(1) Adult Education ESL Teachers Guide

This site provides Beginning and Intermediate Lesson Plans and Accompanying Teacher Training  Modules. It also presents a general orientation for teaching of ESL.

(2) Azar Grammar Exchange

An Online Resource for ESL Teachers and a Companion Website to the Azar Grammar Series. The new and expanded Azar Grammar Exchange is a global community of ESL teachers. It provides a forum where teachers can share ideas, questions, and grammar-teaching materials for the benefit of students around the world.

(3) BC TEAL

This site includes membership and conference information, newsletter highlights, TEAL Professional Certificate, and more...

(4) Canadians and Their Government

This is a resource guide containing ready-to-use material for various types of learning environments. The activities use creative tasks, role-playing, research and discussion-oriented tasks to illustrate how government works. The information provided within the guide gives a comprehensive and concise explanation of how Canada has developed, and continues to develop, as a strong democratic country.

(5) CALL@Chorus

This is a teacher's resource which offers web resources, online teaching and learning links, and reviews of CALL books and software. It also features demonstrations of the latest in Cutting Edge CALL Demos.

(6) Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks

The CCLB lesson plans were compiled as part of a cross-Canada project. ESL teachers submit samples of successful lesson plans for learners at Stages 1 and 2 of the CLB (CLB 1 –8). These lessons outline ideas for activities and tasks to help learners develop CLB competencies in all four skills.

(7)  ELSA Net Newcomers’ Guide Education Resource

This educational resource is a teaching supplement to the BC Newcomers’ Guide.

(8) E. L. Easton's English Online

A teacher's resource website with links to materials for teaching such as country profiles, holidays, libraries and museums, pronunciation, sports and teaching ideas as well as links to online  courses in English and other useful ESL websites.

(9) ESL Lesson Plans/Activities and Resources

Mainly a teacher's resource website but also has links for ESL students.  Includes links to CNN Newsroom and Worldview for ESL, Conversation and Questions for ESL/EFL classroom, ESL Lessons and Games, ESL Teacher Connection, Dave's ESL Web Guide, etc...

(10) Employment Skills

Links to TOWES-Test of Essential Skills, HRDC-Occupational Profiles, Authentic Workplace Materials, Workplace Skills Training Project, Conference Board of Canada-Employability Skills 2000+

(11) Holidays on the Net

Another  teacher's resource for holiday celebrations on the World Wide Web.  This site provides information on each holiday celebration including its history and related activities.

(12) Internet Projects for Learners and Teachers of English

A compilation of links to websites for Internet projects from around the world.

(13) Jim Edgar’s ESL/LINC Learner Links

A comprehensive hypertext listing of ESL Learner websites with Canadian Language Benchmark rating for reading, writing, speaking/listening activities.  Each site includes host country, interactivity rating and Jim's star rating. 

(14) Learning About the Law

A basic introduction to some important laws for people in B.C. who are learning to read and write English. (Dec. 2008 ed.)

(15) Learning About the Law - Teacher’s Guide

The teacher’s guide for “Learning About the Law”

(16) Passage to Canada

Passages to Canada is a national storytelling initiative that provides Canadians with a greater understanding and appreciation of the contributions that immigrants and refugees make to Canada.  Connect to the Speakers’ Bureau and invite a speaker to your classroom or community event.  Educational resources available to bring Passages to Canada into your classroom.

(17) Puzzlemaker

Teachers can create different types of puzzles online such as mazes, crossword puzzles, word searches, cryptograms, etc.  Puzzles can be saved online or printed.

(18) The Red Book Online

A complete online guide to community, social and government agencies and services across the Lower Mainland. Provides descriptions of over 4,000 agency listings offering a variety of services such as counselling, health, employment and housing.

(19) The Speech Accent Archive

This site presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.

(20) Ted Power English Language Learning and Teaching

Common Mistakes in English by Language Background

(21) TESL English Lessons

This is mainly a teacher's resource website but also has links for ESL students, such as reading comprehension activity, vocabulary game, advanced English skills for ESL Students, etc.

(22) TESOL Speech, Pronunciation & Listening Interest Section

On this site, you will find information about the interest section and upcoming professional development opportunities, discussions of pronunciation issues, and links to helpful resources.

(23) The Tower of English

An interactive magazine for ESL students and teachers which requires a lot of sifting to find the content but has a wide variety of activities and material.

(24) The Virtual CALL Library

Links to Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL) software scattered across the Internet and available for downloading. Most software linked from this page is shareware or freeware.  Also provides links to sources of commercial CALL software, CALL organizations, forums and journals.

(25) The Westcoast Reader

Teachers' Notes for current and previous issues.