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ESL Tour Program (Department of Tourism): study English and visit the Philippines at the same time.

Free ESL and EFL lesson plans, worksheets, flashcards, printables and downloads (PDF, video, MP3 and Powerpoint)

Sites For Teachers (Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Activities, Clip Art in subjects like Reading, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and Writing)

Ultimate Top 100 Kids Sites is for children, teens, parents, and teachers, with links to fun, games, education, coloring, poetry, stories, cartoons, worksheet creator or generator, game makers, printables wizard and on-line teaching materials makers with images. Some of the listed English resources are ESL-Kids.com, Tools for Educators, Have Fun Teaching, Free ESL Flashcards, Heads Up English (ready to use ESL / EFL news lessons based on world events with mp3 downloads)

ESL Kids Lab offers free Printable ESL Worksheets and PDF Flashcards, Games for ESL Classrooms, ESL Video Lessons for kid Beginners, Interactive Students Vocabulary and Grammar Videos, and Powerpoint downloads for English teaching and learning.

iSLCollective.com, a free teaching material sharing site for ESL teachers (English, French, Spanish, and German) with over 8,000 worksheets in editable doc/ppt formats; Level: Beginner (pre-A1), Elementary (A1), Pre-intermediate (A2), Intermediate (B1), Upper-intermediate (B2), Advanced (C1), and Proficient (C2); Student Type: adult, kindergarten, elementary school, high school, and business/professional.

ESP World (English for Specific Purposes World) Online Journal for Teachers (Business English, Professional English, Legal English, Medical English, Academic English etc.)

MES-English.com by Mark Cox (free printables for teachers of young learners including Free Flash Cards for download; MES-Games: versatile communicative games; MES-Phonics: phonics flash card, posters and handouts for presentation; Projects and Lesson plans; Worksheets: talking worksheets, worksheets for introduction of grammar points, a phonics e-book series, award certificates, clipart to make your own worksheets, song sheets, nursery rhymes and chants cards, hundreds of color in sheets, teacher printables, and worksheets to match the MES-Flashcards, and Forums for games, activities, questions and feedback)

ESL Tower offers printable grammar and vocabulary exercises to make the lives of English teachers very easy like grammar worksheets for use in teaching by EFL, ESL, ELT and GSE teachers, vocabulary exercises to print and arranged according to topics, pronunciation printables to teach phonetics, connected speech and more.

ESL Printables, a website where English language teachers exchange resources like worksheets, lesson plans, activities, etc. Its collection is growing every day with the help of teachers from around the world. If you want to download any resource, you have to send your own contributions.

ESL Galaxy offers over 2,368 free printable worksheets for ESL lesson plans and ESL Activities and there are more additions every other day .The worksheets include: Board Games, Crosswords, Grammar worksheets, Vocabulary Worksheets, Theme or Topic lesson plans, Pronunciation and Intonation, Survival English and Business English, Song and Video Activities, Word Search Puzzles, Festivals and Holiday Worksheets, Prefixes / Suffixes Word Formation, Adult Communicative Activities Lesson Plans, Young Learners' Lesson Plans, Game and Writing Templates, Cloze and gap fill exercises, It also has ESL Games and ideas for ESL Classrooms, Powerpoint downloads, Matching and Collocations, Reading and Writing Exercises, Task-based Lesson Planning, Complete Lesson Plans (with video, ppt, worksheets). Free online exercises include grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, video slide lessons, and self-grading quizzes.

British Council resources: Learn English (Listen & Watch; Grammar & Vocabulary; Fun & Games; Business & Work; IELTS), with sections for professionals (specialist English language practice such as mini courses on Journalism, Finance and Legal English; practice and advice with IELTS and Cambridge ESOL exams in the lesson downloads and exams section; work skills and study skills) and kids (games, activities, songs, writing); Teaching English (the global home for English teaching on the web brings together everything busy teachers need, from classroom materials to ideas for development, with Activities, Lesson plans, Tips, Teaching kids, BritLit, Links, and Quizzes; resources for Arabic speakers; resources for Chinese students and teachers; English teacher training in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Chongqing, and Guangdong.

