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The Minimalist ALT was inspired by a group of Japanese elementary school teachers I was training who told me they wanted to learn activities that require 'no preparation, no materials, and are time-flexible.' Don't we all!!
The result not only changed my own teaching style, it made my life at school a LOT easier! But more importantly, the students enjoy the classes and use English in real and meaningful ways.
Check out these activities- to learn how to teach... with less.

In my '20's I lived in a tent in Alaska & Mexico for 6-8 months a year. The minimalist lifestyle I enjoyed then finds it's expression now in my EFL classes in Japan. I hope you can use what I've learned to make your life at school better- for you and your students!

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American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL): About, What's New, Membership, Special Interest Groups, Awards, Jobs, ...
American Educational Research Association (Washinton DC, USA): About, Membership, Publications, Annual Meeting, Diviisions, SIGs, Resources, ..
Asia-Pacific Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Membership is currently free
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE): About AACE, Conferences, Publications, Projects, Chapters, Info Request, ...
Association of Canadian Teachers in Japan (ACTJ) (ACTJ): ACTJ info, how to join, teacher resources, articles from
Australian Council for TESOL Associations: Membership, Events, Journal, Other Websites, Papers, ...
AZ-TESOL: Arizona TESOL, Conference Info, How to Join, Job Opportunities
BC TEAL - British Columbia Teachers of English as an Additional Language: Conference Info, Membership Info, Newsletter, Links
Business English Special Interest Group of IATEFL (Duncan Baker): Information and discussion site for teachers of business English. (REQUIRES A WIDE SCREEN)
California TESOL: Supports English as a Second Language teachers throughout both California and Nevada.
CamTESOL: For English Language Teachers in Cambodia
Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers: ESL Resources (Web Links), Interactive Flash Activities, ...
CASLT - Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers: Info Exchange, CASLT Info, Professional Development, Publications
English Language Teachers Contacts Scheme (ELTECS) (British Council of UK): Membership is free. For ELT trainers and teachers.
English Teachers Network of Israel (ETNI) (David Lloyd): A network for EFL teachers by EFL teachers
EUROCALL: European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning
European Society for the Study of English (ESSE): A federation of national higher educational associations.
Georgia TESOL: Membership Form, Interest Sections, Liaison Offices, Caucuses, Conference, ...
Global Issues Special Interest Group of IATEFL: Teaching about global issues in efl classes
Hawaii TESOL: Since 1975.
International Association for Language Learning Technology: Membersip, Current News, IALL Publications, Software Database, Useful Links
INTESOL: Indiana Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages: Membership, Certification in Indiana, Legislation, Conference Proceedings
JALT CALL N-SIG: Japan Association for Language Teaching - Computer Assisted Language Learning - Interest Group
JALT Teacher Education Homepage: Introduction, Newsletter, Anthology, Officers, How to Join, Links
JALT Testing & Evaluation Special Interest Group: Network, Publications, Links, Join, Background, Officers
JALT's Foreign Language Literacy Special Interest Group: On-line version of the FLL N-SIG's print publication, Literacy Across Cultures
Japan Association of College English Teachers (JACET): About JACET, News, Surveys, SIGs, Monthly Meeting, Contact, Links, ...
Japan Association of Language Teaching (JALT) (Requires the Latest Browsers): For Language Teachers (English & Japanese) in Japan: JALT-CALL Mailing List
JET Page, The Official: Japan Exchange and Teaching Program
Kansas Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages: KATESOL is the TESOL and NABE affiliate for Kansas ESOL practitioners
Kansas Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and Bilingual Education: News, Links, Book Reviews, Board, By-Laws, Member Application, ESOL Library
Korea Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (KOTESOL): About, News, Committees, Chapters, SIGs, Publications, Teacher's Resources, ...
MIDITESOL - MidAmerica Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska
MITESOL - Michigan TESOL: About MITESOL, Links, ESL Programs in Michigan, MITESOL Members Online, ...
NATECLA - National Association for Teaching English and other Community Languages to Adults (Birmingham, UK): A national forum for English and Community Language teaching issues.
National Network for Early Language Learning (NNELL): Offers support for early language learning and teaching.
National Research and Development Centre for Literacy and Numeracy: Research and Dvelopment projects into adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL
National University Association for English Teachers: Mexican Association for English Teachers at University Level
New York State Bilingual/ESL Network: About the Office, Announcements, State Funding, Federal Funding, Schedules, ...
ORTESOL (Oregon Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages): Membership form, conference news and call for presentations, call for newsletter submissions, ...
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association: Promotes the study and teaching of language, literature, and culture.
