Free stuff for teachers

Critical thinking questions for an esl class -- Christopher

Good afternoon everyone. Does anyone have any critical thinking questions that can be sent to my email? I had a large list of questions, until someone threw them out. My email address is ...

No-Frills SLA App For Students and Teachers Abroad -- Joshua Harwood

About a year ago, I posted a long exposition of Elan in China, an infamous Chinese ESL center. I got a handful of thank-yous from readers who terminated their applications with that business after ...

Programme for 7 years beginners -- Andrew Doxsey

Hi everyone, I've been teaching English to grade 7-12 for the last 2 years in a Latvian state school. It's been a very enjoyable and interesting experience. As an experiment I've now been ...

Stories for English learners! -- Toby Crowley

I made some stories for my own adult English students. They seem to like them, so I thought I would share.

Math -- Jennifer Co

An app that is designed to allow teachers to guide a class full of students through a series of math worksheets on a specific math topic. Here are some important features of the app: Dashboard shows ...

Linguistic Investigation for teaching present perfect -- Rike Neville

Allowing students to discover grammar rules by working together in cooperative learning groups both decreases teacher talk and instills deductive reasoning skills. When students can articulate rules ...

ESL Freebies -- Rolf

Check it out, plenty of freebies for Asian teachers

Free lesson from Stories for Young Readers, Book 2 -- Kinney Brothers Publishing

The is the first (free) lesson Pack from Stories for Young Readers, Book 2 from Kinney Brothers Publishing. File includes readings, puzzles, audio, and answer keys!

Free lesson from Stories For Young Readers, Book 1 -- Kinney Brothers Publishing

This is the first (free) lesson pack from Stories For Young Readers, Book 1 by Kinney Brothers Publishing. File includes readings, audio, and answer keys!

D-I-Y Teaching Props/Aids Making with Theo Mai -- Theo

Hello teachers, I've just created a tutorial Youtube channel called EDU PROPS to share with you how I create my own teaching props for my class activities. Whether you're teaching in schools ...

Bartleby : Books for Teachers and Students -- Jeff White

Bartleby is a free online repository of books, with a wide range of fiction and non-fiction novels that include American classics, world factbooks, famous essays, poems, and short stories. Readers ...

EFL Magazine -- Philip Pound

Check out EFL Magazine for some fantastic articles on English teaching

English Idioms Illustrated -- Professor+Potts

Hello All. I have an app called "English Idioms Illustrated". It explains the meaning and origin of English Idioms in a comic strip style and the first 30 strips are free. It's been downloaded a ...

ESL Lesson Content Download -- Kris Jagasia

Dear Teachers, I've decided to release an ESL Lesson Plan covering Possessive Adjectives for download (along with the matching Teacher Notes). It is an example of teacher-led lesson content ...

Free Children's Books for ESL - https://www.freekidsbooks.org -- Danielle

Hi, I just wanted to share this website - https://www.freekidsbooks.org, we have a lot of completely free resources, great stories, and perfect for people learning english.

Collaborative Crosswords -- Andrew Berlin

You can now get some free sample pages of my new book Collaborative Crosswords at ESLgames.com. I hope you like it.

Free Worksheets for Teachers -- Edwin Edwards

Have found free sample worksheets teaching phonics, reading and writing, speaking, and grammar.

Printable class room material -- Gerard O'Neil

One of the up sides of having more than twenty years’ experience as an ESL teacher is that I have amassed a huge amount of teaching material; the down side of this, is that, each time technology ...

Free PPT Lesson Plan Template for Download -- Kris Jagasia

We've released our PPT Lesson Plan template for download. This is the same template that we used to develop our lesson plan library @ https://www.off2class.com/teacher You can use it to develop ...

IELTS Webinar: The IELTS Teacher Toolkit -- Kris Jagasia

Dear Teachers, we held a webinar last week to coach teachers that are thinking of taking on IELTS students. The session was very well attended and you can find the recording here: ...

Free ESL printables -- Marina Matsiukhova

BusyTeacher.org provides over 16,000 free printable materials for teachers, including worksheets, detailed lesson plans and in-depth articles.

