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Free Internet ESL Resouces

Page history last edited by Daniel O'Connell 13 years, 2 months ago

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A more developed version of these pages has been moved to https://sites.google.com/a/mail.ccsf.edu/esl/.  

 

 

 

Link to ESL grammar index of online resources

  Link to wiki administrator's webpage and email

 

 ESL Non-Credit Online Resources

Thanks to K. Cross and the many City College faculty who have contributed to this list.  All of these links should be free and not require signing in or registering.  Please request to be a writer on this wiki so you can help create this resource page, add more links and organize them .  Please comment on individual links and make recommendations for lessons.   Identify problems and email administrator.

 

 

  • Low-levels: Literacy

 

http://www.starfall.com/

Learn the alphabet and read short words. 
 
Vocabulary, reading, practice using a mouse  
Practice the alphabet, numbers, things in the classroom, months, fruit, vegetables, animals... new exercises each week. Kurt Robinson's site.
 
  • Level 1+

 

Vocabulary, listening, pronunciation and spelling       

http://www.REEPworld.org  

Study vocabulary about family, work, and health. 

Spelling practice              

http://www.spellingcity.com

Make your own spelling lists. Listen to the words and write them.  Practice your spelling.

Reading, writing, listening, speaking, and grammar       

www.usalearns.org

Watch videos and see lessons.  Learn new words. 

Vocabulary, grammar and games       

http://www.manythings.org/

Play games, study grammar, and learn new words.

Listening, vocabulary 

www.languageguide.org/english/

Listen to basic vocabulary with translation into many languages.

 

  • Level 2+

Reading       

http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/stories/stories.html

Read stories and take tests.  Some stories are easy, and some are hard. Lauri Fried-Lee's site.

Listening
Interviews on the street with many interesting native speakers. From absolute beginner to advanced!

 

  • Level 3+ 

Reading, listening, vocabulary, writing
Dialogs with audio. Stories with audio, vocabulary and cloze. Grammar and dictation exercises. Watch out for ads at the top that seem like part of the page.

Listening
Listen to conversations and interviews.  You can read the words and take tests. 

Listening and vocabulary       

www.eslpod.com

Listen to conversations. The people speak very slowly. 

Listening              

http://www.esl-lab.com/index.htm

Practice listening and learn vocabulary.

Listening 

www.englishlistening.com/index.jsp

Practice listening at the New Listeners level, short, slow and authentic.

 

Listening, Vocabulary, Grammar

http://www.myefa.org/

Watch videos and do exercises.  Lots of life skills and on the job English.  Sign on as a visitor for free access.

 

Grammar and reading

http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~mbibliow/

 Readings and photos about California, the USA, Cambodia/Vietnam, Cuba.  Fill-in-the-blank type grammar practice. Morris Bibliowicz's site.

 

Grammar and vocabulary       

http://a4esl.org/

Take short tests. 

  • Intermediate-Levels: Level 4+ 

Listening and vocabulary 

http://rkappra.blogspot.com

Listen to songs and news.  Links to other websites too. Rick Kappra's site.

Listening, reading, vocabulary, spelling       

http://www.cdlponline.org/

Listen to new stories and read the words.  There are some videos, too. 

Listening and grammar

City College Manchester

Sing karaoke to pop songs and practice the grammar.

Listening and vocabulary

eflclub.com

Listen to songs (lots of Beatles) and learn vocabulary.

 

 

  • Level 5+ 

Grammar, reading, vocabulary, listening, pronunciation, slang/idioms

www.5minuteenglish.com/

Lots of language practice and information about studying ESL

Grammar and idioms       

http://www.usingenglish.com/

Study and take quizzes. 

Vocabulary                     

http://www.eslcafe.com/students/

Study slang, idioms, and phrasal verbs. 

Grammar, listening, reading and writing       

http://www.englishpage.com/index.html

Learn English with lots of exercises and games.

 

 

  • Level 6+

Listening, reading, grammar       

http://missionlanguagelab.blogspot.com

Listen to shows, read the texts, read short stories, take grammar quizzes. John Robinson's site.
 
Listening, reading, writing, speaking

http://www.uefap.com/

Play word games, listen, and read.  

Listening

www.englishlistening.com/index.jsp

Practice  listening at the Regular Listeners level, up to four minutes long, authentic. 

 

Vocabulary

Free Rice

Study vocabulary. For every correct answer, a donation of rice is made to hungry people!

 

 

  • Advanced Levels: Level 7+
Listening

www.englishlistening.com/index.jsp

Practice listening at the Advanced Listeners level, up to ten minutes long, fast and authentic.  

 

Listening, vocabulary

 http://www1.voanews.com/learningenglish/home

Listen to programs about different topics. Read the words too.

 

Listening, grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation

www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

General and business British English, recipes, crosswords, travel, news.  Follow the audio program The Flatmates.

 

Vocabulary, listening and grammar

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish.htm

Listen to conversations, play games.  There is also a section on business English. 

 

Vocabulary practice              

http://eslstudyguide.blogspot.com/

Study vocabulary and see typical mistakes. 

 

Reading

aaweb.gallaudet.edu

Tutorials and reading practice on academic topics from Gallaudet University

 

  • Online Dictionaries 

Includes pronunciation
Use internet abbreviations to search for word families
Lots of information, but lots of ads

zarina"s page 

Comments (5)

Teresa said

at 9:27 am on Sep 16, 2010

last monday I was with my boyfriend checking some of these links and we were very excited cause we found it very useful, thanks for gave us all of these information = )

yubo wang said

at 10:23 am on Sep 16, 2010

it definitely will be an unmeasurable treasure

dramargarita said

at 9:53 pm on Sep 16, 2010

Hi Dan, I was finally able to log in. I am searching for ESL resources for Spanish speakers. When I find a good one I will try to add it.
Good job!
Margarita

tinafei said

at 2:41 pm on Sep 21, 2010

It is really good and easy to get all the ESL resources.

Tom-ko said

at 9:17 pm on Sep 21, 2010

It is difficult for me to catch British English because of the accent although it sounds classier than American English. And also the grammar and spelling are slightly different so it makes me confused. I like the British sites the least. Answers.com is interesting so I like it best even if those answers are not always best.

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