Here is an extensive list of websites for lesson plans, games, activity ideas, worksheets, and anything you might need to succeed at your school(s).
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Altopedia is an excellent resource for topic-related games and teaching ideas. It is aimed at English for elementary school and junior high school, but also includes information for high school as well as material not covered in textbooks (i.e. holidays and phonics). The site is very easy to navigate as many game and worksheet materials are linked to specific categories out of the English textbooks presently used in Japan. Explanations of materials have also been translated into Japanese. ALTopedia is the reincarnation of Englipedia.org, now gone forever (from the internet, but not from our hearts).
A quality educational site offering 5000+ FREE printable theme units, word puzzles, writing forms, book report forms,math, ideas, lessons and much more.
Aomori AJET Teaching Resources
Though offering mostly higher level content, this website has some good articles and videos for learners. There is currently an interesting series on (British) idioms available.
Some good worksheets, game ideas and printables including a good phonics and holiday section.
The British Council’s “Teaching English” website offers lots of resources, tools, articles and information on teacher development. Its sister site, “Learning English” has a good range of content and activities aimed at students of English from absolute beginner to academic level.
Cooori is a vocabularly and task-based learning system designed for learners of Japanese and American English. Use it to improve your Japanese, or use it with your EFL/ESL students to help them improve their English.
Cloudbase is the first learning management system (LMS) designed for language education. The free online platform allows ALTs and JTEs to easily manage their classes, student progress and course materials, anytime, anywhere
Here you can find many sources related to ESL. ESL Cafe’s “Idea Cookbook” table of contents contains a variety of game ideas arranged by type: from business English to listening, using music in the classroom, and grammar-oriented activities. Very helpful for both the classroom and English Conversation classes (英会話). Teacher forums can also be found on the site to allow teachers to swap ideas or ask others for advice.
Detailing a discipline model for handling behavior problems in the classroom setting.
Children’s crafts, coloring pages, worksheets, poems, games and other activities for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school kids.
Run by a former JET, EFLSensei is filled with ice breakers, warm-ups, speaking games, conversation starters, and more.
Edochan.com/teaching/indexlevel.htm
Three Wise Monkeys is a collection of games, activities and teaching ideas by language teachers in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Three Wise Monkeys caters to a variety of levels, but in essence offers lively, communicative activities suitable for big classes of shy kids. The heart of this collection is the Minefields book, edited by Tim Glass. Minefields was created a few years ago by teachers in Tochigi Prefecture.
EducationUSA, a program run by the State Department, is a helpful resource for students who are interested in studying in the US. It aims to promote US higher education around the world, covering the necessary steps to study in undergraduate, graduate, and intensive English programs. This includes advice on choosing the right universities to apply to, application procedures, test prep, financial information, and visa procedures.In addition to the website, EducationUSA also has advising centers in Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo and Fukuoka, if your students live near any of these cities. This is a very useful tool to get those students interested in studying abroad on the right track to actually doing it!
This children’s educational web sites and games are designed to stimulate creativity, learning, enjoyment, and imagination.
Hundreds of free English lessons with English grammar and vocabulary exercises online.
Epals is a social network optimized for K-12 learning. Over half a million classrooms in 200 countries and territories have joined the ePals Global Community, and this site can be used to coordinate cross cultural activities, including video, letter and picture exchanges.
Targeted mainly at young learners, you can access games and worksheet ideas here.
Eslflow is a guide to ESL lesson plans, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, games and activities for English as a Second (or Foreign) Language for teachers and students.
ESL kids resources for English teachers. Printable flashcards, worksheets, lesson plans, games, clip art images, crafts and more.
Printable ESL Lesson Plans and ESL Materials for TEFL/TESOL teachers. Grammar worksheets.Reading comprehension. Board games. Pronunciation.
At ESL Partyland you can have fun while learning English as a second language. This site contains quizzes, conversation ideas and more.
Resource for all those looking for ideas, puzzles, activities, and games for children or youth. Includes a gaming directory.
Rules for kids games for all children. Kids games such as Tag, playground games, outdoor and indoor types, hopscotch, jump rope and more. Excellent for use to teach children games from other countries.
This website has a selection of fun and lively game ideas, mostly for Elementary and Junior High classes. Content can be accessed in both English and Japanese.
The Guardian newspaper’s TEFL section includes lesson plans based on news based articles produced for various levels as well as TEFL related news. The content could be useful for eikaiwa discussion or High School debates.
Hyogo Times – English Sensei Spirit
Quality EFL / TEFL / ESL worksheets, handouts, lesson plans and resources for English teachers.
InformEd is a learning and teaching hub designed for educators and e-learners, featuring resources and interactive and innovative ideas for learning and trends in education as well as education technology.
Enjoy toddler storybooks, play original educational games, and print printable coloring pages at Lil’ Fingers Storybooks online. Original stories are fun.
A selection lesson plans using videos and Powerpoint.
Music videos with follow-along lyrics and fill in the blank exercises. Lots of new, popular music and classics of various levels of difficulty.
Variety of listening activities at lower levels and aimed towards young learners.
Printable flashcards, worksheet creators, word search and board game maker as wells as some fun game ideas for different themes or adaptable by grammar point.
A huge site with over 8000 resources, including lesson plans, worksheets, audio, video and flashcards, plus monthly topical news lessons.
Provides teachers, students, and parents, the tools necessary to create crossword, puzzles, word search puzzles, mazes, etc using any vocabulary you input.
Lots of interactive games with phonetics which would be useful for ALTs or JTEs wanting to improve their understanding of phonics.
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This site, created by ALT volunteers, is aimed particularly at teachers on the JET Programme. You can find up to 300 activities listed including ideas for elementary school, junior high, senior high, and special needs.
Tools for Educators has free online worksheet makers for teachers to make vocabulary worksheets, printable games and activities.
Here you will find various flashcard sets for vocabulary practice – particularly for elementary school classes.