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Your ESL Library membership gives you full access to our comprehensive online teacher resources. Print and photocopy any of our lesson plans, worksheets, or flashcards. There are over 500 ready made lesson plans with more being added every month. And our flashcard library has over 2000 useful images for eliciting, teaching, or reinforcing vocabulary and grammar points.
We make lesson plans so you don't have to!
We know how much time, effort and energy you put into making lessons for your classes each week. ESL-Library is here to offer you a BIG-TIME break whenever you deserve it. We are a group of past and present English teachers and authors, dedicated to making English lesson plans that students (and teachers) love. We've written and uploaded over 500 lesson plans, and continue to add more every month.
Our lesson plans are geared towards ADULT English students and TEENAGE English students.
What's in the Lesson Plan Library?
- Find over 500 ready-made English lesson plans
- We add new lessons every month
- Make photocopies for your students
- We make lessons that inspire discussions and get students talking
- Our lessons are packed with pair work and group work
- No preparation needed
Over 2000 Flashcards at the click of your mouse!
We've drawn up over 2000 images to help you elicit, teach and reinforce language points and vocabulary in your classroom. Our images are well organized by topic or grammar structure and easy to find. You can paste our images into your own original lessons, or use them as stand-alone flashcards. You can also make and print multi-image sets to use for games, and language drills. How you use our images is up to you, but we're sure you'll find them extremely useful.
Our vocabulary images can be used for teaching both CHILDREN and ADULTS.
What's in the Flashcard Library?
- Find over 2000 vocabulary images in over 80 topics
- Paste our images into your own Word Docs or Power Point Presentations
- Print full size flashcards from within the site
- Print in colour or in black and white (to save ink)
- Make and print multi-image sets for vocabulary games and drills
- Our images are simple, clean, and appropriate for all ages and levels
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The Grass Is Always Greener… When You Paint It
Here is a fun way to introduce the English saying "The grass is always greener on the other side". This fun story is an interesting way to explore the differences between "literal" and "figurative" language.
Podcast: The History of Ice Cream
ESL-Library blog: June 19, 2013
Ice Cream Soda Day is the perfect day to learn the history of ice cream. Share this extra listening practice with your English learners and try our Famous Things lesson plan about America's favourite treat.
Read On...Why should I join?
Our goal at ESL-Library is to continually produce and offer high quality lesson plans and flashcards for English teachers. We know that many teachers are over-worked and out of time. We love making resources that make your teaching life a whole lot easier. (Find out more about us...)
