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Spoken English Learned Quickly (free, complete course with MP3 and PDF) Learning English and creative writing through photographs Idioms,
phrasal verbs Be a better writer with StyleWriter 4 English for Special / Specific Purposes "A picture is worth a thousand words ..." blog Join this site on Google Friend Connect 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.
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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.
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)
[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
[03] Reading, from English-at-home [04] English Reading, from EnglishClub
[05] Reading, from English Corner (Rod Rodgers)
[06] Reading Techniques (Skimming, Scanning, and Using Context), from English On The Run [07] English Reading Room, from English Page
[08] The Reading Room - English Comprehension, from English The International Language
[09] Reading, from English Works! Gallaudet University
[10] Reading, from esl-lounge Student [11] Finest Quotes [12] Readings in English, from Interesting Things for ESL Students
[13] The Reading Room, from John’s ESL Interactive
[14] Reading, from ESL Partyland
[15] Online Literature Library, from 1-language.com
[16] Reading, from Language and Learning Online (Monash University)
[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
[20] Reading skills, from One Stop English
[21] 100 free short stories for ESL learners (with listening, grammar, comprehension, and dictation exercises), from Rong-chang Li
[22] Learn English with the news, Read and listen to articles, from Simple English News [23] Learn English Reading, from Teacher Joe
[25] Reading Comprehension Exercises, from Using English
[26] Reading, from world-english
[27] discerningreader.com
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Relevant links
Family
Code Philippines
(free legal information) 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 Project
Bartleby Archive 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 Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations English
Online Resources Electronic Text Center, University Of
Virginia The On-Line Books Page Complete texts of more than 7,000 works of English literature The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare Online magazines Women
Today Magazine Femmes
Aujourd'hui SOON
Online Magazine Men Today Online (A high adventure magazine for men) Online dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, translators 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 OneLook®
Dictionaries Visual Dictionary and Encyclopedia The Internet Picture Dictionary Encyclopedia Britannica On-line Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Online bilingual dictionaries from www.freedict.com Online
English to African / African to English Dictionary Information
Please English-Chinese
Dictionary Webster's Online Dictionary. With Multilingual Thesaurus Translation YourDictionary
RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus Oxford Dictionaries Online (US English; World English): Dictionary, Better writing, World of words, Puzzles and games, For children and schools, For learners of English Reverso free online translation Online newspapers Read 6000+ online newspapers at ThePaperboy.com From Asia and Middle East From Europe
Listen now to The Narnia Story (narration by Ray Comfort and introduction by Kirk Cameron) or download the MP3. If you have trouble extracting a zipped file, you may need to install a free program. Just click this link to download a free copy of ZipReader. Asia's Center for TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) accredited by Cornerstone University of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. For more information, please contact Jurene Breidenbach at jureneb@actesol.com or Sam Kuka at director@actesol.com, or call office phone 922-9561. Google eBookstore (over 3 million eBooks to read on the Web, Android, iPhone, iPad, Sony and Nook) General categories: Biographies & Memoirs; Business & Investing; Children's Books; Computers & Internet; Cooking, Food & Wine; Fiction; History; Humor; Lifestyle & Home; Mystery & Thrillers; Parenting & Families; Politics & Current Events; Reference; Religion & Spirituality; Romance; Science; Science Fiction; Fantasy; Sports; Travel
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Be a better writer with StyleWriter 4 English for Special / Specific Purposes "A picture is worth a thousand words ..." blog
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