Q. What is Ellii (formerly ESL Library) best known for?
A. Ready-made lesson plans!Q. What has Ellii become known for in the past few years?
A. Ready-made videos!Q. What has Ellii been focusing on in 2024?
A. Ready-made courses!
Creating ready-made lesson plans for English language teachers continues to be a priority at Ellii as it has always been. However, each year, the Publishing team tries to add content that is new or innovative, whether its related to a trend/theme (social-emotional learning), skill (speaking), modality (videos), or need (workplace English).
Throughout 2024, Ellii's Publishing team has been focusing heavily on developing full courses with a workplace theme. That does not mean we have stopped making individual lessons and videos! You can find all of our new content in our What's New? monthly collections, including new lessons that were released with the launch of our newest lesson section: Career Pathways.
Career Pathways
This new digital-only lesson section, available in our Academic & Workplace English genre, is suitable for high-beginner to low-intermediate adult ELLs who are looking for work or considering job opportunities in an English-speaking country. These lessons are exploratory in nature and ideal for self-study. They feature real photos rather than illustrations, a common request from today's adult ed instructors.
Each career-specific lesson includes:
- a vocabulary preview task, featuring 10 keywords with real photos
- a short reading about a specific career (with audio)
- a reading comprehension task
- a gap-fill listening task
- a quiz
Lessons
We launched this new section with popular career choices for newcomers:
- Working as a Nursing Assistant
- Working as a Pharmacy Technician
- Working as a Dental Assistant
- Working as a Phlebotomist
- Working as a Custodian
- Working as a Paraeducator
- Working as a Medical Assistant
- Working as an Emercency Medical Technician
Watch for new lessons regularly and use the comments to let us know which career pathways your students are considering so we can add the lessons that would be most useful for you.
Related Workplace Courses
To find Ellii's related courses, go to our Courses & Study Packs page and filter to the Workplace category. Be sure to check back regularly. Here are some Workplace courses we have released (or are working on) in 2024:
- Phrasal Verbs & Pre-Employment (video course)
- Phrasal Verbs & Employment (video course)
- English for Nursing Assistants
- English for Pharmacy Assistants
- English for Dental Assistants
- English for Phlebotomists
- Healthcare Vocabulary 1
- Healthcare Vocabulary 2
- English for Paraeducators
- English for Custodians
- English for Emergency Medical Technicians
- English for Medical Assistants
Related Ellii Poll
Get your students thinking about jobs with this interactive Career Pathways Ellii Poll.
Did you know that unlike Ellii's lessons and courses (which require a subscription), Ellii Polls are free for anyone to use? Learn how to access Ellii Polls and invite students here.
Related Media
Flashcards
We also have Flashcard sets related to many of these Career Pathways. Find these sets in the At Work & On the Job genre in the Flashcards area of our Media Gallery.
- Jobs & Occupations
- Job Actions
- At the Office
- Community Helpers
- Nursing Assistants
- Pharmacy Technicians
- Dental Assistants
- Phlebotomists
If Allied Health is the focus for your students, this Body, Health, & Medicine genre will have plenty of useful words for your students to learn.
To make the best use of Ellii's supplementary visuals, check out these related Help Docs and videos:
- How to Create and Save Flashcard Sets
- How to Use the Flashcard Player
- How to Share Flashcards with Students
Silent Clips
Do you use Ellii's Silent Clips? We have a new video category full of action verbs related to popular jobs.
- Nursing
- Pharmacy
- Dentistry
- Phlebotomy
- Manufacturing
- Restaurant Hospitality
- Hotel Hospitality
- Education Hospitality
- Construction Hospitality
- Custodian Hospitality
Here are 4 Creative Ideas for How to Use Silent Clips in the Classroom.
Is there a job your ELLs are interested in that you would like to see added to Ellii's Career Pathways section (or expanded into a full Ellii course)? Is there a task or activity you would like to see added to existing and future lessons in this section? Please leave a comment for our Publishing team.
