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Teaching English without a Course Book – Week 4
Need Free Math Worksheets? Try Math Worksheets Land!
Math Worksheets Land
Math Worksheets Land provides a large amount of helpful math resources for students and teachers. The entire collection is aligned to the National Core Curriculum making it easy to include in your lesson planning.
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NEW from i to i – 20 Free Classroom Activities!
Whether it’s your first day in the classroom or your fiftieth – every ESL teacher is in need of a little helping hand every now and then.
Here are 20 free classroom activities from i-to-i which include classroom tips and accompanying handouts which you can photocopy for your lessons!
Get yours here!
Download All 15 FREE English Banana.com Resource Books – in one download!
It’s December 2012, and to celebrate our 10th birthday online, English Banana.com are giving you the opportunity – for a limited time only – to download all 15 of our free resource books – in one .pdf file! This is the first time that all of our books – written and published between 2003 and 2012 – have been collected together in one place.
Click here to download all 15 English Banana.com resource books in 1 .pdf file (49.6 MB)
It is, admittedly, a massive .pdf file (of 49.6 MB), but it could be handy to have all these resources together at the same time. You could put it on a pen drive and have it with you in your bag ready for when you need to learn or teach English. The file contains interactive bookmarks (see picture below) so that you can find each resource book quickly.
All of the material is covered by our free copying licence and free licence to run courses, which means that anyone may freely print, copy, adapt, distribute, sell, and give away this material, without further written permission. Please visit http://www.englishbanana.com for full details.
We hope that you will enjoy this very special download. Please don’t forget that there is still lots more free material available on our website which isn’t in any of these books!
If you have any comments or questions, we’d love to hear from you. Please click here to contact us.
The .pdf file includes all of the following, from our first collection in 2003 – Big Grammar Book – to our latest material for learning connected speech – Stress, Reduce, Merge – which was published in September 2012:
1. Big Grammar Book – mixed worksheets
2. Big Activity Book – mixed worksheets
3. Big Resource Book – mixed worksheets
4. Check It Again! (Book One) – error correction practice
5. Talk a Lot Elementary Book 1 – complete spoken English course
6. Talk a Lot Elementary Book 2 – complete spoken English course
7. Talk a Lot Elementary Handbook – how to teach Talk a Lot courses
8. Talk a Lot Elementary Book 3 – complete spoken English course
9. The Best of English Banana.com (2003-2009) – compilation of favourite worksheets
10. Talk a Lot Foundation Course – complete pronunciation course
11. Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 1 – complete spoken English course
12. Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 2 – unfinished spoken English course
13. You Are The Course Book – teacher training manual
14. Clear Alphabet Dictionary – pronunciation dictionary
15. Stress, Reduce, Merge – pronunciation practice
NEW! Free Vocabulary Teaching Material: Talk a Lot – Railway Station – Discussion Words
A New Series of Self-Study Worksheets – Stress, Reduce, Merge
Introducing new material from English Banana.com that will give you some practice in using connected speech and stress in English. You can download the free .pdf worksheet pack here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/105327558/A-New-Series-of-Self-Study-Worksheets-Stress-Reduce-Merge
Any feedback would be most welcome! Thanks. 
English Banana Worksheets Now Read More Than 3 Million Times on Scribd.com!
Yesterday we reached a new milestone with the number of times people have read our worksheets on Scribd.com:
We’re so pleased that hundreds of thousands of students and teachers have benefited from using our free material! The most popular worksheet of all is our List of Common Abstract Nouns, followed by our List of 100 Irregular Plural Nouns in English. The most read book is Talk a Lot Elementary Book 1, which has been read an amazing 136,612 times!
You can check out our page on Scribd.com here: http://www.scribd.com/englishbanana
We hope that you will find something interesting there that you can use, whether you are learning or teaching English. 
Please do let us know if you have any feedback about our material.
NEW FREE DOWNLOAD! Translate 40 Famous People From the NEA (English Phonetic Alphabet)
1,800+ English Banana.com Worksheets Added to TES.co.uk Resource Website!
TES.co.uk
We’re thankful to the team at TES.co.uk – a site billed as “the largest network of teachers in the world” – who have recently added 1,873 English Banana worksheets to their massive free database of resources for teachers.
