ESL Volunteer Guide
ESL Volunteer Guide - This guide presents basic strategies for teaching ESL 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 learners.
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#
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
Famouspeople.com - follow simple stories of famous people while listening to mp3 of the text
English club - Free resources to learn or teach English
Lesson Plans
Pre-Beginning ESL Curriculum
English Lesson Plans and Handouts - This calendar has many unusual holidays and readings to accompany them
Let'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
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.