ESL
Links verified 11/9/08
Interactive Sites for Learning English - Activities to use in Computer Lab to help Spanish-speaking students learn English.

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1. Activities for newcomers - When brand new English language learners first enter your school, it can be overwhelming especially if it's the middle of the year. It's hard to know what to do first. Here are some activity-based tips to get you started.
2. Activities for ESL Students - multiple links with activities and exercises.
3. Adult Education ESL teachers guide - Beginning and Intermediate ESL Lessons and Accompanying Teacher Training Modules
4. BookBox - audio-visual stories, ages 2 to Pre-Teen; web-based jukebox of digital books in languages from around the world. Hear the books read in a multitude of languages. Words for the books can be followed in a number of languages also. You do have to register but it is free registration. The site offers downloads of the stories for a fee, but the online books are free.
5. Business English - Each week learn a new business jargon phrase. From Open English World
6. Casa de Joanna - Language Learning Resources - French and Spanish language web sites to explore including thematically organized authentic links for French and Spanish
7. Dave's ESL Cafe Idea Cookbook - There are currently 806 recipes (ideas) in 25 categories in this cookbook.
8. English@Home has quite a few resources for learning English. I found the ESL games great fun. Give them a try!
9. English Daily - free exercises, idioms, common abbreviations, slang, proverbs and much more
10. English-Forum by Aardvark presents interactive English language exercises for use in ESL or EFL classes.
11. English Grammar Quizzes Using JavaScript - Activities for ESL Students has over 1,000 activities to help you study English as a Second Language.
    This project of The Internet TESL Journal has contributions by many teachers.
12. English Grammar The Easy Way - This site has a very comprehensive collection of brief grammar explanations for students. A great site if you want some concise support.
13. English Listening Language Lab - Listen to the stories or phrases and select the correct answer. Many activities. Great for listening skills!
14. Englishpage.com has Free online English lessons & ESL / EFL resources. You need to battle past some intrusive banner ads, but they have good resources.
15. English Study Materials and Worksheets - scroll down to find free resources
16. English Worksheets - worksheets to help improve your vocabulary and understanding of English
17. ESL Activity Zone - get lesson plan ideas here!
18. ESL Cafe has a large list of Online English Courses. You might also look through the list of the other 75 topics on the ESL Cafe index page.
19. ESL Cafe Help Center - receive help from ESL/EFL teachers from around the world 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Having problems with Grammar? Writing? TOEFL? Vocabulary? Idioms? Slang? Don't be shy - ask a question! Afterwards, an ESL/EFL Teacher will try to quickly post an answer onto this page.
20. ESL Flashcards - many to choose from
21. ESL Galaxy - Free teaching materials for ESL, EFL teachers and students, lesson plans on PowerPoint, kids’ worksheets, flash cards, phonetics videos, self-study videos, crosswords, word search, games, etc.
22. ESL go - Help students learn English with lessons, activities and quizzes.
23. ESL Lab - Listening exercises and quizzes. Listen to the conversation and answer the corresponding questions. Your score is immediately tabulated. Note: An Audio Player is needed for this site.
24. ESL Teacher Resources - Links to ESL sites. At the top of the page, get tips for working with ESL students.
25. Everything ESL - Content based ESL lesson plans for beginning through intermediate students.
26. Family Involvement Storybook - Tomasito's Mother Comes to School. " This bilingual storybook about family involvement at school is designed to engage children and their families. For educators, the printable online storybook is an easy-to-use family involvement tool that supports literacy"
27. Foreign Languages for Travelers - Choose the language you speak and the language you want to know. There are 70 choices. Once you choose the language you may then select from the following menus: Basic Words, Numbers, Shopping/Dining, Travel, Directions, Places, Time and Dates. You will also find a dictionary for translating specific words. The strength of this site is that you can hear the words pronounced. Your ESL students can hear the English words that correspond to the words in their own language.
28. General Listening Quizzes from Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
29. Help! They Don 't Speak English - A resource guide for educators of limited English proficient students, grades Pre-K - 6
30. Idioms - English Idiom of the Week - From Open English World - Learn a new idiom each week. Conversation done orally to listen to idiom.
31. Idioms and collocations - exercises practice collocations - words that 'sound good together' (rush hour/catch a cold/soft drinks), phrasal verbs - two-or-three word combinations (consisting of a verb and particle) that make sense only if looked at together as one single unit (take off/drop out/get over) and idioms - expressions consisting of words that can’t be understood literally
32. Interactive Games for ESL - Have fun and improve your English by playing our matching games online; opposites, synonyms, general phrases and more.
33. Lab Activity to Practice Proper Usage - 20 multiple choice questions
34. Larry Ferlazzo - "All these sections are specifically designed to assist adults and children who are learning English as their second language"
35. LearnEnglishFeelGood - ESL site with free English grammar exercises and vocabulary quizzes, downloadable grammar handouts, videos, lists of American idioms and phrasal verbs, and more
36. Magnet Boards for ESL Students - move the "word magnets" around to make your own sentences
37. Marie Nuzzi's List of Valuable ESL Resources - Here are many sites with an abundance of ESL information for teachers and students.
38. My Picture Dictionary - Pictures to help students recognize names of objects around them.
39. My Spanish Picture Dictionary - a new online resource to learn Spanish (or English) - Each word in the dictionary has an English-Spanish translation and a photograph of the item.
40. Parlo is a language and culture site that wants to sell language courses to you. Wait! Don't go away. They offer some fantastic free resources. In their index along the left side you will find a free Diagnostic Test. At the end they suggest which course you might want to buy, but use this test to evaluate where your students are. In the Teachers portion of Parlo's index, select Teacher's Corner Materials and then select the English archive. There you will find beginner, intermediate and advanced lesson plans. Not enough for you? OK, visit Spanish World, French World, Italian World or German World.
41. Pequenet - Spanish language site for little ones - stories, activities and more
42. PIZZAZ! - People Interested in Zippy and Zany Zcribbling - An Online Resource for Scribblers and Teachers of English as a Second Language
43. Primary Themes in Spanish - From Enchanted Learning.
44. Reading Proficiency Tests in English -
    1. Grade 3 [56 questions] - take the test online and then select Score Test at the bottom of the page to see your score
    2. Grades 4-5 [56 questions] - take the test online and then select Score Test at the bottom of the page to see your score
    3. Grades 6-8 [57questions] - take the test online and then select Score Test at the bottom of the page to see your score
    4. Grades 9-12 [60 questions] - take the test online and then select Score Test at the bottom of the page to see your score
45. Real English - Free Online ESL lessons - This site requires a username and password. Both are available free.
46. Real English Mistakes - Two ESL Quizzes based on actual mistakes (read the directions carefully)
47. Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students - A Very Large Collection of Quizzes for Students of English as a Second Language
48. Spanish to English -Basic Vocabulary - Spanish to English Translation Games
49. Teaching with the Web - This is a compilation of ideas for using WWW resources as a language teaching tool. Some of the areas offered are: web activities, language specific activities and teaching resources.
50. Vocabulary Exercises - Clothes, Appliances, School, Office and more.