Excuse me ESL teachers, but can you recommend any good lesson planning websites for adults learning English as a second language that you find useful? I've had a look around and it's like sorting through a needle in a hay stack.
Feast
We celebrated my niece's coming out into society at the age of one month last night. The celebrations included a 12 course meal including BYO (by the hosts) shark's fin, dyed red hard boiled eggs and gingered pig's trotters. The older women on the guest list each brought a doggy bag of the trotters home. I was too busy eating and entertaining VE with a mah jong set building objects of architectural amazement with the tiles to take any photos. I also became the "luckily" relative of choice to dump the kid with when each parent needed some R and R time. I hope I haven't caught a cold. My niece sneeze-sprayed on me a few times. She also flatulated on me, at which point I handed the infant back to its creators. I don't want to be caught with possible spillage of toxic waste on my clothing.
Driving
I drove all by myself to my brother's place yesterday afternoon. It was scary as hell and quite exciting at the same time. I only got honked at from behind once when I did a sneaking into the right lane manoeuvre with very little space. I got lost twice but was able to make amends by using the force. I'm going to drive my brother's hybrid car this weekend and learn the route to my nephew's school so I can drop him off school next week. The paper's have been signed for insurance coverage.
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Different sites for different skills naturally but here is a list of some that I find useful :
BBC English
ESL podcasts Mostly low level listening materials
Penguin Dossiers Intermediate to upper-int reading and listening materials. I generally use the bare bones and make up my own questions/activities.
Debate/discussion topics Some interesting topics and can be adapted from speaking to writing as you see fit.
One Stop English Exactly what the name says - this site has it all. I know loads of teachers that swear by this site.
In addition to those ESL podcasts I also use segments from Hack with my better students and also tell them to listen to it just for their own practice - download from the site or at iTunes.
Not sure whether you're asking for yourself or setting up a student to self-study but feel free to let me know what you need. It's always possible that I've created something on it or have something on file that I can get to you.
I used the BBC and OneStop; other useful links here. Jadd
Wow! Thanks guys. This is an excellent list. I've got some private students one-on-one starting next week. I'm not sure what they want to achieve, reading, writing etc. but I'm sure I'll find out.
Starbucks will be my classroom. I honestly think Starbucks should start up their own language school.
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