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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 (Listen & Watch; Grammar & Vocabulary; Fun & Games; Business & Work; IELTS), 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.

VOA Special English: interactive Wordbook (hear English words, their definitions and example dialogues by actual native English speakers to help you understand how the word is used in conversation, with special sections on Health and Business); Idiom Dictionary (with audio for definition, usage and example dialogue); The Classroom (Articles, Activities, Interactive Learning, Programs, Lesson Plans for EFL Teachers); and English lessons live on Facebook.

Learn American English (for native speakers of Chinese, Farsi, and Russian; free interactive, task-based beginner, intermediate, and advanced English lessons with images and sound)

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.

iSLCollective.com, a free teaching material sharing site for ESL teachers (English, French, Spanish, and German) with over 8,000 worksheets in editable doc/ppt formats; Level: Beginner (pre-A1), Elementary (A1), Pre-intermediate (A2), Intermediate (B1), Upper-intermediate (B2), Advanced (C1), and Proficient (C2); Student Type: adult, kindergarten, elementary school, high school, and business/professional.

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 resources from TEFL World Wiki 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 for Windows combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

                                                 

Spelling: discussions and interactive exercises

Computers and word processing programs with their automatic spelling checkers have made writing and spelling a lot easier. There are times however when you cannot rely on these automatic spelling checkers, like when you are writing letters by hand, or when you are teaching or reporting and you have to write on a blackboard or white board. The differences between speliing of words in American and British English also make the study of spelling rules necessary.

Listed below are links to interactive quizzes, exercises, worksheets, printables, and lesson plans in spelling from the best ESL and EFL resources on the Internet. Clicking the blue links will take you to the specific page where these resources are located, 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.

Adding -er / -est (quick, quicker, quickest, happy, happier, happiest, hot, hotter, hottest...)
Adding -ing / -ed (work, working, worked, stop, stopping, stopped...)
Adding -ly (loud, loudly, happy, happily, terrible, terribly...)
Adding -s
-ible or -able (accessible, visible, dependable, networkable...)
-ie- or -ei- (friend, fiend, feint, freight...)
English and American English (colour, color, practise, practice, tyre, tire...)

[04] Spell Check (with Easy and Hard categories), from Funbrain

[05] Complete List of Spelling Rules for Nouns and Verbs by Susan Jones (Georgia State University)

Rules for Irregular Plural Formation of Nouns
List of Irregular Nouns
Rules for Irregular Spelling of Verb Inflections

[07] Spelling Practice, Levels 1 to 5 (about one hundred interactive spelling exercises), from Interlink Language Center

[08] Spelling, from Interesting Things for ESL Students

Note: This excellent website by Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly has the most number of activities and exercises in spelling among the sites we have checked out. Listed below are just some representative examples. Visit this website to avail of the other spelling activities and exercises.

Spelling and Typing Games: Type the word before you run out of time.
Catch the Spelling: Catch the letters in the correct order.
Word Based Games for ESL Students (Flash Player version 5 or newer)
Spelling / Vocabulary Quizzes: 151 quizzes covering over 1,500 words
WordWeb
Crossword Puzzles: Doing crossword puzzles may help your spelling
English Vocabulary: Some of the activities listed on this page are good for spelling practice

[12] 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

[13] Free online spell checker (up to 20,000 characters), from SpellCheck.net

[14] Spelling It Right - Learn To Spell Confidently, by Roger Smith (British English)

Note: This great website offers lessons and activities in spelling including Syllables, Consonant Blends, Prefixes, Suffixes, Word endings, Vowels, Words in Science, Maths, English, Geography, Plurals, Memorizing Strategies, Word games, Wordsearches. Listed below are the Interactive Hangman games from this site.

Hangman: suffixes -able and -ible practice
Hangman: the i before e rule
Hangman: words starting bl, br, cr, cl, dr
Hangman: words starting fl, fr, gr, gl
Hangman: words starting ch, k, ph and g
Hangman: words starting wh, c or sc
Hangman: words starting pl and pr
Hangman: words which have the "magic" e
Hangman: words ending -er, -or and –ar
Hangman: words starting sc, sh, sl, sm, sn, sp, squ, st, and sw
Hangman: plurals of words ending –y

[15] Often Misspelled Words in English, from www.yourdictionary.com

[16] Word Cup (an international, online vocabulary competition for all ages, students and adults, sponsored among others by Oxford University Press), from eSpindle

eSpindle is a non-profit organization offering customized vocabulary tutoring online. It is supported through memberships, and memberships are matched with free licenses for disadvantaged students. Other services and resources offered by eSpindle are:

