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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 in the Metro Manila area. 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)

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

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)

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)

British Council resources: Learn English central (Practise through themes; Test your level; Read, write and listen; Learn grammar & vocabulary; Have fun with English), with sections for professionals (specialist English language practice such as mini courses on Journalism, Finance and Legal English; practice and advice with IELTS and Cambridge ESOL exams in the lesson downloads and exams section; work skills and study skills) and kids (games, activities, songs, writing); Teaching English (the global home for English teaching on the web brings together everything busy teachers need, from classroom materials to ideas for development, with Activities, Lesson plans, Tips, Teaching kids, BritLit, Links, and Quizzes; resources for Arabic speakers; resources for Chinese students and teachers; English teacher training in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Chongqing, and Guangdong.

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.

Free resources in journalism: Newswsroom 101.com (more than 2,000 exercises in grammar, usage, spelling, The Editor’s Eye and AP Stylebook exercises) by Gerald Grow; 200+ lesson plan archive for journalism teachers from hsj.org

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.

International House Bristol offers hundreds of free online, interactive exercises in grammar, vocabulary and phrases (elementary level for A2 to B1 on the Common European Framework, intermediate for B1 to B2 CEF, advanced for C1 to C2 CEF), useful expressions and Cambridge ESOL exercises with optional time limit for FCE (First Certificate in English), CAE (Certificate of Advanced English) and CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English).

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)

BBC Learning English resources: ELT China, ELT Arabic, General and Business English (6 Minute English, Talk about English, Talking Business, Get That Job! activities, quizzes and tips to build career-related vocabulary); Grammar, Vocabulary & Pronunciation: Words in the News, Ask about English, News English Extra, Quizzes (Quiznet, Crosswords, Beat the Keeper, Wordmaster interactive vocabulary quiz with thousands of questions), Exam skills, guide to preparing for and taking exams with quizzes, scripts and audio; For teachers: Grammar Challenge worksheets for teachers to use with individual episodes of Grammar Challenge series; Funky Phrasals worksheets for teachers to use in tandem with series about phrasal verbs, Watch & listen activities to support series on Entertainment, London Life, and People and Places, Talking Business downloadable worksheets, How to ... activities and ideas; Teaching ideas & worksheets: The Flatmates, materials, ideas and worksheets for teachers to accompany the online soap opera, Knowledge on the Net, download this six-part radio series about the Internet and the classroom, Working Abroad worksheets, Innovations in Teaching for the classroom teacher or educationalist, Words in the News ideas and suggestions for using news stories in your class.

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 for abstract themes, academic matters, daily life, hobby topics, holiday nature, personal history, personal values, relationship, work, world and culture); and Road to Grammar (100 warm-up questions to turn your students into conversationalists).

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)

Common Errors in English, by Paul Brians

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

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.

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 ...

Listen now to The Narnia Story 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.)

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.

Speaking and Pronunciation: discussions
and interactive exercises

Your goal in any kind of oral or written communication is to express yourself clearly so that you are understood by your listeners or readers. The study of pronunciation may seem tedious or even unimportant to some but correct pronunciation leads to expressing yourself effectively.

Listed below are links to discussions and interactive exercises in speaking and pronunciation 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. (Please take note of the differences between American English and British English when browsing these sites.)

Pronunciation Help
Learn to correctly pronounce every word in the poem “The Chaos” and you could possibly be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world

Speaking and Conversation Skills for Advanced Level English
Pronunciation and Speaking Skills for Beginning Level English Learners
English Pronunciation and Speaking Skills for Intermediate Level

Note: Real Player required; register for free membership and full access

The sounds of English and the International Phonetic Alphabet
Introduction to phonetic transcription
The ASCII Phonetic Alphabet
Demonstration of phonetic transcription

