Teaching Resources

From HyogoAJET

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 1 Teaching Guides 2 Textbooks 3 Lessons / Games / Activities 4 Discussion 5 Dictionaries 6 Proficiency Tests 7 Source Materials

[edit] Teaching Guides

• Teaching at Senior High School
• Teaching at Junior High School
• Teaching at Elementary School

[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.

• Lesson Plans: Plans uploaded to and shared on this site.

• Natto Database: Large collection of lesson plans and games.

• 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.