The Internet is sadly filled with sites filled with promise; promises they all too often fail to live up to. In the realms of English language teaching, there is unfortunately a real wealth of sites out there, offering hints, tips, ideas and sundry to the would be teacher, but the diamonds in the rough are very difficult to uncover without a lot of time and effort spent.
As someone who deeply believes in the phrase “share and share alike,” this site is being set up for now as a purely personal avenue for publishing ideas, resources, texts, worksheets and lesson plans for the ESL classroom. Trying to find lesson plans and activities on the web is unfortunately all too much like trying to navigate a minefield. Very occasionally you hit gold, and find that site full of great ideas and excellent materials, but all too often you end up being asked to register just to click on a link, upload some of your own material in order to have the right to view others’, or sign up for a monthly subscription to gain access.
As a result, this site will stick to some basic principles: that everything here will be free to download, use, photocopy and redistribute; that access to files and pages will never require unnecessary registration; and that financial donations or material contributions will always be welcome, but by no means obligatory.
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