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Vocabulary exercises at many different levels with lots pre-reading (sentence-level), and then exercises with cartoons and sounds for help. Highly interactiv--point and click on an item, drag-and-drop an item to a cartoon figure, listening to the item and type, etc. Despite cartoon/movie figures, adults could use these exercises, too (from Russel Stannard, TeachertrainingVideos.com).

"What you see here are candid submissions from people who have engaged in a little exercise. Here's how it works. Think about the word Race. How would you distill your thoughts, experiences or observations about race into one sentence that only has six words?" This National Public Radio blog makes the perfect starting point for a multicultural lesson for ESL/EFL students. The entries are sheer poetry and give a great deal of content to think about the issue of race and one's place in society, for better or worse. Each 6-word "poem" makes us, as one contributor said, "Look past race to underlying humanity."

This is a great article on using some of YouTube's lesser-known features: annotations to great adaptive listening exercise, playback speed control, and Safeshare links to remove ads for student viewing. This is a must-read article if you use video with your ESL/EFL students.

"You can listen to all the podcasts for free, but in order to download the worksheets and transcripts (except for the ones on this page) you must become a member." For elementary students. Also has worksheets, webquests, vocabulary exercises, transcripts for members.

This blog has great links to citizenship-related exercises and teacher resources, such as the US Constitution in simple English. Should be an important resource for US teachers of adult ed, as well as teachers of American culture overseas.

Another good article in the series by R. Cayley. Be sure to follow up with Constructing the Paragraph , which has good exercises for your students on transitions.

This discussion of a very important aspect of academic writing is one of the most explanatory I've seen. Please refer also to the tutorial and exercise, "Constructing the Paragraph" .

This is a set of online tutorials and exercises for academic writing students. They explain the nature of the academic paragraph, including the importance of the topic sentence, how to order a paragraph, and typical transition words and signals within the paragraph. Written by Elizabeth Hanson-Smith.

Conversation English is an iPhone/iTunes app where people can view a short video of a dialogue and do exercises. If your students are crazy about their smart phones, this would be a good way to get them to practice. It's about $5 US.

Over 1,000 recordings to learn English (and other languages) with accompanying exercises, downloadable audio, etc. R. Stannard calls it one of the most useful language learning sites online: http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/elllo/index.html.

100 free short English stories for ESL learners