Free Online ESL Videos

Here is a list of free online videos you can use to introduce lessons,  reinforce skills or use as a culminating activity. Just be sure to have some sort of worksheet the students need to fill out as they are watching the program. An example could be a word search where the students have to highlight the vocabulary word when it is mentioned in the video, springs to mind. How about a questionnaire where the students have to fill out the answers as they are passively listening to the video? Sometimes the activities are included with the lessons plans.

Browse through the links and if you find something good, please leave a comment (and the corresponding link ) below. If you are ambitious enough to create your own ESL video please feel free to share that with us too.

ESLVideo.com

http://www.eslvideo.com/index.php

Real English
http://www.real-english.com/new-lessons.asp

English Media Lab
http://www.englishmedialab.com/elementaryvideos.html

Takes you to a page with a list of links
http://www.eslall.com/newsletter/Newsletter_august_06.html

IELTS’s list of links – This is a great resource. You may want to bookmark this page.
http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Video/

For Kids
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-short.htm
http://pumkin.com/learn-english-language/free-english-learning/english-for-kids
http://pbskids.org/
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/