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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.

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.

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.)

Vocabulary: discussions and interactive exercises

Words are the building blocks of any language. The more words you have in your written or spoken vocabulary, the greater are the possibilities of your success in academics, business or career.

Listed below are links to discussions and interactive exercises in vocabulary 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] Vocabulary activities, from About.com

Action Idioms Quiz (Understanding through context of selected action verbs)
Key Words List (850 word-list developed by Charles K. Ogden in 1930, a great starting point for building up a vocabulary which allows you to converse fluently in English)
Financial Terminology Quiz
British to American / American to British - Vocabulary Converter
Building Phrasal Verb Vocabulary
Collocations
Useful Business English Phrases

[02] Vocabulary Quizzes, from Activities for ESL Students

Vocabulary – Easy
Vocabulary - Easy with Pictures
Vocabulary – Medium
Vocabulary - Difficult

Bilingual Vocabulary Quizzes

Arabic - English
Chinese - English
Indonesian - English
Japanese - English
Korean -English
Kurdish - English
Lingala - English
Malay - English
Persian - English
Portuguese - English
Russian - English
Sesotho - English
Somali - English
Spanish - English
Swahili - English
Tagalog - English
Thai - English
Tshiluba - English
Turkish-English
Urdu - English
Vietnamese - English
Zulu - English
Other languages

[03] Antagonyms

Extensive list of English words with meanings which contradict each other

[04] Grammar and Vocabulary, from BBC Learning English

News vocabulary, Science vocabulary, Football vocabulary, and Tennis vocabulary

[05] The University Word List, from John Bauman

[06] Business English Vocabulary Lessons, from Business English Grammar Lessons (Pearson Brown)

[07] Building a Better Vocabulary, from Capital Community College Guide to Good Grammar

Numerous college-level work quizzes, including words that have appeared on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests and Graduate Record Exams, and with a downloadable Pop-up Lexicon (93Kb) containing 365 SAT- and GRE- level vocabulary words, definitions, and sample sentences

[08] Full Dolch Word List (220 Words and 95 Nouns), from Dolch-words

The Dolch words are the 220 most frequently found words in books thatchildren read, and are usually learned in first and second grade. Students who learn these words have a good base for beginning reading. Many of these words cannot be sounded out because they do not follow decoding rules, so they must be learned as sight words.

[09] The Academic Word List, from English as Second Language

[10] Vocabulary, from English at Home

Numerous activities and resources include English Phonetic Spelling, Say or Tell? Say or Tell Quiz; Do or Make? Do or Make Quiz; Irregular Adjectives (good, better, the best); Prefixes (non-, inter-, post-); Contractions (I'm, aren't, here's); Informal Contractions (gimme, gonna, wanna); Figures of Speech (like a bat outta hell); Illustrated Vocabulary ; Computer Vocabulary (backup, cache, DOS); Football Vocabulary (foul, goal, pass); Practical Vocabulary

Test Yourself

[11] Vocabulary, from English Corner (Rod Rodgers)

Activities include Collocations; Crosswords; Definitions; False Cognates; Games; Picture Quizzes; Vocabulary Links; Word Formation; Word Lists; Word Studies

[12] Vocabulary exercises to practice phrases used in business, from English Exercises Online

[13] TOEFL Vocabulary, from English Daily

Over a thousand real multiple-choice questions for TOEFL test preparation

[14] English Vocabulary, from E L Easton Materials for Teaching and Learning

Vocabulary A -Z
Quizzes

[15] Index to topics, from English Learner

Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Vocabulary categories, including Colours crossword, Idioms with colors, Fruit quiz and Eponyms (words from names)

[16] Advanced Vocabulary and Holiday Vocabulary Lessons, from English Page

[17] Actvities in vocabulary, from Esl-lounge

Elementary
Pre-Intermediate
Intermediate
Advanced

[18] ESL Vocabulary, from English Works! (Gallaudet)

Ideas for Improving Your Vocabulary
Suffixes to Know
Vocabulary Exercises

[19] Vocabulary for learners of English, from Frankfurt International School

Categories of activities include Easier, Harder, Random, and with lessons in Geography/History, Science, Math, and Mainstream English

[20] 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions, by Free Vocabulary (Steve Baba, Ph.D)

