The drama room

"englishteaching.co.uk provides and publishes printable and editable teaching resources, worksheets, lesson plans and schemes of work for teachers of English Language and Literature @ secondary level."

Serious site about English Language and Literature for all levels. Here you can get in touch with a wide range of drama plays, get printable worksheets, teaching resources and lesson plans. Drama, poetry, prose, schemes of work and other texts can be downloaded here. Not everything is free, though.
If you want to go deeper into arts (by studying fiction and non-fiction literature) you can also enter Literacy page and rehearse one of Shakespeare's plays!

Garfield

Check Garfield's comic strips since the early days. Here you can read the very first one published in 1978. Just awesome!

Yummy!

Deliciously interesting ready-to-use lessons for all ages.
English to go offers worksheets about really nice topics, such as of a German family that kept an eel in the bathtub, the risk we all run with Earth's temperature increase or the story of chocolate! Also, self-study lesson for children and adults, online sample exercises, worksheets with grammar exercises and preparation for the exams IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC and FCE. It's worth checking!

Virtual class and business tips

Tired of using just marker and blackboard (even worse if it's chalk)? Learn how to teach using modern resources as data show in the virtual classroom.

If you need to deliver a presentation in your company and want to cause good impression, click HERE and get useful tips for oral and poster presentations, how to use visual aids effectively as well as correct language to use and examples of presentation disasters. If you are shy and have already started panicking before preparing your presentation, calm down... here you can also find tips to overcome anxiety. Sit back and enjoy it.

For more business presentation tips, also visit this link. According to them "Selling yourself is a key part of commercial life."

Orkut communities

Have you joined Orkut already? You should.
This revolutionary social network service was created in 2004 by the Google employee Orkut Büyükköten and it is designed to help users from all over the world to meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. The cool thing about Orkut is that it allows users to enter "communities" and apart from regular stupidities that can be found there, it also offers some great things. Each community has something similar to a discussion forum and for this reason some communities came really handy for English teachers and students. Check some out and participate discussions about vocabulary, culture curiosities, grammar, english schools and on and on. Help yourself.

- English language teachers

- English language games
- ELT - English Language Teaching
- Natural language processing
- como dizer tudo em inglês
- phonetics and phonology
- grammar nazis
- tecla sap - dicas de inglês
- English as a second language

At last but not least, visit the pages of the schools where I work:
- Inglês & Cia idiomas
- Literarius Language center

There's only one detail: "it is invitation-only: users must be invited to join the community by someone already there". If you'd like to join orkut, feel free to leave your e-mail address in the heading "comments" below and I'll be glad to send you an invitation.

You can also read some more about Orkut history in Wikipedia and check a picture of its creator relaxing a bit...

Let's care

Wonderful site with articles on teaching and learning. Ideas for exploring and discussing with your students. Learn to teach "world-consciously", to organize your time and classroom space and grab the chance to read loads of articles about teaching all over the world, from teacher's experiences in Somalia, Kenia, Nigeria, Morocco, India, etc. Enter UNICEF's page and you'll see how priviledged you are to be sitting right there right now...

All you can imagine is here!

This page, written in Portuguese, provides all you can imagine concerning education. Here you can find Vygotsky, Chomsky and others' biographies, teaching approaches and methodologies, articles on translation, interlanguage, history of English Language, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, etc. Great source of information for those who like browsing a good site and learn autonomously. Huge ammount of information for students that want to learn about the English language in itself, need travel information, want to upgrade reading, writing and speaking skills and, best of all, want to count on teacher's help to answer doubts. For teachers, a great opportunity to talk to professionals all over Brazil in its Discussion Forum. Have a blast!

Free lesson plans

EnglishLearner.com offers free English lessons for students and free lesson plans for teachers. Interactive tests, quizzes, puzzles and an online forum where tachers from all over the world can trade info. All you have to do is subscribe!