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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.

Reading: discussions and interactive exercises

Centuries ago, author and philosopher Sir Francis Bacon said, "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." The best way to improve your mastery of the English language is to read a lot (news items, essays, poems, articles from newspapers and magazines, books, etc). Your writing, speaking and listening abilities will definitely improve when your reading and reading comprehension skills improve.

Listed below are links to discussions and interactive exercises in reading 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.

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] Reading, from English-at-home

[02] English Reading, from EnglishClub

Classic English Reading ( famous texts in English from classic sources like the Bible or Shakespeare, with Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced and Shakespeare categories)
English Short Stories (For upper-Intermediate to Advanced levels, Short stories ranging in length from 1,500 to 7,000 words, with activities in vocabulary, vocabulary quiz and comprehension quiz. Some stories are from the public domain like Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”, and H.H. Munro’s classic horror story “The Monkey's Paw”.)
Authors (William Blake; Rudyard Kipling; Wilfred Owen; William Shakespeare; Percy Bysshe Shelley)
The English Alphabet
Reading Test (Written Comprehension Test)
English Proverbs
News (Current English language news stories from news publications around the world, good for reading practice)

[03] Reading, from English Corner (Rod Rodgers)

Note: Javascript required, with audio selections related to readings

Glossed Readings
Glossed Poems
Readings with True - False Quiz
Readings with Multiple Choice Quiz
Story Building Exercises
Text Reconstruction Exercises
Cloze Exercises

[04] Reading Techniques (Skimming, Scanning, and Using Context), from English On The Run

[05] English Reading Room, from English Page

Free Online Newspapers; Free Online Magazines; Free Online Books and Literature; Free Online Reference Materials; Online Libraries

[06] The Reading Room - English Comprehension, from English The International Language

Practice your reading skills and improve your vocabulary through selected Articles and Stories, with instant feedback in the True/False questions

[07] Reading, from English Works! Gallaudet University

Reading and Mapping Strategies
Reading Exercises (Traditional Reading Practice - main idea, details, and inferenc- with Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary and Cloze Reading Practices
ESL Reading Links (Reader’s Digest, National Geographic and many others)

[08] Reading, from esl-lounge Student

Elementary
Pre-Intermediate
Intermediate
Advanced

[09] Finest Quotes

[10] Readings in English, from Interesting Things for ESL Students

Reading English Signs
VOA's Special English Feature Stories (with limited vocabulary of 1,500 words)

[11] The Reading Room, from John’s ESL Interactive

Reading Strategies
Action Mazes (Interactive reading exercises)
Password Prize (game)

[12] Reading, from Karin’s ESL Partyland

With Easy, Difficult and TOEFLesque categories, and reading comprehension activities (matching, error correction, etc)

[13] Online Literature Library, from 1-language.com

Aesop’s Fables (350 direct translations from the Greek)
Selected plays of Shakespeare (All's Well that Ends Well; Antony And Cleopatra; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; Julius Caesar)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Junior Classics - World Fables (from India, China, Japan, New Guinea, Serbia, Jamaica and others)
World Folk Tales
African Folk Tales
Central Asian Folk Tales
Central European Folk Tales
Chinese Folk Tales
Frank B. Linderman, 1915, Indian Why Stories
The Twins Tales: - Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1911 onwards

[14] Reading, from Language and Learning Online (Monash University)

Effective Reading; Selecting Texts; Predicting; Skimming; Scanning; Detailed Reading; Taking Notes; Reading problems, and Reading Strategies in Education

[15] Readings for ESL Students, from Lauri’s ESL Website

[16] Reading Comprehension, from Learning English Online (englisch-hilfen.de, English version)

[17] ESL Reading Lessons, from 5 Minute English

Note: There are many selections with comprehension exercises from this site; listed below are some representative articles.

Night Study in Korea
Improving Your English
English Around the World
English as an International Language

[18] Reading skills, from One Stop English

Reading matters: What is reading?
Reading skills lesson plans (lesson plans for teaching and learning reading)

[19] 100 free short stories for ESL learners (with listening, grammar, comprehension, and dictation exercises), from Rong-chang Li

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.

[20] Learn English with the news, Read and listen to articles, from Simple English News

[21] Learn English Reading, from Teacher Joe

Timed Readings (How many words per minute can you read?)
Life in China
Joe's Newest Jokes (Learn Vocabulary in context )
English Conversations (Read dialogues between a Chinese student and her friend from New York)

[22] The Quotations Archive

[23] Reading Comprehension Exercises, from Using English

Note: Reading comprehension exercises, based primarily on ESL examination questions like Cambridge ESOL, TOEFL, IELTS and other major exams

Comprehension: Beginner Level Exercises
Comprehension: Intermediate Level Exercises
Comprehension: Advanced Level Exercises

[24] Reading, from world-english

English Proverbs
Proverbs & Old Sayings Quiz
Classic Short Stories (public domain, copyright free)
Classic English Poetry

Discerning Reader is dedicated to helping you find, read and enjoy good books. Around the world some 120,000 new books are published each year. That adds up to ten thousand every month; over 300 each and every day. Americans buy over 4.5 million books every day, including many of these new titles. This adds up to over 1.5 billion books per year that are consumed within America. Yet even this totals only 35% of the books that are sold worldwide. While it might seem that television and the Internet are decreasing our love for reading, it is clear that books sell better today than at any other time in history.

