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ESL Tour Program (Department of Tourism): study English and visit the Philippines at the same time

Free English Proficiency Course (EPiC) seminars for public school teachers, private employees, Education majors, international students (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, etc) and other interested groups. For more information, please contact Atty. Gerry T. Galacio at gtgalacio@yahoo.com

Free ESL and EFL lesson plans, worksheets, flashcards, printables and downloads (PDF, video, MP3 and Powerpoint)

Common Errors in English, by Paul Brians

Sites For Teachers (Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Activities, Clip Art in subjects like Reading, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and Writing)

Free online practice tests for learners of English, from Exam English (IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, Cambridge ESOL, LTE and others; also available in French and Spanish)

Text to Speech and Text to Speech Translator, from oddcast.com (available real time in over 60 various languages, accents and voices)

Ultimate Top 100 Kids Sites is for children, teens, parents, and teachers, with links to fun, games, education, coloring, poetry, stories, cartoons, worksheet creator or generator, game makers, printables wizard and on-line teaching materials makers with images. Some of the listed English resources are ESL-Kids.com, Tools for Educators, Have Fun Teaching, Free ESL Flashcards, Heads Up English (ready to use ESL / EFL news lessons based on world events with mp3 downloads)

WritingFix (a global resource for Writing teachers with hundreds of free interactive lessons and quality resources for classrooms where writing is taught, not just assigned; with interactive writing prompts and lessons for teachers, students and writers like Daily Writing Prompts, Interactive Writing Prompts for K-6th Grade, Right-Brained Writing Prompts using serendipity and creativity to launch a piece of writing, Left-Brained Writing Prompts, and Writing Lesson of the Month Network for teachers around the world.) Other valuable resources from the Mentor Text lessons created by Northern Nevada teachers for teachers everywhere are: Picture Books; Chapter Book Excerpts; Literary Excerpts & Poetry Classics; Poetry-Inspired lessons; Short Stories (designing skill-based writing lessons inspired by short story excerpts); Poetry and Writing Across the Curriculum Prompts (using iPod technology to generate excitement about writing assignments in all curricular areas).

Daily Writing Tips, simple yet effective tips to improve your writing. Categories include Book Reviews, Business Writing, Competitions, Expressions, Fiction Writing, Freelance Writing, General, Grammar, Grammar 101, Misused Words, Punctuation, Spelling, Vocabulary, Word of the Day, and Writing Basics. You can get DWT via RSS Feed, or by email, and stay tuned for your writing tips.

ESL Kids Lab offers free Printable ESL Worksheets and PDF Flashcards, Games for ESL Classrooms, ESL Video Lessons for kid Beginners, Interactive Students Vocabulary and Grammar Videos, and Powerpoint downloads for English teaching and learning.

MES-English.com by Mark Cox (free printables for teachers of young learners including Free Flash Cards for download; MES-Games: versatile communicative games; MES-Phonics: phonics flash card, posters and handouts for presentation; Projects and Lesson plans; Worksheets: talking worksheets, worksheets for introduction of grammar points, a phonics e-book series, award certificates, clipart to make your own worksheets, song sheets, nursery rhymes and chants cards, hundreds of color in sheets, teacher printables, and worksheets to match the MES-Flashcards, and Forums for games, activities, questions and feedback)

ESL Tower offers printable grammar and vocabulary exercises to make the lives of English teachers very easy like grammar worksheets for use in teaching by EFL, ESL, ELT and GSE teachers, vocabulary exercises to print and arranged according to topics, pronunciation printables to teach phonetics, connected speech and more.

ESL Printables, a website where English language teachers exchange resources like worksheets, lesson plans, activities, etc. Its collection is growing every day with the help of teachers from around the world. If you want to download any resource, you have to send your own contributions.

ESL Galaxy offers over 2,368 free printable worksheets for ESL lesson plans and ESL Activities and there are more additions every other day .The worksheets include: Board Games, Crosswords, Grammar worksheets, Vocabulary Worksheets, Theme or Topic lesson plans, Pronunciation and Intonation, Survival English and Business English, Song and Video Activities, Word Search Puzzles, Festivals and Holiday Worksheets, Prefixes / Suffixes Word Formation, Adult Communicative Activities Lesson Plans, Young Learners' Lesson Plans, Game and Writing Templates, Cloze and gap fill exercises, It also has ESL Games and ideas for ESL Classrooms, Powerpoint downloads, Matching and Collocations, Reading and Writing Exercises, Task-based Lesson Planning, Complete Lesson Plans (with video, ppt, worksheets). Free online exercises include grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, video slide lessons, and self-grading quizzes.

