TEFL course summer 2023, CDELT Ain Shams University

Dr. Mohamed El Ghamry

Assignment 1

Check the internet for 20 websites that can be used as accredited resources for teachers of English. The
following measures should be considered: the sites should be authentic and accredited they can be related
to any of the TEFL main topics as resources. Avoid plagiarism.

Example: www.busyteacher.org : this websites can be of great help for teachers of English at all grades. It
provides printable material for classroom activities, classified into grades. There are also a number of
updated articles concerning many issues of reading. There is also a newsletter that can help teachers to
follow up with the website. The website provides some teaching aids like posters and a library of
specialized books. I think the interface of the website can be improved as it is a little confusing.

- use your own style in description

- avoid plagiarism.

Answer:

- Please note that the descriptions only covers the useful, free teaching, learning
material part of the website

1. learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/
- The website to find materials for your students on all four language skills for free, some programs are paid
but there is a lot of useful material and resources there. Listening audios with their transcripts, instructions
and tasks. Reading practice that has reading texts and their instructions and tasks. Writing lessons with their
tips and tasks and speaking practice through videos, transcript and tasks. Each skill practice has instructions
and preparation; the activities are divided based on your students’ level.

- The Grammar section has all the grammar lessons explained based on the language level with a test on each
lesson.
- Same applies on the vocabulary section but with vocabulary games.

- The business English section has a wide variety of business related topics mainly for A2, B1 and B2 students.
Each topic has a reading text and a downloadable worksheet.

- The general English is divided to zones and series. The video and audio zones have material for B2 and C1
students. The magazine zone is for B1 and B2 and the story zone is suitable for all language levels. The audio
and video series each has variety of topics for A2 to C1 students. All sections contain the transcript for audios
and videos, downloadable worksheets and instructions before the practice.
- “English levels” is the right place to guide you how to assess your students’ level or what is the right material for
their level. “Improve your English level” is a resource that can help you guide your students through their
learning challenges or help you understand them.

2. www.cambridgeenglish.org/learning-english/
- The Learning English section presents free activities classified based on language level, on each activity you’ll
find how much time it will take and what skills it improves and a description.

- Exam preparation will lead you to a set of resources for learners and teachers to help you stay prepared
before the exam. Worksheets, lesson plans, booklets, guides and more.
- A reliable test to discover your students’ English level.
- A guide for parents to help them understand how they can help their children practice English and stay
involved through activities and tips for support.
- The free resources section has material that could be used for self-study or classroom use. From audio series
with lesson plans to free activities.
- Teaching English section has inclusive guides about teaching certifications and frameworks. It provides free
resources in the ‘Resources for teachers’ section based on language level, skill, and needed resource.

3. www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
- One of the British council websites. It’s for teachers’ development and guidance through their teaching
journey.
- It doesn’t really have teaching materials as it focuses on teaching career development, tips and latest
methods in teaching.
- It is also a good resource to get free materials from the teaching resources section. It’s divided into 3
main categories primary secondary and adults. Each category has downloadable material and suitable
lessons plans for each level and on several topics, activities, stories and teaching tools.

- Subscribe to their newsletter if you want to get updates on the latest content.

4. www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/
-The website has many categories to navigate to find all the resources you might need for your class. Please
note that the navigation bar for the BBC learning English is the one under the “learning English” poster.

- No need to register or pay to access any resources.

- You can find courses, Grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary divided into Easy, Medium and hard.
- On each category there are speaking and reading materials on specific topics, worksheets, lesson summary
PDF and video files to download.
- Great grammar references on all grammatical topics and tests on each topic. The same applies to vocabulary
references.
- There is the News section where you can find anything that’s related to news in English.

- In the news review there are hundreds of new stories to listen to and read, each story could be downloaded
either in PDF or audio. The same applies to the news review archive.
- The fake news is all what you need to learn about fake news and their dangers.
- The lingohack archive is great for more specialized vocabulary like food, farming, medical fields and much
more.
- English in the news archive is a library where you can easily find reading practice to your students on varity
of topics from the news archive. It has vocabulary and questions on each story. Note that it’s suitable only
for intermediate level students.
- Last but not least is the “more’ section which has Quizzes, placement tests to know where you stand from
English language, downloads on variety of conversational topics, grammar and children’s stories.

- And for Teachers’ development there’s a section where hands on teaching tips and useful blog posts for
teachers.
- For Children is a section for animated short stories to help children learn English with their parents. Each
story has a downloadable transcript and an activities pack to help children explore and use the language.
- 8 English Podcasts are available to download or subscribe.
- Drama is where you can find interesting stories to watch and practice up to 5 activities on each story, read
their vocabulary and download episodes and the activity PDF.
- The last section is called Our App and it tells what the BBC English learning app is, the links to install it on
your phone and what features and programmes will you find there that will help you learn.