Shiga English Teachers' Association: A circle of English Education in Shiga Prefecture, Japan
SinoTESOL - China Organization of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages: Official Website for English Language Teachers in China
SPELT - Society of Pakistani English Language Teachers [FRAME]: A non-governmental organization set up in 1984 to improve English teaching.
TESL Ontario: What is TESL Ontario? / Membership Benefits / Membership Application
TESL-NB - Teachers of English as a Second Language of New Brunswick: About TESL-NB, TESL Resources, TESL Events, and TESL and the Net
TESOL: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc., publishers of TESOL Journal
TESOL CALL-IS Website, The Official: Computer-Assisted Language Learning-Interest Section, Monthly Column, Links to Software Archives
TESOL Greece: News from the Board, Events Calendar, Past Events, Conventions, Newsletter, ...
TESOL Spain: For teachers of English in Spain
TESOL Ukraine: Constitution, Maproad, Newsletters, Photo Album, Events, Discussion Groups
Thai TESOL: Organization of English Teachers in Thailand
The Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar: an Assembly of NCTE, the National Council of Teachers of English
US Department of State - Office of English Language Programs: Works with U.S. Embassies worldwide to assist with EFL teacher training.
Victorian Association of TESOL and Multicultural Education Inc. (VATME): TESOL information, resources, online forum & newsletter
Volunteer Educational Network: A group of teachers dedicated to educational development in SE Asia.
World Association for Online Education: Combining dedications to online learning with fun and cultural exchange.
IATEFL - International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language: Annual International Conference and Publications. Based in the UK.
International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language: IATEFL is an International organisation meeting the professional needs of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
JETAA: The Japan Excchange and Teaching Alumni Association
Literacy Assistance Center: A not-for-profit organization that provides services to programs in New York.
TESL Canada: About Us, Conference, Directors, Learners, Journal Abstracts, Links, ...
New Jersey Teachers of English as a Second Language/Bilingual Educators (Fred Carrigg): Homepage for New Jersey Bilingual/ESL educators

LInks for Students

/www.americantesol.com - English Alphabet - American English Pronunciation: Listen and Repeat
/www.americantesol.com - English Numbers - American English Pronunciation: Listen and Repeat: 1 to 140
ABC - Listen to the Alphabet (tufs.ac.jp): American pronunciation.
Alphabet (on VNET) - Shockwave (.dcr): Click the letters. Hear them. See how they are written. Requires Shockwave.
Alphabet - Match Printed Letters with Hand-written Letters [FRAME] (regine.bd): See a printed letter, then click the hand-written letter that matches it.
Alphabet Challenge (Satosho Nishi Primary School): See the big letter, then find it and click it in the alphabet.
Alphabet Song (angles365.com): Slightly non-standard lyrics; American English (Flash)
Animated Picture Book - Opposites (Live and Learn Toys): big/small; light/dark; day/night; happy/sad; up/down; ...
CDK's Coloring Pages (Cyndi Steinmetz): Printable Coloring Pages
Charles Kelly's Learn a Song - Let Me Call You Sweetheart: You can listen and repeat line by line, then sing the whole song. (Flash)
Chateau Meddybemps - Fun with Letters (Writing Guide) (Jerry Jindrich): Uses the Flash plugin to show how to write letters.
Chateau Meddybemps - Table of Contents [FRAME] (Jerry Jindrich): Fun and Games, Beantime Stories, Parent's Guide
Children's English-learning Songs 1 (angles365.com): Alphabet Song, Bear Went Over the Mountain, Old McDonald,
Children's English-learning Songs 2 (angles365.com): How Are You?, I'm So Happy, BINGO, ABC, What's this?, ... (Flash)
Children's English-learning Songs 3 (angles365.com): BINGO, Clap Your Hands, Hockey Pockey, Little Teapot, ...
Clifford's Confusable Letters - a & o; d & p; t & f; etc. (Requires Flash): Drag the words to the correct box. You will hear a voice reading the word.
Clifford's Puppy Letters (Requires Flash): Listen to the sentence, then click the letters to fill in the blank.
Color Maze (OUP): Listen to hear the next color that you need to click (Flash)
Color Songs: Red, Yellow, Blue and Green stand up. (Flash)
Color the Aniamals (Chuck Brown): Free pictures to print and color.
Coloring Book to Print - Animal Opposites (EnchantedLearning.com): small/big (mouse/whale); heavy/light (elephant/hummingbird); etc.
Coloring Pages - Alphabet by Sesame Street (PBSkids.org): Color the Sesame Street characters with letters.
Colors and Reading Game for Beginner Readers (Live and Learn Toys): The instructions are hard to read. Jump to the bottom of the page.
DLTK's Make Your Own Mini-Books - ABC: Printables that can also be used as flashcards. What begins with A, etc.