VOA Special English: interactive Wordbook (hear English words, their definitions and example dialogues by actual native English speakers to help you understand how the word is used in conversation, with special sections on Health and Business); Idiom Dictionary (with audio for definition, usage and example dialogue); The Classroom (Articles, Activities, Interactive Learning, Programs, Lesson Plans for EFL Teachers); and English lessons live on Facebook.

Learn American English (for native speakers of Chinese, Farsi, and Russian; free interactive, task-based beginner, intermediate, and advanced English lessons with images and sound)

Free online practice tests for learners of English, from Exam English (IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, Cambridge ESOL, LTE and others; also available in French and Spanish)

WritingFix (a global resource for Writing teachers with hundreds of free interactive lessons and quality resources for classrooms where writing is taught, not just assigned; with interactive writing prompts and lessons for teachers, students and writers like Daily Writing Prompts, Interactive Writing Prompts for K-6th Grade, Right-Brained Writing Prompts using serendipity and creativity to launch a piece of writing, Left-Brained Writing Prompts, and Writing Lesson of the Month Network for teachers around the world.) Other valuable resources from the Mentor Text lessons created by Northern Nevada teachers for teachers everywhere are: Picture Books; Chapter Book Excerpts; Literary Excerpts & Poetry Classics; Poetry-Inspired lessons; Short Stories (designing skill-based writing lessons inspired by short story excerpts); Poetry and Writing Across the Curriculum Prompts (using iPod technology to generate excitement about writing assignments in all curricular areas).

Daily Writing Tips, simple yet effective tips to improve your writing. Categories include Book Reviews, Business Writing, Competitions, Expressions, Fiction Writing, Freelance Writing, General, Grammar, Grammar 101, Misused Words, Punctuation, Spelling, Vocabulary, Word of the Day, and Writing Basics. You can get DWT via RSS Feed, or by email, and stay tuned for your writing tips.

Free resources in journalism: Newswsroom 101.com (more than 2,000 exercises in grammar, usage, spelling, The Editor’s Eye and AP Stylebook exercises) by Gerald Grow; 200+ lesson plan archive for journalism teachers from hsj.org

International House Bristol offers hundreds of free online, interactive exercises in grammar, vocabulary and phrases (elementary level for A2 to B1 on the Common European Framework, intermediate for B1 to B2 CEF, advanced for C1 to C2 CEF), useful expressions and Cambridge ESOL exercises with optional time limit for FCE (First Certificate in English), CAE (Certificate of Advanced English) and CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English).

ESL videos: Daily Pronunciation, with more free videos on vocabulary, American slang and idioms with pronunciation help from Sozo Exchange (the place where professional adults can learn English and exchange knowledge for free; download sample Study Guide); Learn English Through Song helps young adults at high school to university levels learn to speak, practice listening, develop vocabulary or just sing along like karaoke and have fun as they study more than a hundred songs from John Denver, Loggins and Messina, James Taylor, Elton John, CSNY, Simon and Garfunkel, Abba, etc. (from Teacher Frank’s Learn How to Speak Here and Now, with free song lyrics and practice exercises); English with Jennifer (free online vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation lessons); Business English Pod (download more video lessons and transcripts from businessenglishpod.com); Real English (hundreds of free exercises using authentic and natural videos of people speaking real English on streets across the globe, rendering the spontaneity of normal speech understandable for all levels of students, every lesson has 10 to 40 exercises using the English Star player, with a choice of subtitles in English, French, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese); Hugosite (free 365 American accent English lessons); The Daily English Show (the world's first daily online English language show with over a thousand videos; with YouTube channel; transcripts available in Japanese, German, Italian, Korean, Russian, Bulgarian, Spanish, Polish, and Ukrainian); and ASL in ESL (using American Sign Language in ESL classes)

