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  POPULAR ESL SITES

  
  

  Feel free to get me sharing what you see think useful for English language learners, you are always welcome.

  
  

  ESL FOR KIDS

  • ESL apps & games (Thanks to Melissa Robichaux)
  • LearnEnglish Kids  free online games to help children learn English the fun way. (Thanks to Amber Reed)
  • English Made Fun (Thanks to Zane Robertson)
    

  SPEAKING

  • Tips for Giving Clear Talks (Thanks to Olivia Reviera)
  • Public Speaking Topics and Ideas (Thanks to Sonia Kumar)
    
  • Speech Topics Help 10,000+ Speech topics. (Thanks to Sonia Kumar)
  • Practice Speaking English with Robots. Three ESL robots help you practice speaking English on three topics.
    

  READING

  15 Best FREE Printable Books for Early Reading 2021 (Thanks to Emma Rice) 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. Newspapers online Directory of thousands of newspapers online from around the world, classified by topic, country and zone. 100 free short stories for ESL learners. Practice answering yes/no questions, wh- questions, asking questions, and dictation. Daily Lessons. A new English lesson each day, provided by English, Baby! Weekly Reader. A popular site for kids and teens. Read this week's feature story. Key to College Success. About 10 pages of sincere advice about how to be successful in college. You must read it if you are preparing to study in the States. 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. ESL: Reading. Reading materials for Teachers and Students of English as a Second Language. Yahoo Daily News. Quickly updated news classified into different categories. Presidents of the United States of America. Biographies of 43 USA Presidents. 50 States of the United States. Introduction to all the 50 states. Also learn the pronunciation of names of the states. 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. A detailed synopsis of 100 popular movie with an extensive glossary of vocabulary and various cultural references. Adult Learning Activities. California distance learning project, where you can read and listen to short essays about America. This Day in History. A short passage each day describing an historical event in American history. 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. Josies Poems. Extremely popular with students of English all over the world.. Simple English News. All kinds of news in simple English. Weekly Reader. A magazine for elementary, middle school and high school students. 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. Using Jokes and Humor to Learn English. Joe's Jokes - Read, Listen, and Learn English. A great way to increase your vocabulary! ESL Search. search For ESL Materials quickly. WRITING Free Academic Writing Course (Thanks to Yvonne McQuarrie) How to list languages on a resume: a complete guide (Thanks to Tony Randall) AI Detection: Falsely Accused of Using ChatGPT for Academic Writing [Infographic]  (Thanks to Yvonne McQuarrie) Ivypanda Free Study Hub : Essay Writing Assisting Site (Thanks to Ruth Kinloch) Answers.com Search for definitions, pronunciation, and even translation. Encarta World English Dictionary. You can click to hear the pronunciation of the word. A Beginner’s Guide for Aspiring Writers (Thanks to Sara V.) . Hand Hobbies: A Resource Guide to Writing Basics (Thanks to Tracy Edward & Ivy)   Writing and Grammar fun for Student (Thanks to Josephine Heim and Sofia) US College Student Writing Guide (Thanks to Keri Evans) The Best Guide to Grammar and Professional Writing Styles (Thanks to Sandra Beals) 28 Boring Words Alternatives - Improve Your Writing (Thanks to Jack Milgram) English as a Second Language Learning Materials: Free and Handy! (Thanks to Julia Reed) Spelling Rules (Thanks to Keira Brennan) Spell Check Online Fix all spelling and grammar errors 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. ESL Writing blogs. For ESL teachers to exchange ideas and for ESL students to practice writing. ESL Online Talk Community. where you can find a friend from another country to communicate with in English. 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. Five Paragraph Essay. Strong academic presentation with suggestions, outlines, and samples. Essay Punch. Students see their work develop on a note pad that keeps track of each step. Students' Essays. Learning from mistakes of other ESL/EFL writers. Paradigm Online Writing Assistant. A lot of information about how to write informal essays, thesis/support essays, argumentative essays, and exploratory essays. TOEFL-Prep Writing Practice Site. Help you begin to learn how to write formal academic essays in English. Essay Info. Basics of essay writing, writing tips, essay types, citation styles, and so on. Good Essay Topics. A collection of great topics for your college paper or essay, and 10 tips for choosing a thrilling essay Topic. 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. 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. Common Mistakes. A collection of some of the most frequently misspelled, commonly confused and easily misused words. Writing – How to write English Texts. Punctuation, essays, and business letters. 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. APA Style. Official website of the American Psychological Association.  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. 