TESOL Ideas and Worksheets Subdivision Index

Grammar

Adding Emphasis ,

Any Grammar Point ,

--Activities for Any Grammar Point

--Diagramming Sentences

--Grammar: ESL Listening

--Practice Activities

--Stages of a Grammar Lesson

--Sources for Model Texts

----Make Up Your Own Model Text

------Dictogloss

----Using Articles to Illustrate Grammar Points

----Using Fairy Tales to Illustrate Grammar Points

----Using Jokes to Illustrate Grammar Points

----Using Movies to Illustrate Grammar Points,

----Using Picture Books to Illustrate Grammar Points

----Using Poems to Illustrate Grammar Points

----Using Songs to Illustrate Grammar Points,

----Using Youtube Videos to Illustrate Grammar Points

------Easy English,

------English Panda,

Adjectives ,

--Comparative Adjectives,

----Double Comparatives,
--Too + Adjective
Adverbs ,

--Adverbs of Frequency

--Adverbs of Intensity

--Adverbs of Manner

--Comparative Adverbs
--Too
Conjunctions ,
--Or ,
--While ,
Nouns ,

--Articles

----Articles to Refer to Groups

----Geographic Use of "the"
--Countable and Uncountable Nouns

--Gerunds,

--Noun Clauses

----Embedded Questions

--Noun Phrases
--Quantifiers
----More, Less or Fewer
----Too + Noun
--Pronouns,
----Posssessive Pronouns,
----Reflexive Pronouns
----Subject versus Object Pronouns,
Questions ,
--How Questions ,
--Question Tags
--Past Simple Questions ,
--Present Continuous Questions ,

Parts of Speech ,
Prepositions ,

--Prepositions of Movement

--Prepositions of Place

--Prepositions of Time

--Prepositional Phrases,
Relative Clauses,

--Defining and Non-Defining Relative Clauses

--Omitting the Relative Pronoun

--Reduced Relative Clauses / Participle Clauses

Subordinate Clauses,
Word Patterns

--Sense Verbs + Infinitives

--Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

Verb Forms
Conditionals
--Zero Conditional
--1st Conditional
--2nd Conditional
--3rd Conditional

--Mixed Conditionals Type 1: Past/Present

Future Forms

--Future Continuous

--Future in the Past

--Future Perfect

--Going to
--Will
General Verb Tenses ,
Imperatives ,
Infinitives ,
Irregular Verbs ,
Modal Verbs ,
--can/could
--have to
--modals of deduction or speculation
--must
--should
negative verbs,
Passive Verbs ,
--Future Passive (Will)

--Modal Passives
--Past Simple Passive Verbs ,

--Present Perfect Passive
--Present Simple Passive Verbs ,
Past Continuous ,
Past Forms General ,

--Narrative Tenses
Past Perfect ,

Past Perfect Continuous, 
Past Simple ,
Phrasal Verbs ,

--Three Word Phrasal Verbs
Present Continuous ,
--Present Continuous for Future Arrangements ,
Present Perfect ,
--For and Since
Present Perfect Continuous ,
Present Simple ,
Reported Speech ,
--Reported Speech Questions ,

--Reporting Verbs ,
Short Answers ,
Subject Verb Agreement,
--Third Person Singular "s"
--Was/Were

Subjunctive,
Used to ,
Verb Forms,
Wish,
Would + Base Form for repeated actions in the past

Everything Else

Class Evaluation

Classroom Management

Communicative Follow Ups

Comprehensible Input

--Interesting Input plus Production Prompts

--Jokes

--Movie Worksheets

----Highlighting Grammar Points from these Movie Worksheets

--Poetry

----A Poem A Day

----Poems ESL Listening

--Reading and Listening Practice

--Story Time: ESL Listening
----Aesop's Fables

----Storybooks ESL Listening

----The Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales
----Roman History

--Story Time: Picture Books for Young Learners

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)

English for Academic Purposes
--Research Essay for English for Academic Purposes Students

Functional Language

--Agreeing and Disagreeing / Debating

--Giving Advice

----Giving Advice in the Present and Past

--Introducing Yourself

--Making Suggestions
--Speculating

Icebreakers / First Day of Class Getting to Know You Activities

IELTS
--IELTS Listening
----IELTS Listening Part 1

----Using Crash Course World History Videos for IELTS Listening

--IELTS Reading
--IELTS Speaking

----IELTS Speaking Part 1
----IELTS Speaking Part 2
------Speaking Part 2 Prompts
----IELTS Speaking Part 3
--IELTS Writing
----IELTS Writing Task 1
------Task 1 Sample Essays
----IELTS Writing Task 2
------Task 2 Sample Essays

Listening

--Activities That Can Be Used with Any Listening Text

----Activities for Using the Transcript After Listening

----Engaging Activities for Any Listening Text Workshop

--Extensive Listening

--Gap-fill Worksheets for Songs

--Listening Exercises Designed Around Youtube Videos

--Stages of a Listening Lesson

Learner Autonomy

Lesson Planning
--CELTA Style Lesson Plans
--Delta Lessons

My Opinions

--Vlogs

Needs Analysis

Phonics

Projects

Pronunciation

Reading
--Activities That Can Be Used with Any Reading Text

----Engaging Activities for Any Reading Text Workshop

--Extensive Reading

----Graded Readers

--Stages of a Reading Lesson

Speaking
--Circle Time (Conversation Prompts for Young Learners)
--Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom
--Telling Your Stories (Prompts for Extended Speaking)

