curriculum stories. I think the essence of learning to learn, for me, is a deep-seated attitude to your own mind, in a way.

It’s having believed and become interested in the expandability of your own capacities. Often in everyday language we either have a very crude language or we have a belief that you’re just kind of born, you know, ‘I’m lousy at Maths’ or ‘I can’t draw’ or ‘I’m good at French’ or all that way of speaking implies fixity. Like, you know I’m just lucky or unlucky with the amount of mental ability and different kinds of mental abilities that they gave me. But what’s now come to be called, I would prefer this terminology, what’s come to be called the emerging science of learnable intelligence, that’s David Perkins phrase, is really showing that there may be fixed limits, there may be some limits for each us which are different about how much we can expand our mental capacity and skillfulness.

But those limits are set broadly. 2990. Natcomm. The differences between English and other languages. 37 Ways to Help Kids Learn to Love Reading. Innovating pedagogy 2015. English Lessons with Alex (engVid AlexESLvid) One-to-one Methodology: Ten activities. By Nicola Meldrum and Lindsay Clandfield Ten activities for teaching one-to-one classes 1. Guess the news story Collect a week’s worth of newspapers (in any language) and cut out pictures of news stories from each one. Aim for a selection of five or six topical news pictures from that week. Then take an A4 or letter size sheet of heavy paper (or card). Cut a small square out of the middle of this card. 2. Conduct a conversation but only in written form. 3. Bring a pack of Post-it notes to the class one day. 4. Many one to one students are business people who are expected to learn English for their job. 5.

One-to-one classes are often extremely mobile, and teachers can take advantage of this. 6. Prepare a series of question prompts on a topic. . - / like sports? First interview the student using the prompts. 7. Cuisinaire rods are little coloured wooden sticks that are used in teaching maths. 8. 9. 10. Let us take some of the pressure off you. Creative ways to teach vocabulary. Here is the third extract from the latest British Council publication 'Creativity in the English Language classroom' edited by Alan Maley and Nik Peachey. In this chapter, Judit Fehér gives tips to teachers on how to integrate creativity into everyday classroom practice. 'In this chapter, I aim to give tips to teachers on doing just that: to integrate creativity into everyday classroom practice and typical language learning activities and exercises.

I will use a framework of thinking that is used by many teachers around the world to think about and plan their lessons, namely: Working with the language system: Presenting and practising vocabulary.Presenting and practising grammar.Improving pronunciation. Working with skills: Developing speaking.Developing writing.Developing listening and reading. With each typical classroom/course book activity discussed, I will use the following format: How is the activity normally done?

Background to the activities Presenting and practising vocabulary. 10 conseils pour monter un projet « Tablettes » dans votre établissement. La rentrée se profile à l’horizon. Il est temps de se mettre en quête du lieu où l’on a rangé son cartable et ses bonnes résolutions pour l’année 2013-2014. Voici, pour vous aider, dix arguments pour monter un dossier de subventions pour des tablettes.

Et oui, surprenant aux premiers abords, mais faites le calcul des coûts sur 4 ans pour le lancement de postes informatiques. Ce qui coûte cher ne sont pas les machines, mais l’environnement nécessaire pour accueillir ces ordinateurs (prises électriques, réseau, mobilier, salle et le coût humain de la maintenance…). La force principale des tablettes est leur très faible coût d’entretien.

Reste le point primordial de la sécurité des terminaux. La prise en main d’une tablette ne demande pas « trop de temps ». Si on fait le tour des items du B2i (Brevet Informatique et Internet) école, collège ou lycée, on constate que tous les items du B2i sont accessibles à présent simplement. >> Lire : Exemple. Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students (Fun English Study) Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students (Fun English Study)

25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area. 25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area Reading is reading. By understanding that letters make sounds, we can blend those sounds together to make whole sounds that symbolize meaning we can all exchange with one another. Without getting too Platonic about it all, reading doesn’t change simply because you’re reading a text from another content area. Only sometimes it does. Science content can often by full of jargon, research citations, and odd text features. Social Studies content can be an interesting mix of itemized information, and traditional paragraphs/imagery. Literature? This all makes reading strategies somewhat content area specific. But if you’d like to start with a basic set of strategies, you could do worse than the elegant graphic above from wiki-teacher.com.

Looking for related curricula ideas? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. To the above list, we’d add: 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area. 21 Anchor Charts That Teach Reading Comprehension. This blog is sponsored by Questar Assessment, a K–12 assessment-solutions provider focused on building a bridge between learning and accountability. Reading comprehension is one of the most complex skills to teach.

It’s also arguably the most important. Students will only succeed in other subject areas (and make it a lifelong habit to read for pleasure) if they understand what they are reading on an ingrained level. Many factors go into the development of reading comprehension, including building an extensive vocabulary, asking questions, making connections and visualization. Below, you’ll find 21 anchor charts that tackle some of the trickiest parts of teaching comprehension. Use them as models for your own teaching and pass them along to a teacher friend! 1. SOURCE: Life in Fifth Grade 2.

SOURCE: McDee’s Busy Bees 3. SOURCE: Head Over Heels for Teaching 4. SOURCE: Creating Readers and Writers 5. SOURCE: Just Reed 6. SOURCE: Teacher Trap! 7. SOURCE: Teaching With a Mountain View 8. 9. 10. 11. Twenty Ways to Improve Your English (Slideshare 2) Themes 7-9 – WebEnglish.se. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Now that 'King Arthur: Legend of the Sword' is hitting the cinemas around the world, WebEnglish.se presents a new Theme Page of King Arthur with all the usual ingredients for lower intermediate and intermediate level students, i.e. year 5-9 in Swedish Compulsory Schools.

The theme page is created around a downloadable… In "Teaching Matters" WebEnglish.se News During this Summer Break, WebEnglish.se has once again undergone a cleaning and updating phase. There is a new category of themes for intermediate students, History 7-9. Besides the older historical themes, this category now includes both legends and documentaries from British History.As more and more classes are being provided with digital… In "Featured Post" Halloween Scare WebEnglish.se has updated and added links to the Halloween theme. Emotional Intelligence: What is it? And why do employers want emotionally intelligent employees? - The Career Development Center Blog.

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