5. writeandimprove.com/
- One of Cambridge websites to help improve writing in English.
- You can use it to understand your students’ writing skills and where they stand.
- There’s a task given along with automatic feedback once finished the task. Free tasks are available once you
sign in, only one free task could be done without having to register.

6. cambridge.org/us/cambridgeenglish
- In this website the most benefit will be from the resources section where you can find thousands of free
resources based on the learners’ age group, type of language (academic English, business English) and skills.
- Most of them could be downloaded without sinning in but others require you to sign in.

7. www.e-grammar.org/
- For all the grammar PDF and worksheets this website has it all.
 8. kupdf.net/
- A PDF library for mostly all course books in PDF format.
- Write the title in the search box and find all relevant results

9. https://elt.oup.com

- Printable English language resources

- There's a teacher's club where you can find downloadable teacher's guides, courses for young, teenage, adult
learners, different subjects, and several curriculum titles like headway and English file.

-learning resources bank for students with extra practice activities and interactive exercises same sections as the
teacher's club but with student books.

10. https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/
- A website with tailored material for teenage learners.

-Sections are divided as follows; skills, grammar, vocabulary, exams and study break.

- Each section has short videos that have instructions, transcript, exercise and downloadable PDF for the lesson.

- Lessons are classified by English level.

-The study break section is amazing for reading practice texts that's fun and informative.

11. www.talkenglish.com/
- For simple and clear audios and videos in English you can turn to talk English there’s many audios on several
topics.
- The Audios are divided based on the level and topic.
- There’s also a section for regular English conversations, idioms and phrases, listening and speaking lessons.
- It also provides English conversation, business English in video format

12. www.idrlabs.com/multiple-intelligences/test.php
- That’s a multiple intelligences test; you can use it for yourself or for any of your adult students to understand
how to classify them.
- The test is 45 questions and your answers will define what’s your highest percent intelligence and other
intelligences you have.
 13. www.ted.com/

- a good teacher is a cultured teacher, the one who's exposed to the world and many divers ideas. Ted is one of
many websites that presents ideas that's worth spreading.

- Ted speakers are trained on how to give effective presentations, and that's good for English learners who would
want to listen to useful videos in English.

- you can use the videos in class and as a reference for further research on interesting topics in several fields,
entertainment, technology, business, science
 14. www.britannica.com

- A huge encyclopedia that has different articles and stories in almost all fields.

- Britannica could be used as a resource to get useful, tailored reading texts according to your learners' interests
or needs.

15. Pinterest.com
- All creative ideas are here in an image format or short videos
Pinterest is available on the app store and apple store for free.
 You can have ideas for mind maps, engagement tools. classroom images to inspire you for how it may look
like.
- search by topic or hashtag and you'll get thousands if not millions of ideas to guide you through.

16. classroom.google.com/
- Google classroom is a digital tool to facilitate your online class work/resources management.
- Easy communication between teachers and students to keep in touch.
- Along with other Google applications like google docs, sheets and meet, teachers can have their online
classes paperless.
- It's free, and you can upload files from/to google drive.

17. eslbrains.com/
- Detailed lessons plans on several topics to help teachers improve.
- All you need to do is to choose the type of language you're teaching, the duration of the lesson and the free
subscription.
- downloadable PDFs for lesson plan, the students' version of the lesson and the worksheet.
- Videos to listen to and discuss.
- No need to register to enjoy these features, only if you intend to pay for a paid subscription or comment on
the lessons.
18. egyptianstreets.com/
-some students ask to stay attached to their Egyptian news but in English. Egyptian streets is a digital
Egyptian news network in English.
- like most news websites it's easy to navigate through the categories bar to move around the news.

- you can also follow them on Facebook and Instagram and recommend it to your students as a reference.
- Reading the Egyptian news in Arabic would be so beneficial to improve fluency and helps students learn
and research relevant vocabulary and expressions to their society (if Egyptians or living in Egypt).

19. www.ldoceonline.com/
-longman website is full of free exercises and resources to practice English.
- Exam preparation, grammar based on language level, listening and pronunciation and vocabulary exercises.
- It's great for self-study as you can check your answer after finishing each exercise.
- you can browse among many topics to get the most relevant exercises to your or your students' interests.
20. learningenglish.voanews.com/
- voice of America is an American radio network that provides learning English material from their programs.
- The programs are divided to topics based on learners interest.
- There are videos calssified according to language level.
- It's a good resource but the interface seems old, but easy to navigate.