High School/Advanced

Teaching Resources

1) Developing Teachers
- Lesson plans available for download on various themes, including leadership, holidays and many other intermediate and advanced topics.

2) Teach It
- Highly recommended resources, resource guides and themed collections for high school-aged English learners.

3) ESL Cafe
- A long list of helpful teaching ideas grouped by skills such as writing and speaking, and by topics such as music, games and the internet.

4) One Stop English
- Ideas and activities for teaching middle school learners listening, speaking, reading, writing and pronunciation skills.

5) Oxford University Press
- Oxford University Press Teacher's Club presents free activities, ideas and information regarding teaching English to high school students.

6) British Council Teaching English
- The British Council and the BBC present activities you can use in class with intermediate and advanced level high school students.

Internet-based Activities for Teachers and Students

1) Enligh Forum
- Interactive games and exercises for intermediate and advanced level high school

2) BBC Learning English
- Shows, quizzes and exercises from the BBC to help students master the English language.

3) Teach It
- Interactive resources you can use as warm-ups in class or to practice at home.

4) Visu Words
- online graphical dictionary to help students learn meanings and synonyms

5) Oxford University Press
- Interactive exercises for intermediate and advanced level students (scroll to the bottom of the page).

Listening

1) ESL Lab
- A website that focuses on improving listening skills. The site has short listening exercises, general listening quizzes, listening quizzes for academic purposes, and long conversations. All are labeled easy, medium, difficult, or very difficult.

2) Listening Activities
- Audio stories and exercises that test comprehension of spoken English

3) Classic Audio Books
- Classic audio books you can download for free

4) English Listening
- Choose the level and topic from a huge database of sound files and test your students' abilities to comprehend English as spoken by a native English speaker.

5) English Listening Library
- A free online listening resource for ESL and EFL students and teachers. Most English listening activities include images, an interactive quiz, transcripts and downloadable MP3s.

6) English Through Stories
- English language stories and downloadable audio files of the stories being read by a native English speaker.

7) National Public Radio
- listen to recorded programs in American English; you can choose the topic or a particular radio station belonging to this network;

8) BBC Radio
- listen to British English recorded or live.

Tests

1) Free English Tests
- Grammar and vocabulary quizzes for high school students.

2) Cambridge exam sites (these sites can be helpful even if your students are not actually taking a Cambridge exam):
Official Cambridge ESOL site for candidates
- Helps candidates choose the right exam based on his/her ability level and goals, and offers detailed information to help candidates prepare for the FCE exam.

Official Cambridge ESOL site for teachers
- comprehensive, detailed information for teachers who help students prepare for Cambridge ESOL exams from the people who make the exams.

Flo-Joe
- FCE practice tests
- CAE practice tests
- CPE practice tests

3) One Stop English
- Lesson plans written for all aspects of the FCE exam

Teaching Tips

1) Teachers TV
- High-quality, short films on new teaching methodologies, assessment and behaviour issues. The library of films is searchable by age-group, subject and position within a school.

2) The Internet TESL Journal
- Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas and Links

Warmers and Games

1) Developing Teachers
- A wide-array of activities to help you get your advanced-level classes started in an exciting, educational way.

2) Language Games
- Word searches and crossword puzzles designed for advanced learners

3) Crossword puzzles for advanced students