Activities for ESL Students
Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles |
Colorful Clothesline
A lesson created to introduce level 1 ESOL/ELL students to clothing, colors, and color patterns. Students can test their knowledge of colors and clothing. Select a category below to practice vocabulary. Then take a quiz to test what was learned. |
Cyber Listening Lab
Practice your English using Google Talk, Skype (voice chat), and the RealPlayer --- add-ons to Google Pack |
Dave's ESL Cafe
Current news, geography, grammar, history, idioms, slang and words, people, reading comprehension, science, world culture, writing |
English Study and Learning Materials
English Study and Learning Materials
ESLgold.com provides over a thousand pages of free information and resources for both teachers and students. All materials are organized by skill and level for quick and easy access. |
Englsih as a Scond Language
ESL Cafe
ESL Monkeys
Free English language learning materials and tools for self-study or classroom learning, including reading and writing lessons, word of the day tool, free ESL books, story room, students |
ESL Resource Center
Free ESL/ESOL/ELL lessons in: reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, listening, spelling and idioms a "Discovery Trail" game for learning facts and background information. |
ESL Student Projects
This site offers several interesting topics written by Mission College (Northern California) ESL students. Topics include: "Customs around the World," "Domestic Violence," "The Fall of Saigon," "Friendship," "The Meaning of Names," and "Surprises and Problems of ESL Students." |
Family Literacy Curriculum
"The Fairfax County Family Literacy Curriculum is designed to be used in a multi-level adult ESOL family literacy class. There are four modules to choose from: Introductory (Self, Family and Community), Government (Schools and Community), Health (Medicine and Stress), and Consumerism (Shopping and Making a Budget). Each module provides easy to follow lesson plans and activities for adult English language learners at the literacy through intermediate levels and includes parent/child activities, computer/ internet activities, and reproducible worksheets. A list of recommended texts and websites is included in the appendix. The curriculum was written by Betsy Lindeman Wong, an experienced ESOL and family literacy teacher and was piloted at over twelve sites in Fairfax County." |
Free site for English as a second or foreign language students
Glossary of Second and Primary Language Acquisition Terms
This is a very useful list of terms and definitions used by ESOL/ESL/ELL teachers, teacher trainers and researchers. |
Grammar for English Language Learners
A comprehensive list of links to on-line grammar and writing sites |
Harnessing Technology
This Web page includes common problems faced by ABE and ELL teachers in the classroom, and solutions to these problems which use technology. The Web page is updated from time to time and, as an incentive, those who contribute problems and technology solutions have access to the most recently updated page, at a different address. |
LINCS ESL Special Collection
Includes reviewed resources for learners, teachers, tutors and administrators, and a showcase of ESL/ESOL/ELL resources on the Web. |
National Immigration Forum
Current information about issues of concern to teachers of immigrants, including citizenship. |
Pre-intermediate to high-intermediate level English
Pre-intermediate to high-intermediate level English |
Sounds Of English
Offers pronunciation instruction. It explains how each sound is made and offers audio and video examples with exercises. |
Study Zone
University of Victoria, British Columbia's English Language Centre online lessons |
The ESLoop
This is a collection of sites related to English language teaching and learning. It includes the California E-Mail Project Homepage, TESL Ontario, and Computers and English Language and Literacy Education, among others |
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
VOLTERRE-FR
Pointers to Internet projects for learners and teachers of ESOL | |