BBC Learning English resources: ELT China, ELT Arabic, General and Business English (6 Minute English, Talk about English, Talking Business, Get That Job! activities, quizzes and tips to build career-related vocabulary); Grammar, Vocabulary & Pronunciation: Words in the News, Ask about English, News English Extra, Quizzes (Quiznet, Crosswords, Beat the Keeper, Wordmaster interactive vocabulary quiz with thousands of questions), Exam skills, guide to preparing for and taking exams with quizzes, scripts and audio; For teachers: Grammar Challenge worksheets for teachers to use with individual episodes of Grammar Challenge series; Funky Phrasals worksheets for teachers to use in tandem with series about phrasal verbs, Watch & listen activities to support series on Entertainment, London Life, and People and Places, Talking Business downloadable worksheets, How to ... activities and ideas; Teaching ideas & worksheets: The Flatmates, materials, ideas and worksheets for teachers to accompany the online soap opera, Knowledge on the Net, download this six-part radio series about the Internet and the classroom, Working Abroad worksheets, Innovations in Teaching for the classroom teacher or educationalist, Words in the News ideas and suggestions for using news stories in your class.

ESL Talk Time materials for conversation starters, independent speaking practice, debate clubs, discussions, lesson add-ons and more: ESL Discussions.com (currently with 642 discussion topics to choose from and 12,840 conversation questions on everyday themes and more controversial issues, in ready-to-print Word and PDF downloads); Speechtree (with dozens of conversation starters for abstract themes, academic matters, daily life, hobby topics, holiday nature, personal history, personal values, relationship, work, world and culture); and Road to Grammar (100 warm-up questions to turn your students into conversationalists).

Hot Potatoes from Half Baked Software Inc. (a suite of six applications which allow a user to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises and action mazes for the Internet. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source. Download Hot Potatoes 6.3 installer for Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista; Hot Potatoes for Linux users running Wine, version 6.3, zip file; Java Hot Potatoes for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux or any computer running a Java Virtual Machine)

ICAL Online TESL / TEFL Training (largest commercial online teacher training provider where you can get qualified to Teach English as a Foreign Language or Teach English as a Second Language; free resources from TEFL World Wiki include comprehensive online grammar of English, classroom techniques, linguistics, ESL activities and lesson plans, teaching FAQs, and ESL / EFL videos)

Common Errors in English, by Paul Brians

Text to Speech and Text to Speech Translator, from oddcast.com (available real time in over 60 various languages, accents and voices)

English - Spanish Language Dictionaries, from WordReference.com (free online Oxford Spanish dictionary, conjugator, audio pronunciations and forums for your questions; More Spanish dictionaries are Spanish - French, Spanish - Portuguese)

Hazar.com offers free online dictionaries for translating Turkish to and from English, German, Italian, Danish and Japanese; free resources for people of Turkish heritage

Yahoo downloads (the best free software for Windows like Firefox 9 and others)

Google Chrome for Windows combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

                                                 

Reading: discussions and interactive exercises

Centuries ago, author and philosopher Sir Francis Bacon said, "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." The best way to improve your writing, speaking, and listening abilities is to read a lot of materials like news items, essays, poems, and articles from newspapers, magazines, and books.

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Listed below are links to interactive quizzes, exercises, worksheets, printables, and lesson plans in reading and reading comprehension from the best ESL and EFL resources on the Internet. Clicking the blue links will take you to the specific page where these resources are located, while clicking the website name will take you to the home page.

[01] BBC - My Story (hundreds of extraordinary true stories of achievement, bravery, survival and more from the whole of human experience from across the UK and beyond)

Achievement (793 stories of accomplishing goals, against the odds)
Adventure (404 stories of amazing exploits across the world and closer to home)
Bravery (147 stories of heroic acts of courage, overcoming fear and danger)
Celebration (164 stories of heart warming, happy times)
Charity (55 stories of acts of kindness, amazing money raising feats)
Discovery (475 stories of finding new places and ideas)
Family & friends (672 stories of human relationships, close friends and relatives)
Humour (328 amusing, funny tales of japes and high jinks)
Romance (155 stories of affection, first love and relationships)
Sadness (316 stories of sorrow, sadness and disappointment)
Survival (953 stories of surviving disaster and life threatening situations)
The outdoors (58 stories of the sublime and picturesque wilds and countryside)
Tragedy (279 stories of loss, pain, suffering and regret)

