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esl information

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Top Sites

Activities for ESL Students. Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language.
Grammar Exercises. Hundreds of free categorized grammar exercises.

For Beginners

Interactive Mind Map based on English language (ESL) grammar quizzes.
English Grammar Quizzes - Easy. Hundreds of quizzes created by ESL instructors from different parts of the world.
Essential Lessons for Beginning English Learners. Using the 25 short lessons to study for tests, review basic English essentials.
Crazy Quiz. Flash grammar quizzes for lower levels.
Easy to Medium Exercises. A large collection of easy grammar exercises from different websites.
ELC Study Zone Grammar Quizzes. Good grammar exercises for English beginners.
The Grammar Aquarium. Grammar notes, online and handout exercises for EFL and ESL.
Adele's ESL Corner. Grammar, vocabulary, and listening quizzes for beginners and intermediate levels.
English Grammar. Practice exercises for ESL/EFL Beginner.

Well-Known Sites

Sentence Structure Writing Practice. Exercises designed to practice writing wh- questions, passive voice, adjective clauses, and noun clauses.
Flash Quizzes. The quizzes created by Charles I. Kelly, part of his great manythings.org website.
English Pool of Exercises. To practise different tenses according to your level of English.
Karin's ESL PartyLand. Thte Quiz Center with over 75 interactive quizzes.
EnglishClub Quizzes. Various kinds of quizzes to test your grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation.
Quizzes. Quizzes in pdf format for downloading.
Free English Tests for ESL/EFL. More than 1,000 grammar exercises for three different levels.

Other Sites

Quiz Center. A powerful tool you can use to create, administer, and grade quizzes online.
English Tests. Tests of grammar at different levels.
BBC Quizzes. A wide range of vocabulary and grammar with thousands of questions in different kinds of activities.
Interactive English Language Exercises. Great exercises for grammar, vocabulary, and idioms.
Online Activities. Interactive exercises about prepositions, environments, and immigrants.
ESL Blues. Hundreds of grammar exercises for intermediate level learners.
The Road to Grammar. More than 200 flash quizzes to practice all the grammar points.
ESLgo Quiz Center. Some grammar and vocabulary quizzes.
Exam English. Free online practice tests for most of the important ESL/EFL exams: TOEFL, IELTS, CPE, FCE, PET and KET.
EFL Grammar Quizzes. All kinds of grammar exercises for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.
English Exercises Online. Gap-fill, multiple choice grammar exercises marked with difficulty levels .
ESLCafe's Quizzes Center. Quizzes for geography, grammar, history, and people.
English Lessons and Tests. A lot of tests in the order of difficulty levels.
Grammatics. An EFL site with grammar and comprehension quizzes.
EFLnet Grammar Exercises. Grammar exercises marked with difficulty levels.
English on the Internet - Tests & Quizzes. Grammar tests, knowledge tests, reading comprehension and much more.
Grammar and vocabulary exercises. A variety of free English grammar and vocabulary exercises for different levels.

dictionaries

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Well-Known English Dictionaries

Dictionary.com. Largest free online dictionary and audio pronunciation.
Your Dictionary. The #1 Online Dictionary gives you definitions, thesaurus entries, spelling, pronunciation, and etymology results.
Cambridge International Dictionaries. Online dictionaries of English, idioms, and phrasal verbs.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciation, word games, and word of the day.
Newbury House dictionary of American English. Over 40,000 entries with simple, clear definitions, and a wealth of sample sentences and idioms.
Encarta World English Dictionary. A big talking dictionary, click to hear the pronunciation of the word.

Bilingual Dictionaries

English-Chinese Dictionary.Type in an English word and get its meaning in Chinese.
Chinese-English Dictionary.Type in Chinese and get its meaning in English.
English<>Spanish Dictionary. Compilation of general and academic terminology that students and professionals encounter.
Dictionary of Spanish. With over 54,000 entries. You can enter English word to find Spanish word or enter Spanish word to find English word. You can also hear the pronunciation of the word.
English-French Dictionary. The dictionary contains over 75,000 terms. You can search for an English word or a French word.
English-German Dictionary. Nearly 230,000 entries. A service provided by LEO - Link Everything Online.
English-Japanese Dictionary. Typing in an English word and get definitions in Japanese.
English-Korean Dictionary. Typing in an English word and get definitions in Korean.

Visual Dictionaries

Picture Dictionary. A completely free, online multilingual picture dictionary designed for ESL students.
Visual Dictionary Online. 20,000 terms with contextual definitions, developed by terminology experts.
Visual Dictionary. To learn by way of image with thematic, clear and precise pages, with concise and rigorous texts.

Dictionaries of Proper Nouns

Pronunciation of Words and Phrases. Type in a word or phrase to listen to its pronunciation, including proper nouns.

Acronym

Acronym Finder. The world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations.
Acronym. A big acronym database. New acronyms are constantly added by users.
Acronym Guide. A Directory of Common Acronyms and Abbreviations by Topic.

Thesaurus

Online Thesaurus. Excellent thesaurus, a dictionary of synonyms by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.
Webster's Online Dictionary. With Multilingual Thesaurus, Translation.

Homonym

Homonym. The list contains homonyms as well as homophones with definintions for each word.

