1)https://speechpeek.com/ SpeechPeek is an online portal that allows
ESL/EFL teachers to create interactive speaking and listening exercises for
students to complete and submit remotely. Using peripheral or embedded laptop
microphones, students record themselves speaking the exercises you provide, and
their results are saved on the site for you to listen to and grade. Teachers
have the opportunity record “solutions” to the exercise in their own voices,
and a feature of the site allows you to provide personalized feedback to each
student on each exercise
2) http://busyteacher.org/ BusyTeacher
is an extensive repository of affordable e-books, downloadable classroom
posters, informative education articles for ESL/EFL teachers and over 10,000
free printable worksheets in dozens of categories. You can find innovative
methods for coaching grammar and punctuation, new teaching ideas, timely
lessons specific to the season and more. Free online tools at BusyTeacher
include applications for creating word search, jumble and letter tile puzzles
as well as a daily warmer that you can slip into your curriculum or use as
inspiration for fun exercises of your own.
3) http://www.esl-lab.com/ contains hundreds of pre-recorded monologues
and discussions on an enormous variety of topics, geared to English speakers at
six distinct levels of skill from beginner to advanced. ESL lab recruits
speakers from more than 60 countries, helping you introduce your students to a
variety of different English accents, and some exercises contain comprehension
games as aids.
4) http://www.eslvideo.com/index.php
takes an innovative approach to
educational technology and turns something students probably do already into an
ESL/EFL learning experience. Users register for an account, choose a YouTube
video and then create quizzes based on the video content, which learners can
then watch, answer and rate. Quizzes are ranked by recommended level of skill
at English and contain a comment section for students to practice their written
English. The diverse content on the site has been created by over 1,400
registered teachers, and registration for the site is free.
5) http://www.tefl.net/ presents
its materials mainly in British English, but nevertheless offers a broad
spectrum of resources for ESL/EFL teachers in the U.S. and internationally.
Features include a worksheet generator, downloadable lesson plans, a discussion
board for teachers, basic information about TEFL qualifications and a job board
for aspiring ESL/EFL professionals worldwide. The name of the site comes from
the acronym TEFL — for Teaching English as a Foreign Language — and the site’s
founder has helped produce a documentary on the subject , called “Talking
TEFL.”
6) http://www.funenglishgames.com/
is a great resource for ESL/EFL teachers in early childhood education, offering
a wide variety of teaching tools aimed at children. Features include a long
list online interactive games and printable puzzles, quizzes and worksheets on
numerous topics. The site also offers suggestions for fun classroom activities,
jokes, anagrams, tongue twisters and a healthy selection of videos focusing on
vocabulary, grammar, history and humor.
7) http://www.tefltunes.com/Default.aspx
uses the principle that music is a great teaching tool and memory aid educators
in the ESL/EFL field instruct students on English grammar and topical
vocabulary at multiple skill levels. The full site operates on a subscription
basis, but a handful of lessons are available for free so you can test out the
concept as a part of your method. Songs can help relax the classroom
atmosphere, introduce students to colloquial English and provide an authentic
cultural dimension to your lessons. If you’ve ever had lyrics stuck in your
head, you’ll understand how this approach works.
8) http://www.busuu.com/enc/
provides online interactive lessons in English (and 10 other languages) using
photos and recordings by native speakers and other types of audio-visual
material. Busuu also offers a mobile app for Android and iOS that contains a
vocabulary of over 3,000 words and covers 150 everyday topics in its lessons.
Combining classroom work with Busuu work might help engage students in multiple
ways.
9) Buzzword is an online word processor by Adobe, and is
perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access
online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop
word processor, but it operates inside a web browser, so there’s no
installation required.
10) http://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/ Crossword puzzle maker is used to make simple crossword puzzles. It turns out that good crossword puzzles of the type found in newspapers are fairly hard to generate, and require a pool of lots of words, not all of which are used. This program puts all of the words you specify (no more, no less) into a simple crossword puzzle.