ESL videos: Daily Pronunciation, with more free videos on vocabulary, American slang and idioms with pronunciation help from Sozo Exchange (the place where professional adults can learn English and exchange knowledge for free; download sample Study Guide); Learn English Through Song helps young adults at high school to university levels learn to speak, practice listening, develop vocabulary or just sing along like karaoke and have fun as they study more than a hundred songs from John Denver, Loggins and Messina, James Taylor, Elton John, CSNY, Simon and Garfunkel, Abba, etc. (from Teacher Frank’s Learn How to Speak Here and Now, with free song lyrics and practice exercises); English with Jennifer (free online vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation lessons); Business English Pod (download more video lessons and transcripts from businessenglishpod.com); Real English (hundreds of free exercises using authentic and natural videos of people speaking real English on streets across the globe, rendering the spontaneity of normal speech understandable for all levels of students, every lesson has 10 to 40 exercises using the English Star player, with a choice of subtitles in English, French, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese); Hugosite (free 365 American accent English lessons); The Daily English Show (the world's first daily online English language show with over a thousand videos; with YouTube channel; transcripts available in Japanese, German, Italian, Korean, Russian, Bulgarian, Spanish, Polish, and Ukrainian); and ASL in ESL (using American Sign Language in ESL classes)

ESL Talk Time materials for conversation starters, independent speaking practice, debate clubs, discussions, lesson add-ons and more: ESL Discussions.com (currently with 642 discussion topics to choose from and 12,840 conversation questions on everyday themes and more controversial issues, in ready-to-print Word and PDF downloads); Speechtree (with dozens of conversation starters on themes such as abstract themes, academic matters, daily life, hobby topics, holiday related topics, nature topics, personal history, personal values, relationship topics, work topics, world and culture); and Road to Grammar (100 warm-up questions to turn your students into conversationalists, with topics on What-if questions, Learning English, Motivational, Likes and dislikes, Superlatives and comparatives, Social issues and opinions, and Business English).

Hot Potatoes from Half Baked Software Inc. (A suite of six applications which allow a user to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises and action mazes for the Internet. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source. Download Hot Potatoes 6.3 installer for Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista; Hot Potatoes for Linux users running Wine, version 6.3, zip file; Java Hot Potatoes for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux or any computer running a Java Virtual Machine)

ICAL Online TESL / TEFL Training (largest commercial online teacher training provider where you can get qualified to Teach English as a Foreign Language or Teach English as a Second Language; free website resources include comprehensive online grammar of English, classroom techniques, linguistics, ESL activities and lesson plans, teaching FAQs, and ESL / EFL videos)

English - Spanish Language Dictionaries, from WordReference.com (free online Oxford Spanish dictionary, conjugator, audio pronunciations and forums for your questions; More Spanish dictionaries are Spanish - French, Spanish - Portuguese)

Hazar.com offers free online dictionaries for translating Turkish to and from English, German, Italian, Danish and Japanese; free resources for people of Turkish heritage

Yahoo downloads (the best free software for Windows like Firefox 3 and others)

Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows: Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

                                                 

Pronouns: discussions and interactive exercises

Pronouns are words used in place of nouns. For a better understanding of what pronouns are, please surf to the websites listed below. Clicking the blue links will take you to the specific pages where the definitions, classifications or interactive exercises are located, while clicking the website name will take you to the home page.

[1] Pronouns, from Capital Community College Guide to Good Grammar
[2] Pronouns, from Grammar Monster (British English)
[3] Pronouns, from English Daily
[4] Pronouns, from Interlink Language Centers
[5] Pronouns, from The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuations
[6] Pronouns, from Using English
[7] Lesson 7 - Pronouns, from My English Grammar
[8] Index to articles on Pronouns, from Learning English Online www.englisch-hilfen.de (English version)
[9] Pronouns; Relative Pronouns, from The OWL at Purdue

Listed below are links to interactive quizzes and exercises in pronouns from the best ESL and EFL resources on the Internet. Clicking the blue links will take you to the specific pages where the quizzes or exercises are, while clicking the website name will take you to the home page. Take time to browse these excellent websites; they are consistently good and fast loading. Besides the activities and exercises listed below, these sites generously offer, free of charge, a tremendous range of valuable resources for ESL and EFL teachers and students.

