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The Internet provides many opportunities to learn and study English, but finding the perfect website can sometimes be hard.
If you find one place too easy, look for something harder. Find a website too hard? Look for an easier place. Keep looking and keep studying!
These links are to what we believe are the best places for English learning on the ‘net.
Last updated: May 21, 2013 at 17:16 pm
5 Minute English has been designed to give students short and easy explanations and exercises. ESL lessons include such things as: Grammar; Reading; Vocabulary; Listening; Pronunciation; Slang/Idioms.
Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL) This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers. Bilingual quizzes in many languages. These pages should work even if your browser is not compliant with the newest web standards.
Adele Collins' website for students of the beginner and intermediate levels. Resources include exercises for: Reading; Listening, Grammar and Vocabulary.
BBC Learning English is a quality site that offers grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation exercises, audio files and much more.
Better at English is devoted to helping non-native speakers improve their English. Students will find short lessons, listening activities, tips, and advice that can help improve English in as little as two minutes per day. All free!
Founded in 1999, BrainPOP® creates animated, curricular content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement. In the English pages, you can find help with grammar, reading, listening, writing and other activities.
Business English Expressions is a weblog that focuses on the learning of English language useful in the business world. Aimed mainly at more advanced students, this is a useful site for older learners and business people.
Daves' ESL Cafe- Student Pages
Daves' ESL cafe has a number of activities for students such as a help centre, the hint-of-the-day, an idioms section, a phrasal verbs section, a section for pronunciation power, quizzes, slang and student forums.
The free online translator from Dicitonary.com is able to translate words from over fifty languages to English and back. Useful for all students to bookmark for future study.
Edulang: One World, One Shared Language
Nine unique online ESL applications and all are “pay what you want”. Enjoy interactive exercises that make you forget you’re actually learning with English Addicts, Vocabster, English for Daily Life, or specialize with English for Business or Gramster I and II. TOEIC® and TOEFL® preparation as well or test your English level with the Edulang Certificate of English.
English Page offers a number of resources for students including: a weekly lesson; vocabulary; verb tenses; conditionals; modals; gerunds; prepositions; mini-tutorials; irregular verbs; reading room; listening lounge; games; and student forums.
English Video Lessons is a free website that offers thousands of video lessons for students at different levels.
English with Jo is an English learning resource aimed mostly at older students. Topics include: Business English; Conversation Lessons; English Conversation Videos; ESL Debates; ESL Word of the Day; Idiom of the Day; Phrasal Verbs; Useful Vocabulary and other great things.
A free site for ESL/EFL learners with 365 short stories to read and 1500 conversations to listen to online.
ESL Flash Games offers free ESL/EFL games for students including grammar games, vocabulary games, and phonics programs.
ESL Gold offers exercises in: Speaking; listening; reading; writing; grammar; vocabulary; business English; pronunciation; TOEFL® ®/TOEIC® ®; and idioms. It has lessons for all levels: low beginner, high beginner; low intermediate; high intermediate; and advanced.
ESL Listening provides materials to help develop the listening skills of English language learners. These including podcasts and streamed video & audio. These are accompanied by interactive activities, including traditional ESL/EFL listening comprehension exercises. There are also worksheets based around short video clips. There also links to some of the best podcasts for ESL students.
In the ESL Mania student pages, students can explore idioms, grammar, business English and tools to aid with accent reduction as well as other resources. ESL Mania is for adult learners and teachers.
ESL Partyland offers a number of ESL quizzes in the Quiz Center. The learning pages are designed to give students topic-based English language practice. Such as: Dating and Relationships; Food; Internet; Media; Movies; Music; Travel. There is also an online chat section.
FreeRice.com is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program. It partners with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. FreeRice has two goals: T provide free education and to help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. <p> </p> How does it work? For each answer you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice to the World Food Programme to help end hunger. Offering questions in English, Math, Art, Chemistry, Geography, World Capitals, and Language Learning Free Rice is fun! Give it a shot!
Fun Easy English includes: Free daily lessons (English one day at a time.) Free English lessons (English one topic at a time.) and over 2000 videos for your english study.
The Grammarman Comic aimed at students and teachers of English appears regularly in: Business English (Russia), The New Straits Times (Malaysia), Student Weekly (Thailand) , Your News (Canada).
HospitalEnglish.com contains free medical English teaching materials and hospital English worksheets, for studying English, as well as medical English lesson plans for teachers. Free teaching materials, lesson plans, and flashcards. Disease state directors and health care professional models as well. Free on-line listening and quizzes for students.
LearnEnglish Kids has lots of free online games, songs, stories and activities for children to have fun and learn English too. You can become a member, make your own cool character and enter competitions. When you are a member you can comment across the site and answer questions in your turn to practise your reading and writing. Created by the British Council the United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities.
Learner – Connect With English Pages
Learner.org presents a series called Connect with English. A video instructional series in English as a second language for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 50 fifteen-minute video programs and coordinated books.
