Resources on this Website

Letters

Speaking & Vocabulary

• Pronunciation
  Includes spoken guide to common sound mistakes, handouts and tongue twisters.
  
  
• International Phonetic alphabet
  Step-by-step instructions for making your own handouts with IPA characters and useful handouts.
  
  
• Vocabulary Packs
  These packs provide students with essential vocabulary, activities, definitions and pronunciation guides. (There are currently packs for travel, food and rooms) 
  
  
• Greetings (42KB PDF)
  A guide to English greetings and a simple body language guide.
  
  
  
• How to make a vocab book (62KB pdf)
  

Grammar

• Verb To Have (62KB PDF)
  It's almost impossible to find a simple explanation for the verb to have. So here it is without the burdens of the perfect tenses and thousands of modals uses.
  
  
• Prepositions with time (25KB PDF)
  Prepositions with time matching cards.
  
  
• Past Simple Test with Form Guide (57KB PDF)
  This is a Past Simple Test with common regular and irregular verbs. It also includes the form of the past-simple.
  
  
• A Day In The Life Of An English Teacher (220KB PDF)
  Includes sample day in the life of an English Teacher with regular / irregular verb quiz. Also includes answers and a form to allow teachers and students to create their own days in a simple format that encourages use of the Past Simple.
  

• Common Uncountable Nouns
  This handout includes a list of common uncountable nouns, it is really aimed at oriental users who often hear them used as countable nouns in their own countries. (53KB PDF)

• House Plan
  Ideal exercise to revise prepositions of place and furniture lexis. It is also a good discussion exercise. (216KB PDF)

Others

• Using Realia
  How to use real material in your lessons.
  
  
• Top 20 Fillers
  We present the ESL Lesson First Aid Kit to revive any flagging ESL lesson.
  
  
• Dress Codes
  Complete Lesson plan with Matching cards and exercises to assist students understanding of dress codes. (317 KB PDF)