Tons of flashcards, basic English worksheets and vocabulary at MES-English
Teacher Mark Cox is responsible for MES-English, a must-see site for teachers who work with children or even with adults. In the flashcards area, there’s a huge list (over 90 sets) that covers not only basic vocabulary but also grammar topics like adjectives, question words, prepositions and pronouns.
After you pick a flashcard set, you may download worksheets with specific exercises for that flashcard set. That’s right: ready-to-use worksheets are available for every topic! (see menu on the right)
In Talking Worksheets, you’ll find activities for speaking practice with like, can and adjectives. Introduction Worksheets offers more grammar: this/that, he/she, be doing and past are a few examples. If you’re looking for coloring activities for 
kids, Coloring Worksheets is the place to go. Check Phonics for materials with the English alphabet for classroom use.
And there’s more: in Projects, Mark offers five ideas of longer projects for your English students. A step-by-step description and downloadable materials are available for each one, including samples of what his own students have made in the past.
Games offers over ten ideas to stimulate English usage, again with detailed descriptions and ready-to-use materials.
From what I’ve seen, MES-English is a busy place - looks like it’s frequently updated so it’s really worth visiting often. One piece of advice: because of their high quality, some files will take a while to download. Start with the small ones!
Musical English Lessons: activities with song lyrics
Musical English Lessons offers a number of activities based on song lyrics - exercises are usually “fill in 
the blanks” and there are several different worksheets for every artist listed. Artists include Aqua, Avril Lavigne, Beyonce, Pink, George Michael and many others, and activities focus on different topics such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. They’re not ready for download in PDF or Word, so you’ll have to copy and paste to make them suitable for printing.
Flashcards for your English vocabulary practice: prepositions, action verbs, adjectives and more
Flashcards are a very popular study tool, and ESL Flashcards is here to help: hundreds of flashcards are available for download in PDF format, all with beautiful pictures (there aren’t any words.) Among the currently available topics are Actions (illustrated verbs), Body Parts, Adjectives, Emotions, Prepositions and a lot more. Great idea for students who want to develop their English vocabulary skills on their own.
Breaking News English: printable worksheets (with audio) for classroom or self-study
Breaking News English offers an amazing number of very well structured English lessons based on news reports. Very practical for teachers looking for upper-intermediate or advanced lesson plans: each one comes with an audio file (mp3) that can be downloaded and a detailed description of several classroom activities.
Activities range from discussion and vocabulary exercises to listening, post-listening, role-play and ideas for homework. Also nice is the fact that the news reports in each lesson are relatively short, allowing for a realistic workload during class. All worksheets are easily printable: they’re available in PDF as well as Word docs.
To top it off, archived lessons are presented in two versions: easier and harder, so you can choose the best fit for your students. Awesome resource not only for English teachers but also for learners who enjoy self-study.
Learn English with movies (but get these guides first)
For learners who enjoy studying by themselves and teachers who use films as classroom material: ESL Notes has a significant collection of film guides especially made for English students. Each guide is 20-30 pages long and includes description of main characters, plot summary, an extensive list of vocabulary with explanations, and suggestions of conversation topics based on the movie. There are about a hundred guides, all of them for well-known movies: A Beautiful Mind, Almost Famous, The Incredibles and so on. Guides are available in PDF, Word doc or plain html - allyou have to do is download and start using them. Raymond Weschler, the author, even suggests what teachers can do to make better use of the guides.
And if you’re an English teacher and still haven’t made up your mind about using films in the classroom, there’s a discussion going on in this English Club forum.
Want to learn phrasal verbs once and for all?
Then go to Phrasal Verbs Demon (recommended for intermediate level students and above.) Phrasal Verbs is one of those topics that are hard to teach and often hard to learn. What to do? Get a list and memorize? Learn naturally as they show up in your life?
The debate is still alive within the English-teaching community, but 
in any case teacher Juan Herrera offers his experience in this website entirely dedicated to phrasal verbs. There’s no doubt that a foreigner that knows how to use phrasal verbs has great advantage when it comes to communicating with native speakers - so here are a few highlights of Phrasal Verb Demon:
- Listening: selection of actual news reports that, of course, include several phrasal verbs. Each listening piece comes with explanation and examples. The great thing here is, you can set the player to play the audio slowly to make comprehension easier. There’s also the option of saving the mp3 file to your computer so you can practice offline.
- Corpus: nearly 5 thousand examples of how to use phrasal verbs, with several search options - by verb, noun, topic or any other word.
- Quizzes: exercises for several levels.
- Reading: notes on news pieces (no audio.)
- Grammar: grammar aspects of phrasal verbs - can you separate the verb from the particle or not, etc.
?and there’s a lot more. Really worth visiting…
For English teachers, there are great tips on how to teach Phrasal verbs to beginners, and Juan says that video materials will be available soon.
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