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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.

                                                 

The English language: Gateway to the world

The English language in its different varieties (American English, British English, etc) is the gateway to the world of education, business, technology and inter-people communication. More than a billion people speak the English language, and there are only a few places in the world where English is not understood. (Jump to Testing your level of English proficiency” or "Special features of this website".)

The goal of this website

If you are a teacher or student from grade school up to college, a professional, an entrepreneur, an employee in government or in the private sector, this website can help improve your mastery of the English language. Proficiency in English will help improve your grades and create opportunities for advancement in work and career.

The design of this website

The website is divided into the traditional classification of English grammar of the eight parts of speech, plus sections on idioms, vocabulary, spelling, listening, speaking, pronunciation, and writing. Based on these divisions, we have searched for and selected good discussions and interactive exercises from more than a thousand ESL (English as Second Language) and EFL (English as Foreign Language) websites.

The websites we have chosen are consistently good, fast loading, and generously offer to their users, free of charge, a wide range of resources. Besides the materials listed in this website, these excellent sites offer a tremendous range of valuable resources in learning the English language.

While broadband connection is becoming more accessible and affordable for homes, most of you probably still have online access either through slow dial-up connections or through rental by the hour services of Internet cafes. This website thus uses predominantly text links, with very few graphics.

How to answer the interactive exercises

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.

Special features of this website

[1] The section on "Spoken English Learned Quickly" is a free, complete course in English excellent for self-study or classroom instruction and with enough mp3 and PDF lessons for nine months of study (two hours a day, five days a week). You can easily download the mp3 lessons, the Instructor's Guide and the 450-page Student Workbook in PDF format.

[2] "Learning English and creative writing through photographs".

[3] Plain English / Plain Language interactive quizzes and activities with automatic scoring

Testing your level of English proficiency

Before browsing the other sections of this website, it is a good idea to first test your level of mastery of the English language. Listed below are some online diagnostic and assessment tests. Clicking the blue link will take you to the specific page where the diagnostic and assessment test is located, while clicking the website name will bring you to the site's home page

[01] Online Assessment Tests, from World English

Diagnostic Grammar Test
English Grammar Placement Test
English Language Assessment Test
Online English Assessment Tests

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

English Exam Level Test (find your level and what exam to take)
International English Language Testing System (IELTS): academic reading, general reading test, listening, writing, vocabulary
Test Of English as Foreign Language (TOEFL): reading, listening, grammar, vocabulary
Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC): Reading tests, Part 5 incomplete sentences, Part 6 error recognition
Cambridge ESOL exams:
Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) C2 grammar, vocabulary, dictionary
Certificate of Advanced English (CAE) C1 use of English, listening
First Certificate in English (FCE) B2: reading, use of English, listening, writing
Preliminary English Test (PET) B1 reading, writing
Key English Test (KET) A2 grammar, vocabulary
Business Language Testing Service (BULATS): reading
Michigan Tests
Examination for the Certificate of Competency in English (ECCE) B2: grammar
Examination for the Certificate of Proficiency in English (ECPE) C2: grammar
London Tests of English
LTE level 5 (C2) listening
LTE level 3 (B2) listening

[03] Exam preparation, from Churchill House School of English Language

CAE - Extra Words
CAE - Extra Words 2
CAE - Multiple choice vocabulary
CAE - Word formation exercise
FCE - Extra Words
FCE - Multiple choice vocabulary
FCE - Multiple choice vocabulary
FCE - Word formation exercise

[04] Test your English now (vocabulary, grammar, listening and reading (cloze test)

[05] 365 various quizzes to test your English knowledge, from Road to English Grammar

[06] Hundreds of free online, interactive exercises in grammar, vocabulary and phrases (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

[07] Check Your English, from English Corner (Rod Rodgers); use these 100-question tests to check your knowledge of English grammar; Javascript required

Grammar Test
Preposition Test

The Filipino diaspora

While the primary intended beneficiaries of this website are overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), professionals, teachers and students from the Philippines, everyone (from any country) is welcome to make use of this site. Here in the Philippines, English is the language of government, education, commerce and industry. The Philippines has a population of around 78 million. As of December 2004, there were more than eight million overseas Filipino workers employed in over 180 countries as nurses, engineers, doctors, entertainers, domestic helpers, seamen, business management experts, etc. The term "Filipino diaspora" has been used to describe this scattering of Filipinos all over the world. Foreign employers prefer Filipinos, not only for their industry and technical competence, but for their ability to communicate in English.

There are also thousands of Filipinos pursuing their studies in colleges and universities in English-speaking countries.

