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

ESOL Volunteer Guide - This guide presents basic strategies for teaching 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 ESOL learners.

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 materials

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

English Lesson Plans and Handouts - This calendar has many unusual holidays and readings to accompany them

Medical Conversations - PDF with lesson plans on medical conversations

Lessons on Safety and the Law - PDF with lesson plans on safety and the law