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Tools to help you in the classroom, both virtual and real.
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Leoxicon Blog
Phonemic Transcription
Activities, ideas and tips.
Because I'm too lazy to type it out...

Leoxicon
PhoTransEdit Leo Selivan's blog for EFL/ESL teachers.
PhoTransEdit - English Phonetic Activities, ideas and useful tips with a
Transcription Editor lexical touch
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Linguahouse
Improve participation online
Lesson plans (paid) but with some sample lessons.
Some things here that could be adapted to EFL...

Linguahouse - Innovation in
8 Strategies to Improve Learning and Teaching English
Participation in Your Virtual 1. DISPLAY A QUESTION Expemo
Classroom displays a question or task. Try to recall
In every classroom, there are students the correct response from memory. Then
who always have their hand raised to click 'Show Answer' to display the
participate, and those who are hesitant correct answer. 2. RATE YOUR
to engage. Whether they're introverted, tend to think awhile before RESPONSE Compare your response to the correct answer by pressing
they contribute, or are just having a bad day, it can be hard to bring one of the three grade buttons.
kids into discussions who are reluctant to add their voices.
LINGUAHOUSE
EDUTOPIA

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ESL Printables
LiveWorksheets
Worksheets and activities
Liveworksheets allows you to transform your traditional
printable worksheets (doc, pdf, jpg...) into interactive online
exercises with self-correction, which we call "interactive ESLPRINTABLES

worksheets". 

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Buzzin Live
Online gameshow buzzer. 
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British Council
BuzzIn.live! Online Buzzer System
BuzzIn.live - The simple online buzzer Teachers resources and lesson plans
system!
BUZZIN

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 TeachingEnglish | British Council | Demo lesson: teaching
BBC pronunciation online - The Teacherr
Covid-19 support for teachers and (Lachesis Braick)
teacher educators: See a list of our Para português, clique aqui. In this quick
practical resources and professional snippet I do a task I like to call The
development opportunities to support Napkin Task or The Toilet Paper Task.
you during the Covid-19 crisis. TeachingEnglish is brought to you by I've given it this name on purpose, as all words featured in both names
the British Council, the world's English teaching experts. If you want have aspirated consonants.
help planning your lessons, you've come to the right place! THE TEACHERR (LACHESIS BRAICK)
TEACHINGENGLISH | BRITISH COUNCIL | BBC

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Online EFL Boardgames
ESL Library
Convert your paper games to online ones.
Lesson plans (paid) but with some sample lessons.

Sample Lessons - ESL Library

Enjoy a sneak preview of what ESL
Library has to offer with a sample from
each lesson section.
ESLLIBRARY

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Busyteacher
Lesson plans and activities (free)
Two FREE ways to create and play board games in your online
class
BusyTeacher: Free Printable by The Teacherr
Worksheets For Busy English YOUTUBE
Teachers
Browse our database of 17,300 free
printable worksheets and lesson plans
for teaching English. No matter if you FIONA DONALDSON APR 29, 2020 07:56AM
teach kids or adults, beginners or advanced students - BusyTeacher
will save you hours in preparation time. No registration required. PowerPoint Recording
Latest ESL articles for busy teachers:
Record your grammar explanation in PowerPoint for flipped
BUSY TEACHER
lessons.

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Viral ELT
Video lessons for higher-level students.

VIRALELT.WORDPRESS.COM

How to record yourself speak in PowerPoint - Record Slide

Show ✔
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Demo Lesson: Pron Online YOUTUBE

Watch a lesson demonstrating online pron exercises.

FIONA DONALDSON APR 28, 2020 01:58PM

Cool English
Limited resources but they're free and it looks like new things
are added (free)
cool english interactive english
learning material, esl or efl
Interactive english learning material for
teachers and students. Photos, videos
and music for esl or efl classes, teachers
and students.
COOLENGLISH
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Animate your Grammar
Great for YLs
TEACHING ONLINE: ANIMATION WORKSHOP FOR ESL
TEACHERS (how to present grammar)
by Jenny White: ESL Games and Teaching Tips
YOUTUBE
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Facebook Group for Online Teachers
There's so much stuff on here, worth joining (free)
Private English Teachers - Reloaded
This group is aimed at language
teachers who wish to share knowledge
and tips on teaching in one-to-one
settings. The spirit of this group is to
provide a collaborative, inspiring and
trusted space...
FACEBOOK
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Lessons for Teens
Lessons and materials designed for teens (paid)
Lessons and textbooks for ESL
teens | ESL TeenStuff
All members can download our printable
textbooks. The textbooks are organized
by level and theme and focus on task-
based activities containing speaking,
reading and writing exercises as well as vocabulary and grammar
sections. Below are screen shots of one unit (Pre-Intermediate, Unit 2,
Lesson 1A).
ESL TEENSTUFF
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National Geographic stuff for teenagers.
Nat Geo stuff for Teens (paid)
Teens - National Geographic
Learning - NGL ELT
TEENS Explore the world in English with
Time Zones, Third Edition. LEARN MORE
TEENS National Geographic Learning
programs for learners of English help
teenagers discover who they are, and to explore what they might
become in the future.
ELTNGL
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SirLinkalot
A great app for spelling and grammar. Meant for YLs but
probably useful for older EFL students too.
Sir Linkalot - The Future of Spelling
This is the future of spelling . Sir
Linkalot's award-winning app improves
spelling for students of all ages Learn
More > "Sir Linkalot is a fascinating and
fun means of memorizing and
visualizing words" - Skillswise, BBC "It
makes spelling fun. I see the animations
when I write the words."
SIRLINKALOT
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NY Times Lesson Plans
Lesson Plans
Teaching and Learning With The New
York Times
NYTIMES
FIONA DONALDSON MAY 09, 2020 02:18AM
Copy text from an image
If you have a photo or pdf that contains text that you want to
copy and paste. You need OCR (optical character recognition).
 Free Online OCR - Convert JPEG, PeacheyPublications Catalogue
PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PDF, DjVu to "Thanks for doing such an excellent job
Text of writing such great materials! I use
NewOCR.com is a free online OCR them regularly in a variety of classes I
(Optical Character Recognition) service, teach and always find my students
can analyze the text in any image file willing to participate in the activities and
that you upload, and then convert the text from the image into text benefitting a lot from doing it." - Natalya Eydelman - Senior Lecturer,
that you can easily edit on your computer Novosibirsk State University
NEWOCR MAILCHI

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Subtitles to plain text Film English

Convert subtitles to plain text online (takes only seconds).
Film English
This ESL lesson plan is designed around
Download | Subtitle Tools a short film titled Mog's Christmas
Download processed files Calamity and the theme of Christmas.
SUBTITLETOOLS Students collate and use vocabulary
related to Christmas, talk about
Christmas customs, watch a short film,
answer comprehension questions,
predict the ending of a short film,
discuss a short film and reflect on the
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lesson.
FILM ENGLISH
Great Firewall of China
Use this link to test if a website will be accessible to your
Chinese students. FIONA DONALDSON APR 13, 2020 07:23PM

Half a Crossword
VIEWDNS.INFO
Make your own half-crosswords for student communicative
activities.

Home | Half a crossword

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with our easy to use templates. Quickly
Lesson Stream produce personalised activities your
students will enjoy.
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Lessons - Lessonstream.org
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Her students were excited about the
news of the day - the inauguration of the
Quiz your English
45th US president. They asked their teacher if they could watch the
An app allowing students to compete with others online and see
live broadcast and she felt that it would ...
who's English is better. Good homework tool.
LESSONSTREAM.ORG

Quiz your English | Cambridge

English
FIONA DONALDSON APR 13, 2020 08:08PM Improve your English with our fun, free
Peachey Publications app Quiz your English. Download the
Cambridge English app and practise your vocabulary and grammar
skills with friends from around the world.
CAMBRIDGEENGLISH

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English Teaching Videos

Want to send a video to your students to help them with a
difficult grammar point, or introduce them to a language point Create Comics Online | Comix
Maker | Comic Strips | Comic
before your lesson. Generator
How has the tragic shootings by a 15-
engVid · Learn English for Free year-old which left four dead in a
Michigan school affected you? Do you
Let's get it on! We're going to learn four
feel safe or unsafe in your own school? What can be done to end such
very common expressions in English
violence? Should parents be punished if their kids fire unsecured
that use the word 'on'. I'll teach you the
guns?
normal meanings and the slang
meanings of these expressions. We will MAKE BELIEFS COMIX
look at "I'm on it", "it's on", "on me", and
"get it on".
ENGVID
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SMS Generator
FIONA DONALDSON APR 13, 2020 06:52PM Create text exchanges between two people. Fictional or
otherwise...
Flipping Lessons
A video about flipping your classroom.
SMS Generator
Create fake iPhone text messages with
this SMS generator!
CLASSTOOLS

FIONA DONALDSON APR 24, 2020 12:36PM

Voki
Turn yourself into a speaking cartoon character. Make and
customise lessons. For young learners.

Voki | Speaking Characters For

Inside the flipped classroom with Gateway 2nd Edition: Part 1 Education
by Macmillan Education ELT
VOKI.COM
YOUTUBE

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Sketch Voice Spice
Create a quick sketch Online voice recorder.

