- ESL Discussions.com: Over 13,000 conversation questions, hundreds of Word and PDF handouts. Controversial and everyday discussion topics. For speaking practice in and out of class.
- Listen A Minute.com: One-minute listenings with downloadable, printable exercises, online quizzes and Flash activities.
- Famous People Lessons.com: ESL / EFL lessons using biographies and profiles of over 150 famous people from sports, politics, popular culture, movies and more. Free Word and PDF downloads plus MP3 listening.
- ESL Holiday Lessons.com: Lessons and activities on holidays, anniversaries, commemorations and other notable days in the world calendar. Free Word and PDF downloads plus MP3 listening.
- News English Lessons.com: ESL lessons on current events in simpler English. Free downloads plus MP3 listening, interactive activities and flash quizzes.
- Sean Banville on Twitter: 140-character updates on all of my sites.
- Free ESL Materials.com: A site containing links to free materials for ESL teachers and students.
- Business English Materials.com - Free 20-page printable handouts, downloads, MP3 listening and online quizzes.
- Lessons On American Presidents.com - Free, printable handouts, downloads, MP3 listening and online quizzes on U.S. Presidents.
- Lessons On Movies.com - Free printable handouts, downloads, MP3 listening and online quizzes on films and cinema.
- Chizu-cho.com: A website about Chizu-cho (智頭町) - my favourite town in Japan
- Sean Banville.com: My blog (In progress)
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Breaking News English
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Free, ready-to-use EFL / ESL lesson plans on the latest breaking news -in 7 levels. New lessons uploaded twice a week. Each lesson includes a 27-Page PDF containing all-skills activities, a 2-page mini-lesson, 5-speed listening, multi-speed scrolled reading, interactive dictation, 30+ online quizzes... and more.
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<a href="https://breakingnewsenglish.com/">Breaking News English.com</a> - Free, ready-to-use EFL / ESL lesson plans on the latest breaking news -in 7 levels. New lessons uploaded twice a week. Each lesson includes a 27-Page PDF containing all-skills activities, a 2-page mini-lesson, 5-speed listening, multi-speed scrolled reading, interactive dictation, 30+ online quizzes... and more.
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Recommended ESL/EFL Blogs
- Free ESL Materials - Blogs: A page outlining 130+ (May, 2011) ESL and ELT blogs.
- Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day: A constant source of very informative posts, links and updates on all things ESL, ELL and EFL from one of ESL's best bloggers.
- Teacher Reboot Camp: Shelly Terrell's posts on the latest developments and tools available to educators, from Twitter to Second Life.
- Kalinago English: Musings, information, ideas and reviews on ESL teaching and educational technology from blogger Karenne Sylvester.
- Ozge Karaoglu's Blog: About teaching, learning, reflecting and being a 21st century learner & teacher. Contains excellent reviews of the very latest digital tools for the classroom.
- TEFL Matters: From Marisa Constantinides - Thoughts on language teaching, language teacher education and new technologies.
- ESOL Courses: Well crafted and imaginative lessons from Sue Lyon-Jones using YouTube videos and other interactive technology.
- Fluency MC: How to speak fluent English – 34 experts give their tips.
Sites for Teachers and Students
- ELLLO: English Language Listening Lab Online. Listen to English speakers from all over the world. Over 400 listening activities that include quizes and texts. New listening every day.
- Teacher Training Videos: Videos to help teachers to incorporate technology into their teaching. Easy step-by-step screencast guides to the latest classroom technologies. From Russell Stannard.
- Dream Reader: Five different kinds of content, including academic English - downloadable PDFs with quizzes and audio. Independent study and classroom use. New content updated regularly.
- Activities for ESL Students: Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles. Has thousands of contributions from teachers.
- Interesting Things for ESL Students: Quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities.
- Using English.com: Online ESL resources for students and teachers - for ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP.
- eslflow.com: Acollection of links to lessons sorted by theme and level.
- ESL Topics Magazine: Online magazine that offers learners of English an opportunity to express and publish their ideas in English.
- Teachers-Pet.org: A free tool that quickly and easily creates many vocabulary activities from MS Word texts. An add-on to the Word menu bar.
- Simple English News.com: Daily news headlines and very short articles behind the headlines.
- NewsFlashEnglish.com: Weekly lessons on news of the UK. Word and PDF handouts.
- Global Issues in Language Education: Excellent newsletter (click "Back Issues") to "promote global awareness, international understanding, social responsibility and action to solve world problems through content-based language teaching...."
- Princeford English College: Located in Umeda, Osaka, Princeford provides a very personal, at-home and fun learning experience. Private and group lessons available as well as TOEIC, TOEFL and speaking classes.
- MarkBainDesign: Mark designs and builds bespoke websites for individuals, small businesses and& start-ups. He upgraded BreakingNewsEnglish to its current mobile-friendly format.
- Sean Daeley - Professional Voiceovers: Sean provides regular readings of the news for BreakingNewsEnglish as well as many other sites and companies. He has an easygoing yet clear and professional delivery.
- The Consultants-e: Training in educational technology in various formats from face-to-face to virtual, online and on demand. A traditional face-to-face model means trainers come to you, wherever you are in the world, whilst their Virtual Training model can be viewed in your training centre.
- Luv English: Languages Unite Vancouver (LUV) - LUV is an online language academy which seeks to serve the needs of adult English language learners with a wide range of digital programs..
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