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primarily for ABE/GED/ESOL teachers, but useful for anyone wanting to integrate technology
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ESL Blues New Index

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Learn English all levels, with free quizzes, games, tutorials, remedial English, English grammar, from beginners to high intermediate.
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10 Sure-fire Ways to Get the Most Out of Reading Activities in Your ESL Classroom

10 Sure-fire Ways to Get the Most Out of Reading Activities in Your ESL Classroom | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
Students falling asleep on their textbooks? Get them excited about reading with these 10 focused in-class reading tactics.
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17 free resources for lessons about jobs and careers | Teach them English

17 free resources for lessons about jobs and careers | Teach them English | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
At some point in your teaching you'll have to do a course book unit based on jobs and careers. Here are 16 resources for you to take a look at, all on the theme of jobs and careers
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some lesson plans and activities about job searching - ESL activities

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Nik's Daily English Activities: More Activities

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Don’t Get Stuck in a Vocabulary Rut: 8 Fresh, Fun Ideas for Words and Post-It Notes

Don’t Get Stuck in a Vocabulary Rut: 8 Fresh, Fun Ideas for Words and Post-It Notes | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
Teaching vocabulary to an ESL class can be one of the most challenging activities a teacher has to face. When a majority of vocabulary instruction boils down to simple memorization, how does
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games and activities for ESL learners

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50 Tasks for the English Language Classroom - EFL CLASSROOM 2.0

50 Tasks for the English Language Classroom - EFL CLASSROOM 2.0 | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
Tasks are great!  They don't have to be large, elaborately planned things.
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7 Terrific Telephone English Activities for Adult ESL Learners

7 Terrific Telephone English Activities for Adult ESL Learners | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
For those who speak English as a second language, speaking English on the telephone can be one of the most challenging and frustrating tasks.
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Mind the Gap! 10 Fun Fill in the Blanks Activities for Any ESL Class

Mind the Gap! 10 Fun Fill in the Blanks Activities for Any ESL Class | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
A gap-filling exercise is probably the quintessential ESL activity.
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Are You Boring Your Students? How to Turn a Snore Fest into a Barrel of Fun!

Are You Boring Your Students? How to Turn a Snore Fest into a Barrel of Fun! | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
You ask your ESL class a question, and you're met with a room full of blank stares. You call out a student’s name, but getting an answer from him is like pulling teeth.
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Dear Victim | Dear Burglar

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Dear Victim | Dear Burglar
This lesson is a fleshed out version of an idea I tweeted last week.



The video in question is the true story of a 16-year-old burglar who, as part of an Intensive...
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ESL speaking activities: communicative activities for oral fluency

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Free English teaching resorces - teach English as a second language or foreign language...
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Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students (Fun English Study)

A free study site for English as a Second Language (ESL) students with games, quizzes, puzzles, MP3 files with transcripts, listening practice, pronunciation practive, etc.

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We Are Family

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A song I use often as a chant, really creates great class community . Make 3 groups. Group 1 - We are Family Group 2 - I got all my sisters with me Group 3 -…
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Financial Literacy Resources

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Fostering Financial Literacy in ESL Classrooms Using New Media Tools In these lessons students learn about managing money, banking, credit, debt, home fina
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The EFL SMARTblog: Exposed (CEOP Video - Staying Safe Online)

The EFL SMARTblog: Exposed (CEOP Video - Staying Safe Online) | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
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50 ways to use video in the classroom - EFL CLASSROOM 2.0

50 ways to use video in the classroom - EFL CLASSROOM 2.0 | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
I will be travelling quite a bit this year to conferences and schools, speaking about a teaching lifelong passion - the use of video as an educational material…
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ideas for using video in the EFL Classroom

Ellen Graber's curator insight, March 6, 2013 9:27 AM

Wow, only 50..how many more applications for video can you think of? What have you done?

Alysse Martin's curator insight, March 6, 2013 10:03 PM

Now to give an example of how these ideas can align with the new technology curriculum (ACARA). Let's take Point 9...

Foundation to year 2 technology curriculum: 

2.1 Recognise and play with patterns in data and represent data as pictures, symbols and diagrams.

Learning Activity:

Get students to watch a "how to" video or a clip of a technological process (e.g. milking cows) then ask student to draw pictures to sequence the steps.

Another example, Point 22...

Foundation to year 2 technology curriculum: 

2.2 Describe how people use different information systems safely to meet personal and family communication and recreation needs.

Learning Activity:

Have students conduct a skype interview of a person of an older generation to gain insight into what information systems they used for communication and recreation when they were the age of the students. Compare this to the students experience.  

 

References:

 

ACARA. (2013). Draft Technology Curriculum F-2. Retrieved March 7, 2013, from http://usqstudydesk.usq.edu.au/m2/mod/folder/view.php?id=105116

 

Ddeubel. (2013). 50 ways to use video in the classroom. Retrieved March 7, 2013, from http://community.eflclassroom.com/profiles/blogs/50-ways-to-use-video-in-the-classroom?xg_source=msg_mes_network#

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Learn English at GCFLearnFree.org

Learn English at GCFLearnFree.org | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
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esl activities to practice English and master common English vocabulary

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Free Technology for Teachers: Activities for Learning 60 Languages

Free Technology for Teachers: Activities for Learning 60 Languages | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it

educational games and activities for learning languages

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Free ESL Worksheets, English Teaching Materials, ESL Lesson Plans

Free ESL Worksheets, English Teaching Materials, ESL Lesson Plans | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
ESL Resources for teachers and students, esl worksheets,esl lesson plans, esl online exercises, grammar, vocabulary exercises, games materials TEFL...
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ESL for classroom

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7 Terrific Telephone English Activities for Adult ESL Learners

7 Terrific Telephone English Activities for Adult ESL Learners | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it
For those who speak English as a second language, speaking English on the telephone can be one of the most challenging and frustrating tasks.
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Boggle's World: ESL Activities for Adults

Worksheets, flashcards, lesson plans, and activities for teaching ESL and EFL.
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Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom (I-TESL-J)

Interesting questions for discussions in Engish lessons.

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