If you haven’t seen these toys offered by the always generous and creative Jason Renshaw, you are missing out. These are awesome templates for DIY materials and videos on how to use them. Plus some design ideas.
 
For what it’s worth, I was so inspired by the 1:3 tutorial that I made up my own: 1 to 3 lesson template which anyone is welcome to use or adapt. As always, discussions of how to make it better are always appreciated. It is really fun to make materials that are shiny and pretty even …Continue

As I’m working on my ESL Discussion Lessons for Every Day of the Year project, I discovered that Sean Banville has beaten me to it with ESL Holiday Lessons. Not surprising given how prolific he is and how fast he gets topical lesson plans up.
Sean’s site only covers unusual or fun holidays–today is No Housework Day, and the lesson plans are done in his usual format of a short reading, a phrase match, gapfills, comprehension questions, vocab work, ordering the text, a short writing with discussion questions written by …Continue