My English Pages

ManyThings is a website for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). There are:

quizzes,
word games,
word puzzles,
proverbs,
slang expressions,
anagrams,
a random-sentence generator
and other computer assisted language learning activities.

ELT Links
English language teaching links in different categories prepared by Sean Banville.
Sean needs your contributions to develop his new website. You can suggest new links or submit your own blog or website. Enjoy!

Free ESL materials

Lesson plans and activities blog carnival
I am honored to be part of the ESL/EFL Carnival of Lessons which was hosted by  Karenne Joy Sylvester. The blog carnival includes so many useful and insightful lesson plans. Teachers will have the opportunity to choose from a wide range of activities that they can try in their EFL and ESL classes.Kabreene kindly put the carnival in the form of a prezi which bloggers and site owners can embed.
Thank you Kareene for the effort you implemented to organize these lesson plans.
The ESL …

This is a link to a cool websites which provides free esl activities:

Teachers can build their own listening quizes.
There is also a shared list for such quizes.
You can also embed the code of the quizes in your blog or website.

ESLvideo.com :: Free ESL/EFL Video Quizzes for English Students :: Free ESL Video Quiz Builder for Teachers — Send Students Quizzes — Track Results.

This is a link to a cool websites for free esl activities:

Teachers can build their own listening quizes.
There is also a shared list for such quizes.
You …

What is Brainstorming
Brainstorming is a combination of  a relaxed, informal approach to problem-solving and lateral thinking. People are asked to find ideas and thoughts that can at first seem to be a bit irrelevent. The idea is to use some of these ideas to form original, creative solutions to problems. Even some seemingly useless ideas can spark still more ideas. The goal of brainstorming is to direct people to new ways of thinking and break from the usual way of reasoning.

EFL and ESL Articles
This is a list of mybest 2009 posts. The list contains posts that attracted some comments but also those that I consider worth being republished here. The topics range from classroom management and teaching tips to lesson plans.

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The importance of repetition and recycling in ELT
Scott Thornbury Explains that repeating and recycling language points in different forms fosters language learning and long term memory.
Do you use recycling and repetition in your language class?

The thirteen edition of EFL, ESL, ELL Blog Carnivals is hosted at ELLCLASSROOM.I’m honored to be included in this edition with many other excellent bloggers. A lot of  innovative ideas for teaching and thought-provoking articles are presented. I have been so interested in and inspired by the post dealing with teaching tools presented by Nik Peachey and the the tutorial about how to use twitter presented by Karenne. Of course there are other posts that I’m sure will be as inspiring and that I haven’t had time yet to “scrutinize”…

Textbook are designed to englobe different units based on different topics. Because of the constraints of time or fear of being boring we follow the order of the units of the textbook. We rarely go back to previous units to recycle the linguistic elements studied before. This, of course,  may have terrible consequences on the learning process as what  we teach is retained in our students memory only for a short period. I suggest  in this post that we deal with language textbooks differently: using them in a circular way, …

Glossary of terms relevent to the English teaching profession. This glossary includes terms related to English, ESL, EFL ,TESOL, TEFL, and pedagogy.