Do2Learn - What Color Are These Things?: If you can read the question, you don't really need to read the English colors.
Do2Learn - Which One is Different?: A game that doesn't really require reading the English. Just look at the images.
Dolch Word Search Puzzles to Print (Mancino Mackey): Mutiple puzzles sorted by level. (Dolch words are recommended first words.)
Dolch Word Search Puzzles to Print (Another One) (Betsy B. Lee): 9 words in an 8 X 8 grid for the early levels, larger grids later.
Drag and Drop Fruit (OUP): Click the fruit on the left, hear it pronounced, then drag to the left. (Flash)
Drag the Picture to the Correct Word [FRAME] (Prongo): Requires Flash 4. hat, sit, box, bat, bed, cat. You will hear the words, too.
Easy Things for Beginners (Part of Interesting Things for ESL Students) (Charles Kelly): Easy Vocabulary Quizzes with Pictures, Click the Letters, WordWeb, SpeedWord, ..
Eigorian - How many are there?: Requires flash. Listen to the question, then make a choice.
Eigorian - Let Me Try!: Requires flash. Listen to the question, then make a choice.
Eigorian - Miracle Men's Match: Requires flash. Which arm is longer? Which nose is longer?
Eigorian - Which do you like?: Requires flash. Listen to the question, then make a choice.
Eigorian - Who am I?: Requires flash. Can you fly? Can you swim? Can you run fast (Japanese accent)?
English Alphabet - See and Hear It (ngfl-cymru.org.uk): UK English Pronunciation, Done in Flash
Food Race (OUP): LIsten to a food word, then try to find it before you run out of time. (Flash)
Franky Fox's Fun with English (Lingo Press): Learn English with Franky & Friends. Free and paid resources for kids. Interacti
Franky Fox's Monty's Fun and Games (Lingo Press): Songs (WMA forma) and some .exe file (usual warning applies.)
FunSchool.Com - Connect the Opposites: This can be done by looking at pictures, so even if you don't know the words, ...
GenkiEnglish.com - Animals (Requires Flash) (Richard Graham): Listen to the English word, then click the picture of an animal.
GenkiEnglish.com - Color Quiz (Requires Flash) (Richard Graham): Listen to the English word then click the correct color.
GenkiEnglish.com - How are you? (Requires Flash) (Richard Graham): Move the mouse over the phrases to hear them: I'm hungry. I'm tired, ....
GenkiEnglish.com - How old are you? (Requires Flash) (Richard Graham): A song with animation and actions for the listener to mimic.
GenkiEnglish.com - Make a Face (Requires Flash) [FRAME] (Richard Graham): As you move the face parts, you will hear the English word. You can also click after the face is made.
GenkiEnglish.com - Piano Game (Requires Flash) (Richard Graham): Listen to English words, move the mouse over the keys,then guess the tune.
GenkiEnglish.com - What's the Weather Like? (Requires Flash) (Richard Graham): Listen and repeat with images, then answer the question when seeing the images.
Helen Doron's Animals Game [FRAME]: Drag the word to the picture. Hear the word spoken in British English. (Flash)
Helen Doron's Clothes Game [FRAME]: Hear words (shirt, dress, ...), then click the picture. British pronunciation.
Helen Doron's Colours Game [FRAME]: Hear words (red, green, ...), then click and shoot them. (colors)
Helen Doron's Shapes Game [FRAME]: Hear the words square, rectangle, triangle, circle, etc., then shoot them.
Julia's Rainbow Corner - Counting (Kristen Craig Barber): Click to see and hear numbers. American pronunciation.
Lalitha's Nursery Rhymes (Miriam Seshadri): Flash animations of traditional English nursery rhymes and other activities.
Language Planet - ABC: Listen to an American man ay the alpabet as you see the letters.
Language Planet - Town Map: Click things on the map. Hear an American man and a Japanese woman speaking.
Learn a Song - B-I-N-G-O (Charles Kelly): Listen and repeat line by line, then sing the whole song. (Flash Required)
Learn a Song - John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt (Charles Kelly): Listen and repeat line by line, then sing the whole song. (Flash Required)
LiteracyCenter.net - Play and; Learn (Flash Required): Uppercase Letters, Lowercase Letters, Shapes, Writing, Numbers, Colors, ...
Memory Game - Match the Upper and Lower Case Letters [FRAME] (Irina Stojanovic): A-a, B-b, C-c, etc. Requires Shockwave. Concentration game.
Memory Game with Fruit (angles365.com): Hear the furit as you click the 16 squares.
Memory Game with Numbers (angles365.com): Hear the numbers as you click the 18 squares.
Nellie's English Projects - WebQuests for Lower and Middle School: Treasure hunts.
