Students and Learners:
for ESL Students
There are over 1,000 quizzes, exercises and puzzles on the a4esl.org
website to help you study English as a Second Language.
learning English area
This site aims to combine language skill practice with current events.
It enables users to read simplified texts or listen to broadcast
stories, providing vocabulary support along the way. Interactive
quizzes are also available.
Chinatown Neighborhood Center
An ESOL class at the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center created
this site, with help from their teacher. From the home page, click
on Adult ESL Program to find HELP, the Health Education Literacy
Project, student writings, or students' home pages. Chinese translation
of some English text is provided as a reading instruction aid.
Colorful Clothesline is a lesson created to introduce level 1 ESL
students to clothing, colors, and color patterns. Students can test
their knowledge of colors and clothing interactively.
English for All Cyberstep Project
EnglishSpace is a free English language course on the Internet.
In EnglishSpace there are puzzles, games, exercises and projects
to help you practice your English skills.
EOC Student Stories
Stories written by adult ESL learners at the Educational Opportunities Center in Buffalo, NY. These stories are accompanied by listening, multiple choice, and vocabulary-building activities.
ESLGold provides hundreds of pages of free English teaching and
learning materials for both students and teachers. All resources
are organized by skill and level for quick and easy access. As with
many collections, this is a hodge-podge of sites that reflect competing
theories and approaches.
Eslflow is a site using a flowchart metaphor. Grammar concepts are
organized into functional patterns for which an impressive variety
of linked resources from the Web are employed. Resources are organized
both for students and teachers and include grammar, speaking, dialogues,
reading handouts and lesson plans.
Free Internet Videos for ESOL Self-Instruction
This article by veteran educator Lynne Weintraub annotates websites that can be used effectively by students for self-study at home. She has identified sites that “present everyday American English, include interactive practice exercises, and feature topics relevant to adult learners.”
This site translates between English and six different
languagesSpanish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and
Portuguese. You type your words, and a translation is provided.
The Idiom Connection offers explanations of hundreds of
idioms. There are quizzes for your practice.
Internet Picture Dictionary
The Internet Picture Dictionary lets you learn simple vocabulary
by matching pictures with words and offers exercises to practice
Key: The Key is a newspaper written for new readers and
adults with limited reading skills. All material in The Key and
on-line is free of copyright for nonprofit, education purposes only.
The Key New Readers Newspaper has been published monthly since 1988.
Learning Edge, an interactive resource
Paragraph Punch is a guided writing program. It will help you to write a paragraph that explains why you are doing something.
PBSs LiteracyLink has online courses for you to practice
your skills. You have to register in order to use it, but its
free. You can practice for the GED with this site. You can even
get an online teacher who will check your work and give you feedback.
This site offers 30 lessons for Spanish speakers who wish to learn English. There are 15 lessons for both Beginners and Intermediate learners. The site is entirely bilingual. The lessons rely heavily upon spoken segments, and thus require a computer capable of playing audio clips.
Real English Online
This site uses videos of people speaking real English in real situations. You need a free subscription to see the videos and exercises.
Randalls ESL Cyber Listening
This site provides dozens of easy-to-use listening quizzes for
students. There are different topics in each quiz, including Answering
Machine, Emergency Call, and Hotel Check-In. Pre-listening and post-listening
activities and comprehension checks are included with each quiz.
Takako’s Great Adventure
This is a multi-media story. Students can read and listen to the story. Several reinforcement activities, including vocabulary, cloze exercises and multiple-choice questions, accompany each chapter of the story.