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Activities for ESL Students...Quizzes,
tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language
(ESL). This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands
of contributions by many teachers. American
Rhetoric Movie Speeches - Choose from a wide assortment of favorite
scenes from well-known movies. See photos from the movie and read the
script as you listen! Arlyn Freed's
ESL/EFL Listening Resources...with reviews of web sites English180 teaches you english with lessons, videos and podcasts that are all real-life scenarios. Grocery shopping, travel tips, cars and driving, body parts — its all covered. English-at-Home ...Designed for English Language Learners, this fascinating site offers a collection of lessons on grammar, vocabulary, tenses, verbs and speaking. The best parts are sections on idioms and real-life English—imagine the bewilderment of an English Language Learner trying to understand the idiom "couch-potato"! There are also forums in which users post questions about various language-related issues, which would make for an interesting whole-class discussion. This can be used as an individual learning tool or to support in-class lessons. EnglishClub.com
...a site to help you learn English or teach English as a second
language. Access to all pages is free. You'll find everything from lessons
for students to jobs for teachers, including interactive pages such
as forums, games, quizzes, chat, help and penpals. Englishpage.com - Free online English lessons & ESL / EFL resources www.Englishtrailers.com
- This is a fantastic, free site that currently offers 55 movie trailers
for English listening practice. For each trailer, there is a cloze exercise,
a script, and web links with additional questions. Most also have a
quiz, and some offer some topics for discussion. Take a look! ESLPod.com creates and distributes free and easy-to-use digital audio-files for learning English. Their group of volunteers setup and record real-life situations, at a slow speed and using common phrases and expressions. They currently have 284+ files available for listening. Exam English. specialises in providing information and free practice materials for a variety of English language exams including IELTS, TOEFL and the range of Cambridge exams. The practice materials are mostly Flash based and are interactive. They test a range of skills and grammar, and you get the results at the end as well as the chance to review your answers. Many cover listening skills with professional quality recordings for students to listen to. Interesting Things for
ESL Students...A fun study site for students of English as a Second
Language La Mansion del Ingles - ESL Pedagogical and educational material, and includes courses, grammar, vocabulary, exercises, books, educational programmes to download and a wide and varied selection of supplementary material for Spanish speakers Learn-english-today...Free lessons, vocabulary, idioms and proverbs, with exercises and word games, for English learners of all levels.Lesson plans + - Lesson plans, puzzles,anagrams and other interesting things ListeningLab...Listen to the On the Go and On the Move Travel Guides for extra listening practice. Phonetics Focus...an excellent collection of interactive multimedia Flash based games and resources... almost 20 different interactive tools all accessible through the one page. Phonetics: The Sounds of American English -from the University of Iowa. This is a fantastic site with graphics, sound, and video. See an animation of mouth anatomy or a video of a native speaker pronouncing each sound. Click on "English sounds library" and then choose the sounds you want to work on. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab...Helps ESL/EFL students improve their English listening comprehension skills through practice with self-grading quiz pages. Repeat After Us ...a collection of copyright-free texts ranging from nursery rhymes to philosophy to literature from many time periods and cultures. Some 1,100 of the more than 6,000 texts offer audio readings...originally designed to help English language learners, as users can hear as well as see the texts. TEST YOUR
LISTENING COMPREHENSION...TUNE IN TO ONLINE INTERVIEWS AND NEWS
REPORTS VOA Special English - Special English uses a vocabulary of 1500 words, spoken in short, simple sentences with no idioms, at about two-thirds the speed of standard English. The broadcasts include ten-minute news segments, alternating with features about various topics including: science, development, agriculture, environment, news events, American idioms or culture, history, medicine, space, important people, and short stories. Wordmaster is a wonderful site from the BBC. You’re shown a sentence with a word missing (indicated by a blank). Then you have to click on an on-screen keyboard to type the correct word “hangman” style. You can ask for clues, and you’re competing against the clock. You can also choose various levels of difficulty, and the game has thousands of words.
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