Welcome to the English Neighborhood, a community-based website for English teachers. Created by English teachers in Yilan, Taiwan, this resourceful community is easy to use and helpful to all language teachers. Whether you teach in Taiwan or Bad Swat, Pakistan, at a public or private school, or even teach your own children, this is a place for teaching and learning English as a community.

The English Neighborhood is a place where we can help each other in lesson planning, teaching, English, and ultimately to better understand the English language is a communication tool.

What can I DO at the English Neighborhood?

• Search for lesson ideas
• Discuss English teaching ideas at our discussion forum
• Add your own lessons to share (in English or 中文)
• Connect with other English teachers

What Can I FIND at the English Neighborhood?

• Activities and Games – engaging games and effective activities that focus
onthe curriculum and/or textbooks

• Storytime – ideas for great storybooks with corresponding activities for
grades 1-6

• Yilan English – places in Yilan where English is found

• Culture in the Classroom – exciting cultural exchange activities with
corresponding powerpoints, pictures, and international realia

• Songs and Chants – useful tips for teaching songs, song lists, lyrics, or
download songs and chants to play in the classroom

• English Easy Go – suggested songs, readers’ theater stories, speeches
withexamples of each and information on the event

• Holidays – holiday-related activities, games, songs and more with holidays
from various cultures

Please feel free to contact us with any questions, comments or suggestions.

Thank you for visiting the English Neighborhood!