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Alll about 'sublanguages': slang, thieves cant, hippie English, green English, theatre English etc.

PhraseMix is a tool for motivated English learners who want to speak real English, really well. Learn a new real-world English sentence every day!

Welcome to the English Corner, a site for intermediate and advanced students of English as a foreign language. You will find English grammar exercises, grammar rules, vocabulary games, interactive crossword puzzles, ESL reading exercises, collocations, and more.

Very entertaining and pretty good with the facts. To get all the jokes, you probably need to study Shakespeare, read the King James Bible, take a course in the history of English and maybe one in linguistics (like sociolinguistics). Hilarious! Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/video/The-History-of-English-in-10-Minutes.html#ixzz1wRRBUph2

A new site (starting soon) - social networking for learners of English: practise speaking and writing English with people all over the world

Lots of little video clips of people being interviewed in the street, each comes with a transcript, exercises and a place where students can record and listen to themselves. American English.

Welcome to the Guardian Teacher Network English Language Teaching resources page. Here you will find inspiring and useful ELT resources for all ages. The resources include lessons created by Guardian Weekly's Learning English specialists as well as materials created and uploaded by teachers worldwide.

Exploring the English language, and how to use it: resources and information for learners of English

Lessons from real news: Easily create English Language learning material from an enormous pool of ever growing English Language news sources from around the world. LINGLE automatically identifies grammar, vocabulary, topic and complexity from international English Language news sources including The New York Times, The Guardian and China Daily. You can rapidly find authentic, interesting articles at the right level, with the vocabulary and grammar for your learners. Rapidly build and manage lesson plans with exercises, key-word glossaries and news stories automatically generated from any article. FREE TRIAL for only 2 weeks or 6 documents.

interesting and good idea, but not sure I'd want to pay for it (I don't like anything that uses teachers for an income stream)

http://wp.me/p1VP4o-K I made a GRAMMAR GAP FILL using Lingle - have a look and see what you think. It was very easy, the lesson you'll see on this link took me about 15 mins from start (working out how it all works) to finish.

This is what French children are being given to help them learn English (http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/mar/13/elt-diary-march-learning-english?CMP=EMCGUWEML335)

This is now up and running - students can arrange to chat over Skype in English.

On this website you can find a variety of tools that can help you prepare English language exercises within minutes.

PhoTransEdit applications have been designed to help those who work with English phonetic transcriptions. Far from providing perfect automatic transcriptions, PhoTransEdit is aimed at just helping you save your time when writing, publishing or sharing English transcriptions.

The Internet Grammar of English is an online course in English grammar written primarily for university undergraduates.

Teaching English with Technology (TEwT) is a free online double-blind peer-reviewed journal that seeks to disseminate cutting-edge work focussed mainly on how technology is being used, or could be used, in TESOL (Teaching English To Speakers of Other Languages).

The Internet Grammar of English is an online course in English grammar written primarily for university undergraduates.

Modern English Grammar: HyperTextBook: English grammar, linguistics, punctuation, usage, and writing style resources

Shaping the Way We Teach English is a video-based training product for English language educators. It has 14 modules (topics).

English Grammar Online … the fun way to learn English online

Study English - IELTS Preparation, is a series of English language programs for intermediate to advanced learners.