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Sometimes listening to audio tapes of books is an effective way to develop fluency and create reading/listening opportunities while on the go. Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material.

Audio versions of a selection of articles from the Guardian

"The National Gallery of Writing is a virtual space-a website-where people who perhaps have never thought of themselves as writers-mothers, bus drivers, fathers, veterans, nurses, firefighters, sanitation workers, stockbrokers-select and post writing that is important to them. The Gallery accommodates any composition format-from word processing to photography, audio/video recording to text messages-and all types of writing-from letters to lists, memoirs to memos"

Get free online courses from the world's leading universities. This collection includes over 700 free courses in the liberal arts and sciences. Download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player. Note: you can find a new collection of certificate-bearing courses  here.

Free audiobooks in English that you can download and listen to.

A useful site with authentic English (and other languages) from around the world, you can select the language, level of difficulty,gender, age etc, great for listening to real accents that arent usually found in course books

A fun podcast for English learners.

English Gateway vocabulary lessons is a high quality resource for the intermediate and advanced ESL learners. Experience English as it's really spoken in North America through authentic stories, professional audio, cultural information and a multitude of exercises on colloquial English expressions. YOU NEED TO JOIN, but once you do there are some free sample lessons available for download.

Breaking News Lessons - News English lesson plans: 1,602 FREE EFL/ESL lessons, online activities, podcasts for teaching current events.

Advanced audio English lessons. Lots of slang and everyday vocabulary. Canadian English.

Free online dictionary, thesaurus, spanish-english and medical dictionaries, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and many more high-quality Merriam-Webster language resources.

Free Online English Dictionary & Thesaurus, translation from English to Spanish and Spanish to English and other language resources. Conjugation dictionary. Audio pronunciation. Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

The page claims to be a listening "game" but it's really just a simple fill-in-the-gaps exercise. Files are classified according to level (easy, medium and advanced) and categories (comedy, education, games,…).

Short, one-minute listenings with questions for intermediate and pre-intermediate students.

Nice site where you can learn how to write and say words in UK and US English. The website includes vocabulary in other languages, too!