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Basic Lesson Plan
Basic lesson plan and tips for free-flow ESOL sessions - Most of our tutors help our Service Employees through free-form (yet guided) conversations, targeting areas where the students need improvement, and modelling for them better ways of expressing thoughts in English.
Our main goal is to improve confidence.
ESOL Volunteer Guides
ESL Volunteer Guide
ESL Volunteer Guide - This guide presents basic strategies for teaching ESL ESOL as well as further resources to facilitate positive experiences with your student. This guide is addressed to volunteers without a background in education and especially those who may have received little or no training to work with adult ESL ESOL learners.
HiSET Study Guide and information
HiSET Study Guide - Study materials for the High School Equivalency Test (HiSET)
Mass Dept of Education HSE Testing page - http://www.doe.mass.edu/hse/ - helpful information and easy to follow
HiSET test center locations - https://ereg.ets.org/ereg/public/testcenter/search?_p=HSE#
Remote ESOL tutoring sessions: 8 tips and tricks - This short guide presents 8 quick tips and tricks to make the most of remote tutoring.
Downloadable curated list of resources for MIT ESOL Volunteers - 4 pages of curated links to resources for conversation, listening, speaking, reading, writing, pronunciation, lesson plan worksheets, podcasts, grammar, and vocabulary.
General Resources for Teachers
Resources for Teachers: ESL Resources for Students - This site is from MIT Comparative Media Studies, Writing
Teaching ESL to Adults - Free ESL Worksheets for Beginners, Intermediate, and Advanced Students
Activities for ESL Students - Grammar, pronunciation, writing, listening and speaking activities
ESL Gold - This site provides thousands of free resources and information for both students and teachers
Let's Learn English - Videos, readings, vocabulary and pronunciation guidance from Voice of America
John's ESL community - Provides free lessons, games and printable materialsFamouspeople.com - follow simple stories of famous people while listening to mp3 of the text
English club - Free resources to learn or teach English
English at Large - COVID-19 information and resources for ESL learners
English for Everyone - Printable worksheets on a large variety of topics ESL teachers might come across
Lesson Plans
Pre-Beginning ESL CurriculumEnglish Lesson Plans and Handouts - This calendar has many unusual holidays and readings to accompany themLet's learn English - Computer based exercises featuring idioms from Voice of America
Breaking News English - Ready to print lesson plans on current events
Medical Conversations - PDF with lesson plans on medical conversations
Lessons on Safety and the Law - PDF with lesson plans on safety and the law
QuickRoom
Do you need to find a place to hold an impromptu meeting or use as a study space? QuickRoom is the app that will find unreserved Registrar classrooms near you in real time. QuickRoom is not a reservation system – it is simply a tool for locating unreserved classrooms “on the fly.” Unreserved classrooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis.