Free online resources for teachers and students

Welcome to this repository, where you will find a wide range of links to FREE webpages and resources for your TEFL classroom. Do you think something is missing? Please help me complete this list!

The resources listed below are intended to be used with secondary school learners. They are divided into the following categories

🔹 Breaking news: On this webpage, you can find up-to-date articles adapted to different levels, with activities and lesson plans.

🔹 BBC Spain: Spanish news written in English. This is a very good place to look for up-to-date articles.

🔹 El País in English: This is the English version of the newspaper El País.

🔹 Canarian Weekly: English newspaper for the Canary Islands.

🔹 Ello: Over 2500 free listening lessons. Teachers and students can access lessons for beginner, intermediate and advanced students.

🔹 Luke's English Podcast: An award-winning audio show for learners of English.

🔹 Lyricstraining: Improve your listening skills through the music, video and lyrics of your favourite songs.

🔹 Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab: Activities on this webpage focus on everyday English comprehension skills at three levels.

🔹 Vaughan Radio: it has a lot of podcasts to practice listening, and also improve in grammatical competence.

🔹 Listen a minute: one-minute audios organized by topics. They have exercises to practice.

🔹 RD Lessons: Funny lessons with exercises and questions about short videos, news or films.

🔹 UsingEnglish.com: A collection of English reading comprehension exercises.

🔹 ReadTheory: Improve your student's reading comprehension.

🔹 Project Gutenberg: A virtual library where you can download a lot of English books.

🔹 Listen and write: webpage where students have to transcribe songs, poems, talks or news.

🔹 Write source: it offers a lot of opportunities for practicing writing as it offers a great number of topics to write about.

🔹 Pen Pal World: It offers a tool to maintain contact with people from other countries. Very useful for improving writing.

🔹 Purdue OWL: The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and they provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue.  

🔹 Aprende Inglés Sila: webpage with a lot of resources for improving pronunciation.

🔹 Subinglés: practice English with karaoke.

🔹 Phonetics Focus: Learn phonetics through games.

🔹 Learning English: BBC webpage with a lot of lessons and activities to practice English grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

🔹 La Mansión del Inglés: Games and activities to practice grammar and orthography.

🔹 engVid: Usefull for flipped classroom methodologies, as it shows a great amount of video-lessons for different levels. 

🔹 Language Guide: Collaborative project with interactive learning resources.

🔹 Oxford Online Learners Dictionary: online dictionary with a lot of resources.

🔹 Urban Dictionary: This is an interesting resource, as it includes words which are not normally covered by traditional dictionaries.

🔹 Merriam-Webster: visual dictionary to learn and memorize through the use of images.

🔹 Phrasal Verb Demon: A Useful guide for phrasal verbs.

🔹 verb2verb: Verbal conjugator that shows all the forms of the verbs you want to see.

🔹 Exam English: This page contains a free online practice test for the most important ESL exams.

🔹 Groove to English: Webpage with exercises and activities for all the skills.

🔹 English Language Centre: A whole range of exercises about grammar, reading and vocabulary.

🔹 Exam English https://www.examenglish.com/ 

🔹 English Practice Tests https://englishpracticetest.net/ 

🔹 Histórico PAU/EBAU https://www.gobiernodecanarias.org 

🔹 Learn English Teens

🔹 Bitesize

🔹 ESL Games Plus

🔹 Fun English Games

• 42Explore: A webpage with a lot of lesson plans and activities. There is also CLIL content.

• ThoughtCo: Resources for educators. Find inspiration for encouraging struggling students, writing assessments, and establishing trust with parents.

• UsingEnglish.com: Resources and materials for teachers, including free ESL printables and grammar worksheets, PDF lesson plans, teacher articles and a directory of teaching and reference resources. 

• EFL/ESL Lessons and Lesson Plans From The Internet TESL Journal

• TEFL eBooks: Free books for teachers.

• ESL Gold: Free English Lesson Plans.

• Learning English (BBC): Resources for teachers and activities for all the skills.

• Business English: Business English lessons and activities.

• Dave's ESL Cafe: meeting place for ESL + EFL teachers and students from around the world.  

• OneStopEnglish: With over 9,000 resources, including lesson plans, worksheets, audio, video and flashcards, OneStopEnglish is the world’s number one resource site for English Language teachers.

• Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA): The mission of CARLA is to study multilingualism and multiculturalism, to develop knowledge of second language acquisition, and to advance the quality of second language teaching, learning, and assessment.

• Busy Teacher: An English teaching site where teachers share their printable worksheets, lesson plans and lesson activities with colleagues for free, especially good for ESL. 

• Freelogy: Worksheets for all levels.

• KQED: articles and news about education

• Learning Designer: Application for the preparation of lesson plans.

• Arnstsen, T. (n.d.). How to write a lesson plan. Busy Teacher.

• Kelly, Melissa. (2020). Write Lesson Plans. ThoughtCo.

• Bennett, Colette. (2020, February 11). 7 Ways to Take Control of Your Classroom to Reduce Student Misbehavior.

• Simpson, A. (2014, August 26). How to Help learners of English understand prepositions. British Council.