Improving your pronunciation
Telling a story
Talking about the weather
How to keep the conversation going
How to talk about illness
English greetings
Giving your opinions
Talking about likes and dislikes in English
Agreeing in English
Making generalisations
Giving advice in English
Suggestions in English
Speaking about hopes in English
Making invitations
Making appointments
Complaining in English
Making offers
Making predictions
Talking about probability in English
Rephrasing
Making requests
How to express shock in English
How to say what's important
Better English speaking skills

English is not Phonetic
Word Stress in English with Quiz
Sentence Stress in English
Homophones
English Phonetic Spelling
Pronunciation Power
Linking in English
How to Pronounce "-ed"
How to Pronounce "the"
English Tongue-Twisters
Pronunciation Workshop

The Importance of Speaking Practice
Telephone English
Presentations & Public Speaking
Speaking about the Weather
Small Talk

Free, printable English dialogues for practice with friends and fellow students, with topics including Borrowing; Clothes shop; Eating out; Electrical shop; Plans & Excuses; Hotel; Flying; Was / Were; Bank; Complaining; Crime; Finding a flat; Preferences; Rules; Selling; Telephone

Note: Real Player and Flash Player required

Consonant Sounds
Vowel Sounds
Readings and Songs
Quizzes

Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced

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

Oh and Ah (a free online interactive e-story for children 3 to 9)

Note: Flash Player version 4 or newer required

Minimal Pair Practice & Quizzes, Songs and Poems, Tongue Twisters
Listen and Repeat Podcast (Audio for ESL/EFL; divided into Songs, Jokes, Listen and Read Along, Cloze, and Selected MP3 Files)

Classroom participation strategies
Preparation before class
In class: Taking the floor
Interacting with the others
Shaping the discussion
Fluency and communication

Oral presentations
Sample seminar presentation
Planning
Researching
Focusing
Structuring
Presenting
Practising
During the presentation
Guiding the audience
Long presentations

Note: Quick Time, Shockwave and Adobe Reader required

Free online lessons and activities in conversation, vocabulary, pronunciation, business English, and idioms

Pronunciation Exercises (starter/beginner, elementary, pre-intermediate and intermediate levels)
Pronunciation skills: glossary, bibliography & activities

Note: IPA charts revised to 1993; updated 1996; Flash Player required

Pulmonic Consonants
Non-Pulmonics
Vowels
Other Symbols
Diacritics
Suprasegmentals
Diphthongs and Triphthongs

Note: Windows Media Player and Quick Time Video Player required for the practice test and tutorial movie

English language pronunciation practice with minimal pairs and Instant Sound - simply mouse over to hear the sound
Note: Flash required

How to pronounce specific sounds in English.
English word stress.
English sentence stress and intonation.
Pronunciation exercises and activities

Simply mouse over language patterns to hear them instantly spoken

Fee based with some free lessons in PDF format; English language learners want to share experiences and insights on contemporary topics - and expand their practical and academic vocabulary. Quotations and proverbs, from differing points of view, also encourage discussions, model excellent communication, and develop critical thinking skills. Students hold longer discussions, learn about their classmates, and gain practical experience.

You can create compelling conversations by asking simple, yet deep, questions like:
What brings you here?
How did you hear about this class (party/event/movie)?
What do you like to do online?
Where were you born? How many miles do you think that is from here?
Where are you in your family's birth order?
What makes you smile?
What have you been reading recently?
Can you recommend any movies to see or rent?
What's the most beautiful place you've seen?
What qualities make a good leader?
Which issues are important to you in this election?
Who chose your name? Why?
What music inspires you?
Where are you coming from?
Where are you going?
Where do you feel most comfortable? Why?
How do you release stress?
What do you appreciate about living here?
What did you learn at your last job?
What do you do to stay healthy?
What TV shows would you recommend to a visitor to your country? Why?
Have your habits changed in the last year?
How would your friends describe you?
What would you add?

Free ESL Lessons
Traveling
Studying English
Being Yourself
Talking about Movies
Practicing Job Interviews

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)

English for Medical Purposes - Dental Hygiene
English for Medical Purposes - Dental Check-up
Business English - Deliveries and Suppliers
English for Medical Purposes - Joint Pain
English for Medical Purposes - Troubling Symptoms
English for Medical Purposes - Patient Details
English for Medical Purposes - Feeling Queasy
English for Medical Purposes - A Prescription
English for Medical Purposes - Pain that Comes and Goes
English for Medical Purposes - A Physical Examination

The sounds of English (guide to system of symbols for writing the sounds of English, videos to show how to pronounce each of the sounds, and activities to practice identifying the difference between certain sounds which may sound similar)
Features of English (information about different elements of English pronunciation, with interactive and downloadable exercises to help you build your understanding of these areas)
Quizzes (interactive quizzes to test your knowledge of and help you learn about English pronunciation)
Programmes (three radio programmes from 2005 on the topic of pronunciation; you can download the full programmes along with the script and audio examples)

Help your students hear the sounds of English by clicking on the symbols of this pronunciation chart - you can now install it on your own PC or Mac computer and use off line or in the classroom. After downloading and saving the file to your desktop, you can then just click on the file to open it at any time. Available for PC or Mac:
pron_chart_vector.swf 107.6 KB
Mac_pron_chart_vector.hqx 3.12 MB
PC_pron_chart_vector.exe 1.64 MB

“Teaming with an interpreter” tutorial, from Speak Your Languages

This course (with videos and text in MS Word or PDF) is for anyone who wants to communicate clearly with people who do not speak English. To communicate across a language barrier, you need the help of an interpreter who speaks both languages. But it’s a team effort. You can help your interpreter as much as he or she helps you. This course prepares you to work effectively with an interpreter, as part of a team. Working together, you will be able to communicate confidently and comfortably with people from all over the world. Since it is about a team approach, interpreters will also find this course useful. All types of organizations will benefit, including businesses, professional services, non-profits, government entities and educational institutions. Highline Public Schools, near Burien, Washington provided support for development of this online tutorial in conjunction with professional interpreters.

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.

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

Cambridge ESOL exercises with optional time limit for FCE (First Certificate in English), CAE (Certificate of Advanced English), CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English), from International House Bristol

Exams in General English (KET, PET, FCE, CAE, CPE), Professional English, Academic English (IELTS), Exams for Schools, from Cambridge ESOL Teacher Support (with free teaching resources and forum)

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

Good News Comprehensive English Course is a free teach yourself English course for absolute beginners both young and old, and based on a modern English version of the most translated bestseller of all times, the Bible. It aims to develop all the language skills - listening, speaking, reading and writing. Lessons in audio and PDF may be downloaded and used offline. Audio lessons are voiced by both British and American speakers (Real Audio required)

Some parts of the course have been translated into the following languages: Albanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese - Simplified, Chinese - Traditional, Farsi, French, German, Gujarati, Indonesian, Italian, Khmer, Korean, Nepali, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese and many more translations are expected to follow.

TED Ideas worth spreading

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes.

The TED Conference, held annually in Long Beach, is still the heart of TED. More than a thousand people now attend -- indeed, the event sells out a year in advance -- and the content has expanded to include science, business, the arts and the global issues facing our world. Over four days, 50 speakers each take an 18-minute slot, and there are many shorter pieces of content, including music, performance and comedy.

The TED website makes the best talks and performances from the conference available to the public, for free. More than 200 talks from the archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted. Available themes: Technology, Entertainment, Design, Business, Science, Culture, Arts, and Global issues

Asia's Center for TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) 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).

Currently Roofbreakers.org has a specific focus on utilizing the massive global English Language opportunity to develop and distribute resources which teach and inspire students. This software project had its origins in Vietnam where an Australian English teacher developed the educational concept. Later, in partnership with mars-hill productions, Roofbreakers.org was able to produce the Hope ESL software curriculum as a free-to-copy CD ROM including the full Hope film.

British Council resources:

IELTS - International English Language test
(British Council English exam centres in over 100 countries offer IELTS tests up to 4 times a month)

Take the IELTS in your country (Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Oceania, The Americas)

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)

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)