Spelling

Test Familiarization

Time Killers and Time Fillers

Topic Lessons
--online lessons

Useful Websites or Apps

Vocabulary

--Any Vocabulary Set

--Collocations

--Daily Vocabulary

--Homonyms, Homophones and Homographs

--Lessons on Proverbs

--Practice Activities For Vocabulary Lessons

--Prefixes, Suffixes and Root Words

--quizlet.com

----Academic Word List on quizlet.com

--Specific Vocabulary Sets

----Action Verbs

----Animals

----Daily Routines

----Feelings

----Jobs

----Latin and Greek Roots

----Math and Numbers

----Personalities

----School Subjects

--Stages of a Vocabulary Lesson

--Sources for Model Texts for a Vocabulary Lesson

--Word Forms and Related Words (Word Families)

Writing
--Advantages and Disadvantages Essays

--Cause and Effect Essays
--Describing a Process
--Problems and Solutions Essays

Workshops and Teacher Development

Addendum: Notes and Suggestion for Use (Last updated November 29, 2024)

Greetings fellow TESOL teachers.  I hope you find my materials useful.  Below I'll give some brief explanations about this index.

I originally started creating this index on November 29, 2013 with a blogpost linking to every activity.  Once that blogpost got too cluttered, I reorganized the index by subdivisions, which I've posted above in this index.  (This index is backdated September 15, 2003 because up until May 18, 2023, it was my habit to backdate all of my indexes to September 2003 in order to avoid cluttering up the front page of my blog.)

As I stated in the original 2013 post, the purpose behind creating this index was partly to share my ideas with other teachers, and partly to create an index for my own benefit, so that when I taught a specific grammar point again, I could remember what materials I had used the previous time.  (This is why I've included links to materials that are not my own, as well as my own materials.  I wanted to remember everything I used before, so that I could find it again easily when I needed it.)

That being said, it is also my hope that this index of material will be useful to other TESOL teachers out there, but there are a couple of caveats.

First of all, since I started doing this in 2013, I got into the habit of posting all the materials I've created.  Everything.  There is no quality control here.  My best materials and my mediocre materials are all mixed together here.  I am proud of at least some of the materials in this index, but in order to find my best materials, a fellow teacher must be willing to sort through everything on this blog, and select the good stuff.  Apologies in advance.  It's just the way I do things.  

I've done my best to organize this index in a way that makes sense, but it's possible that it may not completely make sense to other people.  (For example, I've listed articles under the heading of nouns instead of listing them independently, I've classified reported speech under verbs, etc.)  If you're looking for something specific in this index, it may be best to search using Ctrl+F.  That's what I've started doing myself when I want to locate something quickly.

Many of the materials linked to on this blog are stored on my Google Drive account.  I've developed my own shorthand for linking to Google Drive materials.  For word documents, I use: drive, docs, pub.  "drive" refers to the original Microsoft Word document that was uploaded onto Google Drive.  "docs" refers to a google document.  In cases where there is both a "drive" and a "docs" version, it means that the google document was converted from the Microsoft Word document.  "pub" refers to the published version of the google document.  

Usually the conversion from Google Drive to Google documents is good, but there are some cases where the formatting is changed.  In which case, use the original Google Drive document.

There are other cases where the Google Drive version will need to be downloaded into Microsoft Word before the correct formatting will display (e.g. this game here.)  

[I've discovered that Google Drive doesn't always play nice with Microsoft Word if you try to open the document directly from Google Drive.  However, if you use Google Drive simply as a storage mechanism from which to upload and download Microsoft documents, then it works fine, as long as you download the document again before using it.  All that being said, this is usually only a problem for documents that have unusual formatting--e.g. this game here.  For simple text documents, it's not an issue.]

PowerPoint documents have a similar shorthand: drive, slides, pub.  In this case, "drive" refers to the original Microsoft PowerPoint document, which has been uploaded into Google Drive, and "slides" refers to the conversion of that document from PowerPoint to Google Slides.

As with Microsoft Word documents, there are occasionally issues with the conversion.  This is particularly true with the various PowerPoint Games.  For these games especially, you really want to download the original "drive" version onto your computer, and open it up on Microsoft PowerPoint.  Many of the links and functionality do not work on the "slides" version.  (Arguably I shouldn't even have included links to the "slides" versions of these games, given that they don't work very well, but, for better or for worse, I decided to included them as a back-up.)

Also related to Google Drive issues, in 2021, Google Drive did a security update, which means that the links to Google Drive folders that were posted before 2021 no longer work.  I've updated the links to some of these old folders, but not all of them.  If you find an old Google Drive Folder link that's not working, you can request access to it, and this will alert me to the fact that there's an outdated link that I missed that needs updating.  

However, in all cases, the link to the Google Drive Folder is not necessary to access the materials.  Each blog post that contains a link to a Google Drive Folder will also contain links to all the individual materials in that folder on the same blogpost.  So, for the moment at least, the material is all still accessible.  (Although it's probably only a matter of time before Google pushes through another security update, and then one day all of my links to Google Drive materials will become outdated.  But I guess I'll deal with that when that day comes.)

I understand that teachers who use my materials will want to make edits on these materials--either to adapt it or to improve upon it.  You have my blessing to copy any of these materials over to your own Google Drive account, and make whatever edits you wish.  (You don't need my permission, of course.  Google Drive lets you make copies whether I permit it or not.  But you have my permission nonetheless, so you can do it guilt free.)  Just go to "file" and select "make a copy".  (See here for more information, if you're not familiar with Google Docs.)

I occasionally get requests from people asking to be made editors of certain documents, which I ignore.  (Just make your own copy, and then you can make all the edits you want.)