Useful links

Here you will find lots of useful links for teachers and schools.

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Dictionaries

Dictionaries provide easy access to words, definitions, synonyms, acronyms, etc.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Includes definitions and example sentences for advanced level speakers of English and above.

Cambridge Dictionaries
Includes these dictionaries: Advanced Learner's, Learner's, Phrasal Verbs, Idioms, American English, French - English and Spanish - English.

OneLook.com
Search many dictionaries from one place. Includes a unique 'Reverse Dictionary'; type in a definition and they suggest the word.

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ESL & EFL

Access to pre-prepared lesson plans, exercises, grammar rules and more.

TeachitWorld.com
An extensive library of adaptable ELT lesson plans, worksheets, ideas, and activities.

English Corner
English grammar exercises, grammar rules, vocabulary games, interactive crossword puzzles, ESL reading exercises, collocations, and more.

LearnEnglish.org.uk (British Council)
LearnEnglish is a portal which links to all the British Council's websites for teachers and learners of English

Daves ESL Cafe.com
The internet's meeting point for EFL and ESL students and teachers around the world.

The Internet TESL Journal
Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links

ESL-Lounge
Gives free access to hundreds of ESL lesson plans and materials that can be used for communicative English lessons in the classroom.

English Banana.com
Offers more than 750 free printable worksheets for teachers and students of English and Drama.

EFL Worksheets.com
Free worksheets and online exercises.

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Visi.es
This site was put together by Visi Alaminos for learners and teachers of English and Spanish.

ESL-students.com
Designed to offer interesting activities for all learners of English.

ESL Spot

On Your Marks.org

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Forums

Share thoughts and ideas with other teachers:

A to Z Teacher Stuff

Teacher Focus.com

Daves ESL Cafe

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Idioms

Find idioms relating to any topic:

Cambridge Idioms Dictionary
Comprehensive list of British, American and Australian idioms, complete with example sentences.

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Lesson plans

Lesson Planet
150,000 searchable lesson plans reviewed and rated by teachers.

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News

Cover a topical issue or an subject related to your students interests.

BBC
News and more. Includes extensive audio and video resources

BBC - Newsround (Easy English)
News for children. Includes audio resources.

BreakingNewsEnglish
Free lesson plans based on the day's news

Simple English News
Learn English With The News

ElizabethClaire (Easy English)
Easy English NEWS is a tabloid-size (11" x 17") monthly newspaper for adult and high school readers whose native language is not English.

Google News
Search most English-language news portals from one place.

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Professional Organisations

Information & Communications Technology for Language Teachers (ICT4LT)
A free collection of training modules in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for Language Teachers.

CALL@HULL

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Quotes

Search for famous quotes relating to a given topic...

The Quotations Page
25,200 quotations online from over 3,000 authors.

QuoteWorld
Over 15,000 quotations and famous quotes. quotes and quotations.

Brainy Quote.com

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Reference

HowStuffWorks.com
Source of easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works.

Wikipedia.org
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project.

About.com
Advice on almost any subject provided by experts.

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Software for Teachers

The Teacher's Guide
List of free software for teachers.

Hot Potatoes (for the web)
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.

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Teaching Children

abcTeach
A user-friendly educational site that provides quality printable materials for immediate use by teachers, education majors, and parents.

Music Town: Children's Songs and Lyrics
Kids' Music Town presents a large selection of children's songs, along with their lyrics.

TeacherRated - Websites, Resources & Tools
Where K-12 teachers find, rate and share the best of the web including teaching resources, research sources, online student activities, educational games and more.

Instructor Workshop - Student Motivation
How to motivate your students, even the problematic ones. Free online resources and lesson plans.

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