20 More Warm-Up Activities -- Global Training, Coaching and Development for Educators

Vol 2 is now ready. Download your free copy of 20 More Warm-up Activities for the Busy ESL/EFL Teacher. Lots of free resources. https://patrice-palmer.mykajabi.com

Prime Factorization Calculator -- Jen

This prime factorization calculator allows you to enter a composite number, and it produces a list of the prime numbers that, when multiplied, produce the original composite number. Use this ...

Fractions Calculator -- Jen

This page hosts a fraction calculator that can perform addition, subtraction multiplication or division of two fractions. The values for the calculation can be simple or mixed fractions, or consist ...

Percent Calculator -- Jen

This online percentage calculator shows how a percentage is represented as a fraction of a number. To find a percentage of a number out of a total, simply enter the values in left side of the ...

Online Timer -- Jen

It’s not hard to find a countdown timer online, but if you’re looking for the best countdown timer on the Internet, then you’ve found it! This online timer is great for use as a classroom ...

China News Lesson Plans -- John Bayliss

Free printable handouts, ideal for group classes with Chinese students. Aimed at teenage and adult learners, of an intermediate level and above

FREE resources for Cambridge TKT exam -- Noel Perera

This website, TKT Cambridge, provides free learning resources for those who are intending to take Cambridge TKT exam with the hope of embarking into teaching English. The Cambridge TKT is one of the ...

How to onboard New (or prospective) ESL students Webinar -- Kris Off2Class

Dear Teachers I held a webinar last week on strategies for onboarding new ESL students. Great watch for both classroom and online ESL teachers! ...

A great app for listening practice! -- Richard

Hi everyone, I graduated from Boston College in 2015 with a computer science degree, and have been coding for Android for nearly 5 years. I thought it was time that I gave back to the community, so I ...

Conversation questions -- Andrew Berlin

This site has PDF downloads of conversation questions on lots of different themes.

Free PPT lessons for Chinese College Level English Classes -- Nessa

This website offers many free PPT lessons made especially for university oral English classes in China. The website also includes other classroom activity and English Corner ideas.

Have Your Students Create Projects -- roka

Hi there, For the attention of teachers of English. I would like to introduce our recently opened website – www. ahhoy.me for pupils and students to upload their projects. The site is a follow up ...

Free e-book with 20 Warm Up Activities -- Global Training, Coaching and Development for Educators

Are you an ESL/EFL teacher looking for fun, and easy-to-prepare warm-up activities? Please visit my website to download a FREE copy of my Top 20 Warm-up Activities for Busy ESL/EFL teachers. Why ...

Free IELTS lesson plans -- Rick

Free integrated skills IELTS lessons based around reading passages. Each worksheet has a mixture of activities to practice Reading, Writing and Speaking for the IELTS test. ...

Free ESL Placement Test -- Kris Jagasia

Dear Teachers, I've released a Free ESL Placement Test that also produces your students' Gap Analysis and an Individual Learning Plan. This is an especially powerful tool if you've got ...

Multiplication Chart -- Jen

This page provides high resolution printable multiplication charts. Each type of chart has different versions with products from 1-81, 1-100, 1-144 and 1-225. All of these charts are powerful ways to ...

Student Comment Generator -- Daniel Ssaem

Here is a student comment generator that lets you generate student comments. It also has a tool that generates comments with one click as well :)

Teacher's zone - free resources for ESL teachers -- Anna

Teacher's Zone is the website for primary teachers working with children aged 4-12. It provides support in arranging well-organized lessons. Teacher’s Zone contains a ready-to-use resource of ...

Free Digital Textbook -- Glen

Hi Everyone, Found this really cool digital ESL series called Study It. If you subscribe to their newsletter, they will send you a book you can use on your iPad or iPhone. The textbooks are pretty ...

Free ESL Games for Teachers -- Kris - Off2Class

Dear Teachers, I’ve released a set of ESL games (free to use) that are designed for Teachers to play live with their students. They are quite unique to anything on the net and cover all sorts of ...

Free K-2nd Activity Bundle ($78 value) -- Ellie

Educents is offering this bundle of resources worth $78! Use these free printables for your K-2 student and engage your kiddos with fun activities.

Free Webinar Recording - Teaching Phrasal Verbs -- Kris+Jagasia

Dear Teachers, Last month I hosted a number of Free Webinars on teaching Phrasal verbs, they were very well received so we decided to post the recordings. You can access them here: ...