Words from from abase to zodiac, with PDF version

[21] Vocabulary and Idioms, from Interlink Language Resources

[22] Vocabulary activities, from Interesting Things for ESL Students

Numerous activities and resources including Easy Vocabulary Quizzes, English Vocabulary Games with Pictures, English Vocabulary Word Lists with Games, Puzzles and Quizzes, Anagrams, Flashcards

[23] Vocabulary Exercises, from Isabel's ESL site

[24] Vocabulary Quizzes, from John’s ESL

Activities and resources include Vocabulary Lists, 1000 Commonly Used Words, specialized vocabulary (Geography, Aviation and Medical), and Picture Vocabulary

[25] Vocabulary activities, from Karin’s ESL Partyland

Easy, Medium and Difficult categories; multiple choice, fill-in, cloze

[26] ESL Online Wordsearches, from 1-language.com

Fun and easy way to learn vocabulary through 100 different puzzles; Note: Java-enabled browser required

[27] Vocabulary activities, from LanguageGuide.org

Practice the 100 most common words in the English

Pictorial Vocabulary Guides
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

[28] Vocabulary Activities, from Lauri’s ESL Website

[29] Free Online Vocabulary Exercises, from Learn English Feel Good

Each exercise centers around one theme or topic, using only common and useful English words and expressions; Business English Vocabulary; and American and British English: Differences in Vocabulary

[30] English vocabulary – Index, from englisch hilfen

[31] The Most Important Vocabulary for Students of English, from Teacher Joe

Topics include Business English and Basic English Vocabulary

[32] ESL Vocabulary Lessons, from 5 Minute English

[33] Vocabulary activities and resources, from Michael Buckhoff

Topics include Picture Vocabulary, Professions and Tools

[34] 50 commonly misspelled words, from A Spelling Test by Mindy McAdams

[35] Ogden's Basic Word List

[36] Free Online Spelling Tutor and game, from OZspeller

Categories from Kinder to Frequent and Advanced; words spoken by your computer, with hints, definitions and sentences, repeatable audio clips, and three versions: Oz Speller with Australian Spelling; Oz speller with US Spelling; Oz speller with British Words

[37] Vocabulary for English Language Learners, from Ohio ESL

[38] Vocabulary lessons, from One Stop English

Theme-based lesson plans for American and British English, including phrasal verbs, and metaphors

[39] Professional Word Web

Business and financial texts, engineering reports, legal documents, and social work papers; meaning, pronunciation, sample passages and exercises

[40] Puzzles, Games, etc. from The Puzzle Depot

[41] 100 Most Common SAT Words, from Quia Web

[42] SAT Preparation

[43] Vocabulary Level Test, from The Compleat Lexical Tutor

Use these tests to find the growth-edge of your vocabulary: Version A and B, 1000 level up to University Word List and 10,000 level

[44] The Heteronym Homepage

Extensive list of English words which have different meanings when pronounced differently

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

[46] Vocabulary University

Free interactive vocabulary puzzle and activity sessions use Latin and Greek "roots and cells" to help unlock word meanings;

Vocabulary from texts: 111 Recommended High School/Junior High Reading, among others, 1984; All Quiet on the Western Front; Animal Farm; A Raisin in the Sun; A Tale of Two Cities; Call of the Wild Jane Eyre; Julius Caesar; Johnny Got His Gun; The Joy Luck Club; Lonesome Dove, etc

[47] Vocabulary Builder, from Vocabulix

Improve your vocabulary in various foreign languages (English, German and Spanish), online and free

[48] Vocabulary Training Exercises In English, German, French and Spanish

[49] Focusing On Words, from wordfocus.com

Vocabulary builder based on learning the Latin and Greek roots from which half the words in English come from

[50] 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

Today’s Word

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

[51] Vocabulary activities and tests, from World English

Activities and topics include English First Names and Meanings, Difficult English Words, Vocabulary test from A to Z, and specialized vocabulary (Banking, Medical and Financial)

[52] Interactive games and exercises, from Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun

CrossWords; HangMouse; Match Game; UnScramble; Letter Blocks; Clueless Crossword

[53] Online vocabulary topics for intermediate and advanced ESL learners, from English Gateway

[54] 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

[55] Hundreds of free online, interactive exercises in vocabulary, phrases and grammar (elementary for levels 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), CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English), from International House Bristol

Elementary Vocabulary Questions

At Home; Basic Adjectives; Clothes; Common Verbs; Confusing Words; Days and Dates; Driving Words and Phrases; Family Members; Groups Of Things; More Word Building; Possessions; Sports; The Natural World; The Weather; Things On The Street; Work: People and Places

