QualityTime-ESL: Effective English Teaching

Downlaodable resource book, you have to pay to get most of it but there are some sample pages to whet your appetite.

http://www.qualitytime-esl.com/

Jane and Dave Willis Task-based Teaching

http://www.willis-elt.co.uk/taskbased.html

Jane and David have worked a lot to make TBL practical in the classroom. You can downlaod free lesson plans plus a commentary explaining the rrationale for the lesson.

Macmillan OneStopEnglish

http://www.onestopenglish.com/

Lots of practical teaching ideas at all levels for both young learners and adults. You can register for free but some lessons are Orly open to paying members.

British Council – BBC Teaching English

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/

Free classroom materials to download, from short activities to full lesson plans, for teaching kids and adults. There are also articles on aspects of teaching, and free teacher development and teacher training materials.

Biographies of famous people
http://www.who2.com/
Two sites for biographies of the famous - always useful for classroom activities, whether on- or off-line. For an alternative biography site, try biography.com.
http://www.biography.com/
Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/
Everything you could ever want to know about the movies on this fascinating site.
Linguistic Funland
http://www.linguistic-funland.com/
A huge collection of sites of interest to English teachers from this directory.
Leoslyrics.com
http://www.leoslyrics.com/
Song lyrics to use in the classroom? This site has an amazing, fully searchable database.
Lyrics.com
http://www.lyrics.com/
Another great site if you are looking for song lyrics.
Mystery Net
http://www.mysterynet.com/
Mystery stories for your students to read and work out the answers to.
Developing Teachers
http://www.developingteachers.com/
Teaching tips on a wide variety of topics from current and back numbers of a monthly newsletter.
Script-o-rama
http://www.script-o-rama.com/
You've got the video and/or DVD... here's where you get the tapescript!
Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/

Not the main Yahoo! news page, but some of the bizarre stories here are fun to do in class.

Language Assistant
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/language-assistant
This British Council site has lots of "tips, suggestions and teaching materials for the ELT classroom". It is really intended for largely untrained language assistants on their year abroad - but it has lots of interest for all teachers.