In answering the interactive exercises, you should follow carefully the prompts and directions. You should read each sentence or part aloud before clicking the answer you think is right. After the correct answer is displayed, think it over as to why it is the correct answer. (Please take note that the correct answer may depend on whether the exercise comes from an American English or a British English website.) After doing so, read the complete sentence again aloud with the correct answer.

To train yourself to think in English, try to recite the sentences with the correct answers from memory and at your full speaking volume. Or you can ask a friend to read out loud the sentences with the correct answers and you repeat them without looking at the computer screen.

[01] Exercise in pronouns from Activities for ESL Students

Type in the Correct Pronoun (Charles Kelly)
Pronouns (Charles Kelly)
Pronouns (Vera Mello)
Possessive Pronouns
(Letitia Bradley)
Possessive Adjectives
(Barbara Lyons Perez)
Object Pronouns
(Joan M. Diez)
Reflexive Pronouns
(Timothy Merrill)

[02] Exercises in pronouns from Capital Community College Guide to Good Grammar

[03] Exercises in pronouns from English Grammar 101

Note: Frame based, You can reach the specific topic listed below by clicking "Unit I: Word and Phrase Patterns" on the left hand frame.

Lesson 1-16: Pronoun Identification

[04] Exercises in pronouns from English Language Centre Study Zone

Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives (Introduction & 3 exercises)
Possessive Pronouns (Review) (1 exercise)
Reflexive Pronouns (Introduction & 1 exercise)
Impersonal "It" and "There" (Introduction & 2 exercises)

[05] Exercise in pronouns from English The Easy Way

[06] Exercise in pronouns from Interlink Language Centers

[07] Exercises in pronouns from Grammar Bytes

[08] Exercises in pronouns from Grammar Central (eaonline)

[09] Exercises in pronouns from Grammar Monster (British English)

[10] Exercises in pronouns from Grammar Workout (Empire State College)

[11] Exercise in pronouns from Interactive Quizzes, John Wong (British English)

[12] Exercises in pronouns from Isabel’s ESL Site

[14] Exercises in pronouns from 1-Language.com

[15] Exercise in pronouns from Learn English Feel Good

[18] Exercise in pronouns from 5 Minute English

[19] Exercises in pronouns from My English Grammar

[20] Exercises in pronouns from Online English Grammar (Edunet)

Noun - Pronoun (and Quantifier) Agreement Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Personal Pronoun Forms Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Relative Pronouns Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A

[21] Exercises in pronouns from Rong-Chang Li

[22] Exercises in pronouns from The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuations

[24] Exercises in pronouns from University of Oregon The Tongue Untied

[25] Exercises in pronouns from Using English

Note: Join the Members' Area and you can gain access to 185 additional free ESL quizzes for beginner, intermediate and advanced level English students. These exercises may also be viewed as printable handouts.

Beginner English
Me & To Me (16)
Object Pronoun or Reflexive Pronoun? (10)
Possessives and Reflexive Pronouns (14)
Pronouns (16)
Subject and Object Pronouns (12)
They, Them, Their & Theirs (11)
Intermediate English
Reflexive Pronouns (10)
Self & Other (10)
Relative Pronouns (10)
Relative Pronouns 2 (35)
Relative Pronouns- Which & Where (10)
That and What (10)

[26] Exercise in pronouns from World-English (British English)

Notes:

Handheld English is a complete English course with MP3 lessons downloadable directly to your mobile phones; This course can be used by university students, professionals, and others who want to speak English well. If you practice one or two hours each day with the audio lessons, you should be able to speak simple English within six months. However, learning English fluently will require hard work each day. This course can be used by both beginning and advanced English students. The lessons are neither too difficult for a beginning student nor too easy for an advanced student. They can be used in an established school or when studying alone.

Typical English mistakes by speakers of other languages, by Language Project, (approved by the British Council; more examples available upon registration): Arabic speakers; Chinese speakers; Japanese speakers; Korean speakers; Portuguese speakers; Spanish speakers; Czech speakers; French speakers; German speakers; Greek speakers; Italian speakers; Polish speakers; Russian speakers; Swedish speakers; Turkish speakers.

English for Business, Work and other Special Purposes, from about.com ( Adult Education English for special purposes including Business, commercial, financial, legal, insurance and human resources sectors as well as help with resumes, job interviews and cover letters; resources include Business English Writing for esumes, letters and documents, Business Reading comprehension exercises, Business Speaking Skills for the workplace, English for Medical Purpose, Business English Vocabulary, Business Meetings and Presentations, Business English Lesson Plans for ESP and Vocational English, Job Interviewing, and Business English Role Plays - Dialogues, and Business English Level Test, a 100 question test to discover your business English mastery level)

Postcript is a self-study magazine for learners of Business English by Marcus Evans Linguarama with exercises on reading, writing, grammar, pronunciation, style, vocabulary and usage. Each exercise has an answer key so that you can correct your work yourself online. Each issue has a theme on which many of the exercises are based, for example, Sales, Personnel or Banking.