Noggin Games: Designed for native English speaking kids. Guidance from the teacher for EFL.
Number Maze (OUP): Listen to hear the next number that you need to click (Flash)
Penmanship - Printing and Cursive (Donna Young): Printable worksheets
Penmanship - www.handwritingforkids.com: Tracing worksheets for each letter, manuscript and cursive
Penmanship - www.handwritingworksheets.com: Make custon handwriting worksheets easily, just enter words and click the button
Room 108 - Dolch Reading Books (John Rickey): Very simple stories for native English speaking children.
Shin-chan Picks Fruit (angles365.com): LIsten to sentences like 'Click on the apple.' (Flash)
Shinsukp's English Lessons (Flash Plugin Required): The main page has Korean on it, but many things do not require Korean ability.
TeachingTreasures.com.au's English Projects and Activities: K-3 Only, Grammar, Animals, Colours, What am I, Water Trouble, Spelling, ...
The Painter's Colors [FRAME] (Isabel Hidalgo): Drag the correct paint brush to the color words. Requires Flash.
TheColoringSpot.com - Free Coloring Pages (Chuck Brown): Animals, Christmas, Music, Ocean LIfe, People, Jobs, Dinosaurs, ...
Tiger Aki (Requires Flash): Online Interactive Stories for Children.. Listen, answer questions with clicks.
Word Find Puzzle (Printable)- High Frequency Words #1 (Irina Stojanovic): boy, girl, children, woman, people, baby, the, is
Word Find Puzzle (Printable)- High Frequency Words #2 (Irina Stojanovic): mother, father, brother, sister, son, love, have, are, was
Word Find Puzzle (Printable)- High Frequency Words #3 (Irina Stojanovic): dog, puppy, bear, shoes, mitten, chair, do, on, into
Word Hunt - Please find a word to describe me. (Roger Wilson): The rabbit is ___. (happy, old, etc.) Drag the words and hear the rabbit talk.
www.ABClearningTime.com - Learning with Kat (Jack Armstrong): Learning my ABC's, See and Say, Telling Time, Print and Trace, ...
www.ABCtoonCenter.com (Jack Armstrong): Word Search, Story Book, Cartoon Corner, ...
www.anglomaniacy.pl: Basic English for children. Games and puzzles. Requires Flash
www.anglomaniacy.pl = Songs for Kids: Listen and see the words: My Bonnie, If You're Happy, Old MacDonald, ...
www.ESL-Resources.com - Coloring Pages (Paul Forde): line drawings of dogs, bears, fish, people, ...
www.ESL-Resources.com - Monkey Alpahbet Coloring (Paul Forde): Images of monkeys shaped like letters that you can color.
www.GhostForest.com (Zlatko Enev): You can download a children's book called 'Ghost Forest.' Also, a free MP3 audio book read by a near-native English speaker.
www.hello-world.com - English (Janet Joy): Activities with sound for learning English
www.Learn-English-Online.org (Previously www.learn-english-online.de) (David Hand): Lessons aimed at the beginner. Sort of an online textbook with sound files.
www.learningplanet.com - ABC Order (Michael Schipper): What comes next? b, c, ___; h, i ___, etc. Requires Shockwave.
www.LearningPlanet.com - Alphabet - Click Letter to Hear [FRAME] (Michael Schipper): Click a letter to hear its name and see a picture. Requires Flash.
www.mingoville.com (Vladimir Chen): It's free. Click the 'log in as guest' button.
www.PrimaryGames.com - The ABC Game (Only Requires Basic Browser): Click the picture that begins with the letter shown at the top.
www.rhymesandcrafts.com (Samina Rafi): Some traditional nursery rhymes for teachers to use with Kids.
www.SarahTeacher.com (Sarah Fauset): Words with the short u vowel sound, short i vowel sounds, etc. (Ontario, Canada)
www.scintro.com - Alphabet: See the letters and listen to them spoken in American English.
www.scintro.com - Days of the Week: See the spelling (please noe, that these should really be capitalized words) and listen.
www.scintro.com - Farm Animals: See a picture and see the word written in English.
www.scintro.com - Fruits: See a picture and see the word written in English.
www.scintro.com - Numbers 1-10
www.scintro.com - Numbers 1-20: See the numbers and listen to them spoken in American English.
www.StarFall.com - Learn the Alphabet: Listen and see the letters. (Requires Flash)
www.StarFall.com - Learn to Read: Phonetc exercises in for American kids. (Requires Flash)
www.StarFall.com - Make a Word using _an: Listen and look at a picture, drag and drop c, p, r or f into ___an.
Yahoo Korea's Infant Zone - English (Flash Required): Ignore the Korean on the page and this can be used by anyone for ESL

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