{"id":182,"date":"2019-03-20T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T08:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.celta.ilsc.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2019-02-09T16:06:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T16:06:31","slug":"online-resources-for-new-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.celta.ilsc.com\/index.php\/online-resources-for-new-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Resources for New Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/KigTvXqetXA?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Tim Gouw<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/collections\/3948989\/client-blogging\/5d0645b057d5266bc07b823e24d9c7cc?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re preparing for CELTA teaching practice or teaching your first class, students need lessons\u2014and someone has to prepare them! These resources will help new teachers teach engaging lessons and can give experienced teachers some new ideas.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"generalactivities\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">General Activities<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>These websites are a great place to start whether the goal is to plan out a whole course or to just add one last activity to a lesson. Each website offers a broad range of resources across a variety of levels.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/busyteacher.org\/\">Busy Teacher<\/a> (Various levels)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/learnenglish.britishcouncil.org\/en\">British Council<\/a> (Various levels)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onestopenglish.com\/\">One Stop English<\/a> (Various levels)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishclub.com\/\">English Club<\/a> (Various levels)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"listeningreading\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Listening &amp; Reading<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Authentic listening and reading lessons can be a lot of work if teachers have to create all the material to accompany the input. These websites pair authentic receptive materials with both printable and online activities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"elllo.org\">English Listening Lesson Library Online<\/a> (Various levels)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/breakingnewsenglish.com\/\">Breaking News English<\/a> (Various levels)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/english\/features\/6-minute-english\">Six Minute English<\/a> (Various levels)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"grammar\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Grammar<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Sometimes students need to spend extra time on a difficult grammar point\u2014teachers too!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"EnglishGrammar.org\">English Grammar<\/a> (For lesson preparation)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishpage.com\/\">English Page<\/a> (Advanced)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"methodology\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Methodology<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>These career-level resources will help teachers stay up to date with the latest trends and practices from the wider TESL world.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernenglishteacher.com\/homepage\">Modern English Teaching<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etprofessional.com\/home\">English Teaching Professional<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"generaladvice\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">General Advice<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Always teach to the students\u2019 level. This means taking a close look at resources to be certain that an activity or worksheet isn\u2019t using language unfamiliar to the students. An exercised tagged \u201cIntermediate\u201d isn\u2019t necessarily appropriate for a low-intermediate class, so be sure to double check.<\/p>\n<p>Once the resources are reviewed, teachers can always choose to pre-teach specific language to prepare students for an activity. Get to know the students and the level of challenge they\u2019re willing to take on!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em> Does teaching English to adult learners sound like an adventure you can see yourself taking? ILSC offers the Cambridge CELTA as an <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/celta.ilsc.com\/celta-cambridge-course-program-montreal.aspx\">intensive 4-week program<\/a><\/em><em>\u00a0and <u><a href=\"https:\/\/celta.ilsc.com\/celta-cambridge-course-program-online.aspx\">a flexible online format<\/a><\/u>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash Whether you\u2019re preparing for CELTA teaching practice or teaching your first class, students need lessons\u2014and someone has to prepare them! These resources will help new teachers teach engaging lessons and can give experienced teachers some new ideas. General Activities These websites are a great place to start whether the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[53,52,45],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celta","tag-lessons","tag-new-teachers","tag-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.celta.ilsc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.celta.ilsc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.celta.ilsc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.celta.ilsc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.celta.ilsc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.celta.ilsc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/blog.celta.ilsc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.celta.ilsc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.celta.ilsc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.celta.ilsc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.celta.ilsc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}