[26] 365 ESL Short Stories with audio, from eslfast.com

A free site for Intermediate ESL Learners; resources include interactive Sentence Structure Writing Practice (yes/no, wh- questions, passive voice, adjective and noun clauses, reported speech, scrambled sentence) and Practice Speaking English with Intelligent Robots (shopping, apartment, hotel, small talk, college life and employment)

[27] 10 Tips to Read More and Read Better, by Tim Challies

[28] Online youth sections of US newspapers

California: The Modesto Bee, Buzzz; The Press Enterprise, Riverside, Teen Page; The Daily Press, Victorville, Fresh!nk; Florida: South Florida Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Teen Link; Georgia; The Augusta Chronicle, Xtreme; Illinois: State Journal-Register, Springfield, Voice; Maine: Blethen Maine Newspapers, 20 Below; Maryland: Carroll County Times, Westminster, Synergy; Michigan: Detroit Free Press, Yak’s Corner; Missouri: The Kansas City Star, Teen Star: The Jersey Journal, Jersey City, Teen Scene; Asbury Park Press, Neptune, Whatever; New Mexico: The Santa Fe New Mexican, Generation Next; New York: The Buffalo News, NeXt; North Carolina: The Daily News, Jacksonville, CyHigh; Ohio: The Columbus Dispatch, Now!; Tribune Chronicle, Warren, Page One; Pennsylvania: Erie Times-News, Fresh Ink; Bucks County Courier Times, Levittown, Reality; Reading Eagle, Voices; York Blog, Teen Takeover; Tennessee: The Jackson Sun, CyHigh; Texas: San Antonio Express-News, Teen Team; Temple Daily Telegram, Underage Page; Waco Tribune-Herald, High School Hub; Virginia: The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, it!; The Roanoke Times, The Edge; Washington: Yakima Herald-Republic, Unleashed

[29] Free online library of over 8,000 books by 3,500 authors at your fingertips for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast, from Read Print

Categories: Essays, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Plays, Poetry, Short Stories

Browse by author’s last name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Top Authors: Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, George Orwell, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, O Henry, Oscar Wilde, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare

Top Books: 1984, Animal Farm, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, Paradise Lost, Peter Pan, Pride and Prejudice, The Canterbury Tales, The Great Gatsby, The Invisible Man

Notes:

Animated retelling of John Bunyan's classic novel “The Pilgrim’s Progress”

Social by Social (practical guide to using new technologies to create social impact; read online or download free PDF, 256 pages, 25.82 mb): New technologies are changing the way we engage communities, run companies, deliver public services, and participate in government and campaign for change. These new technologies are available to all of us. Social by Social makes accessible the tools you need to engage a community, offer services, scale up activities and sustain projects. Whoever you are, it shows you how to take technology and turn it into real world benefits. Topics include: Things to Come; The Propositions; A-Z of key terms; Tools and resources

Free e-books from Patrick Morley's Man in the Mirror:

Understanding Your Man in the Mirror (formerly titled What Husbands Wish Their Wives Knew About Men) 580KB, 229 pages; chapters include:

1. Significance - What Is It That Your Husband Wants?
2. Obstacles - What’s Troubling Your Husband?
3. Pressure - Understanding the Pressure Your Husband Feels
4. Work - Why Men Are Preoccupied with Work
5. Temptations - The Six Persistent Temptations Men Struggle With
6. Companionship - What a Husband Needs from His Wife
7. Physical Intimacy - What Else a Man Needs from His Wife
8. Communication - What Men Want to Express but Find Difficult
9. Resolving Conflict - Help Around the House and Other Sore Spots
10. Appearance - Why a Man Wants His Wife to Look Good
11. Fathering - Your Husband’s Changing View of Being a Dad
12. Hard Years - Living with a Difficult Husband
13. Perspective - Why Your Husband May Not Be As Bad As You Think
14. Golden Years - Preparing for Winter

Coming Back to God (106 pages, 318 KB)
Do you know a man who would likely embrace Christianity if someone would carefully answer his lingering questions and honest doubts? Pat has written this book to reach out to such men. Chapters include:
1. The Soul’s Search for Rest - “Why Am I Still So Restless?”
2. The Feeling of Futility - “There Must Be More”
3. The Worldly System - “I Can’t Take It Anymore”
4. The Moral System - “I Can’t Fake It Anymore”
5. The Religious System - “Why Do I Feel Robbed of the Best Years of My Life?”
6. Giving the Christian System Another Look
7. Is the Idea of God Logical?
8. Shouldn’t Science Rule over Theology?
9. Since Life Is So Futile, Why Should I Believe
God Cares about Me Personally?
10. How Can a Man Stake His Entire Life on Believing the Bible

How to Survive the Economic Meltdown

Pat’s new book features 35 hard earned spiritual, practical and financial survival strategies based on lessons learned during his own personal financial crisis. Every day for seven long years he woke up not knowing whether or not he would be forced into bankruptcy. By God’s grace, he was able to avoid bankruptcy and not only survive, but experience extraordinary spiritual growth.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

British Council resources:

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

Take the IELTS in your country

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)

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).

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