[02] Free online library of over 8,000 books by 3,500 authors at your fingertips for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast, from Read Print

Categories: Essays, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Plays, Poetry, Short Stories

Browse by author’s last name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Top Authors: Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, George Orwell, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, O Henry, Oscar Wilde, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare

Top Books: 1984, Animal Farm, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, Paradise Lost, Peter Pan, Pride and Prejudice, The Canterbury Tales, The Great Gatsby, The Invisible Man

[03] Reading, from English-at-home

[04] English Reading, from EnglishClub

Classic English Reading ( famous texts in English from classic sources like the Bible or Shakespeare, with Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced and Shakespeare categories)
English Short Stories (For upper-Intermediate to Advanced levels, Short stories ranging in length from 1,500 to 7,000 words, with activities in vocabulary, vocabulary quiz and comprehension quiz. Some stories are from the public domain like Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”, and H.H. Munro’s classic horror story “The Monkey's Paw”.)
Authors (William Blake; Rudyard Kipling; Wilfred Owen; William Shakespeare; Percy Bysshe Shelley)
The English Alphabet
Reading Test (Written Comprehension Test)
English Proverbs
News (Current English language news stories from news publications around the world, good for reading practice)

[05] Reading, from English Corner (Rod Rodgers)

Note: Javascript required, with audio selections related to readings

Glossed Readings
Glossed Poems
Readings with True - False Quiz
Readings with Multiple Choice Quiz
Story Building Exercises
Text Reconstruction Exercises
Cloze Exercises

[06] Reading Techniques (Skimming, Scanning, and Using Context), from English On The Run

[07] English Reading Room, from English Page

Free Online Newspapers; Free Online Magazines; Free Online Books and Literature; Free Online Reference Materials; Online Libraries

[08] The Reading Room - English Comprehension, from English The International Language

Practice your reading skills and improve your vocabulary through selected Articles and Stories, with instant feedback in the True/False questions

[09] Reading, from English Works! Gallaudet University

Reading and Mapping Strategies
Reading Practice Exercises (Traditional Reading Practice - main idea, details, and inferenc- with Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary and Cloze Reading Practices
Types of Questions and Tests
ESL Reading Links (Reader’s Digest, National Geographic and many others)

[10] Reading, from esl-lounge Student

Elementary
Pre-Intermediate
Intermediate
Advanced

[11] Finest Quotes

[12] Readings in English, from Interesting Things for ESL Students

Reading English Signs
VOA's Special English Feature Stories (with limited vocabulary of 1,500 words)

[13] The Reading Room, from John’s ESL Interactive

Reading Strategies
Action Mazes (Interactive reading exercises)
Password Prize (game)

[14] Reading, from ESL Partyland

With Easy, Difficult and TOEFLesque categories, and reading comprehension activities (matching, error correction, etc)

[15] Online Literature Library, from 1-language.com

Aesop’s Fables (350 direct translations from the Greek)
Selected plays of Shakespeare (All's Well that Ends Well; Antony And Cleopatra; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; Julius Caesar)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Junior Classics - World Fables (from India, China, Japan, New Guinea, Serbia, Jamaica and others)
World Folk Tales
African Folk Tales
Central Asian Folk Tales
Central European Folk Tales
Chinese Folk Tales
Frank B. Linderman, 1915, Indian Why Stories
The Twins Tales: - Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1911 onwards

[16] Reading, from Language and Learning Online (Monash University)

Effective Reading; Selecting Texts; Predicting; Skimming; Scanning; Detailed Reading; Taking Notes; Reading problems, and Reading Strategies in Education

[17] Readings for ESL Students, from Lauri’s ESL Website

[18] Reading Comprehension, from Learning English Online (englisch-hilfen.de, English version)

[19] ESL Reading Lessons, from 5 Minute English

Note: There are many selections with comprehension exercises from this site; listed below are some representative articles.

