Middle School/Intermediate

Teaching Resources

1) Developing Teachers
- Lesson plans available for download on various themes, including medicine, time and neighbors.

2) Teach It
- Highly recommended resources, resource guides and themed collections for middle 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 Univeristy Press Teachers' Club
- Oxford University Press Teachers' Club presents free activities, ideas and information regarding teaching English.

6) Breaking News English
- Lesson plans based on current articles from the news. Each article is followed by a complete lesson plan with exercises and activities. Audio files of native English speakers reading the news articles are also available.

7) Primary Resources
- Links to spelling activities and fiction and non-fiction stories to help middle school students improve their English fluency.

8) Idea Think Tank
- A library of practical ideas for teachers from classroom games and activities to discipline and teacher improvement. Feel free to submit your own ideas.

9) British Council Teaching English
- Activities from the BBC and the British Council to help you find quality activities for classes with middle school students.

Listening Activities

1) The 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. Appropriate for middle school learners.

3) Classic Audio Books
- Classic audio books you can download for free to test you students' abilities to comprehend spoken English.

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.

Internet-based Activities for Teachers and Students

1) Teach It
- Interactive resources you can use as warm-ups in class or to practice at hom (suggestion: try the "Syntax Challenge")

2) English Short Stories
- Short English stories for ESL learners with listening, grammar, comprehension, and dictation exercises

3) Oxford University Press
- Interactive activities for middle school students (scroll down below the "primary" section)

4) English Forum
- Interactive English activities to learn and practice grammar, vocabulary and idioms.

Tests

1) British Council Teaching English
- Quizzes for middle school students that test pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and various topics. Quizzes can be downloaded and printed.

2) Activities for ESL Students (quizzes are internet-based)
- English grammar quizzes for middle school students.
- English vocabulary quizzes for middle school students.

Teaching Tips

1) Teachers TV
- High-quality, short films on new teaching methodologies, assessment and behaviour issues for middle school teachers. 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 & Links

Grammar Guides/Turorials for Teachers and Students

1) Guide to English Grammar and Writing
- A guide to English grammar and writing. The site includes interactive modules and quizzes to further understanding of the rules of English grammar.

2) EnglishPage.com
- This site provides explanations of various parts of speech. You can also practice via the exercises that are provided.

3) UsingEnglish.com
- A large collection of ESL tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics, including a grammar glossary, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts.

4) Webguides for Teachers
- Offers a series of annotated guides to the best sites for teaching and learning about Internet skills and how to integrate technology into the curriculum as well as resources for teaching at primary, secondary and training college levels through the medium of English.

Warmers and Games

1) Developing Teachers
- A long list of warmers to get your classes started off on the right foot

2) Language Games
- Pre-made word searches and crossword puzzles for middle school students

3) Crossword Puzzles
- A large database of crossword puzzles designed for middle school or intermediate level students