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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.

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Exercises, Web-based Materials, Workshops and links for Teaching and Learning, WebQuests español/ English

English as a Foreign/Second Language in Secondary Education. Exercises, Web-based Materials, Workshops and links for Teaching and Learning, WebQuests español/ English

"WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. We especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners. We want WordSift to be a useful tool, but we also want it to be fun and visually pleasing. We would be happy if you think of it playfully - as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and explore the richness and wonders of language!"

Some nice materials and lesson plans specific to the culture of Britain - would be great for the coming Olympics in London.

Teachers download materials to make and share internationally, songs of peace

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A place where professional adults can learn English and exchange knowledge for free! Anyone can download the video lessons, and Sozo Exchange also offers additional study materials such as complete transcripts of the video lessons, audio exercises, and study guides-all are available free of charge!

Got this from The English Blog

# Never use technology for the sake of using technology. Ensure instead that the use of technology is warranted within your schemes of work and that it will help you achieve your lesson objectives. # Use streaming video in your classroom. The advent of broadband has facilitated the inclusion of video straight from the internet within lessons. Authentic video material from sites like YouTube or national TV broadcasters' websites, such as TVE or Canal+ are a fantastic way to expose reluctant teenagers to the popular culture other reluctant teenagers enjoy in their native countries. # Use more music. Teenagers are fanatical about music. The likelihood is that they use iTunes and so should you! Find out what type of music they are into and try to get similar music in the target language, which you can then use in your lessons. # Use teleconferencing tools, such as Skype, to put your students in touch with students in partner schools abroad. They'll realise there are other people in the same situation in other countries and might even end up establishing relationships they can follow up using MSM Chat, Hotmail, etc. # Create your own interactive exercises. You know your pupils' strengths and weaknesses better than anyone, so why be stuck with exercises done by other people for other people? Make your own using tools such as Hot Potatoes or game makers from ContentGenerator.net or LanguagesOnline Australia and then get your school teccie to put them on the school's website or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). You can see my interactive Spanish exercises here. # Use your interactive whiteboard more effectively. Go on a course and learn the basics. A little knowledge goes a long way helping you create more effective interactive classroom activities for you and your pupils. I have posted some tutorials here. # Create your own podcasts. They are technically easy to do and once they are done they can be downloaded again and again, year after year. Think about them a

David's materials on bringing happiness into the classroom

Holocaust educational materials and resources from Israel

nternational Express Elementary consists of a Teacher Resource Book, a Student Book with Pocket Book and cassette, and finally a Student Workbook and cassette. Therefore there is a lot of material and information contained in this package, and makes a valuable contribution to elementary level education for adult learners who are trying to keep pace with modern communication methods.

International Express - A book review.

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The JBL Flip 5 Eco Edition, which is composed of eco-friendly materials and can be personalised with your own piece of art or design, is an example of one of JBL's personalised speakers. Another illustration is the JBL Xtreme 3, which has a range of features like waterproofing, a rechargeable battery, and great sound quality and can be customised with your name or initials.

his web site was designed for EFL (or ESOL) teachers but of course, it's open for everyone else to have a look around (if you want). * The site's main purpose is to offer some of the old TEFL work-sheets that I've made and that I hope you might be able to use in your classes.

My English Images, a site for language teachers working with ESL and EFL students. See something you like? Click the images of the worksheets to download a PDF version you can use in your own classes. Everything you see here on the site was created for my own students in my spare time after classes and during breaks between semesters. It's been a lot of work to create all these things and there is more uploaded every month. So check in at the start of each month for updates.

Member Stein's resource sharing website geared for younger learners. http://eflclassroom.com/profile/stein