Night Study in Korea
Improving Your English
English Around the World
English as an International Language
ESL Reading Comprehension
Using an English/English Dictionary

[20] Reading skills, from One Stop English

Reading matters: What is reading?
Reading skills lesson plans (lesson plans for teaching and learning reading)

[21] 100 free short stories for ESL learners (with listening, grammar, comprehension, and dictation exercises), from Rong-chang Li

Note: In order to listen to the real audio, you need to install the free Real Player. To see the definitions and hear the pronunciation of any word in the stories, you can install the free 1-click Answers program.

[22] Learn English with the news, Read and listen to articles, from Simple English News

[23] Learn English Reading, from Teacher Joe

Timed Readings (How many words per minute can you read?)
Life in China
Joe's Newest Jokes (Learn Vocabulary in context )
English Conversations (Read dialogues between a Chinese student and her friend from New York)

[24] The Quotations Archive

[25] Reading Comprehension Exercises, from Using English

Note: Reading comprehension exercises, based primarily on ESL examination questions like Cambridge ESOL, TOEFL, IELTS and other major exams

Comprehension: Beginner Level Exercises
Comprehension: Intermediate Level Exercises
Comprehension: Advanced Level Exercises

[26] Reading, from world-english

English Proverbs
Proverbs & Old Sayings Quiz
Classic Short Stories (public domain, copyright free)
Classic English Poetry

[27] discerningreader.com

Discerning Reader is dedicated to helping you find, read and enjoy good books. Around the world some 120,000 new books are published each year. That adds up to ten thousand every month; over 300 each and every day. Americans buy over 4.5 million books every day, including many of these new titles. This adds up to over 1.5 billion books per year that are consumed within America. Yet even this totals only 35% of the books that are sold worldwide. While it might seem that television and the Internet are decreasing our love for reading, it is clear that books sell better today than at any other time in history.

[28] 365 ESL Short Stories with audio, from eslfast.com

A free site for Intermediate ESL Learners; resources include interactive Sentence Structure Writing Practice (yes/no, wh- questions, passive voice, adjective and noun clauses, reported speech, scrambled sentence) and Practice Speaking English with Intelligent Robots (shopping, apartment, hotel, small talk, college life and employment)

[97] 10 Tips to Read More and Read Better, by Tim Challies

[30] Online youth sections of US newspapers

California: The Modesto Bee, Buzzz; The Press Enterprise, Riverside, Teen Page; The Daily Press, Victorville, Fresh!nk; Florida: South Florida Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Teen Link; Georgia; The Augusta Chronicle, Xtreme; Illinois: State Journal-Register, Springfield, Voice; Maine: Blethen Maine Newspapers, 20 Below; Maryland: Carroll County Times, Westminster, Synergy; Michigan: Detroit Free Press, Yak’s Corner; Missouri: The Kansas City Star, Teen Star: The Jersey Journal, Jersey City, Teen Scene; Asbury Park Press, Neptune, Whatever; New Mexico: The Santa Fe New Mexican, Generation Next; New York: The Buffalo News, NeXt; North Carolina: The Daily News, Jacksonville, CyHigh; Ohio: The Columbus Dispatch, Now!; Tribune Chronicle, Warren, Page One; Pennsylvania: Erie Times-News, Fresh Ink; Bucks County Courier Times, Levittown, Reality; Reading Eagle, Voices; York Blog, Teen Takeover; Tennessee: The Jackson Sun, CyHigh; Texas: San Antonio Express-News, Teen Team; Temple Daily Telegram, Underage Page; Waco Tribune-Herald, High School Hub; Virginia: The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, it!; The Roanoke Times, The Edge; Washington: Yakima Herald-Republic, Unleashed

[31] SAT Critical Reading Guide, from DOME SAT Review (free comprehensive study guides with practice quizzes and practice tests)

[32] Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. SSRN has again been named the Number 1 Open Access Repository in the World (July, 2011).

The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: (1) an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 365,800 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers, and (2) an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 298,700 downloadable full text documents in PDF format.

