This is a great site for all students who need practice in such skills as writing paragraphs, listening skills, word choice, reading strategies for academic texts, and reading for thinking. Almost all of the links include interactive exercises which allow students to work independently, testing themselves as they go. The site includes tutorials, self-quizzes, and more. There are links to podcasts, videos, songs, "Grammar Safaris," and many other English topics
Site with grammar explanations and practice exercises. Great for advanced and C1 learners who would like to review the use of adverbials, verb phrases, etc.
This interactive website provides hours of mind stretching fun. The mind challenges include cryptoquote, popword, eight letters, define time, storyman, wordsearch, and codeword. Some of these challenges are perfect for spelling practice, learning new vocabulary and problem solving.
This site is an excellent way to help ESL students improve reading and comprehension skills using short passages of different kinds of reading. The site includes signs, multiple choice, true-false for details, questions on getting the "gist" of a reading, matching questions, and gap (fill-in) questions.
This site provides a good way to practice vocabulary words. Knoword is a vocabulary game that requires you to think quickly on your feet. You will be given one randomly generated dictionary definition along with the first letter of its corresponding word. The object of the game is to fill in the rest of the word.
Conversational English via Skype with VOA
WANT TO PRACTICE YOUR CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH?
VOA has a 45 minute "Talk2Us" via Skype service on Tuesdays and Fridays at 15:00 GMT.
All participants need to do is logon to Skype and send a contact request to: VOALearningEnglish
Segments from the session are then added to YouTube.
Click on a topic to see the lessons and exercises. Click on the lesson to begin. To see all lessons and exercises in the menu, click on the "Show All" button. To see only the topics, click on the "Hide All" button.