Lil' Fingers is a storybook site for toddlers with educational games, storybooks and coloring pages. Free toddler stories, activities & holiday sections are designed with bright colors & big buttons for little fingers.
Literactive is a leading provider of reading material for pre-school, kindergarten and grade one students available online. The program is comprised of carefully levelled guided readers, comprehensive phonic activities and a wealth of supplemental reading material which gradually develop a child's reading skills in a sequential and enjoyable manner. Though made for native English speakers, the tools are all useful for ESL readers. Developed and approved by teachers and parents across the United States, Literactive is an acknowledged leader in early learning online. All the material is available for free from the site but you need to register.
Literacy Center Education Network
The Literacy Center Education Network is a non-profit organization with a mission to deliver free, professionally-designed, education material to <strong>preschool-age children</strong>. Utilizing the power of the Internet, they distribute education material directly to children in their homes, libraries, and schools. In addition to tools to study English, students can study French, German and Spanish as well.
Many Things is a web site is for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities.
With Games, videos and print projects all based on the "Martha" books, Marth Speaks is a fun learning resource for younger students. The Martha Speaks Web site has lots of stuff kids can do on their own. The games, videos, and activities are fun, and they help kids learn new words, too! MARTHA SPEAKS is a production of WGBH Boston and DHX Media.
Mary's English Course are ESL English courses specifically designed for adults learning English and are intended as revision/refresher courses or as introductory courses for the language normally taught at each level. Each free course include sections on ESL grammar, ESL vocabulary, and English conversation.
Games for beginner learners and children from pre-school to about grade 3. Created by PBS in the United States these are fun games for young learners.
PIE: Podcasts In English is designed for efl/esl learners and teachers of English. It features authentic conversations and also supporting vocabulary worksheets, webquests, transcripts and extra activities for elementary, intermediate and upper intermediate students.
Pronuncian was developed as a resource for ESL and EFL teachers and students around the world who are working to improve their American English pronunciation, or their teaching of pronunciation.
Purdue University Online Writing Lab
The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) offers over 200 free resources including: Writing and Teaching Writing; Research; Grammar and Mechanics; Style Guides; ESL (English as a Second Language). Some of the most popular resources include: OWL Exercises; APA Formatting and Style Guide; MLA Formatting and Style Guide; Avoiding Plagiarism; Writing the Basic Business Letter ;and Developing a Résumé. Useful for all students, not just those that study English as a second language.
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab has a number of ESL/EFL resources for students that want to practice listening. Such as general listening quizzes; basic listening quizzes; listening quizzes for academic purposes; twenty minute ESL vocabulary lessons; language-learning and life tips; long conversations with real video. Randall offers other websites as well: Daily ESL; EZSlang; Randall's ESL Blog; Train Your Accent; and Tips For Students.
Launched in January 2002, Reading A-Z has more than 170,000 members and has won a number of educational awards for its innovation in reading instruction. Reading A-Z is a constantly changing program, it currently has more than 2,500 downloadable books. Each month, Reading A-Z adds new books, lesson plans, and other resources, thus continually expanding its wealth of materials.
Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Taking a systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, Starfall.com is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Where children have fun learning to read!
The Screen Actors Guild (Movie Stars) read stories for children in online streaming videos. Each story includes activities and ideas for teachers too! Though the stories are for children, many adults will still find the stories fun for listening practice.
Operated by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, The StoryPlace Pre-school Library is full of great activities for students to explore. Mostly for pre-school students, many of the activities are also fun for older, but beginner students.
Study English Today offers free online English lessons and English grammar for ESL and EFL learners. Includes also tests, English alphabet with pictures of animals, poetry and lyrics.
The Tiny TEFL Teacher website is for students who want to learn English grammar. If you are a student studying for the FCE exam, try the FCE exam practice.
ToLearnEnglish.com is a free site for English learners. Students will find free English vocabulary sheets, English grammar sheets, English exercises and English lessons. There is an English forum as well as matching for English pen pals.
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks – animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. <p> </p> The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of licensed titles from children's book publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Chronicle Books, Candlewick Press, Charlesbridge Press, Walker & Company Annick Press, Orca Books, Lerner Books , and HarperCollins Publishers, amongst others.
UsingEnglish.com has a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics, covering the full spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas.
Vocabulary A–Z offers a variety of ways to support vocabulary learning. The website database contains thousands of vocabulary words, and they add new words daily. Additionally, users can access pre-made lessons for Reading A–Z leveled books.
The Westcoast Reader is a newspaper for adults who are improving their English reading skills. The newspaper is published from September to June by Capilano University with assistance from the B.C. Ministry of Advanced Education and Pacific Newspaper Group, publishers of The Province and The Vancouver Sun.
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| Word Form | adjective |
| Definition | Impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses. |
| Synonyms | unperceivable |
| Usage | The world may indeed be considered as a vast machine, in which the great wheels are originally set in motion by those which are very minute, and almost imperceptible to any but the strongest eyes. |
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