Other Dictionaries

Answers. Search for definitions, pronunciation, and even translation.
Word Reference. You can get definitions in different languages, by Michael Kellogg of WordReference.com.
WordNet Search. An online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory.
Netlingo. It contains hundreds of words and definitions that describe the technology and community world of the Web.
Online Dictionary of Computing. It contains over 13,000 hypertext links to different terms.
Meta Dictionary. This site searches through over 400 dictionaries for the word you type in.
The Phrase Finder. Typing a word and getting a list of phrases.
A Multi-Purpose Dictionary. It is a dictionary where you can find rhymes, synonyms, match consonants, and even search for pictures for the word you type in.
Free Online Dictionary ?Comprehensive English dictionary with word definitions, synonyms, and antonyms.

games

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Popular Online Games

Cartoon Network. A very popular game site for kids.
Yahoo Games. Hundreds of excellent games waiting for you to play.
Poker Games. Play at the top rated texas holdem site.
Coffee Break Arcade. An excellent free Internet games directory.
Poker Sites. The largest poker sites directory on the Internet.
YouTube Gaming. Most played and viewed games on the YouTube site.
Free Games. Playing online or downloading free games.
Excessively Free Games. A comprehensive online free game collection. No signup process to get started.

Educational Games

FunBrain. Improve kids' math and reading by playing games.
Room 108. Over 400 pages of kids educational games, interactive writing, puzzles, math, and science.
Guia English Games. Many interesting games created by Guia users.

English Learning Games

ESL Games and Interactive Activities. Many different games incredibly brillant ESL teachers have created.
TEFL Games. ESL activities for the classroom, online quizzes and hundreds of printable quiz questions in graded sets.
ESL and English Games. Different kinds of games to practice different English skills.
Games, Quizzes & Riddles. The fun way to learn English ?improve your English with games and riddles.
GenkiEnglish. Elementary school English games, songs and lesson plans.
The EFL Playhouse. A collection of educational games, songs, fingerplays, action rhymes, craft ideas, and tongue twisters,
Mes English Games. Free printables for teachers to provide fun games for students.
ESL Game. Interesting games - Alphabet Writer, Apple Catch, Memory, and so on.
Scratch My Back. A conversational card game, an exciting way to learn natural English.

Grammar Games

The Grammar Gorillas. Identifying parts of speech in a sentence to help the gorilla get bananas.
English Tenses with Cartoons. A site about learning English visually.
Room Maker. Write sentences about the room and questions using prepositions of location.
The Grammar Casino. A great review game to target specific weak areas of your grammar.
Moot. Tough moot questions about etymology, usage, and grammar of the English language.

Vocabulary Games

Learning Chocolate. To help students memorize English words in an easy and efficient way by using pictures, sounds, and games.
Vocabulary Games. Hangman, speedwords, homonyms, and irregular verbs.
Game of the Week. Playing by associating words with images, a great way to build your vocabulary.
Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun. Learning Vocabulary by playing Crosswords, Hangman, Jumble, and Match games.
Games for ESL Students. ESL games for literaryand beginning students.
Free flash games for ESL learners. Grammar games, vocabulary builders, and phonics programs.
ESL Games. Matching games, crossword, hangman, and typing.
Catch the Spelling. Review vocabulary as you catch the falling letters.
English Vocabulary. with Games, Puzzles, hangman, and Quizzes.
Everyday Vocabulary Anagram. A word made by using letters of another word in a different order.
Daily Word Puzzle. A free resource used in over 22,000 schools to enhance vocabulary mastery.
Language Games. Word Search, crosswords, and hangman games.

idioms

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Dictionaries of Idioms

Idiom Dictionary. Search for an idiom from over 7,000 idioms current in British, American and Australian English.
Dictionary of American Idioms. More than 8000 idiomatic words and phrases of American English online.
Answers.com's Idiom Pages. Where you can find almost any idioms you are looking for.
Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions. A list of 1,885 Idioms in alphabetical order.
Idiom Quest. A searchable database of American English idioms.

Slang

English Daily - Slang. Hundreds of idioms and slang with definitions, examples, etymology.
Australian Slang. Australian English Glossary from A to Zed.
Dictionary of Slang. English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom.
Commonly Used American Slang. Nineteen pages of slang collected by Charles I. Kelly & Lawrence E. Kelly.

Exercises

Idioms in Videos. Click on an idiom to see a list of videos that use it.
English-Zone - Idioms. Categorized Idioms with exercises to practice using them.
Paint by Idioms Learning idioms by playing games.
Eye on Idioms. Complete the sentence by selecting the correct idiom from the list.
Face Idioms. Match the idioms with their definitions.
Pocket English Idioms. Hundreds of idioms. Click a keyword and get the idiom with an example sentence.
Self-Study Idiom Quizzes. Including phrasal verbs, and slang, divided into medium and difficult levels.
Self-Study Idiom Quizzes. Including phrasal verbs, and slang, divided into medium and difficult levels.
Proverbs in English. Very commonly-heard proverbs and old sayings, matching quizzes, and crossword puzzles.

Business Idioms

Business Idioms. Choose an idiom and click on it to go directly to the explanation and example.
American English Business Idioms. A list of idioms commonly used in the American workplace with meanings and examples.
Ridiculous Business Jargon. Over 350 of the worst phrases used in the business world today.