Practice quiz for the Word Cup (Choose between easy, average and hard words; quiz updated twice a month)

Free, moderated online spelling bee and Word Cup forum (exchange ideas, make friends, find encouragement)

Root word directory (prefixes, root words and suffixes)

Fun trivia about the English language and learning

Facts and statistics about literacy in the US

[17] SpellCheckPlus, from Dr. Terry Nadasdi (University of Alberta, Canada) and Dr. Stefan Sinclair

A tool for writing in English that identifies spelling errors and common grammatical problems. It is able to detect problems with words that sound the same (e.g.: there versus their, its versus it's, etc.), incorrect use of correct words (e.g.: never mined instead of never mind), punctuation/spacing (e.g.: with out instead of without), capitalization (e.g.: saturday instead of Saturday) and hundreds of grammatical errors, e.g.: I have went instead of I have gone. The site is particularly adept at catching commonly confused words and "slips of the pen", e.g.: pier pressure instead of the correct peer pressure, road to hoe instead of the correct row to hoe, etc.

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A Word A Day, from Wordsmith: 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

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.

englishforjapanese.com offers fee-based language learning study solutions for Japanese students of English for speech, pronunciation, listening, pronunciation, social and business conversation skills; with free but non-interactive exercises and tests in English usage, vocabulary and grammar; some lessons in downloadable PDF format; related blog Two-Minute English offers free daily, non-interactive exercise and activities.

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

Arabic - English
Chinese - English
Indonesian - English
Japanese - English
Korean -English
Kurdish - English
Malay - English
Persian (Farsi) - English
Portuguese - English
Russian - English
Sesotho - English
Somali - English
Spanish - English
Swahili - English
Tagalog - English
Thai - English
Turkish-English
Urdu - English
Vietnamese - English
Zulu - English

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

Online Assessment Tests, from World English

Activities for learners, from Churchill House School of English Language (Elementary, Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate, Advanced, Exam preparation, Phrasal verbs)

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)

Click here to listen  to The Narnia Story "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 (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.

Google eBookstore (over 3 million eBooks to read on the Web, Android, iPhone, iPad, Sony and Nook) General categories: Biographies & Memoirs; Business & Investing; Children's Books; Computers & Internet; Cooking, Food & Wine; Fiction; History; Humor; Lifestyle & Home; Mystery & Thrillers; Parenting & Families; Politics & Current Events; Reference; Religion & Spirituality; Romance; Science; Science Fiction; Fantasy; Sports; Travel

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.

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)

The Hope ESL Software Curriculum: 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 version 3 Hope ESL software (800 mb zip 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.

 

 

 

                                                                                                                        

Relevant links

Family Code Philippines (free legal information)
Are you a good person? (PDF)
the kristo
(English; available in Spanish)
One Solitary Life

A Ready Defense
Jesus: A Biblical Defense of His Deity
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
Crosswalk
Women Today Magazine
(available in French and Chinese)
Sexual purity websites
(Silver Ring Thing, Purefreedom, True Love Waits)
Starting With God
Cloud and Townsend Resources
Love and Respect
Real Relationships
Living Hope
Power To Change (English); for other languages, click Arabic; French; German; Italian; Spanish, Thai, Japanese; Malay; Russian; Czech and Chinese

Legal Updates
Baptist Churches in the Philippines
Campus Connection
Salt and Light

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)
I Am Next (website for college students): 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)

Online resurces for reading and listening

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

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

Wired for Books, from WOUB Center for Public Media, Scripps College of Communication, Ohio University

Hundreds of hours of spoken audio in English of a tremendous range of poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for children and adults

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

Cambridge Dictionaries Online

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary now has more than 40,000 audio recordings in British and American English you can perfect your pronunciation.

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

Oxford Dictionaries Online (US English; World English): Dictionary, Better writing, World of words, Puzzles and games, For children and schools, For learners of English

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

Reverso free online translation

Babel Fish

Online newspapers and magazines

Read 6000+ online newspapers at ThePaperboy.com

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)

The Key
Written for new readers and adults with limited reading skills

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

Today's Front Pages

Online libraries

Project Gutenberg Official Home Site: Free, easy to access literary works
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

BBC - My Story (hundreds of extraordinary true stories of achievement, bravery, survival and more from the whole of human experience from across the UK and beyond)

English for Special Purposes

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)

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.

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)

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.

Miscellaneous links

Internet Anagram Server (Advanced programming, Topical Anagrams, Anagram Hall of Fame, Odds and Ends)

Free vocabulary test for TOEFL, GMT, SAT, GRE and VOA Special English, from Vocaboly

British to American / American to British - Vocabulary Converter