vocabulary games: see under flashcards..
http://bogglesworldesl.com/cards.htm

developing new verbs: http://bogglesworldesl.com/verbs.htm 

vocabulary boggles world: http://bogglesworldesl.com/cards.htm 

passive voice: http://bogglesworldesl.com/passive_voice_flashcards.htm 

Amazing site specifically for adult basic skills students

This site contains many ready-made worksheets designed for adult ESL classes and basic education students. It can be slightly overwhelming because there is so much to see! I particularly looked under "ESOL Resources". If you click on either of the links below that, "Entry 1 ESOL" or "Entry 2 ESOL", you will find an amazing number of worksheets organized by one of the four skills. If you scroll down, you can see descriptions of the worksheets. You can also find literacy resources here.

Excellent site on L1-specific pronunciation and English dialects

The Speech Accent Archive is a really interesting site. It has speakers from all over the world and of many different L1s reading a passage aloud in English. I believe this passage is designed to showcase as many different segmental characteristics in English as possible. You can hear different speech samples if you click on the "language/speakers" link or the "atlas/regions" link, and you can see what sounds many different languages contain if you click on "native phonetic inventory". There are two main things I find useful:

1) If your students are having trouble understanding certain native English-speaking dialects, you can go to this page. You can hear a huge number of different accents.

2) If you as a teacher want to find out different problems students from different regions will have, you can click on the "language/speakers" link or the "atlas/regions" link and the site gives very specific issues students may have with English as well a sample of their speech.

Site for using comics in classroom activities

MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! is a great site to make your own comics. I have used it to practice different grammatical structures in a contextualized way. This site is great because there are several different characters with different facial expressions you can choose from, and also a variety of thinking and talking boxes. It is free and you can make comics in English and Spanish.

I realized the utility of this website after a day of trying to present substitution exercises in my class. (These are exercises in which there is a pre-made dialogue and the students just substitute in different vocabulary or phrases. I know they are generally looked down on and probably remind teachers too much of the audiolingual method, but I thought in limited amounts, it could help students automatize formulaic phrases while practicing vocabulary.) I thought these activities would be relatively simple because I had done them so often in my language classes. But I did not realize that if you were not used to the format, it is confusing what you are supposed to do and why you are having the conversation in the first place. After a very difficult class trying to explain a substitution drill, I decided to try comics. Comics provided a clear context and fun visuals. I think it was a much more successful and helpful activity than the drills.