Teaching Resources

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This page links to several resources to assist in your teaching. Just click "Edit" at the top of this page to add your own resources!

Contents

[edit] Teaching Guides

[edit] Textbooks

New Crown ALT Guide: our own guide to the New Crown series of textbooks used in junior high schools.

[edit] Lessons / Games / Activities

  • Englipedia: A large online resource for games, activities, worksheets, etc. that was specifically created for ALTs in Japan. A lot of the materials are indexed by the textbooks many of us use in our classrooms.
  • Genki English: Site run by a former JET. A huge amount of games and lesson plans are available here, many with Japanese translations.
  • ESL Well: Activities, lessons, and various JET communities can all be found on this site.
  • Oshieroo: Created by a JET in Saitama as a resource for sharing lesson plans and activities.

[edit] Discussion

  • ESL Cafe: A very large and fairly active forum.
  • Teaching Forum: Discuss teaching and ask questions in our online forum.

[edit] Dictionaries

  • Google Dictonary: Google can be searched as a dictionary (it gives you multiple definitions) using the "define" operator. Click the link to see how it works.
  • Strunk's Elements of Style: Not a true grammar reference, per se, but a very useful book that was written for students of English composition courses. It is not exhaustive, but covers many core issues in English writing (American English).
  • Wiktionary: The Wikipedida version of the English language dictionary.
  • Etymology Dictionary: Where do words come from? Look that information up here.
  • Thesaurus: For learner's of English, new words are often best learned by simply defining them using a synonym.

[edit] Proficiency Tests

  • STEP Eiken (日本語 English): Many of your junior high and high school students will take this English proficiency test.

[edit] Source Materials

  • Simple English Wikipedia: The simple English version of Wikipedia can provide your students with relatively simple materials to read.
  • Generate Bingo Cards: Use this online tool to generate custom bingo cards.
  • News in Simple English: The Voice of America Special English program provides news in simple English, using a reduced vocabulary of 1500 words.
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