Idiom Collections

Idiom Connection. A collection of idioms, phrasal verbs and proverbs generally expected to find in the average home, and workplace.
English Idioms, Sayings, and Slang. Idioms in alphebatical order, each with a definition, and an example sentence.
The Idiom Collection. A big collection and many categories.
Animal Idioms. A few interesting idioms containing animals' names.
Idioms at Interlink Language Center. Multiple choice questions, match the meaning of an idiom.
Idioms and Proverbs. Match the meanings of about thirty idioms.
Slang City. Yeah, baby! Check out this cool online guide to American slang, including explanations of popular songs and movies, bad words, pronunciation and more.
Idioms Site. Hundreds of idioms in alphabetical order. It also tells you where and when the idiom originated.
Dennis Oliver's ESL Idiom Page. You can see a complete list, or meanings and examples.
Speak, Read, and Write. Hundreds of idioms, slang, phrasal verbs and proverbs with context examples.
Spanish-English Idioms. Many colorful Spanish idioms which have colorful English equivalents.

pronunciation

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Videos

American English Sounds. Watch the video to learn how to pronounce different English sounds.
Rachel's English. A series of videos explaining in detail how each sound is created.
Pronunciation tips. An introduction to certain features of standard British English pronunciation.

Exercises

American English Pronunciation. Exercises for every sound with audio available.
English Pronunciation and Listening. Excellent exercises and demonstration of how to pronounce each English sound.
American English Pronunciation Practice. Minimal pair practice and quizzes by Charles Kelly.
Sounds of English. A lot of exercises to practice how to pronounce each sound.
Online Language Laboratory. Online pronunciation guides to 9 varieties of the English language.
Most Often Mispronounced Words. The 100 most often mispronounced English words.

Sounds

Pronunciation Rules Some pronunciation rules for English words.
International Phonetic Association's The major as well as the oldest representative organisation for phoneticians since 1886.
Vowels of American and British English. Vowel charts and database.
English alphabet and pronunciation. The sounds represented here are those of British English spoken with RP accent.
Type IPA phonetic symbols online. A free online editor for typing transcriptions of English words in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Stress

Word Stress. Learn where to put a stress in a word.
Sentence Stress. What sentence stress is, why it is important.
Pronunciation Exercises. Rhythm, stress, schwa, voiced and voiceless, and minimal pairs exercises.

Tongue Twisters

Accent Reduction. Tongue Twisters with audio from ESL Mania.
Tongue Twisters. The world's largest collection of tongue twisters, with 2680 entries in 105 languages.
English Pronunciation Test. Learning to correctly pronounce every word in a poem.

Proper Nouns

Pronunciation of Names of People and Places. English Pronunciation Guide to the Names of People, Places, and Stuff.
Pronunciation of Words and Phrases. Type in a word or phrase to listen to its pronunciation, including proper nouns.

Software

Speech at CMU. Open Source Speech Software from Carnegie Mellon University.
Accent School.A FREE software package that offers accent reduction lessons.

Other Links

iteslj Pronunciation Links. A collection of online ESL pronunciation sites.
English Pronunciation. Covering both British and American English pronunciation and accents.
Learning English Pronunciation. Articles on how to learn English pronunciation.

esp

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Top Sites

ESP World. An electronic ESP periodical with contributions and readership from various countries.
English for Work. Very good free online English learning materials for nurses, police, tour guides, food staff, hotel staff, and airline staff.
The Asian ESP Journal. This peer reviewed online Journal is your first step to understanding English for Specific Purposes in Asia.
Science Daily. A place where students can practice reading by reading the latest science news.

Medical English

Medical English Resources. With Over 1,500 exercises, and also animated conversation practice.
RNstudents.com. All kinds of resources for Registered nursing, including RN dictionaries, encyclopedia, quizzes, and jobs.
English for Pharmacists. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening exercises designed to improve pharmacists' English.
Medical Encyclopedia. Topics in alphabetical order with illustrations.
Interactive Health Tutorials. Using animated graphics each tutorial explains a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language. You can also listen to the tutorial.
Medical Terminology. Exercises for you to practice using medical terms and prepare for exams.
Medical Terminology Web. Including sounds of medical terms you can hear at a click.
English-Chinese Medical Dictationary. Exercises for you to practice using medical terms and prepare for exams.
Topics in Medical English. Compiled by Jack Kimball.

Other Subjects

Hotel English. English for hotel staff, including hotel and accomodations vocabulary Quiz, taking a Reservation, and checking guests in and out.
Cook's Thesaurus. Cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools.
Food Dictionary. Search the dictionary of more than 4,000 food terms.
Real Estate Glossary. A multi-language Real Estate Glossary (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German).
Investor Words. With 6,000 definitions and 20,000 links between related terms, this is the most comprehensive financial glossary.
Financial Dictionary. Financial education tool, helping anybody interested in learning about finance, money, and investing.
Military English. Exercises for peacekeepers to improve their English.
Law and Legal information resources. Over 100 great links.
Encyclopedia of Psychology. A collection of links to many areas of psychology.
Online Dictionary of Computing. It contains 13,000 terms with hypertext linking to different terms.
Kairos. A refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy.
EXPASY. A tool which allows the translation of a nucleotide (DNA/RNA) sequence to a protein sequence.

