Internet English Resources
Grammar Resources
- Structure
1-2 Resource Pages
- This site had class information and resources for students in Advanced
Grammar.
- Grammar
Safari
- Explore English Grammar and Vocabulary on the Web
- Internet
TESOL Journal's Self-Study Quizzes for Grammar
- Extensive collection of self-study quizzes on many grammar topics!
- About's
Grammar Links
- A comprehensive list of links with general information as well as
links for help with understanding specific grammar points.
- Guide
to Grammar and Writing
- This website has information and interactive quizzes on a variety
of topics at different levels such as "Word and Sentence level", Paragraph
Level" and "Essay and Research Paper Level"
- Concordance
sites
- A Concordance program is a computer program that can help you analyze
the language that is used in real situations (example). This webpage
has links to several places you can use these programs for free.
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Oral Communication Resources
- Grand
Canyon Travel Simulation
- A trip planning simulation designed to do in class.
- About's
Vocabulary Links
- While most of these links are to references to vocabulary word groups,
there are several pages with appropriate conversation strategies such
as "saying
no nicely" or
making suggestions.
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Listening Resources
Student Resources
- Interactive Listening
- Guided practice of listening comprehension with Real Audio using
radio news stories.
- Model
Presentation
- Interactive activity in which you can listen to and analyze a model
presentation given on California.
- Randall's Cyber
Listening Lab
- Lots of interactive lessons with Real Audio. Lessons are divided
by level - easy, medium, difficult.
- About's
Listening Links
- A collection of links to listening sites that are organized by level
and type of skill such as comprehension, pronunciation, recognition
of accents etc.
- The English Learner Movie
Guide
- This website helps you prepare to watch well known movies by giving
you a plot summary and important background and vocabulary. It does
not have actual listening links, however.
Authentic Listening Sites
- Welcome to NPR
- National Public Radio home page for its programs. This is a list of
all the NPR radio programs
available.
- WILL-am
- U of I's radio station Focus
580 has archived radio segments that students can listen to online.
- PBS Newshour
- Most recent programs have both RealAudio and Video versions of their
segments. There is also search
engine for video segments, the link for the Newshour Transcripts
- Pulse
of the Planet
- From National Geographic: These are short audio segments on cultural
and scientific topics from around the world.
- The
EngineerGuy
- Engineering and Life. A series of short listenings about the science
behind every day objects. It also includes the transcripts.
- American
Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States
- On this site, you can read and hear famous speeches both from American
history and movies. It has an online speech bank, a section for the
top 100 speeches, a section of movie speeches and one called "figures
in sound" which has short audio clips from well-known speeches,
movies, sermons, popular songs, and sensational media events.
- The
History Channel
- Links to video and audio clips on a variety of historical events.
There is also a great speech archive.
- StoryCorps
- Listen to real people tell stories about their lives and experiences.
- Wired for books
- This is a great site where you can listen to interviews with famous
authors and readings of famous books, poems and more.
- BBC Radio 4
- If you would like to try listening to a non-American accent, try this
British BBC Radio website.
- CNN Video
- This website has a variety of video articles on many different topics.
- ABC News - 20/20
- This website has video clips from a new magazine show on ABC.
- Forbes News Network
- This website has video related to business topics.
- CBS News video
- This website is associated with CBS and has video clips on a variety of topics.
- Ford Forum
- This website has lectures on a wide variety of topics.
- Learn Out Loud
- This website has wide variety of free audio and video learning resources. Free audio books, lectures, speeches and much more.
- Ted Talks
- This website has short talks on a variety of topics. Great site!
- Free Science Videos and Lectures Online
- As the name suggests, this site has free lectures and videos on a wide variety of science-related topics.
- Free Online Lectures from the University of California at Berkeley
- As the title says this website has links to mp3 versions of lectures given at Berkeley on a wide variety of topics.
- Free Online University Lectures
- This website has links to several US universities who have online lecture you can listen to lectures for free.
- Free Online lectures from around the World (in English)
- The website
has lectures from universities and events around the world.
- Free Online lectures from Princeton University
- This website has links to lectures given at Princeton on many different topics.
- Free Online lectures from MIT
- This website has links to lectures given at MIT on many different topics.
- Free Online lectures from MIT courses
- This website offers video lectures from specific courses offered at MIT. This site is different from the one above.
- Audio and Video Podcasts from CNN
- On this website you watch video or subscribe to popular CNN news podcasts.
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Reading Resources
Student Resources
- Impact
Online ESL Newsreader
- News articles with some vocabulary explanations (but not updated very
often)
- About's
Reading Links
- About has links to lot of types of reading exercises.
- Reading
Better and Faster
- Interlink's
Interactive Reading Quizzes
- The English Learner Movie
Guide
- This website helps you prepare to watch well known movies by giving
you a plot summary and important background and vocabulary.
Authentic Reading Resources
Newspapers
- The New York Times
- you need to join with a free membership to access this site.
