Podcast: Winter Olympics
Podcast: Winter Olympics Sochi (Feb 7-23, 2014) The Winter Olympics is rolling around again! Due to many requests from teachers, ESL-Library has developed a brand NEW lesson plan for subscribers to...
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Podcast: Sugar Industry Is Sugar the New Tobacco? We all know that excess sugar isn’t good for us, but is it really as bad for our health as tobacco? In our NEW ESL-Library lesson plan on the Sugar...
View ArticlePodcast: Valentine’s Day
Podcast: Valentine’s Day February 14 Will you be teaching your students Valentine’s Day vocabulary this week? Today’s podcast features a reading from our beginner-level Holidays & Events lesson...
View ArticlePodcast: Deforestation
Podcast: Deforestation If a tree falls, does the global warming crisis worsen? Yes! Today’s podcast features a reading from our ready-made Discussion Starters lesson plan about deforestation. In the...
View ArticlePodcast: Elvis Presley
Famous People: Elvis Presley Do your students enjoy talking about famous people? Do they enjoy rock and roll music? This is the perfect week to do a lesson on the King of Rock and Roll. As our Lesson...
View ArticlePodcast: Vanishing Honeybees
Podcast: Vanishing Honeybees Honeybees are dropping like flies! Some environmentalists are more concerned about the decline in pollinators than they are about global warming. Today’s podcast features a...
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Famous People: Elvis Presley Do your students enjoy talking about famous people? Do they enjoy rock and roll music? This is the perfect week to do a lesson on the King of Rock and Roll. As our Lesson...
View ArticlePodcast: Mother Teresa
Famous People: Mother Teresa | Podcast #76 Mother Teresa was a revered Catholic nun who helped the poor, the sick, and the dying in India and around the world. She was born on August 26, 1910 and died...
View ArticlePodcast: Space Tourism
Podcast: Space Tourism Destination Zero Gravity What does weightlessness feel like? According to Chris Hadfield, Sally Ride, and Dennis Tito, it’s a feeling of freedom that is difficult to explain....
View ArticlePodcast: Nauruz
Podcast: Nauruz Good thoughts, good words, good deeds In 2010, the UN declared March 21 as International Day of Nawruz. There are many different English spellings of this holiday, and we have decided...
View ArticlePodcast: Bermuda Triangle
Bermuda Triangle A number of ships, small boats, and even large military craft have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. Our Lesson Plan Calendar reminded us of an important date in history that took...
View ArticlePodcast: Basketball
Podcast: Basketball “Some people want it to happen. Some wish it would happen. Others make it happen.” ~ Michael Jordan When the ESL Library team is down in the US for the annual TESOL convention in...
View ArticlePodcast: Bermuda Triangle
Bermuda Triangle A number of ships, small boats, and even large military craft have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. Our Lesson Plan Calendar reminded us of an important date in history that took...
View ArticlePodcast: Legalizing Marijuana
Podcast: Legalizing Marijuana “Doesn’t the idea of making nature illegal seem a bit unnatural?” ~ Bill Hicks, comedian This week’s podcast comes from our NEW Mini Debates lesson on Legalizing...
View ArticlePodcast: The United Nations
The United Nations Today is Peace Day, an initiative organized by the United Nations Our Lesson Plan Calendar reminded us that September 21 is Peace Day. According to the UN, this is “an opportunity...
View ArticlePodcast: James Dean
Mini Biography: James Dean Do your low level students enjoy talking about Hollywood actors? Do they ever talk about James Dean? Our Lesson Plan Calendar reminded us of an important day in history that...
View ArticlePodcast: Passover
Podcast: Passover A Jewish Festival of Freedom The Jewish festival of Passover takes place on the 15th day of Nisan. ESL Library has a NEW ready-made lesson plan on Passover for our subscribers to try....
View ArticlePodcast: Easter and Spring Idioms
When it rains, it pours! The past few weeks have been really busy for the ESL Library team. We had the TESOL convention, the Shorty Awards, and a bunch of new Holiday materials to work on. We’re also...
View ArticlePodcast: Holocaust Remembrance Day
Podcast: Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Ha’Shoah) In Memory of the Holocaust Victims Holocaust Remembrance Day, known in the Jewish community as Yom Ha’Shoah, takes place annually on the 27th day of...
View ArticleFood Waste
Podcast: Food Waste Do we need a food waste tax? Approximately one-third of the food produced in this world goes to waste. This statistic alone will get your students talking. Food waste is a problem...
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