Resources
- Comprehensive Guide to Teaching English in Asia
- Lazy Teacher's Guide To TEFL
- 101 Teaching Tips
- Online TEFL Course
- How-to videos (see below)
- Blog
Other
ESLinsider
How-to Videos
Lesson Planning
Warm-up Activities & Icebreakers
- Categramble
- Fear in a Bag
- Word Association
- Give them a letter
- Line up
- Word Chain
- 20 Questions
- Teacher Says
- Tell the truth
- What do you see?
Vocabulary Games and Activities
- Charades
- Pass the Bag
- Taboo
- Make a Word
- Which Word?
- Pass the Marker
- Picture this
- Post it
- Sprite
- Syllable Says
- What am I?
- Fill in the Gaps
Games & Activities for Sentences/Q&A
- Whispers
- Pass & Ask
- Standing Sentences
- Race, Touch and Say
- Stairway to _____
- A Ball and a Bag
- Ping-Pong
- It's a Mystery
- Make a Sentence
- Paper, Scissors, Stone!
- Pass the Bag II
- Touch and Say
- Sentence Relay
Passive Activities
- Beginning essay writing
- Comics I
- Comics II
- Draw it
- Mind Maps
- Take a Dictation
- One hand, two hands
- Puzzles
Misc. Games and Activities
- Spelling Bee I
- Spelling Bee II
- Who am I?
- Fill in the Gaps II
- Musical Chairs
- Past, Present, Future
- Pretend you're a...
- Find the Words
- How?
- What would you do if?
- Writing Relay
- Writing Rearrange
Teaching Tips & Tools
- Teaching Songs I
- Teaching Songs II - Rearrange
- Teaching Songs II - Cloze
- Teaching Reading I
- Teaching Reading - Scanning
- Teaching Reading - Dictation
- Counting w/ a Ball
- Counting - Clarifying teen & ty
- Counting - Line up
- Correcting Written Errors
- Correcting Spoken Errors
- Using Kinesthetics
- Using Realia
- Getting Students Focused
- Role of the Teacher
- Students Choose
- Pointing
- Using Cloze Activities
- Using Pictures
- Can and Can't
- Your Daily Plan
Phonics
- How to teach phonics
- Make a Phonogram
- What's that sound?
- Tongue Twisters
- Back-to-back
- Using a Mirror
- Word Sorts
Classroom Management
- Classroom Management 1
- Classroom Rules
- Peer Pressure
- Positive Reinforcement
- Stamps
- Using Proximity
- Responsibilities
- Using Countdowns
- 4 Tips
Interviews
Video interviews with ESL teachers
- Korea: Interview with a Hagwon owner
- Korea: Money & Expenses I
- Korea: Money & Expenses II
- Korea: In Busan I
- Korea: In Busan II
- Korea: In Busan III
- Korea: In Busan IV