Exceptions rather than the rule

Thousands of Filipinos are also employed in the call center companies here in the Philippines. Acceptable fluency in the English language by Filipinos is one big factor for the booming call center industry in our country. (The BPO industry in the Philippines has revenues of about $7 billion a year as of 2009, second only to the $9 billion annual income of BPO operations in India.)

However, Filipinos who can speak, read and write excellent English are the exceptions rather than the rule. Studies have shown that the Filipinos' grasp of the English language is slipping, and other Asians are fast catching up, thanks to their governments' aggressive English language training programs.

According to one media report, only two out of ten applicants in call centers eventually get hired, the rest having failed in the English proficiency tests. Those who do get hired are often required to undergo a rigorous review of English. The same report also stated that many graduates from our top universities have English language skills comparable only to 2nd grade children from Western countries. Another news item reported that out of 100 Filipino nurses who take the English proficiency exams abroad, only 50 percent or less pass.

To address this problem of decreasing competence in English among Filipinos, Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo directed in early 2007 the Department of Education to use English as the medium of instruction in all school levels.

Pending bills in the 15th Congress on the use of English

Differences between American English and British English

The websites we have linked to teach either American English or British English. Except for three or four websites, the sites we have included here come from American, Australian, British, or European sources. Thus, Filipinos may sometimes find it difficult relating with the situations or the contexts of the discussions and interactive exercises. As soon as we find online English lessons with an Asian context, we will include them here.

Although American English is the standard in the Philippines, we have included websites on British English since the countries Filipinos have gone to as workers or students include those where British English is the standard.

For a fuller understanding of the differences between American and British English, please read the following articles: (1) American and British English differences from Wikipedia; and (2) Differences Between American and British English from About.com.

An emerging standard of Philippine English

According to scholars (Dr. Teodoro Llamzon,1969; Bro. Andrew Gonzales, FSC of De La Salle University, 1981; and recently, Dr. Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista, Professor Emeritus, DLSU), there is now a brand of English known as “Standard Filipino English” or “Philippine English”. Dr. Llamzon described it as “the type of English that educated Filipinos speak and which is acceptable in educated Filipino circles.”

News updates as of June 19, 2008

“PGMA : The sooner deficiencies of RP education system are fixed, the better” (www.gov.ph)

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo stressed that English proficiency should be “universal” among Filipino teachers.

She said that “in-service training” in English should be held on weekends in order that teachers will continue to hold classes during regular school days.

Malacanang had earlier earmarked P500 million for English training.

The President made no bones about her concern over the current state of the state of English teaching, as she recalled a comment by Sen. Richard Gordon that many of the semi-finalists in an English competition could not “verbalize” their answers to the interview questions.

“We have to make sure their (the teachers’) English is good. Really, English is not proceeding anywhere as fast as Math or Science… It is deteriorating. Something must be wrong with the educational system,” she said.

Filipinos’ proficiency in English up – Social Weather Stations survey, by Shianee R. Mamanglu

The proficiency of Filipinos in written and spoken English has improved in the last two years, the Social Weather Station (SWS) said.
The survey, conducted from March 30 to April 2, indicated that the ability of Filipinos to write English recovered from 48 percent in March, 2006 to 61 percent in April, 2008, while their proficiency in spoken English improved from 32 percent to 46 percent for the same comparative years.

Decline of English, by Adrian Cristobal (Breakfast Table)

There are a great number of people, from politicians to prelates, business executives to journalists, who speak and write English but who, by a certain measure, can hardly be called proficient. They do get by with their English, at least in bamboozling people who have less English, but they’re not quite in their element when faced with their counterparts in the United Kingdom and the United States. This is probably one reason we are so poor in negotiating for our own interests in trade and diplomacy.

English lessons to form part of RP tourism package

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the Department of Tourism (DoT), the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and the Bureau of Immigration (BI) yesterday signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) on the "English as Second Language" Program (ESL), which aims to make the Philippines not only a tourist destination but also a destination for learning the English language.

Practice makes perfect!

Founding members of the English is Cool Coalition, the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP), Hands on Manila and EON, The Stakeholder Relations Firm, held the pilot English Camps at the Far Eastern University, Manila Doctors College, Fort Santiago, and Central Colleges of the Philippines to encourage the Filipino youth to learn and practice English.

Legislators push English as medium of instruction, by Jesus F. Llanto, newsbreak.com.ph

Businessmen have been complaining of college graduates who are not proficient in English. In 2006, the European Chamber of Commerce estimated that 75 percent of the around 400,000 college graduates have substandard English skills.