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. Online Writing Collaboration Project. The meeting place on cyberspace for English teachers and learners. The Academic Word List. 570 most frequent words in the Academic Corpus. Vocabulary for High Intermediate Learners. Lists of the words for students who want to increase their vocabulary to the size of 4,000 - 7,000. Writing worksheets. Hundreds of writing topics provide teachers with meaningful writing tasks. QUIZZES Sentence Structure Writing Practice. Exercises designed to practice writing wh- questions, passive voice, adjective clauses, and noun clauses. Daily Lessons. A new English lesson each day, provided by English, Baby! ESL Exercises. High-quality free ESL exercises for English learners to improve test-taking skills, grammar, and writing. Activities for ESL Students. Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language. Quiz Center. Karin's ESL PartyLand, with over 75 interactive quizzes. Flash Quizzes. The quizzes created by Charles I. Kelly, part of his great manythings.org website. Grammar Exercises. Hundreds of free categorized grammar exercises. 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. The Grammar Aquarium. You can find the grammar points you want to study and do the relevant exercises. 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. Get into English. 70 exercises divided into seven graded sections. 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 . Easy Vocabulary Quizzes with Pictures. You choose one of the pictures to match the word. 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. Vocabulary Quizzes. Take a test to measure your vocabulary size. English Lessons and Tests. A large number of tests in the order of difficulty levels. Business English Grammar Exercises. Hundreds of multiple Choice and match quizzes to practice job-related English. Grammatics. An EFL site with grammar and comprehension quizzes. EnglishClub Quizzes. Various kinds of quizzes to test your grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. EFLnet Grammar Exercises. Grammar exercises marked with difficulty levels. English on the Internet - Tests & Quizzes. Grammar tests, knowledge tests, reading comprehension and much more. Vocabulary Test with Pictures. Match an animal or a fruit with its English name. Adele's ESL Corner. Grammar, vocabulary, and listening quizzes for beginners and intermediate levels. Crazy Quiz. Good grammar quizzes for lower levels. Quizzes. Quizzes in pdf format for downloading. Quiz Center. A powerful tool you can use to create, administer, and grade quizzes online. LISTENING ESL Robots. Practice speaking English with three intelligent robots. Special English from Voice of America. Listen and read at the same time. New Short Stories for ESL Learners at the Low-Intermediate Level. Daily Lessons. A new English lesson each day, provided by English, Baby! Short Stories for ESL Learners. Listen to the 100 stories, and do the questions & answers exercises. U.S.A. Learns. An excellent free site for adults to learn English and improve basic reading, writing, speaking and life skills. ESL Online Talk Community, where you can find a friend from another country to communicate with in English. ESL Listening Lab. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab. Talk English. More than 500 lessons with over 5000 audio files. Phrases for Conversation. Commonly used expressions in conversations provided by ESLgold. English Language Listening Lab Online. Listening activities come with transcripts, quizzes. Focus English. A conversation site created by John Liang. Learning Oral English Online. An online conversation book with ten lessons including Meeting Friends, Apartment Hunting, and Shopping in USA. Integration of Listening, Reading, and Speaking Skills. A pioneer ESL website which is the earliest in using Web audio. BBC World News. BBC's international radio. Listen to world news, sport and weather. Voice of America Webcasts. Special English for English learners in the world. National Public Radio. Hourly newscast, 24-hour program stream, listen to your favorite programs every day - Morning Edition, All things considered, and Talk of the Nation. Medical English Conversations. Animated dialogues for doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. ComAudio. You can listen to songs and stories with the text displayed. Listening to a story. Young authors are reading stories they wrote. English Stories. Read and listen to interesting stories, and watch the cartoon at the same time. China Radio International. Listening to the news and learning about new developments in China. Bible. Listening to the Old Testament. Foreign Languages for Travelers. An excellent site for people who want to quickly learn some useful English or other foreign language phrases. Conversation Questions. For the ESL/EFL Classroom - A project of the Internet TESL Journal. Yolango. Turns the web’s best video into a powerful tool for improving your English. CNN Streaming Video News. Watching CNN headline news online with your real player. 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. TV Interview with Dr. Richard Wallace, creator of Robot Alice. GRAMMARS 12 Major English Tenses (Thanks to Ruth Kinloch)  Play Your Way to Better Grammar! Fun ESL Activities for English Class (Thanks to Sarah Perowne) Dave's ESL Cafe Help Center. Opens 24 hours a day, and 7 days a week. ESL Tower ESL, EFL site that offers top quality printable and interactive English grammar, vocabulary & pronunciation exercises for teachers and students. Grammarly Handbook (Thanks to Keira Brennan) The Most Common Spelling, Grammar & Punctuation Mistakes (Thanks to Keira Brennan) The Effortless English Blog -  hundreds of free resources, videos and podcasts. (Thanks to Amber Reed) English Grammar Basics -  30 lessons on the principles of grammar.  (Thanks to Amber Reed) 60+ Grammar Resources for Fun and Effective Learning The Ultimate Collection of English Grammar Resources  (Thanks to Julia Reed) Wise Old Saying The Ultimate Grammar Resources Guide. (Thanks to Mary Dumelle) Grammar Notes. Important grammar points including verb tenses, parts of speech, phrasal verbs, and mathematical operations. English Grammar Online. All grammar topics, example sentences, and exercises. Grammar Handbook. An excellent online grammar handbook which explains and illustrates the basic grammatical rules concerning parts of speech, phrases, clauses, and so on. An On-Line English Grammar Book. An online grammar book with a lot of example sentences. Guide to Grammar and Style. With so many different aspects of English grammar discussed. English the Easy Way. For ESL Students and native English speaking students to help explain the difficult points of English grammar. Guide to Grammar and Writing. Study grammar at sentence level, paragraph level, and essay level. English Grammar Book. With high-quality English lessons and exercises to help English learners learn English grammar online. 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. 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. BBC Skillwise. Enables adults to improve reading, writing and number skills. Learn American English Online. Improve your English grammar and usage, free for all. VOCABULARIES Thai to English Vocabulary Space Invader Game Customizable Hangman RealTattape Customizable Hangman Word Unscrambler (Thanks to Randoh Sallihall) Word tip - Scrabble Word Finder (Thanks to Sabrina Sutton and Cece) 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. Vocabulary Practice with Pictures. Easy picture quizzes, interactive audio-picture lessons, and animated graphics matching exercises. English Vocabulary. Learn the pronunciation and spelling of thousands of words using an image based interface. Free Rice. One of the most popular vocabulary learning websites, which automatically adjusts to your level of vocabulary. Dolch Basic English List. The 220 most frequently found words in books that children read. General Service List. The list of the most frequently used 2,000 words by Michael West. The Academic Word List. 570 most frequent words in the Academic Corpus. Vocabulary for High Intermediate Learners. Lists of the words for students who want to increase their vocabulary to the size of 4,000 - 7,000. TOEFL Vocabulary Exercises. Over a thousand real multiple-choice questions to prepare you for TOEFL test. Vocabulary Test. Free vocabulary test for TOEFL, GMT, SAT, GRE and more. SAT Preparation. A vocabulary oriented site that would help you prepare for the vocabulary section of the new SAT exam. Vocabulary Level Test. Take a test to find out your vocabulary size. 5000 Collegiate Words. A list of words in alphabetical order with concise definitions. Vocabulary Word Lists. With Games, Puzzles and Quizzes. 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. Online Vocabulary. Exercises to practice phrases used in business. Building a Better Vocabulary. A good article to guide your study of vocabulary. Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun. Word search, crosswords, hangman, match game and jumble. 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. GRE Vocabulary. A free site aimed to improve your vocabulary specifically for the verbal section of GRE. Vocabulary for English Language Learners. Vocabulary activities for all levels. E. L. Easton Vocabulary. Multilingual dictionaries, vocabulary quizzes by E. L. Easton Online. SuperKids Vocabulary Builder. Word of the day, hangman, hidden word puzzles, and word scrambler. Learning Vocabulary. Word search, hangman, quiz, and match games. A Word a Day. Definitions and example sentences are provided. You can also click to hear its pronunciation. The word is usually difficult. 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. TRANSLATION iSL English ESL Translation Translation Activities in Classroom Translation in ESL How to Get Your Students to Stop Translating and Start Thinking in English EDUCATION Freshman 15 — Why We Think It’s a Toxic Myth + Tips for Healthy Diet as a Student (Thanks to Yvonne McQuarrie) English as a second language (ESL) - Resources for Students (Thanks to Robert Wilkins) Education Corner   Online Education ESL/TESOL/Bilingual Teacher Education Programs Academic Career Resource Guide  (Thanks to Louisa Wheaton) Teaching Degrees Degree programs for educators and other professionals. Online courses offered through 360 Education Solutions. TEACHER STRATEGIES AND TOOLS Super Teacher Tools   Online Tools for Teachers The Effects of Sound on the Learning Process (Thanks to Yvonne McQuarrie) Daily Lesson Plan for English Teachers published by the New York Times. 6 ebook marketing tips to guarantee sales (Thanks to Tony Randall) Design your ebook like a pro with these 5 simple steps (Thanks to Tony Randall) If you found any dead link, please kindly let me know.

  
  

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