Other Sites

Key Issues in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Curriculum Development. An article by Kristen Gatehouse.
Dictionaries of Special Subjects. A list of dictionaries of various subjects.
Arlyn Freed's ESL/EFL ESP. This site compiled and maintained by Arlyn Freed.
Learning English for Specific Purposes. Resources to help you with teaching or learning English.

business english

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Conversations at Work

Employment. Conversations on many topics, from finding a job, at work, to collecting unemployment benefits.
Talk in the Office. Each lesson contains multiple sentences that you can click on to learn how to say that sentence.
Business Language. Useful expressions used at work.
Business English Podcasts. Learn Business English at your convenience with free MP3 Business English Podcasts.
Business English China232. Learn Business english for free with listening business english podcasts.

Business News

The Wall Street Journal. Read the latest news in the business world.
Business Week Online. The online magazine carries news articles on current business affairs.
BBC Business English. Business Section of the BBC News with current news articles.

Business Writing

Guide to Basic Business Letters. Providing the phrases that are usually found in any standard business letter.
Business Writing. A blog on business writing with expert advice and examples.
Business Writing Help. Discussing how to write memos, proposals, and resumes.

Business English Lessons

BBC Business English. English for work and business: from writing a CV to job interview techniques, and from business travel to working abroad.
English for Business. Business vocabulary, writing, reading, and speaking skills.
Business English Lessons. Business English exercises for students to develop their language skills.
Business English Themes. Choose a issue you want to read and then do the exercises.
TESL: Business English. The Internet TESL Journal's Business English page.
Guide to Online MBA. Useful business English exercises to help you get ahead.
Business English Site. Content was created by people with many years of corporate experience.

Business Vocabulary

Business English Vocabulary Exercises. Learning business expressions, idioms, and abbreviations through doing exercises.
EnglishClub Business English Vocabulary. some of the most common words and phrases in thirteen different business areas.
Business Vocabulary. Lists of business vocabulary, useful phrases and terms, and abbreviations.
Business Vocabulary Library. Essential business English nouns, verbs, letter writing phrases, and English telephone languages.
Business English Exercises. Entering the correct word to build compound expressions related to various business topics.

Business Terminology

Investment Dictionary. Definitions are short and written in plan English.
Finance Glossary. The Online Dictionary of Financial Terms.
Invest Words. The most comprehensive financial glossary with over 7,500 terms.
Financial Dictionary. Providing concise definitions of 8,000 terms with 18,000 useful links.
Financial and Business Terms. Over 2,500 Entries grouped by first letter with example usage of each term.
Business Terms Glossary. More than 1,250 business terms organized and cross-referenced.
Business Jargon Dictionary. The Ridiculous Business Jargon your co-workers use all the time.
Trading Glossary. Trading, Financial, and Business Glossary for traders of stock and investment market.
Accounting Terminology Guide. An educational tool for journalists who report on and interpret financial information.
The Devil's Derivatives Dictionary. A huge online Business English dictionary.

English for Different Topics

English for Work. Very good free online English learning materials for nurses, police, travelers, hotel staff, and airline staff.
Business English for Different Topics. A large collection of English reading materials and quizzes under different topics.

Guides

BizWeb. A web business guide to 46290 companies listed in 208 categories.
MBA Programs The #1 MBA programs guide.
Business English Certificate. An internationally recognised business qualification to show that you have learned English to an appropriate standard.

Magazines

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Top Sites

The Internet TESL Journal. Articles, research papers, lessons plans, classroom handouts, teaching Ideas & links.
TESL-EJ. An internationally recognized source of ESL and EFL information with new books review and new media review.
Language Learning & Technology. A refereed journal for language educators who are interested in using computers.

Well-known ESL/EFL Paper Journals

TESOL Quarterly. A refereed professional journal, fosters inquiry into English language teaching and learning by providing a forum for TESOL professionals to share their research findings.
Essential Teacher. Compleat Links, an online complement to Essential Teacher, offers original articles, interviews, and other contents thematically linked to Essential Teacher.
ELT Journal. The ELT Journal is a quarterly publication for all those involved in the field of teaching English as a second or foreign language.

CALL Journals

The Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment. JTLA is a peer-reviewed, scholarly on-line journal addressing the intersection of computer-based technology, learning, and assessment.
Teaching English with Technology. A Journal for Teachers of English by IATEFL Poland - Computer Special Interest Group.
Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning Technology. The Journal is a fully refereed professional journal, published twice yearly. Now available online to IALLT members.

Journals of Language Associations

Journal of International Association for Language Learning Technology. The Journal is a fully refereed professional journal, published twice yearly. Now available online to IALLT members.
Journal of Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium. A Journal devoted to research and discussion on technology and language learning. Articles can be purchased online.
Bilingual Research Journal. A joint project of the National Association for Bilingual Education and the Southwest Center for Education Equity and Language Diversity, College of Education, Arizona State University.
The Language Teacher. The monthly publication of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Zenkoku Gogaku Kyoiku Gakkai).