Jayjay Viray, general manager of jobhunting website JobsDB.com, said most of their clients complained of applicants who lack good communication skills and have trouble expressing themselves in English. She added that most vacancies in the marketing and business sector require applicants to speak in English

President Arroyo signed Executive Order No. 210, which strengthens use of the English language as a second language in the educational system.

“There is a need to develop the aptitude, competence and proficiency of our students in the English language to maintain and improve their competitive edge in emerging and fast-growing local and international industries, particularly in the area of information and communications technology,” the order reads.

According to the order, English should be taught as a second language starting with Grade 1 and should be taught as the medium of instruction for English, Mathematics and Science from at least Grade 3. Filipino language will be used as MOI for Filipino and Araling Panlipunan.

It also mandates the use of English as the primary medium of instruction in all public and private secondary schools. The percentage of time allotment for learning areas conducted in English language, the law said, should not be less than 70 percent of the total time allotment for all learning areas in the secondary level.

However, EO 210 and its implementing rules and regulation were questioned last year by a group of professors and language experts. The professors and language experts filed a petition with the Supreme Court challenging the orders.

Global Networking: English, Tagalog or both? by Rodel Rodis, INQUIRER.net

Russ Sandlin, an American businessman in the Philippines, recently closed his call center in Manila because he said he could not find enough English proficient workers. “Not even 3 percent of the students who graduate college here are employable in call centers,” he complained.

Sandlin cited a Philippine Department of Education report disclosing that 80 percent of secondary school teachers in the Philippines failed an English proficiency test last year. “English is the only thing that can save the country,” he wrote, “and no one here cares or even understands that the Filipinos have a crisis.”

(Ateneo English Prof. Isabel Pefianco Martin, president of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines) points out that most Filipinos speak at least three different languages and English might not even be one of them. “So when English is first introduced to them, it should be introduced slowly and gently, with much respect for their first languages,” she urged.

“Teaching and learning English in the Philippines may be a difficult task, but it need not be a frightening experience,” Prof. Martin wrote. “So much has already been spent on testing the proficiency of teachers and then training these teachers to become more proficient in the language. But simply focusing on testing and training, without recognizing the multilingual context of teaching and learning English in the Philippines, only reinforces fear of the language.”

English proficiency should not be viewed as the measure of a nation’s success. How can we explain the economic ascendancies of Japan, China, and Korea where English is hardly spoken? Those countries educated their populations in their native languages using their languages as tools of communication. English should be similarly seen as a tool of communication, not as the goal of education.

Improve English education, US envoy urges RP government

(DPA) -- The US ambassador to the Philippines urged yesterday the government to improve English education in the country or lose foreign investments to other countries.

Great and witty video on giving better presentations (uses Hollywood movie posters and discusses among others "The Morgan Freeman Rule" and "The Biggest Loser")

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.

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.

British Council resources:

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

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)

                                                                                                                        

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 resources

TOEFL Vocabulary, from English Daily
Over a thousand real multiple-choice questions for TOEFL test preparation

Verb2Verbe - Online Verb Conjugator (Alan Paul)

Verbix - Online Verb Conjugator

A Word A Day, from Wordsmith

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)

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

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.

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, Thai, Vietnamese, and Indonesian

Read 6000+ online newspapers at ThePaperboy.com

Online journalism training, from JPPROF the website for teaching journalism (by Prof. James Glen Stovall of the University of Tennessee)

Discussion of skills (reporting, writing, editing, graphics design, photojournalism,, web journalism, opinion writing and broadcasting), issues (news, practices, law, history, ethics), industry (newspapers, magazines, radio and television, news web sites), and with grammar exercises for students

Online resources 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)
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 Commu-nication, 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

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)

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

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

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 resumes, 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)

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 briefing and interactive listening quiz for job interviews); Online Grammar Exercises; Vocabulary Videos; Pronunciation and Intonation; 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)

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.

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.

Free desktop publishing book download “Back to Basics” foundational communication skills for church communicators, by Yvon Prehn, www.effectivechurchcom.com

Part 1: introduction, planning, grid and templates, writing for DTP (6.42 mb)
Part 2: continuation writing for DTP, typography, graphics (3.97 mb)
Part 3: continuation graphics, photography, layout and examples (4.43 mb)
Part 4: continuation layout and examples (3.92 mb)
Part 5: continuation layout and examples, DTP management (5.06 mb)

The Hope ESL Curriculum Software: 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 (800 mb zip file).