
Discover online, interactive (and mostly free) resources for your beginner students (CLB 1-4).
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This page gathers helpful links for your online classes of ESL beginners (CLB 1-4) on topics such as Alberta, Canada, health, work, home and community, numbers, transportation, clothes, and grammar. Use these to create your…
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About ESL Directions
This website for ESL teachers offers online lesson plans and multimedia materials tailored to beginner ESL students.
You will also find curated lists of links to external digital tools for generating custom flashcards, video and audio files, and interactive games.
What’s on this website?

Lesson plans and other online resources
I’ve collected and created useful links from many sources for ESL beginners on various topics. You can use these links to build your own lessons or use some of the ready-made lesson plans on this site.

Find digital ESL resources for beginners
Some of the digital-friendly (and mostly free) websites I use in finding resources for my beginner students.

Create digital ESL resources for beginners
Create your own resources for your beginner students using some of these digital (and mostly free) websites.
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Kathy Garnsworthy, the creator of ESL Directions, is an ESL teacher, movie buff, constant reader, and former editor and communications pro. Now a graduate of the Teaching English as a Second Language program at the University of Manitoba and an ESL teacher in Edmonton, Alberta, she specializes in teaching online classes of beginner ESL students.
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