Other Sites

Topics. A popular online magazine of learners of English, who express their ideas and opinions, and illustrate their writings with drawings and photos.
The Reading Matrix. A fully-refereed journal with an editorial board of scholars in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics.
Language Magazine. First published in 1997, Language Magazine (formerly American Language Review) is the popular periodical of language, education and communication.
The Linguist Digest. A free e-magazine containing content for the English student in both audio mp3 and text format.
Asian EFL Journal. one of the world's prime refereed and indexed online journals for teaching and learning English.
The International TEYL Journal. An educational journal that publishes new research findings, review articles, on a wide variety of topics of importance to those who teach ESL or EFL to children.
Soon Online Magazine. a free world-wide easy-English literature programme.

newspapers

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Baltimore Sun

Boston Globe

Chicago Tribune

Christian Science Monitor

Los Angeles Times

New York Post

New York Times

USA Today

Wall Street Journal

Washington Post

Washington Times

Top 100 Newspapers

Kids English

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Short Stories

Short Stories for Kids. Read, listen, and watch animated cartoons.
Wacky Web tales. Geared for grades 3 and above. Check back monthly for new tales!
Story Place. The Preschool Library and Elementary Library with new activities and themes being added each month.
Picture Books. Free online picture books by professional illustrator and Writer Dandi Palmer.

Phonics

starfall. a free public service to motivate children to read with phonics.
Phonics. There are phonics posters, flash cards, coloring sheets, game cards, handouts and more.

Videos

Kids Online English. A Youtube site from Pumpin.com for kids to learn English online.
Online English Learning for Children. A selection of free learning content by Pumkin.com.
Names of Fruits. See the fruit and learn its pronunciation and color.
Numbers. An English Beginners Lesson to learn 1 - 10.
Demonstrative Pronouns. How to use this, that, these and those.
Want to Do Lesson. Practice the sentence pattern - "want + infinitive".
What do you do? Learn how to speak different job titles

Popular Magazines

Scholastic. Popular website of the largest publisher of children's books.
Time for Kids. A weekly magazine for kids that delivers the most current news.
Weekly Reader. A popular site for kids and teens. Read this week's feature story.

Lesson Plans

ESL Kids Lessons. Free Video Slide Lessons, ESL Printables ?Worksheets, Flashcards, and Phonics.
School Discovery. Discovery Channel's Website with lesson plans and learning contents for all kinds of subjects for K-12.
ESL Kids Lab. Printable ESL Worksheets, Games Videos, Kids Vocabulary & Grammar Quizzes,Powerpoint downloads.
Teach children ESL. Download free worksheets and flashcards, play free games and songs.
Kid Genius. Free educational software to teach alphabet, numbers, counting, and so on.
ESL Play House. An excellent resource for teachers of young learners.
Free Stuff for Teachers. Worksheet generators, pattern sentence books, and journal writing.

Kids' Songs

Kids' Songs. With easy songs, not so easy songs, and songs for littel kids.
Kids' Music. Piano music, singing along, and dancing studio.

Games

PBS Kids. Games, stories, music, and coloring.
Space Place. NASA's Website for kids. Games, animations, projects, and fun facts about Earth, space and technology.
Online Games. Top ten kid games, featured kid games, and more.
Kids' Games. Learn English with some games from British Council.
Kids' Writing Games. For kids to have fun and learn to write at the same time.
Brain Pop. Popular site for kids to learn English and other subjects.
Kids Web Japan. An attractive site for kids to learn about Japan.

Children's Literature

International Children's Digital Library. The best in children's literature are made available online.
Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature. A fairly big collection of classics, folk tales, and professional journals.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site. This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom.

Other Sites

A free site to provide information, activities and advice for educators and Spanish-speaking families of English language learners (ELLs).
Bio4Kids. A fun and informative series for children ages 8-12.
Handwriting for Kids. Kids are shown in simple steps how to write the numbers, letters, and sentences.
Kids' Health. Dealing with feelings, recipes, everyday illnesses, injuries, and kids' talk.
KidSource Online. A parenting newsletter with a lot of good advice.
ESL Kids Stuff.Some excellent links for both teachers and students.
Room 108. A primary education site for kids with lots of free online games but all with an educational focus.

vocabulary

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Irregular Verbs

Common Irregular Verbs. For you to quickly find out the spellings of irregular verbs.
Irregular Verbs Exercises. Practice using irregular verbs in sentences.
English Irregular Verbs. Exercises for irregular verbs at different levels .
Irregular Verbs Flashcards. With five levels and each level contains twenty irregular verbs.

Irregular Plurals

Irregular Plurals. A complete list of nouns which have irregular Plurals.

Words with Pictures

English Vocabulary. Learn the pronunciation and spelling of thousands of words using an image based interface.
Vocabulary Practice with Pictures. Easy picture quizzes, interactive audio-picture lessons, and animated graphics matching exercises.
Easy Vocabulary Quizzes with Pictures. You choose one of the pictures to match the word.
Vocabulary Test with Pictures. Match an animal or a fruit with its English name.

Vocabulary Lists

Dolch Basic English List. The 220 most frequently found words in books that children read.
5000 Collegiate Words. A list of words in alphabetical order with concise definitions.

Tests Preparation

TOEFL Vocabulary Exercises. Over a thousand real multiple-choice questions to prepare you for TOEFL test.
GRE Vocabulary. A free site aimed to improve your vocabulary specifically for the verbal section of GRE.
SAT Preparation. A vocabulary oriented site that would help you prepare for the vocabulary section of the new SAT exam.
SAT Vocabulary. PSAT and SAT Vocabulary Flashcards and Matching Games from Superkids.
Vocabulary Test. Free vocabulary test for TOEFL, GMT, SAT, GRE and more.