Free resources from englishmedialab.com include the following: Business English ESL Quizzes and Business English Listening (business meeting and interactive listening quiz for job interviews); Online Grammar Exercises; Vocabulary Videos; Pronunciation; Quizzes for Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Level English Learners.

English for the medical professional, from HospitalEnglish.com (free resources for medical professionals like doctors, nurses, physical therapists, radiologists, physician assistants, pharmacists, etc, studying English and medical printables for teachers; with medical vocabulary builders and pronunciation guide, patient counseling activities, disease state directors, healthcare professional articles, medical flashcards, hospital lesson plans, and ESP worksheets)

Qedoc is a learning object repository, documentation centre and forum for author collaboration. The learning object repository has free, editable, redistributable, interoperable educational resources, based around interactive quizzes, with1,210 articles currently available). Qedoc Quiz Maker - a desktop application for making quizzes and interactive educational materials. Qedoc Quiz Player - a desktop application for playing back quizzes and interactive educational materials. eLearning resources include English, Mathematics, Geography, History, Languages, Science, Medicine, Computing and Business. e-learning resources are available in Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish.

Testing your level of English proficiency (online diagnostic, assessment and practice exams)

Free Online TOEFL, English and Multi-Language Vocabulary Test, from FreeTOEFL.net

Online Assessment Tests, from World English

Diagnostic tests / Assessment tests on English grammar, from www.english-at-home.com

Assessment Tests, from Churchill House School of English Language

Test your English now (vocabulary, grammar, listening and reading (cloze test)

365 various quizzes to test your English knowledge, from Road to English Grammar

Free online, interactive exercises in grammar, vocabulary and discourse, from Language Project (approved by the British Council)

Free online practice tests for learners of English, from Exam English (managed by Steve Chadwick); also available in French and Spanish

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Listen now to The Narnia Story (narration by Ray Comfort and introduction by Kirk Cameron) or download the MP3. If you have trouble extracting a zipped file, you may need to install a free program. Just click this link to download a free copy of ZipReader.

British Council resources:

IELTS - International English Language test
(British Council English exam centres offer IELTS tests worldwide, up to 4 times a month)

Learn English Gateway - Learn English Language and Grammar - British Council (Whatever your level in English, we can help you test and develop your English language skills. There are a variety of English courses in the UK, in your country and online. Explore the exciting learning opportunities the British Council has to offer you to improve your English Language skills)

Teaching English Gateway - Help for English Language Teachers - British Council (Whether you are new to English language teaching, or whether you are taking the next career and development steps as an English teacher, you will find valuable help and opportunities here to assist in achieving your goals)

                                                                                                                      

Relevant links


Family Code Philippines (free legal information)
the kristo
(English; available in Spanish)
Power To Change (English); for other languages, click Arabic; French; German; Italian; Spanish, Thai, Japanese; Malay; Russian; Czech and Chinese
The Cross
A Ready Defense
Isa Al-Maseeh
Answers in Genesis
Creation Super Library (also available in Chinese traditional; Dutch; French; German; Hungarian; Indonesian; Japanese; Portuguese; Russian; Spanish; and Swedish)
Hear Good News
Studylight

Got Questions Ministries
Spiritual Counterfeits Project
Probe Ministries
Radio Bible Class
Crosswalk
Women Today Magazine
(available in French and Chinese)
Se
xual purity websites (Silver Ring Thing, Purefreedom, True Love Waits)
True Love
Starting With God
Cloud and Townsend Resources
Love and Respect
Real Relationships
Living Hope
Legal Updates
Baptist Churches in the Philippines
Campus Connection
Salt and Light
Father's Love Letter
Do you know for sure where you will spend eternity?
Oneplace.com – Listen for Life
and Faith Talk Web Radio
Another Interview With God (see this page in Czech, Dutch, Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese and Turkish)

iamnext - college student website
Academics, fun, career, living, people, sex, love, spirituality

Cómo conocer a Dios

Chamada (a Christian portal for Portuguese-speaking persons, provides literature, Biblical messages, articles, tracts, magazines, book information and much more)

