Resources
We are eager to showcase our information “hub” centre! This library has a range of resources relevant to individuals who work and volunteer in the ESL community. If you are looking for information check out our collection, which includes website links, documents, articles, activities, fact sheets and so much more.
Many things: This site includes a variety of exercises and interactive activities for ESL students.
Passages to Canada: This site features listening videos of people recounting their stories of coming to Canada.
ESL Library: ESL Library has over 800 ready-made, student-centred lessons and over2000 vocabulary images for professional English teachers.
Eye on Literacy: Provides quality visuals as instructional resources that capitalize on the oral language skills of adult second language literacy learners with limited schooling.
Learners enter the classroom, check their Facebook, chat, look around, wait, take out books, look for a pencil, etc.
OR . . .
Learners enter the classroom, pull out their DO NOW sheet and complete a 4 to 5 minute, individual, pencil-to-paper activity.
Has a learner ever asked you, ‘How do I learn this?”
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has recently had one of their Welcome to Canada videos, Your First Two Weeks in Canada, dubbed into Arabic.
A learner yawns, another smiles, yet another is doodling. How is your class, workshop, or presentation going? Are you going too slowly or too fast? Are learners feeling confused, or is all going well? Do all your learners feel the same way?
This ESL blog is managed by an expert English Language instructor.