Vocabulary Games

Vocabulary Word Lists. With Games, Puzzles and Quizzes.
Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun. Word search, crosswords, hangman, match game and jumble.
SuperKids Vocabulary Builder. Word of the day, hangman, hidden word puzzles, and word scrambler.
OZspeller. A Free Australian Online Spelling Tutor & Game with powerful features. Words are spoken by your computer, and a large number of lists for each grade.

Vocabulary Training

Vocabulary Level Test. Take a test to find out your vocabulary size.
Vocabulary University. Learn English vocabulary in context (grades 5-12) with free word puzzles.
Vocabulix. Here you can improve your vocabulary in various foreign languages, online and free!
Vocabulary Training. Test your vocabulary on different subjects.
Free Rice. One of the most popular vocabulary learning websites, which automatically adjusts to your level of vocabulary.
Online Vocabulary. Exercises to practice phrases used in business.
Building a Better Vocabulary. A good article to guide your study of vocabulary.
Everyday Vocabulary Anagrams. Anagram quizzes by Charles I. Kelly & Lawrence E. Kelly.
Differences between British and American Vocabulary. A list of words to show the spelling differences between American and British English.
Vocabulary for English Language Learners. Vocabulary activities for all levels.
E. L. Easton Vocabulary. Multilingual dictionaries, vocabulary quizzes by E. L. Easton Online.
A Word a Day. Definitions and example sentences are provided. You can also click to hear its pronunciation. The word is usually difficult.
Business_English Vocabulary Exercises. Hundreds of multiple Choice and match quizzes to practice job-related English.

Grammar

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Online Grammar Handbooks

English Grammar Online. All grammar topics, example sentences, and exercises.
An On-Line English Grammar Book. An online grammar book with a lot of example sentences.
Beginning Level English Grammar. Including English grammar explainations for basic grammar such as tenses, preposition use, adjectives and adverbs and more.
Grammar Handbook. An excellent online grammar handbook which explains and illustrates the basic grammatical rules concerning parts of speech, phrases, clauses, and so on.
Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling. Excellent site, brought to you by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
English Grammar Book. With high-quality English lessons and exercises to help English learners learn English grammar online.

Irregular Verbs

Common Irregular Verbs. For you to quickly find out the spellings of irregular verbs.
Irregular Verbs Exercises. Practice using irregular verbs in sentences.
English Irregular Verbs. Exercises for irregular verbs at different levels .
Irregular Verbs Flashcards. With five levels and each level contains twenty irregular verbs.

Irregular Plurals

Irregular Plurals. A complete list of nouns which have irregular Plurals.

Grammar Notes

Articles on Grammar. More than 70 articles about English language learning, teaching and usage, giving descriptions and explanations for some of the more common problem areas.
Guide to Grammar and Style. With so many different aspects of English grammar discussed.
Using English. Free English grammar and vocabulary worksheets and printable handouts.
Get into English. Explaining grammar points with a lot of example sentences.
Ask Grammar. Index of frequently asked questions.
English Grammar FAQ. Some of the postings made to the newsgroup alt.usage.english by John Lawler, Professor of Linguistics.
Dr. Grammar - Frequently Asked Questions. A long list of questions in alphabetical order, can be searched quickly and easily.
English Forum. Free English language help. Post your questions here and will be answered by someone.

American vs.British English

List of American vs. British Spelling. Spelling differences between American and British English.

Other Sites

The Grammar and Punctuation Glossary. A glossary of all the grammar, and punctuation terms.
English the Easy Way. For ESL Students and native English speaking students to help explain the difficult points of English grammar.
English Club English Grammar. Grammar lessons also have quizzes to check your understanding.
English Grammar. A fun study site with word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and much more.
Grammar Bytes. Includes detailed terms, interactive exercises, handouts, and more!
Revelle Humanities Grammar Handbook. Explanation of various aspects of English grammar.
Grammar Slammer. It has an easy-to-use format to help you find what you're looking for, and provide rules and tips about writing clear English.
Zozanga Grammar Lessons. A free and independent web site for EFL/ESL learners and teachers.
The Internet Grammar of English. An online course in English grammar written primarily for university undergraduates.
Daily Grammar. By signing up for this free email service, you will receive a short, fun grammar lesson Monday-Friday. There will also be a quiz each Saturday.
BBC Skillwise. Enables adults to improve reading, writing and number skills.
Learn American English Online. Improve your English grammar and usage, free for all.

Quizzes

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Top Sites

Activities for ESL Students. Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language.
Grammar Exercises. Hundreds of free categorized grammar exercises.

For Beginners

Interactive Mind Map based on English language (ESL) grammar quizzes.

English Grammar Quizzes - Easy. Hundreds of quizzes created by ESL instructors from different parts of the world.
Essential Lessons for Beginning English Learners. Using the 25 short lessons to study for tests, review basic English essentials.
Crazy Quiz. Flash grammar quizzes for lower levels.
Easy to Medium Exercises. A large collection of easy grammar exercises from different websites.
ELC Study Zone Grammar Quizzes. Good grammar exercises for English beginners.
The Grammar Aquarium. Grammar notes, online and handout exercises for EFL and ESL.
Adele's ESL Corner. Grammar, vocabulary, and listening quizzes for beginners and intermediate levels.
English Grammar. Practice exercises for ESL/EFL Beginner.

