General ESL/EFL/ESOL websites for teaching English:
An online magazine for EFL/ESL teachers with really great resources. Lots of great articles that help you in your classroom, make you a better teacher, and keep you informed of all the goings on in the EFL/ESL field. Highly recommended; bookmark it and check it often as they are always adding new content.
Teaching resources from the British Council and the BBC:
Since this website is run by the British Council and the BBC it’s not surprising to find a lot of great material here. There is a substantial section for teaching ideas and continuing education.
This site is all about teaching English through the medium of games. With a focus on online multiplayer games. It’s a really interesting concept that I think could really engage students.
This is a website that I have gone back to again and again throughout my years of teaching. This site has a HUGE amount of great free material here for all age groups and levels.
This link is to a page with all of the Breaking News English lessons (lesson plans based on news stories) as well as links to the lessons from Sean Banville’s other 6 sites. If you can’t find something you can use here you aren’t looking hard enough.
It’s a little difficult to navigate this site at times but it makes up for it with the sheer volume of content on the site. Some of the role-play activities and worksheets are especially engaging for students.
This site is my biggest (friendly) competition for conversation questions, if you can’t find the conversation questions you are looking for on my site check here. They also have ridiculous amount of other content. I mean, it will make your head spin going through the site. This is a link to their link page so you can find the most content in the shortest amount of time.
This site has a lot of lessons for students and is a great resource for students looking to get some self study in. It also has a lot of listening lessons as well as grammar and speaking lessons. All in all some great things to browse through and check out.
This site has a lot of great reading related resources, with articles and activities for students. Also there are sections for grammar as well as games and puzzles.
This Australian ESL/EFL site has some great free material to look through. Lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes, videos, and more! Give it a look and I’m sure you’ll find something you can use with your students.
A site with some well put together resources for both teachers and students. A lot of the material is grouped around a specific grammar topic to make things easier.
This site has a lot of worksheets and printouts covering many different areas. From writing and grammar to geography and speaking this site has a little bit of everything. I’m sure you’ll find something useful to use in your classroom!
This site has quite a few lists of idioms as well as lists of adjectives and other general ESL resources.
ESL/EFL/ESOL sites focused more on speaking:
Print Discuss is a relatively new site with some great easily printable conversation questions. So what makes it different from this site? Well there are warm up activities and additional pictures to go with the conversation questions. The topics are more like lesson plans than a resource to supplement your lesson. There are also blog posts to help you become a better teacher.
A wonderful resource for speech topics and speech examples, with lots of different speech types. A great resource for preparing for a speech.
ESL/EFL/ESOL sites focused more on writing and grammar:
The Purdue Online Writing Lab:
Whether you are teaching writing or grammar, this site has some great explanations as well as quite a few exercises. This is a link directly to the exercises but make sure to look around the site for more resources.
University of Victoria English Language Center:
Not the massive amount of material that some ESL sites have but the considerable amount of material they do have is concise and easily accessible. They have some good grammar explanations and exercises as well.
Expert Advice from Teachers to Avoid Common ESL Writing Mistakes:
A great article on common writing mistakes made by ESL / EFL students. The article has tips on how students can avoid mistakes and what teachers can do to help their students improve their writing. There is also a tool on the site that highlights adverbs in a piece of writing as well as a page on how to properly use adverbs.
This site has a ridiculous amount of grammar exercises and worksheets. It’s a great place to grab some grammar exercises or worksheets for your students to practice with or as part of a game in the classroom.
A useful resource for emojis in the ESL classroom, with lots of great links to lesson plans/ideas and general emoji related resources. A great place to start if you want to do an ESL/EFL lesson on emojis or incorporate them into your classroom.
ESL/EFL/ESOL sites focused more on listening:
The iSLCollective video quiz maker is a free web-based tool that allows teachers to create interactive video quizzes around YouTube and Vimeo videos. There are a ton of video quizzes made by other teachers on the site or you can make your own. Tons of great material / tools on there.
Are you looking for audio of conversations for your classroom? Look no further; this site has hundreds and hundreds of audio clips that span many different topics with transcripts and supplementary material.
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab:
This is another site with lots of audio clips and a large amount of extra material to go with each audio clip. Between this site and elllo you should be covered for listening exercises for your classroom.
ESL/EFL/ESOL sites focused more on teaching children:
This is a great website for those who teach children. There is a lot of great stuff for your class here, both ready-made and customizable.
Teaching materials mostly for children and beginner learners with loads of worksheets and flashcards.
Some free conversation questions for children, plus some tips on teaching kids. Also there are some flashcards with questions on the back that are available for purchase.
The British Council always puts out quality material for learners of English and this site is no different. A great resource for kids learning English or ESL / EFL teachers who teach children.
ESL/EFL test prep websites:
Here you can find, of course, a podcast for preparing for the IELTS test. But there are also lots of other free resources and materials as well. Like this IELTS vocab page. There is a paid service, but there are also lots of free resources as well that you can use to help your students prepare for the IELTS exam.
Find more links to ESL/EFL/ESOL websites:
If you are looking for even more links to ESL related pages, this is where you want to go. This site has so many links you are sure to find at least three or four sites that will be of great use to you, just look in the left sidebar. It also has some teaching materials for your classroom on the main page.
The 101 Best Websites For ESL Students:
Just what the title says, 101 sites for that are great for ESL students or teachers. You are sure to find a useful site you haven’t heard of while going through this list. Take a look and find something new!
Links to other sites, as well as some useful tips for teachers. Plus some daily conversation prompts. A growing site to keep an eye on.
Links to English grammar and English teaching profiles on social media and other big platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, and Telegram. There are 150 links to profiles that focus on teaching English, so there is a lot to explore.
On this page you’ll find 48 links to ESL resource websites. Some might be repeats of the other lists but perhaps you’ll find a new one that you’ve never heard of!
Links to lots of different tools that might be useful for your lessons or in the classroom. Have a look around, there are even tools for other languages.
High School English Grammar Resources:
A list of English learning resources from the U.S. Career Institute. A nice mix of different resources that might be useful in a variety of situations with special attention paid to writing.