Culture

 

1.         Dave’s ESL Cafe

URL:http://www.eslcafe.com/

 

            This website is an excellent meeting place for ESL teachers and students

from all over the world. It provides a job center, a job information journal, international job vacancies, a teacher training forum, and much more.  It is presented to users in a clear way and the items are only a click away.                

 

Grammar

 

2.         University of Victoria English Language Center Study Zone

URL:http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/grammar.htm

 

This website provides excellent grammar exercises including theory and activities for practice including handouts on nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and much more.  There is also a wide range of interactive activities for students as well as help pages for basic writing skills.                   

 

3.         John Korber:One World, One People ESL/TESOL Lessons

URL:http://members.aol.com/Jakajk/ESLLessons.html

           

This particular website contains a variety of grammar lessons for both teachers and learners.  It also includes games for students, ideas and links to many other interesting ESL learning sites. 

   

4.         Activities for ESL students

URL:http://a4esl.org/

 

This is a perfect site for students to use different types of exercises and activities to practice the English language. This site offers games, quizzes, reading comprehension, grammar, and vocabulary in order to facilitate the students’ learning of the English language. 

 

 

5.         Online Writing Lab

URL:http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

 

This website is both for teachers and students to explore handouts, materials, and resources.  It also provides grammar, spelling, and pronunciation exercises.  There is a wide range of one on one tutorials, workshops, and study materials.

 

6.         EnglishCLUB.net

URL:http://www.englishclub.net/grammar

 

This site provides activities and exercises for all levels of English ranging from beginners to advanced. On this website, teachers and students will find games, quizzes to use in the classroom, interesting reading activities, and jokes. 

 

7.         ESL Blues

URL:http://www.collegeem.qc.ca/cemdept/anglais/trouindx.htm

            This website is excellent for both second language teachers and students.

It contains exercises and activities that involve grammatical structures, reading activities, vocabulary, and quizzes that can be used in the classroom.

  

8.         ESL Quiz Center (please copy and paste link into browser)

URL: http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/

 

This is an excellent resource center for teachers and students to find quizzes involving grammar, geography, history, idioms, slang, reading comprehension, writing, and much more. Easy to access and to navigate through.  

 

9.         Some Good ESL Websites for Grammar Practice (please copy and paste link into browser)

URL: http://staff.gc.maricopa.edu/~chowey/eslgrwebsites.htm

           

This website lists a variety of links for ESL learners to practice a wide range of grammatical structures such as adjectives, adverbs, conditionals, gerunds, modals, nouns, parts of a speech, participles, passive voice and verb tenses.

           

10.       English Language centre Study Zone

URL: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/index.htm

           

This website is very interesting for students and teachers because it provides exercises, quizzes, grammar, reading, vocabulary, and puzzles for different levels of learners.   

 

11.       Interesting Things for ESL Students

URL:http://www.manythings.org

 

If you are a student looking for a fun study site, check out this site:  it

Includes word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and much more.  

 

12.       Better English Grammar

URL:http://www.better-english.com/exerciselist.html

 

This is a very easy website to find, and is very clearly presented.  It offers vocabulary and grammar exercises, business English, collocations, multi word verbs and much more.

  

13.       Advanced Level Guide to Grammar and Writing

URL:http://cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

           

This website provides descriptions on a wide range of grammatical structures and various levels of writing activities such as paragraphs, words and sentences, essays, and research papers.  It also offers definitions and exercises to practice. 

 

14.       English Exercises Online (please copy and paste link into browser)

URL:http://www.smic.be/smic5022/

           

This website provides a variety of handouts for teachers to distribute in the classroom involving vocabulary, grammar, dictation, text writing, links and other miscellaneous activities. 

 

15.       ESLGold Online

URL:http://www.eslgold.com/site.jsp?resource=pag_ex_home

 

ESL Gold Online provides a very clear and easy format to follow.  It is very easy to load and to navigate. There are free English teaching and learning materials available to both teachers and students such as grammar, vocabulary etc.  All materials are organized by skill and level for quick and easy access.  Just click on a topic to find resources to teach or learn the English language.

 

16.       English 4 the World Learner’s Center Everyday English

URL:http://www.e-mesh.com

 

An easy website to load and navigate.  Provides teachers and students with everyday English activities, grammatical structures, vocabulary, word games, and listening exercises.

17.       OWL Online Writing Lab

URL:http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/index.html

 

This is an excellent website for both teachers and students and provides handouts on grammatical structures and different types of exercises and materials that are clear and easy to use. 

 

Speaking & Reading

 

18.       English for Everybody

URL:http://www.english-online.org.uk/index.html

This website offers free English language courses, as well as reading exercises, games for all levels of English and much more. 

            It is very quick to load and to navigate. 

 

19.       Online Reading Passages and Exercises

(Please copy and paste link into browser)

URL:http://home.earthlink.net/~eslstudent/read/read.html

 

This is a great website to visit if you would like to work on your own to improve your reading skills.  Provides excellent passages and exercises.   

 

Listening

 

20.       Cyber Listening Lab

URL:http://www.esl-lab.com

 

The Cyber Listening Lab provides students and teachers with a wide range of academic listening quizzes that vary from a beginner level to a more advanced level of difficulty. This website loads quickly and is very

 

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