Sample Activities from English Club
v ESL Teachers Lounge -This section is designed exclusively for teachers and consists of:
o TEFL Notice Board, including Teacher Discussion, ESL Projects (to set up inter-school projects with other teachers worldwide), Job Offers and Teacher Resumes.
o ESL Lesson Plans: activities, worksheets, tips and ideas to help you in planning your lessons.
o TEFL Articles: essays and articles related to the teaching of English.
o TEFL Training: advice & resources for prospective or existing ESL teachers, including information on tests and examinations.
o ESL Administration: tools, tips and resources for school managers.
v ESL Clubhouse - This interactive section is for students and teachers. For teachers, it's a place to meet students and other teachers, and somewhere you might like to send your own students who will improve their English by "doing". It contains:
o ESL Forums, where students and teachers can meet and find penpals or discuss a whole variety of topics online. The forum moderators try to make participation as easy and enjoyable as possible. The Talking Point forums have new monthly topics tied in to homework and accompanying lesson plans.
o ESL Chat, where teachers and students can meet and chat in English. You'll find people from all over the world chatting here 24-hours a day, either in the main chat room or in person-to-person conversations.
o ESL Games, where you can find a variety of English games such as Hangman or crosswords that you can encourage your students to play.
o ESL Quizzes, where your students can test their knowledge of English.
o ESL Jokes, where you can find a collection of jokes, some organized by level, for possible use in class.
v ESL Learning Centre Many of these pages may be useful to you as a source of materials and ideas for explanations:
o Micro skills: grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation
o Macro skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing
o Special subject areas such as Business English, Young Learners or ESL Exams
v ESL Resources - In this section you can find EC-recommended products on sale that are of value to teachers as well as students. All products can be delivered to you anywhere in the world.
v ESL World - There are thousands of pages at English Club, and hundreds of things for you to do. Here are just a few examples of special things you may want to do or get your students to do:
o
Set up
your own English Club:
http://www.englishclub.com/english-club.htm
o
Set up an
email project with another school:
http://www.englishclub.com/tefl/viewforum.php?f=1
o Listen to the news in English every week (and read the transcripts, with word explanations): http://www.englishclub.com/listening/news.htm
o
Read This
Week in History (an event from the past every week, makes for useful and often
topical classroom material):
http://www.englishclub.com/thisweek.php
o
See a new
cartoon every day:
http://www.englishclub.com/esl-jokes/daily-cartoon.htm
o
Test a
student's level in English:
http://www.englishclub.com/esl-exams/levels-test-wc.htm
o
Learn
more about TOEFL and how to prepare your students:
http://www.englishclub.com/esl-exams/ets-toefl.htm
o
Get ideas
for your students on how to learn English:
http://www.englishclub.com/learn-english-how.htm