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Resources Hub

The Resource Hub is a collection of website links, documents, videos and audios for ESOL teachers. Whilst many are specifically ESOL resources, we’ve also included those that may be useful in a general ESOL context. We are currently building this comprehensive resource and will be adding regional and local materials. Do you have a resource to share? We encourage you to contact us if you want us to consider your resource for inclusion in the Resource Hub. We also welcome general suggestions for improvement. We hope you find this page useful and discover something new to enhance your teaching, fully unlocking the potential of your ESOL provision.

As well as collecting and presenting resources created by many providers and other agencies, MESH has an ever-expanding pool of resources created by our own qualified teaching team, covering a variety of useful topics such as using Council services, accessing the NHS, and volunteering. Our resources include presentation slides, film, audio, activities and associated teacher notes. Follow the link here to visit the MESH resource collection.

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Creative Language Practices Through a Translingual Lens: A Toolkit
A creative language toolkit developed for multi-lingual classrooms, using arts-based methods and creative practices.

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Dave's ESL Cafe
Includes a bank of grammar lessons and lesson plans, with a focus on phrasal verbs and idioms. Also provides a useful teaching community for ESL teachers around the world.

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Digital Tools for ESOL, Maths and English
Rachel Oner’s Padlet of useful digital tools for teachers.

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EAL Highland
The focus of this site is EAL rather than ESOL, supporting school age children, but there are some interesting resources and strategies which could also be useful for teaching adults, including a ‘New to EAL’ section.

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Easy News
Easy news is a news magazine designed to be accessible to those with learning disabilities, and aims to encourage discussion about news stories. Could be useful for ESOL learners as the stories are designed to be easy to understand.

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Easy News: General Election Leadership Debate
This Easy News update is about the leadership debate programme between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer.

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Education and Employers icloud free teaching resources
Resources aimed at helping young people explore different careers. There are some job and employability focused resources which could be useful for teaching adults who are looking for work in the UK.

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Education and Training Foundation: Dealing with Hate Crime
A simple reading text about hate crime, with learning tasks and illustrations. There are added links to help with reporting of hate crime.

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Education and Training Foundation: ESOL
ESOL resources that were on the Excellence Gateway.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
A resource of educational web tools and mobile apps for teachers and educators.

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