The vast majority of downloads from the SSRN eLibrary are free. Papers are in the following fields: Accounting, Classics, Cognitive Science, Corporate, Economics, English and American Literature, Entrepreneurship, Financial, Health, Information, Leadership, Legal, Management, Marketing, Music Research and Composition, Negotiations, Philosophy, Political, Rhetoric and Writing, and Social Insurance.

[33] ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. It provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research. ERIC has a growing collection of full-text journal and non-journal literature in PDF format, including reports from the U.S. Department of Education and its grantees.

[34] Reading, from Using English for Academic Purposes: A Guide for Students in Higher Education (by Andy Gillett)

Accuracy in EAP
Introduction to reading skills in academic study
Reading advice
Efficient reading skills
Understanding texts
Summarising and Note-taking
Strategies for reading
Reading critically
Exercises

Notes:

Animated retelling of John Bunyan's classic novel “The Pilgrim’s Progress”

Social by Social (practical guide to using new technologies to create social impact; read online or download free PDF, 256 pages, 25.82 mb): New technologies are changing the way we engage communities, run companies, deliver public services, and participate in government and campaign for change. These new technologies are available to all of us. Social by Social makes accessible the tools you need to engage a community, offer services, scale up activities and sustain projects. Whoever you are, it shows you how to take technology and turn it into real world benefits. Topics include: Things to Come; The Propositions; A-Z of key terms; Tools and resources

How to Survive the Economic Meltdown by Patrick Morley

Pat’s new book features 35 hard earned spiritual, practical and financial survival strategies based on lessons learned during his own personal financial crisis.

Every day for seven long years he woke up not knowing whether or not he would be forced into bankruptcy. By God’s grace, he was able to avoid bankruptcy and not only survive, but experience extraordinary spiritual growth.

Handheld English is a complete English course with MP3 lessons downloadable directly to your mobile phones; This course can be used by university students, professionals, and others who want to speak English well. If you practice one or two hours each day with the audio lessons, you should be able to speak simple English within six months. However, learning English fluently will require hard work each day. This course can be used by both beginning and advanced English students. The lessons are neither too difficult for a beginning student nor too easy for an advanced student. They can be used in an established school or when studying alone.

Good News Comprehensive English Course is a free teach yourself English course for absolute beginners both young and old, and based on a modern English version of the most translated bestseller of all times, the Bible. It aims to develop all the language skills - listening, speaking, reading and writing. Lessons in audio and PDF may be downloaded and used offline. Audio lessons are voiced by both British and American speakers (Real Audio required). Some parts of the course have been translated into the following languages: Albanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese - Simplified, Chinese - Traditional, Farsi, French, German, Gujarati, Indonesian, Italian, Khmer, Korean, Nepali, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese and many more translations are expected to follow.

Testing your level of English proficiency (online diagnostic, assessment and practice exams)

Free online practice tests for learners of English, from Exam English (managed by Steve Chadwick); also available in French and Spanish

Online Assessment Tests, from World English

Activities for learners, from Churchill House School of English Language (Elementary, Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate, Advanced, Exam preparation, Phrasal verbs)

Test your English now (vocabulary, grammar, listening and reading (cloze test)

365 various quizzes to test your English knowledge, from Road to English Grammar

Cambridge ESOL exercises with optional time limit for FCE (First Certificate in English), CAE (Certificate of Advanced English), CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English), from International House Bristol

Exams in General English (KET, PET, FCE, CAE, CPE), Professional English, Academic English (IELTS), Exams for Schools, from Cambridge ESOL Teacher Support (with free teaching resources and forum)

Business English Level Test, a 100 question test to discover your business English mastery level, from about.com (Adult Education English for special purposes including Business, commercial, financial, legal, insurance and human resources sectors)

British Council resources:

IELTS - International English Language test
(British Council English exam centres in over 100 countries offer IELTS tests up to 4 times a month)

Learn English Gateway - Learn English Language and Grammar - British Council (Whatever your level in English, we can help you test and develop your English language skills. There are a variety of English courses in the UK, in your country and online. Explore the exciting learning opportunities the British Council has to offer you to improve your English Language skills)