Videos for learning English -- William Alan McNeice

I have recently started making videos based on what my students struggle with. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQLmKSgppU3hdVse8DgUKpg I try to explain topics in under 60 seconds. I give the basic ...

Varsity Learning Tools -- Ms.Pace

Varsity Learning Tools is a great resource for students and educators, and it's absolutely free to use! Currently, we have over 60,000 professionally written problems and thousands of distinct ...

Interactive Whiteboard Activities -- Gary

Hi everyone! I've made a digital book of my own materials. It's ideal for teachers who use Interactive Whiteboards (but can also be used for teaching with a Mac or an iPad). It's ...

Free Grammar Video Tutorials -- Teacher Diane

I created over 20 grammar video tutorials and practice questions to go along with each one. Check it out: http://www.teacherdiane.com/youtube/page/1 The videos are all less than 5 minutes and make ...

Free Smithsonian Resource for Teachers -- Sarah

Hello everyone! The Smithsonian has a great new resource that is free for teachers and we are working to get the message out to educators. It's a great site to help build those 21st-Century ...

ESL lesson -- teachESL

Create ESL lesson plan in 10 minutes

Do you run your own private ESL lessons -- Kris

After years of teaching ESL, we decided to released 220 ESL lesson plans that are formatted/animated for teachers that run their own private lessons. I'm giving free access to teachers that need ...

Modal verbs, prepositions, past tense powerpoint lessons -- deesl

Hello fellow teachers, We've posted a couple more games and lessons for you. The site is dangerouslyeasyesl.com Additions: -Modal verb pirates -Panda Prepositions -Mysterious verb tenses

Advanced Phrasal Verb Practice -- Teacher Diane

I created this website for advanced students to practice phrasal verbs. If the student answers the question incorrectly, he/she is provided with the definition of the phrasal verb and an example ...

Tasks and questions on an entertaining YouTube video - a complete lesson -- yoloEnglish

Dear fellow ESL teachers, I’d like to share a nice lesson with you. In class, watch my (hopefully) entertaining animation video titled “Always listen to your parents”. ...

Free IELTS Lesson Plans & Study Materials -- Beacon English

Hi. We have a growing collection of free IELTS integrated skills lesson plans at our site Beacon English. We also have study advice for IELTS candidates, interactive quizzes and Task 2 model answers. ...

Free ESL PowerPoint Animated Lesson Plans -- deesl

Hey guys, Posted some more free powerpoint games and lessons. you can download them at www.dangerouslyeasyesl.com or search "dangerously easy esl" on google. Hope it helps!

Free grammar video tutorials -- Teacher Diane

I have created over 40 grammar video tutorials and practice exercises for Intermediate students. These videos can help you to teach grammar in your classroom, or to provide students with extra ...

Great video to teach reported speech -- Teacher Diane

I made this video to help students to understand reported or indirect speech-- check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcxytsa8CbI

Free Conversation Starters for Advanced Students -- Teacher Diane

Are you looking for conversation topics for Upper Intermediate to Advanced students? Try Teacher Diane's Random Conversation Question generator for hundreds of question ideas! ...

English Tutor: We have Tutoring Materials for free -- Billy

We have a lot of tutoring materials for teachers and tutors teaching any language. It's free. www.dangerouslyeasyesl.com Powerpoint games and lessons.

Free and inexpensive eBooks with Canadian content -- Elise

Canadian Winter Homeschool Materials offers free and inexpensive downloadable eBooks, such as 'English Grammar: Adjectival, Adverbial and Noun Clauses' (includes funny references to moose and ...

Free Activity Sheets - Present Perfect Simple -- Kris

Dear Teachers, We have released a set of free activity sheets for download covering the present perfect simple. There are five in total, with answer keys. They are meant to be paired with our ...

Free fantasy book series for improving readers -- Tim Neakok

If you want to have fun while learning to read, check out our free fantasy book series at www.leastbeast.com. You will have fun while you improve your reading skills.

Free online English reading practice for learners -- dreamreader.net

Hi everyone, Are you looking for good free reading materials that you can use in your English classes? I've just created a website called dreamreader.net that provides free original content that ...

ESL Lesson Plans for Private Tutors -- Off2Class

Hey guys, I've got a set of ESL lesson plans loaded on to an easy to use web platform. They are designed for teachers running their own private lessons. Accounts are currently free, and you can ...