This page has links to sites that will give you practical ideas for lesson planning and class activities.
Eigotown is a fun site for your students with online activities, worksheets, tests and overseas information.
http://www.eigotown.com
Teaching English is the British Council's collection of teaching reources for English teachers worldwide.
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk
TEFL.NET has a really big collection of TEFL resources and links.
http://www.tefl.net
The Internet TESL Journal is a big Japanese site with teaching ideas, articles, self-study activities, discussions and more. It is updated monthly.
http://iteslj.org
Dave' ESL Cafe is a massive site for teachers and tudents with teaching ideas, topics and much much more, all submitted by users of the site.
http://www.eslcafe.com
Rhythm Cafe is a Japanese site and a great resource for email exchange programs as it has English and Japanese for most phrases commonly used in EMAILs.
http://www.rhythm-cafe.com/edb/
EFL4U offers a free downloadable lesson plan each week with lovely worksheets and full instructions.
http://www.efl4u.com
OneStopEnglish is a UK publisher site with an excellent bank of warm-up actvities - look under the 'lesson share section'.
http://www.onestopenglish.com
Eden is a former ALT's site with over 50 downloadable leson plans.
http://www.adamlilith.net/main.htm