Every Student (a safe place to explore issues about university, life, and what it might be like to know God; available also in Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Persian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Uzbek)

Online dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, translators

Online Reference
Dictionary, Encyclopedia & more
Word:
Look in: Dictionary & thesaurus
Computing Dictionary
Medical Dictionary
Legal Dictionary
Financial Dictionary
Acronyms
Idioms
Wikipedia Encyclopedia
Columbia Encyclopedia
Periodicals
Literature
by:

OneLook® Dictionaries
Definitions and spellings of more than seven million words from over 1001 indexed online dictionaries

Visual Dictionary and Encyclopedia

The Internet Picture Dictionary

Encyclopedia Britannica On-line

MSN Encarta Dictionary

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Online bilingual dictionaries from www.freedict.com

Online English to African / African to English Dictionary

Online English to Indonesian / Indonesian to English Dictionary

Online English to Japanese / Japanese to English Dictionary

Online English to Spanish / Spanish to English Dictionary

Online English to Swahili / Swahili to English Dictionary

Information Please
On-Line Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, Atlas and Almanac Reference

English-Chinese Dictionary
Chinese-English Dictionary
from TigerNT

Webster's Online Dictionary. With Multilingual Thesaurus Translation

YourDictionary
Free online English dictionary with definitions, thesaurus entries, spelling, pronunciation, synonyms and etymology

RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus

AskOxford.com (UK)
AskOxford.com (US)
English grammar, spelling, usage and writing; dictionary; crosswords and puzzles

Reverso free online translation

Babel Fish Translation

Free Online Translation, English - Tagalog from 11Translator

Online magazines

Women Today Magazine Femmes Aujourd'hui
Chinese Women Today
Relationships; Sex & Love; Advice; Beauty; Fashion; Food; Money; Work; Chat; Online Studies; Life Stories; Wellness & Spirit; Self-Esteem; Family & Home; Health & Fitness; Wit & Wisdom

SOON Online Magazine
Learning English Index

free world-wide easy-English literature programme; free hard copies available on request

Men Today Online (A high adventure magazine for men)

Online libraries

The Elements of Style
by Strunk and White

(complete manuscript)

Roget's Thesaurus

Project Gutenberg Official Home Site: Easy to access literary works for free
Top 100
Online Book Catalog - Overview

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations

English Online Resources Electronic Text Center, University Of Virginia
Complete texts of thousands of works of English literature, including novels, plays, poetry and Bibles

Humanities Text Initiative
University of Michigan
Online access to complete texts of many works of English literature

Project Bartleby Archive
Complete texts of many works of English literature

The Internet Classics Archive Complete texts of hundreds of works of English literature.

The On-Line Books Page Complete texts of more than 7,000 works of English literature

The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare

Online newspapers

The Key
W ritten for new readers and adults with limited reading skills.

Learning Edge
An interactive on-line newspaper for adult literacy students, with games, crossword puzzles, on-line quizzes, and writing contests

Today's Front Pages

Online diagnostic and assessment tests

Free Online TOEFL, English and Multi-Language Vocabulary Test, from FreeTOEFL.net
Designed for multi-language vocabulary tests (Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, etc) and for English exams like TOEFL, iBT, GRE, SAT and TOEIC

Online Assessment Tests, from World English
Diagnostic Grammar Test
English Grammar Placement Test
English Language Assessment Test
Online English Assessment Tests

Diagnostic tests / Assessment tests on English grammar, from www.english-at-home.com

Assessment Tests, from Churchill House School of English Language
Elementary Level
Intermediate Level
Upper-Intermediate Level (FCE)
Advanced Level (CAE)

Miscellaneous Links

Bilingual Vocabulary Quizzes from The Internet TESL Journal's Activities for ESL Students

Common English Mistakes Made by Chinese Speakers,
from English Daily

Verb2Verbe - Online Verb Conjugator (Alan Paul)

Verbix - Online Verb Conjugator

Asia's Center for TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) This certificate is accredited by Cornerstone University of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. For more information, please contact Jurene Breidenbach at jureneb@actesol.com or Sam Kuka at director@actesol.com, or call office phone 922-9561.

This free-to-copy English language CD ROM by Roofbreakers.org is being used and distributed around the world by a whole range of people. Besides the free CD, also available for download are (1) The Hope ESL Software Curriculum Guide in PDF; and (2) A few Simple ideas for New Language Learners and Old Ones Needing Some New Life. You can find the Mandarin and Indonesian support version of Hope ESL in the root directory of each CD. You can also freely download the complete Hope ESL software (an UltraISO file).