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This site claims that it will gauge a students' knowledge of vocabulary and provide materials (readings, videos) at the appropriate level, to make comprehension easy enough for learning to be fun, but at the same time slightly challenging for new learning to happen (Krashen's idea of i+1). I have tried it at beginner's level for Italian and was not terribly impressed, but the idea is good. Would love to hear what other people think about this.

Using flashcards with spaced repetition

Free printable worksheets and lesson plans for every busy teacher. Find printable worksheets on any topic: vocabulary, grammar, listening, reading, writing and speaking! As teachers we are really busy so these worksheets can help us when time is short. 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.

This site 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. ELLLO 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 learning aids. The lessons come in video as well as audio formats and can be sorted by topic, skill level or speaker's home country. This site provides students of English language with free listening, reading, and vocabulary practice.

online dictionary that returns examples of texts containing the searched word, rather than just a definition. Actually a corpus more than a dictionary. Very useful to learn vocabulary in context and special clusters of words (idiomatic expressions, collocations)