Worksheets

This group provides an opportunity for adult educators and learners to organize materials dedicated to supporting Adult Basic Education (ABE) and Adult English as a Second Language (Adult ESL) teaching and learning.
This group provides an opportunity for adult educators and learners to organize materials dedicated to supporting Adult Basic Education (ABE) and Adult English as a Second Language (Adult ESL) teaching and learning. Adult educators and learners are encouraged to join this open community to share high-quality, high-interest materials for adult learners with low literacy levels preparing for the GED, new career opportunities, increased participation in their children’s education, English language learning, and other important skills. We strongly encourage you to tag each resource you use and evaluate as “Adult Basic Education” or “Adult ESL” so others will also be able to find these adult learner-appropriate material.
ALL ESL is a website that provides teachers with materials that covers the basics of English language teaching. Available materials include:
Flashcards
Geography
Holidays
Ice Breakers
Life & Culture
Listening
Pronunciation
Speaking
Vocabulary
Writing

This 250-page guide is referenced to CLBs (1–3) and has instructions for adapting units and lessons to PBLA. It contains teaching strategies and language goals for English learners. The teacher’s guide and student materials contain background information, lesson plans and learner activities. Skill building (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and language building (grammar, sentence structure and vocabulary) activities are provided. The objective is to assist learners with trauma to see themselves as belonging to the wider community.

Free access:
http://cmascanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1467063427_01_beyond_trauma_complete_1.pdf

The English Listening Lessons and Library Online (elllo) site offers audio and video lessons with some printable worksheets. There is a wide variety of topics, including job search, job offer, job ads, dream job. Non-CLB. Many Canadian references.

Free access:

ESL Lounge is complete with ESL Games, lessons plans and other support materials for teachers.  Some free lessons.

ESL-Galaxy:  Free ESL Worksheets, English Teaching Materials, ESL Lesson Plans (esl-galaxy.com)

For more advanced learners, this multimedia website provides grammar explanations and practice.  The site also has presentations, handouts, videos, a MOOC, a Twitter workout, and more.

This is a sharing website for instructor-made materials: a variety of resources including printable worksheets, PowerPoints and videos. Registration required.

Free access:
https://en.islcollective.com/

This is a site for teacher-created resources to be purchased and downloaded  by other teachers.  Prices are reasonable (e.g. $4.00 for a conversation activity on 'annoying things' that consists of an editable powerpoint slide deck, teacher notes and 2 student worksheets for reproducing.  Lessons and materials are available for K-12 as well as for adults.  This link will take you directly to the adult ESL section  secondary level materials as many would be suitable for adult classes as well.

Designed for use with children, but applicable to adult classrooms, Tools for Educators provides links to free generators for producing puzzles, games and worksheets with pictures or other classroom materials.  Some examples: crossword, word search, dice maker, printable board games, Bingo, dominos, spelling and tracing worksheets (for literacy learners).