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We hope you enjoy using this free resource site for English teachers. Whether you are looking for teaching activities, worksheets, lessons, games, ideas or articles, you've certainly come to the right place. The pages at Teach-This.com are designed to direct you quickly and easily to the ESL/EFL teaching resource you are looking for. You will find lots of new teaching ideas and activities to keep your classes imaginative and interesting.

The best sites with lesson plans and ideas.

Member Roger's inspiring blog of thoughts, ideas

John Graney's fine blog of ideas.

More Attractive, and Sound Smart Even If You Aren't (Yet) Want to sound smart in conversations with grownups or college friends? Make reference to one or two of these books (only if you've really read them!) and you will! There are lots of books in the universe and they're not all required reading for class, so if you were to read only 100 books as a Young Adult, reading these would certainly not be a bad idea.

an nice blog from Lolamento in Spain. Lots of ideas. http://eflclassroom.ning.com/profile/Lolamento

A really simple idea that I predict will go a long way!

links and lots of icebreaking ideas...

Lots of great ideas in the "Practical tips and tasks for using songs" section!

click on the left and get song ideas for your lesson!

It all started over a decade ago when a group of American and British ESL teachers at the Marzio School in the south of France noticed that the traditional materials they were using from The Big Publishers to teach their students simply weren't doing the job they were supposedly designed for. Classroom English is all too often "perfect" with slow short phrases spoken on the audio and video materials used with students. This is fine until the learners actually meet genuine Americans, British people, and other Anglo-Saxons, to discover that nobody, in the real world, speaks "classroom English". The idea was to take the shock out of hearing real English for the first time. Since our students now watch and listen to real people, the shock is built into the method itself, saving learners many hours of frustration during their first weeks and months in new English-speaking environments.

Good tool to generate ideas.

eLanguages is a global online community of teachers sharing ideas and working together with their students on curriculum-relevant projects.

MyVocabulary.com offers free vocabulary lessons, word lists, and word puzzles designed for middle school and high school students. The vocabulary lists are based on books commonly used in middle school and high school classrooms. MyVocabulary.com also offers word lists and activities based on SAT vocabulary. Visitors to MyVocabulary.com will find stand-alone vocabulary lessons as well as activities to complement the reading of specific stories. Applications for EducationIf you're planning a series of lessons on one of "standard books" for middle school or high school, MyVocabulary.com could provide you with some good vocabulary lists and lesson ideas to get started. Students prepping for the SAT should take some time to explore the SAT word puzzles offered by MyVocabulary.com

"Teachers swapping ideas with one another, that's a great thing," he said. "But somebody asking 75 cents for a word puzzle reduces the power of the learning community and is ultimately destructive to the profession."