Useful Internet websites for English students.
ELLLO – English Listening Lab Online.
Randall’s Lab – Great Main Ideas and cloze exercises
Lyrics Training – Learn English through songs
ESL Video – Learn English through TV and movie clips.
Cambridge Arcade – Listening for details and discrete sounds.
Many Things – Great for pronunciation and listening for vowels and consonants.
Movie Segments for Warm Ups Follow Ups – Great classroom listening for a group.
Movie Segments for Assessing Grammar Goals – Listening for grammar points in a classroom.
VOA Special English – Modified English Listening for different levels based on interesting news stories.
BBC Learning English – A great resource with listening, grammar, pronunciation, and classroom exercises. Great for teachers and students alike.
British Council – A lot of interesting activities and video clips to help learn British English.
Breaking News English – Very good listening activities for the classroom. Entire lesson plans, guides, and student packets available.
English Central – Practice with pronunciation and listening to TV clips.
VoScreen – Great practice to translate English listening to your native language. Not all native language are supported, but most Indo-European languages and Arabic are.
PBS Video – Excellent listening practice to learn how Americans (and some British) speak for both teachers and students. Many videos on FRONTLINE have teaching lessons associated with them and transcripts (written words) for the videos. Best of all, it is all free!
Engvid – Great English instructional videos, quizzes, and practice!
Rachel’s English – a very popular and helpful listening and pronunciation site for ESL learners with great tips and information.
Learn English
English as a Second Language – This About.com site provides thousands of free ESL resources to help people learn English. Resources include free English courses, grammar and vocabulary practice, tests, quizzes, and other English learning tools.
Transparent Language – Transparent Language offers a number of free resources to students who are trying to learn English, including an overview of the language, learning software, and online quizzes.
The English Club – This site offers free lessons, videos, games, stories, quizzes and other helpful resources to students who want to learn English for free. Students can also chat online and practice their English with other club members.
Learn English – Learn English has been a valuable resource for EFL/ESL learners for more than ten years now. The site teaches students English vocabulary, grammar, and conversation and then tests their knowledge with quizzes and games.
Learn English Online – Learn English Online offers a free 52-lesson EFL/ESL course for beginners. Each lesson includes writing and pronunciation practice.
Fonetiks – This site offers free audio pronunciation guides for nine varieties of the English language, including American English, British English, Irish English, Scottish English, Welsh English, Australian English, Indian English, and South African English.
Practice English
ESL Fast – Digital robots help ESL learners practice their English on ESL Fast. Visitors can practice conversations for hotels, apartments, college, transportation, travel, employment, entertainment, shopping, and daily life.
ESL Forum – This online forum is the most popular ESL forum on the web. It can be used by both students and teachers who want to practice writing and discuss ESL learning.
Dave’s ESL Cafe – Dave’s ESL Cafe offers a wide range of resources to ESL students and teachers. Students who want to practice their English writing and communication skills will especially enjoy the large student forum.
ESL Flashcards – ESL students can practice their English with this enormous collection of free ESL flashcards and printables.
Online Books Page – Students can practice their English reading skills with the free books found on the Online Books Page. There are more than 35,000 books to choose from in all.
Bibliomania – Like the Online Books Page, Bibliomania offers a large selection of free English literature. The site also provides study guides to popular books as well as other learning materials.
IPL – The Internet public library is another good place to practice English reading skills. This online library offers free books, magazines, newspapers, and other reading materials.