- USA Today
- The Los Angeles
Times
- The Washington
Post
- The
Christian Science Monitor
- News
Central - links to news papers from all over the United States
More links to
news related pages
Magazines, Online Books and other Reading Resources
- Time
- Newsweek
- CNN.com
- Discover
- The Smithsonian
- US News and
World Report
Reader's Digest
Books Online
The Etext Archives
US Government online texts
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Writing Resources
- Paradigm Online Writing
Assistant
- An interactive on-line writing tutorial.
- The Purdue
University Online Writing Lab
- See especially the "Resources for Writers" section.
- About's
Writing Links
- and About's
Writing Resource Links
- St. Cloud State's
LEO
- This website discusses many of the problems student have when writing
papers or essays.
- APA Citation
- This site has lots of information about writing using the APA style
- Tips
on Writing a Statement of Purpose
- This page had information on how to write the statement of purpose
that many universities require as part of their application. For more
information see Purdue
University Online Writing Lab page on this topic.
- Writing
an Essay Question
- Information on how to write a good essay question from the Purdue
Online Writing Lab.
- Quotations
Page
- Look for quotations to begin your first paragraph with.
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Vocabulary Resources
- Internet
TESOL Journal's Self-Study Quizzes for Vocabulary
- Extensive collection of self-study quizzes on vocabulary!
- Internet
TESOL Journal's Self-Study Quizzes for idioms, phrasal verbs and slang
- Same type of self-study quizzes
- Internet
TESOL Journal's Crossword Puzzles Collection!
- Will check your answers (with JavaScript) or show correct answers
- Dave Sperling
and Dennis Oliver's Phrasal Verb Page
- Nice collection of multi-word verbs with meanings and examples
- About's
Vocabulary Links
- Most of these links are to references for vocabulary word groups.
As mentioned above, also included are pages with appropriate conversation
strategies.
- Wild
World of Words Challenges
- A variety of challenging exercises to increase your vocabulary knowledge.
Four main categories are spelling, decoding, word building, and word
meanings. For instance, within "word meanings," you can practice animal
idioms, rhyming, prefix, and more.
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Pronunciation Resources
- Phonetics
Flash Animation Project
- This website has visual images of how sounds are produced as well
as examples of how letters sound at the beginning, middle and end of
a word. Requires Flash
and QuickTime
to see the animation and video. From University of Iowa
- Okanagan
University College English Pronunciation
- Listening practice, tongue
twisters and dictations for:
think/than light / right
bead / bid sip / ship / chip
vine/wine
You'll need Quicktime
and Flash.
- Mouth
Workout
- "Tongue twister exercises to improve problem consonants"
- About's
Pronunciation Links
- A comprehensive list of links to references related to pronunciation
- English
Club
- You'll find a few exercises for word stress,
sentence stress, and how to pronounce "-ed" in past tense.
- Pronouncing
Sounds of English
- Pairs of sounds are presented. There are descriptions,
drawings, audio recordings and some video of mouth positions for different
sounds. By Sharon Widmayer and Holly Gray
- American English
Pronunciation Practice
- Listening exercises to practice distinguishing
between commonly mixed up vowel sounds and consonant sounds. You'll
need Flash Player. By Charles I. Kelly
- Randall's Listening Lab
- Listening exercises to practice distinguishing r/l, b/v, f/v, s/sh
in the medium skill section. Plus lots more listening practice.
- Authentic American Pronunciation
- From Bob Easton. This site offers many sound files for listening
and opportunities for students to practice.
- ESL: Pronunciation
- An excellent collection of pronuciation links from the Internet TESL
journal.
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Test Preparation
- The Educational Testing
Service's TOEFL Homepage
- Check here for the best official information about the TOEFL from
the organization that gives it, including practice questions.
- The Educational
Testing Service's TOEIC Homepage
- Check here for the best official information about the TOEIC from
the organization that gives it.
- TOEIC
Preparation
- This is an excellent interactive resource for TOEIC practice from
Okanagan University College. (Note: requires the Shockwave plug-in)
- MBA.com
- This site helps students who are interested in attending MBA school
in the US and need to take the GMAT.
- GRE Homepage
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Online Dictionaries
- The Newbury House Dictionary of American
English
- This dictionary allows you to search their database of over 40,000
entried. Also features a "Word of the Day."
- Cambridge
Dictionaries
- Search for idioms and phrasal verbs in addition to any other English
words.
- Online
Thesaurus
- Find synonyms and definitions
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Other Collections of ESL Resources
Several of these collections were used as a starting point for selecting
some of the resources I have included above.
- About's English as
a Second Language site
- One of the best resource sites out there with several pages of resource
links for many different topics.
- Dave's
ESL Cafe on the Web
- Easily the most famous ESL Web site out there right now.
- Dave Sperling's
ESL Web Guide
- An excellent searchable collection of resources related to ESL.
- The
Ohio University CALL Lab English Resources Page
- An extensive and impressive well-organized collection of links to
all kinds of English resources
- Rong-Chang Li's
ESL Page
A collection of links to many resources of various types
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