It’s great news for English Banana.com, because it means that our resources can now be shared with a much wider audience! The TES website has over 2 million registered users worldwide. Our resources were added about a month ago, and they have already generated an incredible 25,000+ page views!
You can find the English Banana resources page on tes.co.uk here:
http://www.tes.co.uk/MyPublicProfile.aspx?uc=2319730&event=21
You can also find many other great teacher resources on their site – all free to access and download!
Aimée Fagan from tes.co.uk said: “We’re delighted to have the materials on TES! We have also shared them in our new US website www.sharemylesson.com as there is a huge demand for ELL (English Language Learner) material like this in the US too.”
You can find the English Banana page on their US website here:
http://www.sharemylesson.com/MyPublicProfile.aspx?uc=2319730&event=21
It was made possible thanks to our Free Copying Licence, which allows anybody to share and use English Banana.com material – including uploading and adding it to another website. You can find out more about our free licences here:
UEFA EURO 2012 – Fantastic Free Material for English Lessons!
You can download this really useful – and topical – lesson plan for UEFA Euro 2012 from NewsFlash English:
Free Euro 2012 Lesson Plan for English Lessons (PDF)
They write:
“Today, let’s talk about the European Football Championship that is taking place this year in Poland and Ukraine. Commonly known as Euro 2012 the championship will bring the best European teams together for what, no doubt, will be another exciting tournament…”
FREE! 80 Common Functions of Spoken English – Putting the FUN back into Functions!
Internet Usage Questionnaire (New Talk a Lot Material!)
This is a class survey or questionnaire that I made and used with one of my classes recently. It helps students to test question forms as well as discuss attitudes towards using the internet. You could use it in conjunction with material from Talk a Lot Elementary Book 3 – Unit 9: Internet. Have fun!
People are Using English Banana.com Free Licences – 3 Great Examples!
English Banana.com features a wealth of free worksheets and resources for teaching and learning English, and everything is covered by our free licences! Click here for full details. People are free to do what they want to with the materials, and they are doing just that, if the recent examples listed in this post are anything to go by!
Example 1 – Material from Talk a Lot Elementary Book 1 has been used to make online quizzes:
http://www.allthink.com/v/taletown/
http://www.allthink.com/v/talefooddrink/
http://www.allthink.com/v/shopping/
http://www.allthink.com/v/healthyhealth/
http://www.allthink.com/v/taletransport/
Example 2 – Material from various English Banana.com workbooks has been used to make online quizzes for this Polish website:
http://www.maximus.pl/dl-cwiczenia_gramatyczne-114.html
http://www.maximus.pl/dl-pisownia_i_ortografia-118.html
http://www.maximus.pl/dl-rozumienie_czytanego_tekstu-121.html
http://www.maximus.pl/dl-slownictwo_angielskie-113.html
http://www.maximus.pl/dl-wiedza_ogolna-119.html
Example 3 – A teacher from Jakarta, Indonesia has built a web page using material from Talk a Lot Elementary Book 1:
http://mr-bejo.com/page/44540/unit-2.html
We’re loving the way that you are being creative and using English Banana.com materials online (as well as in your classes offline!)… It is fantastic that people feel able to use the materials in this way. They are there to be used, so… go on! The world is your lobster!
Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 2 – Unit 2 – Lesson 4
Free Printable Worksheets (VIDEO)
Big Grammar Book is the Most Recommended Resource at Guardian Teacher Network!
We’re delighted to announce that our free printable Big Grammar Book is now the most recommended teaching resource at the Guardian Teacher Network – out of 5,500+ free resources!
It is clear that the Big Grammar Book has wide appeal too, because it is the number one recommended resource in 5 out of 6 of the age categories:
You can download YOUR free copy of the Big Grammar Book here: Big Grammar Book – Free Download.
Visit the Guardian Teacher Network here: Guardian Teacher Network.
NEW! Free Lesson Plan: “Time Travelling Job Swap”
Read about 8 more teachers who are using English Banana.com Free Licences!
We’ve just updated our Google Map which shows the location of various people who using English Banana.com material and free licences around the world. There are new teachers from Malaysia, The Philippines, India, Sudan, Pakistan, Brazil, and The USA all making use of our Free Copying Licence and Free Licence to Run Courses! Check out the newly-updated map here:
Here are a couple of the new posts:
If you would like to find out more about our free licences, please click here.