Well-Known Sites

Sentence Structure Writing Practice. Exercises designed to practice writing wh- questions, passive voice, adjective clauses, and noun clauses.
Flash Quizzes. The quizzes created by Charles I. Kelly, part of his great manythings.org website.
English Pool of Exercises. To practise different tenses according to your level of English.
Karin's ESL PartyLand. Thte Quiz Center with over 75 interactive quizzes.
EnglishClub Quizzes. Various kinds of quizzes to test your grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation.
Quizzes. Quizzes in pdf format for downloading.
Free English Tests for ESL/EFL. More than 1,000 grammar exercises for three different levels.

Other Sites

Quiz Center. A powerful tool you can use to create, administer, and grade quizzes online.
English Tests. Tests of grammar at different levels.
BBC Quizzes. A wide range of vocabulary and grammar with thousands of questions in different kinds of activities.
Interactive English Language Exercises. Great exercises for grammar, vocabulary, and idioms.
Online Activities. Interactive exercises about prepositions, environments, and immigrants.
ESL Blues. Hundreds of grammar exercises for intermediate level learners.
The Road to Grammar. More than 200 flash quizzes to practice all the grammar points.
ESLgo Quiz Center. Some grammar and vocabulary quizzes.
Exam English. Free online practice tests for most of the important ESL/EFL exams: TOEFL, IELTS, CPE, FCE, PET and KET.
EFL Grammar Quizzes. All kinds of grammar exercises for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.
English Exercises Online. Gap-fill, multiple choice grammar exercises marked with difficulty levels .
ESLCafe's Quizzes Center. Quizzes for geography, grammar, history, and people.
English Lessons and Tests. A lot of tests in the order of difficulty levels.
Grammatics. An EFL site with grammar and comprehension quizzes.
EFLnet Grammar Exercises. Grammar exercises marked with difficulty levels.
English on the Internet - Tests & Quizzes. Grammar tests, knowledge tests, reading comprehension and much more.
Grammar and vocabulary exercises. A variety of free English grammar and vocabulary exercises for different levels.

Writing

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Typing Practice

Touch Typing. Free Program that lets you exercise and learn Touch Typing.
Peter's Online Typing Course. A set of free online typing lessons and exercises.

Writing Exercises

Jumbled Sentences. 200 Exercises for beginners to practice creating English sentences.
Dictation Exercises. Online dictation to help improve your listening and writing skills.
Sentence Structure Writing Practice. Exercises designed to practice writing wh- questions, passive voice, adjective clauses, and noun clauses.
Verb Tenses and Scrambled Sentences. Practice creating sentences in different verb tenses.

Free-writing Practice

Free Writing Guidelines. Principles and suggestions for free writing.

Writing Guides

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant. A lot of information about how to write informal essays, thesis/support essays, argumentative essays, and exploratory essays.
ESL Bee. For high intermediate or advanced English learners who have never taken a formal English writing course.
Basic Paragraph Structure. Detailed discussion of the topic sentence, body sentences, and the concluding sentence.
The Purdue University Writing Lab Handouts. One of the earliest online writing lab. The Handouts section provides excellent guide to academic writing. There is also a section of English as a Second Language.
Writers' Workshop. Grammar handbook, citation styles, ESL resources, and writing tips, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Online Guide to Writing and Research. University of Maryland University College (UMUC) prvides this site, like an online writing textbook.
Writing Studio. Colorado State University's online learning environment, the Writing Studio.
Best Essay Tips. A student-oriented source for dealing with difficulties in writing.
Essay Info. Basics of essay writing, writing tips, essay types, citation styles, and so on.
Writing ?How to write English Texts. Punctuation, essays, and business letters.
Five Paragraph Essay. Strong academic presentation with suggestions, outlines, and samples.

Common Mistakes

Common Mistakes. A collection of some of the most frequently misspelled, commonly confused and easily misused words.
Students' Essays. Learning from mistakes of other ESL/EFL writers.

Essay Topics

Good Essay Topics. A collection of great topics for your college paper or essay, and 10 tips for choosing a thrilling essay Topic.
Writing worksheets. Hundreds of writing topics provide teachers with meaningful writing tasks.

Format & Styles

APA Style. Official website of the American Psychological Association.
Technical Writing. An online textbook for technical writing. It's also a good online reference book.
Web Style Guide. Yale online design manual dealing with Web design principles and various Web design issues.
A Guide for Writing Research Papers. Based on styles recommended by the American Psychological Association in question-and-answer format.
Writing for the Web. Research on how users read on the Web and how authors should write.

Research Tools

Web Frequency Indexer. Cut and paste an article here, and you will get a list of words used in the article.
Web Concordancer. You can search an online corpus for a word and display all the sentences in which the word occurs.

Reading

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Top Sites

365 Short Stories for ESL Learners. ONE STORY A DAY, YOUR ENGLISH WILL BE GREAT! THE best ESL reading materials online! Free for everyone to use.
Adult Learning Activities. California Distance Learning Project. A free site to build your reading and life skills.

For Beginners

Star Fall. A free public service to motivate children to read with phonics.

Learning Strategies

Study Skills & Strategies. Top resources for FREE information on study skills, study strategies and study aids.
Antimoon.com - Learn English effectively. Articles on how to learn English effectively, based on the experiences of successful learners.
English Help, Advice and Tips. An article that talks about improving listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar.
Expert English Teacher. Articles on English language learning, answering the questions you have.

