EFL resources for teachers & students

For those of you who work with ESP (aimed to master's and/or doctor's degree) and need to look for academic papers to elaborate your lessons, a good tool is Science Direct. It's the best website I know with thousands of papers available for reading and printing. You can browse by journal, author, or keywords. Not all of them are free (those that are are marked as "open access" and you can find them using the advanced search), but sometimes all you need is their abstract. ;) You don't need to register to have access to them. If you are member of an institution, it may grant you access to full articles. Visit the website: Science Direct

I can't tell how many times this Sean Banville's website has helped me with my reading comprehension classes! Divided into level categories, there are thousands of lessons covering the news on current worldwide events. Each whole lesson takes up to one hour, but you also have shorter options for each one of them, both of which you can download (in PDF) and print for free. And you can always take a look at the lessons before you download them, since they all are available online, too. Besides that, there are listening activities for each lesson as well! And you can choose if you want the texts read in American ou British English, as well as the speed. Last but not least, there are tons of games you can play based on each lesson, divided by the skills you may want to practice: grammar, spelling, or vocabulary. I always use these lessons as additional material for my ESP classes; they save me a lot of time and are super fun! This website is a must-have i...