Sketchpad 2020 - Draw, Create, Voice Spice - Record and Share

Share! your voice
Sketchpad: Free online drawing Voice Spice is a free online voice
application for all ages. Create digital recorder and message sharing site. You
artwork to share online and export to can record a message, morph your voice,
popular image formats JPEG, PNG, SVG, then share your it with others via
and PDF. Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and more!
SKETCH
VOICESPICE

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Create comics Speakpipe
Write a quick comic strip to create context for your class (or set
for homework/projectwork for your younger learners) Receive voice messages
from your students.
 SpeakPipe - receive voice Home - Socrative
messages from your audience Review student understanding at the
directly on your website. class, individual student, or question-
SpeakPipe allows your customers, level.
podcast listeners, blog readers and fans SOCRATIVE
to send you voice messages (voicemail)
right from a browser without any phone
calls. Nice - but how do you add stuff to it? Seems that all the content
SPEAKPIPE has to be created by the teacher beforehand - quite a long process
to write a quiz that will probably last 5 mins in class?
―
ANONYMOUS

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ANONYMOUS
The Digital Teacher
It does take time, I normally use it for homework or tests. The fact
Reviews for different tech tools for teachers. that you can add (and mark) short-answer questions is why I like
it. Great for grammar reviews or unit tests. ―
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Product Reviews
With an increasing number of digital FIONA DONALDSON APR 08, 2020 08:48AM
training tools available, how do you
make the right choice? Read our Remind
reassuring expert reviews and choose
your tech with confidence. Product Reviews list A secure messaging app for students. They can't see email
THEDIGITALTEACHER
addresses or phone numbers and all messages can be seen by
the teacher. 

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Remind
Padlet Teaching is about your students, not
tracking down handouts or playing
So what you're looking at right now, that's Padlet. Students can
phone tag. Remind makes it easy to
upload text, audio and video and comment on what they see. reach the people you need to reach.
Great for speaking practice and peer review. REMIND

PADLET.COM

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Navigate Resources
Audio and video to go with Oxford Navigate textbooks
Google Docs
Send a link to your students and have them all update the
document simultaneously. Great for collaborative writing
activities or writing / correction games.

Navigate | Learning Resources | Sign in - Google Accounts

Oxford University Press GOOGLE
Here you will find lots of great
downloadable resources to support you
when using Navigate.
OUP

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Socrative FIONA DONALDSON APR 08, 2020 08:48AM

More detailed quizzes for written answers as well as multiple Quizlet

choice or true/false questions. Great for collaborative groups
Great for vocab review and practice in and out of class.
and class discussion especially in breakout rooms.
 Quizlet
Quizlet makes simple learning tools that
let you study anything. Start learning
today with flashcards, games and
learning tools — all for free!
QUIZLET
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Kahoot
Multi-player multiple choice quizzes that students play using
their phones. Who will get the gold medal?
Kahoot! | Learning games | Make
learning awesome!
Kahoot! is a game-based learning
platform that brings engagement and
fun to 1+ billion players every year at
school, at work, and at home. Sign up for
free!
KAHOOT!
FIONA DONALDSON SEP 17, 2020 03:48PM
Flipgrid
Give students speaking homework, have them watch a video and
upload their own video responses. Great for IELTS speaking
practice, presentation practice etc
Flipgrid | Empower Every Voice
Make learning fun. Flipgrid connects
millions of PreK to PhD educators,
learners and families through short
video. Made free by Microsoft. Learn
more.
FLIPGRID
FIONA DONALDSON APR 15, 2020 11:55AM
Wordwall
Wordgames and other interactive tasks for sharing either in
class or for homework. Including: word scrambles, gap fills,
multiple choice questions, group sorting and matching
exercises.
Wordwall - Create better lessons
quicker
Need a fresh teaching resource that fits
your class and teaching style? Create a
customized pack of interactive and
printable activities in just one minute.
WORDWALL
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Oxford Learner's Bookshelf
The best of Oxford's online textbooks.
Oxford Learner's Bookshelf | e-
books for learning English
Create an interactive learning experience
- instantly play audio and video, launch
fun activities and games, show answers,
present scripts and expand images for discussion, all from the front of
the class. You can use your Classroom Presentation Tool offline to
prepare your lessons anywhere and access your synced notes in your
classroom.
OXFORDLEARNERSBOOKSHELF
FIONA DONALDSON SEP 30, 2020 01:31PM
Conceptboard
Best web-based whiteboard I have found that doesn't require a
paid subscription to be useful. Unlimited boards, good
functionality.
Conceptboard | Collaborative Online
Whiteboard | Visual Collaboration
Conceptboard’s Collaborative Online
Whiteboard gets teams on the same
page. Discover the power of real time
Visual Collaboration.
CONCEPTBOARD
FIONA DONALDSON APR 05, 2020 07:03PM
ELLLO
ELLLO - English Listening Lesson
Library Online
English Listening Lesson Library Online
ELLLO offers over 3,000 free listening
activities. Teachers and students can
access lessons for beginner,
intermediate and advanced learners. Natural Listening Lessons -
Authentic English Views : 1500+ listening lessons of natural English
conversations. One Minute English : Videos of International speakers.
ENGLISH LISTENING LESSON LIBRARY ONLINE
FIONA DONALDSON APR 05, 2020 06:58PM
Baamboozle
Baamboozle | The Most Fun
Classroom Games!
Join millions of students and teachers
playing educational games for free!
Forget about devices and simply play
from a single screen, in class or online.
BAAMBOOZLE.COM
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