ELT Planning is a personal teaching blog by Pete, an EAL (English as an Additional Language) teacher working in UK international schools. The tagline is "EAL tips and ideas from a developing teacher" — and the "developing" part is deliberate. Pete writes as a reflective practitioner, not as a guru.

The blog is hosted on WordPress.com and has been active for several years, with a long archive of posts sorted into a few recurring categories:

• Materials writing — conversations with coursebook writers, handling vague editorial briefs, DipTESOL independent research project write-ups.
• Teacher development — reflections on CPD, effective questioning, CEFR in EAL contexts, AI experiments in resource creation.
• EAL adaptations — how the author tweaks mainstream English units (poetry, fantasy writing) so EAL learners can access them.
• Reviews & recommendations — sites, books, and webinars Pete has personally used.

It is not a worksheet library. There are no PDFs to download, no vocabulary lists, no printable activities. The value is in the thinking — reading why an activity worked, what to adapt, and what to avoid.

ELT Planning is most useful in these specific situations:

• You're an EAL specialist adapting mainstream English content. Posts like "EAL adaptations: Fantasy writing" or "Adaptations: Follower (Year 7 poetry)" walk through real adaptations of real units. You can borrow the principles directly.
• You're working towards a DipTESOL or similar qualification. Pete shares his own DipTESOL independent research project and reflections on the course. It's not a study guide, but it's an honest account of what the experience is like.
• You want ideas for tutor time / community building. The "Community building activities for tutor time" post gives a concrete set of induction-phase activities you can repurpose.
• You're thinking about how to use AI in resource creation. The "AI experiments: Creating an ESL resource website" post documents one teacher's months-long attempt to build an ESL site with AI — including the failures.
• You teach in a UK international school context. Many posts reference Year 6, Year 7, Year 9, the DipTESOL, the CEFR, and coursebook-driven curricula — all in a UK framing.

Yes — if you read it as reflective professional development, not as a content library. ELT Planning is one of the few blogs in the EAL/ELT space that reads like a working teacher's notebook rather than a marketing funnel. The author is clear about his own context (UK international school, EAL specialist), and the posts transfer well to similar settings.

The downsides are real. There is no search-friendly taxonomy, no tagging beyond a few broad categories, and the back-catalog can be hard to navigate. The design is a stock WordPress theme. Some posts are personal reflections where the underlying teaching idea is small and the writing is long.

Honest recommendation: subscribe by email (it's free) and treat it as a slow drip of CPD reading. Don't expect to find a worksheet or a ready-to-print lesson — expect to find one teacher's thinking, and decide what's worth keeping.