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

A must-visit daily site for Advanced learners.  Great way to stay up to date on current news and events.  Also has online activities

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.

"The MIT Video website - developed and maintained by the MIT News Office - aggregates and curates video produced by the Institute's offices, laboratories, centers and administration. This includes feature and editorial videos, event recordings, academic content and more. Each day, the editorial team at MIT Video selects one or more videos to "spotlight" based on the videos' content, production value and timeliness"

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.

They discuss slang, neologisms, etymology, new words in English, common errors in English, word formation and words in the news. The living language of English today.

It's the combination of a verb + a particle (preposition or adverb) resulting in a new word. The new unit is different from the two separate words.

Tricky questions on grammar

If you have trouble remembering idioms in English, this website helps you associate a picture to them to aid your memory, because "a picture paints a thousand words". Some pics are a little weird, though.

Learn new words while playing.

CNN SF stories used as lessons with listening comprehension and practice exercieses.