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)
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)
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
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 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)
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
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.
Business English free exercises and activities
for food and beverage (restaurants, cafes, catering), hotel industry (hotels,
resorts, spas), travel / tourism (travel agents, tour guides, flight attendants)
and politeness training: The
BBC's Business English Page, EnglishForMyJob.com,
and BusinessEnglishSite.com
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.
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)
Learn
English Professionals (British Council) can help you reach your professional
aspirations by developing your English skills and helping you prepare for English
language exams with its online
test to see what level your English is according to the six levels outlined
in the European Framework. Various sections include Maritime
English, English
for Engineers, English
for Journalists, English
for Finance, Legal
English and English
for Tourism. You can also practice your English with grammar movies or listen
and watch Sanjeev use English in the workplace with the J@m
movies, its cartoon series practicing English through work in a web design
company. With the Specialist vocabulary builder (choose between Medical, Legal,
IT, Marketing and Financial words), you can learn or test yourself on up to
100 words in each category). Choose the level of difficulty and start learning.
Specialist Vocabbuilder uses the Collins Cobuild dictionary to create exercises
just for you; the exercises are different every time. Start
Specialist Vocabbuilder now.
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" from C. S. Lewis' Chronicles
of Narnia has become a beloved classic the world over. Four children walk
through a seemingly ordinary wardrobe into the magical land of Narnia.
A fantastic adventure begins to unfold as Aslan the Great Lion is pitted
against the evil White Witch. Battles are fought, heroes are made, and
one of the children has committed a crime that demands the death penalty...
What will happen? Take off on an adventure you never imagined ...
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)
Verbs
are words used to indicate action, state or occurrence. For a better understanding of what verbs 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.
Listed below are links to discussions
and interactive exercises in verbs from the best ESL and EFL resources
on the Internet. Clicking the blue links will take you to the
specific pages where the discussions and activities 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. (Since gerunds and infinitives are used as nouns,
we have included them in the Nouns section of this website. Our experience
is that students get confused when gerunds and infinitives are discussed
under Verbs.)
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.
The
Hound of the Baskervilles Practice the past progressive and
simple past by filling in the blanks in this excerpt from a famous
Sherlock Holmes adventure.
Dracula Fill in the blanks with the present perfect or simple past
in this excerpt from Bram Stoker's horror classic. Letter,
Mina Harker To Lucy Westenra
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.
Chamada
(a Christian portal for Portuguese-speaking persons, provides literature, Biblical
messages, articles, tracts, magazines, book information and much more)
Women
Today MagazineFemmes
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
Improve your vocabulary in various foreign
languages (English, German and Spanish), online and free
Pictorial
Vocabulary Guides, from LanguageGuide.org
Learn the pronunciation and spelling of thousands of words
using an image based interface, with supported languages
as English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Polish,
Russian, Italian, Greek, Chinese, Chinese (traditional
characters), Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Turkish,
Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian
Explore the world of words, share, and delight
in the joy of words with a community of more than 600,000
linguaphiles in at least 200 countries, from Australia
to Zimbabwe
Numerous college-level work quizzes, including
words that have appeared on the Scholastic Aptitude
Tests and Graduate Record Exams, and with a downloadable
Pop-up Lexicon (93Kb) containing 365 SAT- and GRE-
level vocabulary words, definitions, and sample sentences
Categories from Kinder to Frequent and Advanced;
words spoken by your computer, with hints,
definitions and sentences, repeatable audio
clips, and three versions: Oz Speller with
Australian Spelling; Oz
speller with US Spelling; Oz
speller with British Words
Internet
Anagram Server (Advanced programming,
Topical Anagrams, Anagram Hall of Fame, Odds
and Ends)
The
Key
Published monthly since 1988; the Key New Readers Newspaper
is written for new readers and adults with limited reading
skills. All material is free of copyright for nonprofit,
education purposes only.
Learning
Edge
An interactive on-line newspaper for adult literacy
students coming from Wellington County Learning Centre from
Arthur, Ontario, and with games, crossword puzzles, on-line
quizzes, and writing contests
BBC
Kids News
Kids news from the British Broadcasting Company out of the
United Kingdom, providing young readers with a world view
of the news
CBC
4 Kids
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's web site for kids with
news, sports, homework help and discussion area, primarily
for Canadian kids but includes a Latin news section
Kids
News Room
Kid Style News for Kid Style People, a twice-monthly newsmagazine
featuring news, games, information and submitted articles
from kids and schools from around the United States, and
offers student, parent, and teacher educational resources
Silver
Chips Online
Online version of award winning student newspaper of Montgomery
Blair High School's (www.mbhs.edu), Silver Spring, Maryland,
USA; a forum for community expression run entirely by students
and working closely with print counterpart
The
Write Site
An interactive language arts and journalism project for
middle schools developed by ThinkTVNetwork, Dayton, Ohio
(An OET/SchoolNet Project), teaching students how to do
research and discover their own writing style
Time
for Kids
Time Magazine’s new site for kids, containing national
news, world news and the latest news from talented kids
of the entertainment world
YouthInkIt
YouthInk Publications Society is non-profit charitable organization
dedicated to promoting literacy in Youth through journalism,
communication, publishing and special projects; Teaches
young people how to do interviews, write copy, and use HTML
to publish on the web; Explores current environmental and
social issues. Helps students get their writings published.
Requires free registration.
Haiku
for People
Edited by Kei Grieg Toyomasu, tells what Haiku is, explains
how to write it, and gives numerous examples in English
Written by Jakob Nielsen, distinguished engineer;
PJ Schemenaur, technical editor; and Jonathan
Fox, editor-in-chief, www.sun.com on how users
read on the Web and how authors should write.
Topics include Difference Between Paper and
Online Presentation; Working With a Designer:;
Scannability; Navigation; Writing to Be Read:
Headlines and subheads; lists, captions, and
hyperlinks; Writing to Be Found; Terms to Avoid;
Editorial Review of Web Pages:; Web Facts
Online resources in reading, speaking
and pronunciation
Note: In order to listen to the real audio,
you need to install the free
Real Player. To see the definitions and
hear the pronunciation of any word in the
stories, you can install the free
1-click Answers program.
Learn English with the news, Read and listen
to articles, from Simple
English News
With over 1,000 free listening activities
(with images, interactive quizzes, audio
transcripts and downloadable MP3s) designed
for ESL and EFL students and teachers,
and divided into categories like Weekly
Updates, Interviews, Mixer, Games, Songs,
News Center, Talking Points
8 to 13-year
old authors read their own stories,
poems
and book
reviews as you follow along. Selections
are chosen from over ten thousand
entries a year from children all over
the world
Online pronunciation guides to nine varieties
of the English language (American, British,
Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Australian, Canadian,
and South African), and nine other languages;
Instant sound; Pronunciation samples by
over 40 native speakers; All 1,000+ pages
free
Christian alternative to YouTube with videos, music, prayer wall, Bible reading and chat room; This website does not however necessarily
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GodTube. Viewers must be persuaded in their own minds (Romans
14:5), consult their Bible teachers, and must be like the
Bereans who in Acts 11:10 "... searched the scriptures
daily, whether those things were so."