The Web for English Language Learning

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Listening:

 

Rong-Chang Li's Learning Oral English Online

Read and listen to sample dialogues in various situations

Death Penalty (Kent G. Trickel)

Requires 3-part frame and RealAudio

Dialogue 1: A Chance Meeting (CALL Cookbook)

Watch this 4.5 Mb quicktime movie, then fill in the missing words in the dialogue.

Good Neighbors (Jon Fernquest)

How to study listening with RealAudio, Online Practice, Role Play Games, ...

Happy Halloween (Kent G. Trickel)

A listening & cloze activity. It requires 2-part frame and RealAudio

Human Cloning (Kent G. Trickel)

A listening lesson. It requires 3-part frame and RealAudio

Interactive Listening Comprehension Practice (DEIL/IEI LinguaCenter)

Requires JavaScript, RealAudio and frames

Internet Talk Radio

www.ncsa.uiuc.edu

Race Relations (Kent G. Trickel)

A listening lesson. It requires 3-part frame and RealAudio

Road Rage (Kent G. Trickel)

A listening lesson. It requires 3-part frame and RealAudio

Takako's Great Adventure (Brian Rhodes)

Shockwave and JavaScript required, 10 stories

Talking about Daily Routines (Kent Trickel)

For Beginning ESL Students. It requires 3-part frame, images, and RealAudio

VOA Internet Audio - RealAudio Server

Hear the latest 'Voice of America' hourly news. Files are in the public domain.

Waste and Recycling (Kent G. Trickel)

A listening lesson. It requires 3-part frame and RealAudio

World Radio

International Public Radio Programs in Real Audio

ESL : Quizzes : Quizzes with Sound

Pronunciation

 

American Relaxed Pronunciation

Learning how to speak "real" English, understanding spoken American English.

Dipthong Calculator [FRAME] (Steve Chadwick)

Requires Shockwave. Practice your pronunciation.

Sounds of English (Sharon Widmayer)

Pronunciation help for learners of American English. There are some .au sound files.

The English Alphabet (Anthony Hughes)

 

 

Reading:

Impact Online ESL Newsreader

news articles with some vocabulary explanations (but not updated very often)

Fluency through Fables - The Virtual English Language Center

interactive activities focused on reading and vocabulary

 

Writing

An Overview of English Articles Usage for Speakers of English as a Second Language (John R. Kohl) One of the handouts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Writing Center

College Essays - SOS - ESL Corner & Links

Writing Tips

Comparison & Contrast (Michael Vallance)

Online help

Computer Assisted Sentence Production (Charles I. Kelly)

Answer a few questions, then let the JavaScript code write the sentences for you. A fun way to study writing.

Internet Business English Writing

Mid-Sweden University's Interactive Course

Making Sentences (Nicholas Okoampah)

You can build a few sentences. Level: Very Easy. Requires a 5-part frame.

Typing Test (www.englishclub.net)

Practice typing using this JavaScript written by Michael Tartaglia.

Waky Tales at Funbrain.com

Mad Lib Stories. Fill in the blanks, then read the funny story written by this CGI script.

WINGS (ESL Writing & Art Magazine)

Writing Tips - Essay Builder (WritingDEN)

Writing Tips - Paragraph Builder (WritingDEN)

Writing Tips - Sentence Builder (WritingDEN)

 

Vocabulary:

Traffic Road Signs - Regulatory Signs (Alfred Lau)

Point your cursor at a sign and JavaScript tells you what it means.

Traffic Road Signs - Warning Signs (Alfred Lau)

Point your cursor at a sign and JavaScript tells you what it means.

Vocabulary Self-Study Quizzes (The Internet TESL Journal)

See the answers right away. Produced by teachers around the world.

Internet TESOL Journal's Crossword Puzzles Collection!

will check your answers (with JavaScript) or show correct answers

 

Grammar:

 

CLTA's Grammar Central (John Allan)

Explanations and short 'test-yourself' quizzes; contractions, person, ...

Grammar Bytes! (Robin L. Simmons)

For Native English Speakers: Interactive Exercises, Index of Grammar Terms, Rules for Fixing Grammar Problems, ...

Grammar Quizzes (Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students) (The Internet TESL Journal)

Answer the question and see the answer right away.

Guide to Grammar and Writing (Charles Darling)

Grammar Rules and Explanations and Computer-Graded Quizzes.

Jonathan Revusky's Interactive English Grammar Pages

Requires a Java-enabled browser

On-line English Grammar

www.edunet.com

Schoolhouse Rock - Grammar Rock

Lyrics to songs that help you learn grammar

Steve Tripp's Verb Machine

Choose a verb and see its conjugation.

Superteach - Free English Grammar Lesson - About Sentence Fragments (Lindsay Lyons)

Short explanation and some exercises.

Superteach - Free English Grammar Lesson - About Sentences (Lindsay Lyons)

Short explanation and some exercises.

Superteach - Free English Grammar Lesson - Verb Forms (Lindsay Lyons)

Short explanation and some exercises.

The English Zone (Kaye Mastin Mallory)

Grammar Quizzes, Spelling Quizzes, Idiom Quizzes and Links

 

TOEFL Practice

 

Okanagan University College's TOEFL Prep

JavaScript required.

Okanagan University College's TOEIC Prep

JavaScript required.

TOEFL Prep

Brian Rhodes and Rick Goulden

TOEFL Preparation (Brian Rhodes)

Requires the Shockwave browser plug-in from Macromedia

TOEFL: Test of English as a Foreign Language (toefl.org)

About the Test, Test-Taking Tips, TOEFL Test Sections and Practice Questions

TOEIC preparation interactive (Brian Rhodes)

Requires the Shockwave plug-in from Macromedia

TOEFL Practice Exercises

Maintained by Steve Chadwick. Stuff Media.

Idioms/Slang:

College Slang Top 20 - 1997 (Judi Sanders)

A list of words containing: 'cool', 'kick it', 'dope', and so on.

College Slang Top 20 -- 1998 (Judi Sanders)

A list of words containing 'dude', 'chill out', 'kick it', 'grub on' and so on.

Common American Slang (Charles I. Kelly & Lawrence E. Kelly)

Over 280 Common American Slang Expressions in a Quiz Format

Dave's ESL Slang Page (Dennis Oliver)

English slang, explanations and examples. See the complete list.

English Idioms & Idiom Quizzes (Kenneth Lawrence)

Idioms, each with a definition and a sentence example. Minimal images.

Idioms, Slang & Phrasal Verb Quizzes (The Internet TESL Journal)

See the answers right away. Produced by teachers around the world.

Mini-dictionary from Da Bomb (Judi Sanders)

American college slang words and their definitions.

Toon into Idioms (Adam Rado)

Toons and Voices or Text. Idioms illustrated with cartoons.

 

 

General Links:

ESL/EFL Links For Students

Maintained by The Internet TESL Journal

 

Purdue University's On-line Writing Lab - Handouts

Lets you search all our documents by category.

 

LinguaCenter Home Page

 

DAVE'S ESL CAFE ON THE WEB

includes several sections such as idiom page, slang, chat central, graffiti wall, quiz center and more