Teaching English Gateway - Help for English Language Teachers - British Council (Whether you are new to English language teaching, or whether you are taking the next career and development steps as an English teacher, you will find valuable help and opportunities here to assist in achieving your goals)

The Hope ESL Curriculum Software: This free-to-copy English language CD ROM by Roofbreakers.org is being used and distributed around the world by a whole range of people. Besides the free CD, also available for download are (1) The Hope ESL Software Curriculum Guide in PDF; and (2) A few Simple ideas for New Language Learners and Old Ones Needing Some New Life. You can find the Mandarin and Indonesian support version of Hope ESL in the root directory of each CD. You can also freely download the complete version 3 Hope ESL software (800 mb zip file).

                                                                                                                        

Relevant links

Family Code Philippines (free legal information)
Are you a good person? (free PDF)
the kristo
(English; available also in Spanish)
One Solitary Life

A Ready Defense
Jesus: A Biblical Defense of His Deity
Isa Al-Maseeh
Answers in Genesis
Creation Super Library (also available in Chinese traditional; Dutch; French; German; Hungarian; Indonesian; Japanese; Portuguese; Russian; Spanish; and Swedish)
Hear Good News
Studylight

Got Questions Ministries
Spiritual Counterfeits Project
Probe Ministries
Crosswalk
Women Today Magazine
(available in French and Chinese)
Sexual purity websites
(Silver Ring Thing, Purefreedom, True Love Waits)
Starting With God
Cloud and Townsend Resources
Love and Respect
Real Relationships
Living Hope
Power To Change (English); for other languages, click Arabic; French; German; Italian; Spanish, Thai, Japanese; Malay; Russian; Czech and Chinese

Legal Updates
Baptist Churches in the Philippines
Campus Connection
Salt and Light

Do you know for sure where you will spend eternity?
Oneplace.com – Listen for Life
and Faith Talk Web Radio
Another Interview With God (see this page in Czech, Dutch, Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese and Turkish)
I Am Next (website for college students): academics, fun, career, living, people, sex, love, spirituality

Cómo conocer a Dios

Chamada (a Christian portal for Portuguese-speaking persons, provides literature, Biblical messages, articles, tracts, magazines, book information and much more)

Online libraries

Humanities Text Initiative
University of Michigan
Online access to complete texts of many works of English literature

Project Bartleby Archive
Complete texts of many works of English literature

The Internet Classics Archive Complete texts of hundreds of works of English literature

Project Gutenberg Official Home Site: Easy to access literary works for free
Top 100
Online Book Catalog - Overview

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations

English Online Resources Electronic Text Center, University Of Virginia
Complete texts of thousands of works of English literature, including novels, plays, poetry and Bibles

The On-Line Books Page Complete texts of more than 7,000 works of English literature

The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare

Arabic Bible

Online magazines

Women Today Magazine Femmes Aujourd'hui
Chinese Women Today
Relationships; Sex & Love; Advice; Beauty; Fashion; Food; Money; Work; Chat; Online Studies; Life Stories; Wellness & Spirit; Self-Esteem; Family & Home; Health & Fitness; Wit & Wisdom

SOON Online Magazine
Learning English Index

free world-wide easy-English literature programme; free hard copies available on request

Men Today Online (A high adventure magazine for men)

Online dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, translators

Cambridge Dictionaries Online

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary now has more than 40,000 audio recordings in British and American English you can perfect your pronunciation.

Pictorial Vocabulary Guides, from LanguageGuide.org
Learn the pronunciation and spelling of thousands of words using an image based interface, with supported languages as English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Italian, Greek, Chinese, Chinese (traditional characters), Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian.

OneLook® Dictionaries
Definitions and spellings of more than seven million words from over 1001 indexed online dictionaries

Visual Dictionary and Encyclopedia

The Internet Picture Dictionary

Encyclopedia Britannica On-line

MSN Encarta Dictionary

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Online bilingual dictionaries from www.freedict.com

Online English to African / African to English Dictionary

Online English to Indonesian / Indonesian to English Dictionary

Online English to Japanese / Japanese to English Dictionary

Online English to Spanish / Spanish to English Dictionary

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