Intermediate Vocabulary Questions

Accommodation; At Work; Body Movement; Verbs; Cinema Film Reviews; Flying; General Nouns; Health; Problems; Health Word Building; Opposite Adjectives; Personality Adjectives; Personality Word Building; Prefixes: Re-Roads and Trains; Science; Shopping; Shopping Word Building; Speech Verbs; Strong Adjectives; Television; The Environment; Verbs With Up; Word Building

Advanced Vocabulary Questions

-ate Verbs; -en Verbs; -ify Verbs; Animal Noises; Body Idioms; Body Parts; Cars And Driving; Colour Idioms; Comparatives with 'as'; Containers and Quantifiers; Eating Out; Expressions with "as"; Expressions with "for"; Expressions with "no"; Expressions With "with"; Food; Food Idioms; Health; Key Moments; Law And Order; Money; More "no" Expressions; Newspapers; On The Road; Parks; Problem Adjectives; Proverbs; Quantity Expressions; Reflexive Expressions; Relationships; Slang; Sounds; Sports Equipment; Telephones; The Environment; Types of writing; Verbs With "Off"; Water Words; Ways Of Walking; Weather Adjectives; Words Ending "-less"

Useful Expressions

Elementary:

Airport phrases; Apologising; Asking about health; Asking for information; Asking somebody’s opinion; At the bank; Being angry - things you say; Clothes and fashion; Colours; Describing people – bad; Describing people – good; Driving actions; Expressing dislikes; Expressing Likes; Feelings; Giving an opinion; Guessing; Hoping for something; Jobs - health workers; Jobs - Public servants; Jobs – travel; Kinds of Shops; On the Phone; Possibility; Postcard phrases; Rainy Weather; Remembering things; Reminding someone to do something; Rooms In A House; Saying goodbye; Saying hello; Saying somebody is correct; Saying somebody is wrong; Saying something is difficult; Saying that something is easy; Saying that something is good; Saying you don’t know; Sometimes; Stationery; Supermarket phrases; Surprise; Talking about good ideas; Telephones - Connected Things; Telling people your job; Thanking people; The weather – cold; The weather – hot; Toilets; Wanting things; Ways to say that you are well; Ways to say you are unwell; Where you’re from.

Intermediate

Advice and Suggestions; Airport phrases; Anger; Apologising; Asking about health; Asking for approval; Asking for help; Asking for information; Asking people to wait; Asking somebody’s opinion; At the bank; Attitude to the future; Avoiding giving information; Bad people; Being an expert; Being angry - things you say; Being drunk; Being Lucky; Being relieved; Being sure / certain; Being worried; Boring!; Cheering People Up; Clothes and fashion; Colours; Criticising mistakes; Delaying Answering; Describing people – bad; Describing people – good; Disagreeing; Disagreeing with unrealistic predictions; Disappointment; Disapproving of an action; Dislikes – advanced; Driving actions; Encouraging; Euphemisms; Excuses for being late; Expressions on your face; Feelings; Forgetting things; Generalizing; Get - short phrases; Giving a choice; Giving an opinion; Giving your opinion; Going to bed; Graphs - Rise and fall; Guessing; Habits; Happiness; Hoping for something; Improbability; Jobs - health workers; Jobs - Public servants; Jobs – travel; Kinds of Shops; Likes – advanced; Near Future; Near to my home; Not giving your opinion; Old age; Party People; Poor; Possibility; Postcard phrases; Postcard phrases – negative; Postcard phrases – positive; Preferring things; Rainy Weather; Reassuring somebody; Refusing; Remembering things; Reminding someone to do something; Rich; Rooms In A House; Saying goodbye; Saying hello; Saying No; Saying somebody is correct; Saying somebody is wrong; Saying somebody’s stupid; Saying something is difficult; Saying that something is easy.; Saying that something is expensive; Saying that something is good; Saying you don’t believe; Saying you don’t know; Showing Concern; Small talk; Sometimes; Speculating; Stationery; Supermarket phrases; Surprise; Talking about Bargains; Talking about good ideas; Talking about last night; Talking about talent; Talking about TV; Telephones - Connected Things; Telling people your job; Thanking people; The weather – cold; The weather – hot; Toilets; Wanting something to eat or drink; Wanting things; Ways to say that you are well; Ways to say you are unwell; What to say at Parties; Where you’re from.

