Calling all english language teachers !!!

[michymama]

Hi, looking for a bit of help. I'm about to start teaching at a Trinity school here in Italy and have classes of various levels. Was wondering if anybody could recommend any decent websites for lesson plans and other teaching materials ? Feel free to email me if its not possible to put any links on here ( not sure if we can post link on here ??). I have a few sites that I use for the small children I teach privately and will happily swap notes !!
Thanks !

bbc learning english is good for adults and teenagers
boggles world is fun for ideas for teaching kids

There are tons more out there so it is worth googling and finding stuff that is suited to your students, but the above two are my usual fallbacks when I'm tight for time!

Good luck!

www.eslcafe.com/

I'd browse and stock up on some books if you're in the UK over Christmas. You need to see books really to know if they'll be much use to you.

agree with sssandy2 on the books

Thanks, I've been googling all morning and have found loads of good stuff !!! I've got a lot of books collected over the years but wanted some more up to date stuff through the net.
I'm a bit nervous as its the first time I'll taech over 6 years olds !!
Thanks again !!

Anything with a bit of humour in it is always good. It pales on you as a teacher obviously after you've worked with it a few times but I think a good laugh helps the learning along and breaks the ice. Some books are just so dull (business English in particular obviously). Bet it'll be a piece of cake teaching adults though after teaching children. I've never felt up to tackling that one myself! Hope you'll enjoy the change.

My books are all packed in a crate in the cellar TBH.

They will love anything showing how eccentric the Brits are since they all think that we are anyway, so anything about superstitions, traditions, recipes for inedible sounding English specialities, things that seem incomprehensible to them, like cricket, will all go down well.

What about:

www.macmillan.es
www.teachingenglish.org.uk

and for kids:
www.dltk-kids.com
www.kaboose.com
www.esl-kids.com
www.enchantedlearning.com

Have fun!

Just downloaded loads of lovely stuff of the TES site, too, it's another must .

Thanks, have had a good look through everything and got a lot of material.
Wish me luck !