The Best EFL Teaching Resources
There are so many great
online resources for EFL teachers out there it can be hard to know where to
start. The resources listed here cover a wide range of bases. Whether you’re
teaching exclusively online or in the classroom, you’ll be sure to find plenty
of ideas and materials to help you create and develop amazing lessons.
This is the ultimate list of
EFL Teaching resources that I wann share with you, but feel free to share your
own with us in the comments below!
Lesson plans
Any EFL teacher will tell
you about the importance of lesson planning. They’ll also tell you that it’s important
to always have a back up. Below, you can find thousands of lesson plans,
worksheets, and resources to help you create lessons – you’ll never be short of
material!
Designed specifically for
newly-qualified EFL teachers, our lesson plans packs have been created by TEFL
experts and have been tried and tested.
Busy Teacher boasts 17,300
completely free, printable worksheets for EFL teachers. Whatever the level,
whatever the topic, you’ll very likely find what you need here.
A large library of lesson
plans and flashcards, all nicely designed. Access to ESL Library materials
isn’t free but subscriptions start from as low as under £4 a month.
Like ESL Library, One Stop English is a subscription service priced at £42 annually. It has a database of over 9000 resources, with new materials added weekly.
Not the most attractive or
easy to navigate website on this list, but TEFLtastic has over 2,000 printable
worksheets covering a range of language points and levels.
Apps
Your students will likely be
active smartphone users, so introducing them to language learning apps can be a
really convenient (and fun!) way to teach certain aspects of English. There are
also lots of apps out there to help keep you organised as a teacher.
Kahoot is a learning
platform centred around games. You can create your own quizzes and your
students can play along using their smartphone. For educators a basic plan is
free, with more features available from £3 a month.
Memrise
A great aid for vocabulary
learning. Memrise uses flashcards and memory techniques to help language
learning.
Looking for an
organisational tool? Evernote allows you to keep track of everything and is
conveniently synced across devices.
This is a fun app for
students, allowing them to play word games teaching intermediate-level
vocabulary. If you’re looking for something different from flashcards this can
be a great option to introduce.
The British Council’s
LearnEnglish Grammar app allows students to practice their English with
thousands of free questions available.
Virtual classrooms
Whether you’re teaching
online or in a classroom, a virtual classroom can be a great tool for you and
your students. You can create your own learning environment that allows you to
share resources, issue assignments, and track your students’ progress.
With Google Classroom you
can easily share and grade assignments you give students. If you’re already
using other Google services such as docs and calendar, it’s all easily
integrated.
Edmodo is like a social
network for teachers and their students. It’s a great way to share resources,
hand out assignments and more.
Looking to create your own
online courses for students to follow? As well as being a virtual classroom,
WizIQ gives teachers the ability to create their own professional online courses,
which can be marketed and sold.
LearnCube is a user-friendly
virtual classroom boasting lots of useful features for language teachers to
take advantage of.
Others resources
While there are dedicated
channels on YouTube for teaching and learning English, there are endless ways
other content on the platform can be incorporated into your lessons.
ESL Brains (formerly
Ted4ESL) publish worksheets based around various videos, including many TED
talks. You can browse lesson plans based on topic and level and if you’re
looking for some really interesting topics to spark conversation and inspire
your students this is a great site to have bookmarked!
This website takes engaging
video content and creates quizzes related to them for language learners. A
great way to bring pop culture into your lessons.
Students can use this
website directly and teachers can source inspiration and tips by watching the
videos hosted on engVID. Over 1,500 videos recorded by experienced EFL
teachers.
A (sadly) now defunct
YouTube channel, Elemental English produced easy-to-follow videos focused on
grammar and pronunciation.
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