Advanced

Accepted Facts - Things We Agree On; Advice and Suggestions; Agreeing; Anger; Apologising; Asking about future plans; Asking for approval; Asking for help; Asking people to wait; Asking somebody’s opinion; Attitude to the future; Avoiding giving information; Bad people; Being an expert; Being drunk; Being Full after Eating; Being Lucky; Being positive about bad situations; Being relieved; Being sure / certain; Being worried; Boring!; Changing Your Mind; Cheering People Up; Complaining about hypocrisy; Crimes – Advanced; Criticising mistakes; elaying Answering; Disagreeing; Disagreeing with unrealistic predictions; Disappointment; Disapproving of an action; Dislikes – advanced; Encouraging; Euphemisms; Excuses for being late; Expressions on your face; Expressions With ‘One’; Expressions with repeated words; Forgetting things; Generalizing; Get - short phrases; Giving a choice; Giving an opinion; Giving your opinion; Graphs - Rise and fall; Habits; Happiness; Improbability; Kinds of Shops; Likes – advanced; Making suggestions; Near Future; Near to my home; Noises with adjectives; Not giving your opinion; Offending / upsetting people; Old age; Paraphrasing; Party People; Poor; Postcard phrases – negative; Postcard phrases – positive; Preferring things; Quoting somebody and showing disbelief; Reassuring somebody; Refusing; Resolutions and Promises; Rich; Saying No; Saying somebody’s stupid; Saying something is true; Saying that something is expensive; Saying you don’t believe; Showing Concern; Small talk; Speculating; Talking about Bargains; Talking about Cheap Things; Talking about last night; Talking about talent; Telling people your job; Wanting something to eat or drink

[56] Dolch word lists, phrases, worksheets and activities, from Mrs. Perkins' Dolch Words

Vocabulary word lists, flashcards and Powerpoint presentations; variety of lists with the Dolch words ordered alphabetically, by frequency or by grade; lesson plan templates, counting charts, blank calendars, cut-out dominoes, and forms for testing and assessment; for teachers and parents who want to teach Dolch sight words to their children

Dolch Word Lists
Dolch Phrases
Dolch Worksheets
Classroom Forms and Testing

[57] Medical English (for doctors, nurses, physical therapists, radiologists, pharmacists, health professionals, etc), from Qedoc

Medical English - An Introduction to Basic Human Anatomy - Jumbled Sentences
Medical English - Drug Therapy - Latin Terms and Abbreviations
Medical English - Nursing
Medical English - Nursing - Arithmetic Problems
Medical English - Nursing - Clock Tasks
Medical English - Nursing - Drug Information - Jumbled Sentences
Medical English - Nursing - Grammar - Multiple Choice Test
Medical English - Nursing - Pair matching
Medical English - Nursing - Prefixes
Medical English - Ob/Gyn - Multiple Choice Test
Medical English - Ob/Gyn - Pair Matching
Medical English - Occupational Medicine
Medical English - Occupational Medicine - Multiple Choice Test
Medical English - Occupational Medicine - Multiple Choice Test - Word Combinations
Medical English - Psychiatric Nursing - Pair Matching
Medical English - Psychiatric Rehabilitation - Jumbled Sentences
Medical English - Psychiatric Rehabilitation - Multiple Choice Test
Medical English - The Human Skeleton
Medical English - Word Formation A
Medical English - Word Formation B - D
Medical English - Word Formation C
Medical English - Word Formation H - K
Medical English - Word Formation L - M
Medical English - Word Formation N - O
Medical English - Word Formation P - Q
Medical English - Word Formation R - S
Medical English - Word Formation T
Medical English - Word Formation U - Z

[58] Selected ESL Exercises for Business English students, from englishmedialab.com

Business English Money idioms Quiz - Test your knowledge of money idioms
Business negotiations : Learn phrases and words related to business negotiations.
Business companies quiz : Quiz about business companies
Culture questionnaire : Test our knowledge of other cultures and know why some people fail when they do business in other cultures.
Do or make business? Take this quiz and learn the difference in use between "do" and "make", study verb-noun collocations
Law and courts ESL vocabulary quiz. A matching quiz about words related to law and courts
ESL quiz: Confusing words Lend or Borrow : Quiz to help you differentiate between the use of lend and borrow.
Business English Money and banking quiz: Test your knowledge of banking and money words.
Who is in charge? : Quiz about describing responsibilities in a company. Talking about responsibilities.
Money money money : Quiz about money phrases