History and Culture

Biography. Reading biographies, watching interviews and video clips.
Introduction to the United States of America. Online Culture Lessons by Paul Sparks.
Bible Gateway. All kinds of versions of the Bible in English and other languages, in text or pdf format.
The English Learner Movie Guides. Detailed synopses of popular movies with an extensive glossary of vocabulary and various cultural references.
This Day in History. A short passage each day describing an historical event in American history.

Quotes

The Quotations Page. The largest and oldest Quotations Page on the Web with about 30 categories such as Great Leaders, Sarcasm, and Wisdom.
Finest Quotes. A huge collection of inspirational quotes, thoughts of greatestminds of history.
Literature Quotes. Quotations from the great works of literature. You can search for quotations in a number of different ways.
Inspirational Quotes. Read quotes and sayings from famous people in history.

Public Domain Books

Online Children's Stories. Many stories from well-known children's books. They are easy and interesting to read.
Public Domain Books. Hundreds of books you can free download or open to read.

Other Sites

ESL: Reading. Reading materials for Teachers and Students of English as a Second Language.
Simple English News. All kinds of news in simple English.
Using Jokes and Humor to Learn English. Joe's Jokes - Read, Listen, and Learn English. A great way to increase your vocabulary!

Podcasts

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Top Sites

ESL Podcasts. New podcasts are added frequently by ESL podcasters.
ESL Pod. The podcasts are all recorded at a speed you can understand梒learly and comprehensibly.

News Podcasts

NPR Podcast. National Public Radio news updated daily.
ABC News Podcasts. Daily and weekly news, Video and audio Podcasts.
CNN's podcasting service. Consists of news and information files that may be downloaded to your computer and/or transferred to your portable MP3 player.

Other Sites

ITESLJ Podcast. Links of Interest to Teachers and Students of English as a Second Language.
Selected MP3 Files. By Charles Kelly for ESL students.
The Linguist Podcast. Listen to linguists discussing language learning.
Podcast Alley. Featuring the best Podcast Directory and the Top 10 podcasts.
Free English Now. Listen to stories from the Bible, and repeat sentence by sentence after the reader.
Pod Cards. Audio postcards that you can download to your iPod.
History Podcast. A podcast devoted to learning about historical figures, events, and places.
MP4 Movies. Public domain old movies, Compatible with iPod Video and PSP. Click on the title to watch it on your screen.
China 232. Interesting podcast conversations created by ESL Instructors from Canada.
Podcasting for ELT. A station for EFL/ESL educators interested in podcasting.
Business English Podcasts. Learn Business English at your convenience with free MP3 Business English Podcasts.

Listen and Speak

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Top Sites

ESL/EFL Conversations. Hundreds of conversations under different topics with excellent audio.
eslfast.com. A new free site with hundreds of stories and conversations for ESL learners to practice listening and speaking.
English Language Listening Online. Listening activities come with transcripts, quizzes.
ESL Listening Lab. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab.

For Beginners

Easy Conversations. Hundreds of easy conversations, short, interesting, and slow.
Real English Lessons. The Real English ESL Video Exercises - New & Exciting Lessons.

Conversations

ESL Conversations. More than 1,500 conversations under different topics with high-quality audio.
Easy Conversations. Hundreds of easy conversations, short and interesting, for you to read and listen.
Talk English. Over 500 Business_English lessons for people with office jobs.
Phrases for Conversations. Commonly used expressions in conversations provided by ESLgold.
Learning Oral English Online. An online conversation book with ten lessons including Meeting Friends, Apartment Hunting, and Shopping in USA.
Focus English. A conversation site created by John Liang.
Medical English Conversations. Animated dialogues for doctors, nurses, and pharmacists.

Free Online Software

U.S.A. Learns. Excellent ESL Online software free for everyone who wants to improve their English skills.
Ventures. Cambridge's site for teachers and students who use their textbook Ventures.

Well-known Sites

ESL Robot. Practice speaking English, free writing with an intelligent robot.
365 Short Stories. Listen to interesting short stories written for ESL learners.
Livemocha. Self-paced lessons, a vibrant community, and interactive tools to help you talk to the world
Integration of Listening, Reading, and Speaking Skills. A pioneer ESL website which is the earliest in using Web audio.

Online Radio News

Voice of America Webcasts. Special English for English learners in the world.
BBC World News. BBC's international radio. Listen to world news, sport and weather.
National Public Radio. Hourly newscast, 24-hour program stream, listen to your favorite programs every day.
China Radio International. Listening to the news and learning about new developments in China.

Online Videos

Captioned Videos. several thousands of captioned videos from all over the Internet.
langoLAB. Learning English by watching video, seeing the text and translation.
CNN Video News. Watching CNN headline news online.
Movie Trailers. New movie trailers are added quickly.
Daily Comedy Video Show. Watch TV news in an interesting way.
Video Broadcast. Watch the most watched videos on the Internet.
History Channel - Video and Speeches. Video and audio of famous speeches in history.
Top 100 Speeches. With video, audio, and text.
MP4 Movies. Public domain old movies. Click on the title to watch it on your screen.

Other Sites

Conversation Questions. For the ESL/EFL Classroom - A project of the Internet TESL Journal.
Audio Bibles. Choose a version, listen to a chapter every day.
Foreign Languages for Travelers. An excellent site for people who want to quickly learn some useful English or other foreign language phrases.
Yappar. Practice and learn English the fun way with entertaining videos.
Listening to a story. Young authors are reading stories they wrote.