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"The Newseum displays these daily newspaper front pages in their original, unedited form. Some front pages may contain material that is objectionable to some visitors. Viewer discretion is advised." This would be very handy, and easy to use, for adult ESL/EFL, social studies classes, or cross-cultural study: What is considered important in each location? How is the same news story treated differently in different cities or different parts of the world? Excellent for visual learners.

This would be very useful for h.s. social studies or an adult ESL/EFL class where students can compare how the news is presented in different newspapers, or compare what is considered important in different cultures.

All you ever wanted to know about ESL/EFL grammar for pre- to high-intermediate. Explanation, lists of parts of speech, quizzes, etc. Sorry, the page does not give a home institutuion, but appears to be a college in Canada.

Here are all of Randall's sites for American English listening and pronunciation on one easy to use web site.

Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links A huge compendium of things for students to do online, as well as articles for teachers on pedagogy and lesson plans. practical focus and strong ESL/EFL orientation. --EHS

Recommends Ferris & Hedgcock and Kroll

"Here you can start thinking about what you want to do with the rest of your life. This Web site was built to help you plan for the future. What will you do after high school? Will you work? Go to college? Live in a place of your own? By using this Web site, you can plan for your future right now!" Uses polls and questionaires as well as bulletin boards for teens to communicate. Not specifically oriented to ESL/EFL, but of interest to a difficult age group.

I hate lists, but this is a good one and is categorized by subject. Not specifically for ESL/EFL.

Check out the extensive list for topics of interest to EFL/ESL teachers. These are interesting and professional-looking, each about 30-40 min. on embedded video.

"CK-12.org is a non-profit organization dedicated to education. Their website offers a large collection of resources for students and teachers like Brain Genie which I previously shared. The bulk of their resources are math and science centered where students can learn about chemistry, physics, algebra, and geometry just to name four. They also offer resources for other content areas as well including history, English, and SAT prep. Their website is free to join and offers a wealth of learning resources and activities. Their site offers articles, quizzes, interactive lessons, videos and students can keep track of their learning as they complete lessons and activities and members can upload their own resources to the site as well. " This looks like a good attempt to crowd-source materials for K-12 in the U.S. Could have uses for ESL/EFL, particularly with content- and project-based learning.

"Why do many students have difficulty transitioning from ESL programs to the mainstream curriculum? One reason is that many of them don't understand what is expected in U.S. colleges and universities. To address this problem, I decided to create a video series that gives students the opportunity to practice with authentic examples of the courses they will soon enroll in. Also crucial would be devising accompanying materials that would help students learn from the examples provided. It's one thing to watch a YouTube lecture from Yale or MIT, but quite another to understand a class within the context of academic norms in the United States. " Excellent advice for getting EFL students ready to study online or in the U.S.

"What you see here are candid submissions from people who have engaged in a little exercise. Here's how it works. Think about the word Race. How would you distill your thoughts, experiences or observations about race into one sentence that only has six words?" This National Public Radio blog makes the perfect starting point for a multicultural lesson for ESL/EFL students. The entries are sheer poetry and give a great deal of content to think about the issue of race and one's place in society, for better or worse. Each 6-word "poem" makes us, as one contributor said, "Look past race to underlying humanity."

This looks like a cute app for the very young. You upload pictures and arrange them in a set, create one or more questions for each, which you record. The user taps to hear the questions and taps a place on the picture to answer it. TinyTap also has a market with free and purchaseable games already made. Lots of potential for ESL vocabulary practice, since once you get by the interface it doesn't look childish at all.

Talk moves are hand signals, ways of expressing agreement, showing your can change your mind, etc. This set is well explained and can really increase class participation among ESL students. An excellent teacher practice.

"The Common Core standards don't just suggest novel technology use as a way to "engage students," but rather requires learners to make complex decisions about how, when, and why to use technology-something educators must do as well." Thoughtful and precise blog article with quotes from the Common Core. This may be useful for EFL as well as ESL teachers both inside and outside the U.S.

This is more a SAT-prep lesson, but could be adapted as an activity for an ESL/EFL class. Video shows the entire lesson and students interacting with each other to help remember and analyze to select the right answer. Can be used as a pre-reading or review activity.

This very full crowd-sourced site, "We are Teachers," hashundreds of lesson plans in various subjects, including some especially for ELL's (ESL). Many lesson directly link to the Common Core Standards. There are also community and education directories, links to grants and contests, and a place to organize and store your professional development gear and lesson plans.

Distributed proofreaders helps public domain books become e-books by using volunteer proof-readers. While not an ESL/EFL site, this is a fascinating project that can make ebooks available for free to your students. It reminds me of the book-memorizers' work in Fahrenheit 451. Volunteer and proofread as much or as little as you like. A page a day would be great, and all work is double-checked.

Continuing improvements in speech recognition technology may lead to some useful CALL applications to ESL/EFL: "By the use of automatic speech recognition (ASR), oral tasks can be practiced more easily because it is the computer itself which understands and gives feedback to the learner so that the learner feels much more involved, and in contrast to traditional methods, a learner can enjoy engaging in activities more."

This lesson explores imagery in a translation of Beowulf, but could be applied to any poem or literary narrative (including scientific readings). The teacher walks us through two lessons that have middle-school kids (7th grade/ 12 yrs old) use their own words to create mental pictures. This could be very effect for ESL students if vocabulary aids were also provided on the board. Helps with reading and effective writing.

Addresses the Common Core Standards, which the teacher gives to the students as a handout. This lesson in reading literature prepares students for a writing assignment. Useful for EFL as well as for ESL teachers in the U.S. Models questioning and defining vocabulary through images and real-life experiences.