[59] Free vocabulary training and exercises in accounting, finance, sales and marketing, project management, information technology and more, from BusinessEnglishSite.com

General Business English
Sales and Marketing
Accounting, Banking and Finance
I.T. (Information Technology) and other computer-related work
Medical English for doctors and patients
Other Business English exercises

[60] Business English Vocabulary for English for Special Purposes, from about.com (vocabulary reference lists of key words and phrases for advertising, banking and stocks, bookkeeping and financial administration, business and commercial letters, human resources, insurance, legal, logistics, marketing, production and manufacturing and sales and acquisitions)

Business and Commercial Letters - Core Vocabulary
Sales and Acquisitions - Core Vocabulary
Production and Manufacturing - Core Vocabulary
Logistics - Core Vocabulary
Marketing Sector - Core Vocabulary
Insurance Industry - Core Vocabulary
Human Resources - Core Vocabulary
English for Legal Purposes - Core Vocabulary
Bookkeeping and Financial Administration - Core Vocabulary
Banking and Stocks - Core Vocabulary
Banking and Business Abbreviations
Advertising Industry - Core Vocabulary
Emphatic Expressions - Strong Collocations
Idiom and Expression Resources
Improve Your Vocabulary
Customer Service - Dealing with Complaints
Driver Education - DMV - Key Vocabulary
Job Interview Vocabulary
Leading a Meeting
Participating in a Meeting
Phrasal Verbs: MONEY

[61] Free vocabulary exercises and activities for the hospitality and tourism industry, from EnglishForMyJob.com

Whether you work in a hotel in Dubai, a restaurant in Paris, or a resort in Bangkok, chances are that you will have to speak English to some of your customers. This website is for anyone who works in restaurants, hotels, cafes, airports, and anywhere else where you might have to talk to customers in English. All of the exercises are free. This website is part of the excellent LearnEnglishFeelGood.com family of websites.

Food and Beverage (restaurants, cafes, catering, etc.)
Hotel Industry (hotels, resorts, spas, etc.)
Travel / Tourism (travel agents, tour guides, flight attendants, etc.)
Politeness Training (the right way to speak to customers/guests in English)

[62] Vocabulary Learning Games: Using pictures, sounds and games to strengthen the memory of English words (Flash)

[63] Wordmaster, from BBC Learning English (interactive vocabulary quiz with thousands of questions and pronunciation guide; Flash plug-in required)

[64] Glossary of easily confused words that cause grammar errors, from Grammar Monster

accept – except; advice – advise; affect – effect; allowed - aloud; allude - elude; alot - a; lot – allot; already - all ready; altar – alter; amount - quantity – number; appraise – apprise; bare – bear; being – been; beside – besides; breathe – breath; can – may; canvas – canvass; cite - sight – site coarse – course; complement – compliment; comprise – compose; council – counsel; decent - descent – dissent; dependant – dependent; desert – dessert; disinterested – uninterested; eg – ie; elicit – illicit; envelop – envelope; fewer – less; forth – fourth; getaway - get away; grisly – grizzly; historic – historical; if – whether; incite – insight; it’s – its; lay – lie; lead – led; licence – license; loath – loathe; loose – lose; past – passed; plain – plane; pore - pour – poor; practice – practice; precede – proceed; principal – principle; raise - rise – raze; role – roll; stationary – stationery; storey – story; than - then; that - which – who; there - their – they’re; too – to; vain - vein – vane; waist – waste; weather - whether – wether; who’s – whose; you’re - your

[65] 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 to Speak English Here and Now, with free song lyrics and practice exercises)

Notes: Olympics ESL exercises and activities, from ESLTower.com (based on Beijing 2008 Olympic Games through printable vocabulary puzzles, quizzes, flashcards, game cards and exercises related to Olympic Games, sports and countries)

Olympic sports
“Olympic Sports” Dictionary Hunt
"Olympic Sports" Wheel Search Puzzle
"Olympic Sports" Matching Quiz
Olympic Games word puzzle
What we do in sports crossword verbs puzzle
Olympics Games word puzzle
"Olympic Sports" Spelling Quiz
"Olympic Sports" Multiple Choice Quiz
Olympic Sports Vocabulary Game Sheet
Sports and Olympics - Word Puzzle
Countries, Sports and Athletes