Educational Resources - English Language Learning on the Net for Students

GRAMMAR

Bell English Online - The best on the web
http://www.bellenglish.com/
Dave’s ESL café has some interactive grammar quizzes
http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/#grammar
Digital educational network: online English grammar
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/
English at home has free grammar exercises
http://www.english-at-home.com/
English Forum – 8 interactive exercises to improve your grammar
http://www.english-forum.com/
Grammar bytes is a site that gives simple explanations for English grammar terms
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms.htm
Grammar handbook has explanations and rules
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/grammarmenu.htm
Hong Kong Polytechnic university has lots of grammar exercises
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/english.htm
Interactive grammar quizzes at three levels
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/elc/iowa/quiz/
Online English grammar clinic
http://www.lydbury.co.uk/grammar/index.htm
Ruth Vilmi’s online grammar
http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/LangHelp/Grammar/

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VOCABULARY

Bell English Online - The best on the web
http://www.bellenglish.com/
Cobuild idiom of the day
http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/Idiom.html
Dave’s EFL café idiom bar
http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/
English at home has lots of free vocabulary activities
http://www.vocabulary.english-at-home.com/
Hong Polytechnic university has lots of free vocabulary exercises including crosswords
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/english.htm
Longman dictionaries have free exercises
http://www.longman-elt.com/dictionaries/resources/student_index.shtml
Miriam Webster online language centre has lots of quizzes and games
http://www.m-w.com/mw/home.htm
TESL J has lots of vocabulary activities
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/vocabulary.html
Hong Kong Polytechnic university has lots of vocabulary exercises
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/VOCAB/vocabindex.htm
Word for word – lots of information about strange or unusual words and phrases
http://plateaupress.com.au/
Word list: frequency indicator
http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/webtools/web_freqs.html
Test your Internet vocabulary @
http://www.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp/faculty/jreinhar/surfivq.html

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LISTENING

BBC audio and video resources
http://www.bbc.co.uk/audiovideo/
Bell English Online - The best on the web
http://www.bellenglish.com/
English at home has radio from the USA, Australia, Canada and the UK as well as BBC World TV and Bloomberg TV. Plays through Windows Media Player.
http://www.englishlive.english-at-home.com/
Listening activities for ESL students
http://grove.ufl.edu/~ktrickel/activity.html#listen
Interactive listening comprehension practise
http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/LCRA/
On-line news hour. Hourly news from PBS in the USA
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/realaudio.html
Randall’s cyber listening lab has lots of listening activities. You will need a RealPlayer
http://www.esl-lab.com/
English listening lounge
http://www.englishlistening.com/
Okanagan University College has lots of pronunciation activities and games at this Canadian site. You will need a Shockwave player.
http://www.faceweb.okanagan.bc.ca/pron/
Realplayer’s guide to all their audio and video resources.
http://realguide.real.com/

Songs
Song lyrics
http://songfile.snap.com/index_2.htmlhttp://songfile.snap.com/
The Lyrics site has the words to over two million songs
http://www.lyrics.ch/

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SPEAKING

Bell English Online - The best on the web
http://www.bellenglish.com/
English at home has suggestions for improving your spoken English
http://www.speaking.english-at-home.com/
Okanagan University College has lots of pronunciation activities and games at this Canadian site. You will need a Shockwave player.
http://www.faceweb.okanagan.bc.ca/pron/
Tongue twister database
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html

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READING

Bell English Online - The best on the web
http://www.bellenglish.com/
English teaching and learning materials
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/Impact/
Impact On-line
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/material.htm
Internet public library
http://www.ipl.org/
Real reading
http://www.aec.ukans.edu/staff/cheacock/real_rdg/index.html
Soon On-line magazine
http://www.soon.org.uk/content.htm

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WRITING

Bell English Online - The best on the web
http://www.bellenglish.com/
The cyrano server
http://cgi.nando.net/toys/cyrano/version2/compose-cyrano.html
Dave’s ESL café graffiti wall
http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/wall.html
The electric poster
http://postcards.www.media.mit.edu/Postcards/Welcome.html
Guide to writing and grammar
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm
Paradigm On-line writing assistant
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm
Purdue On-line writing lab web server home page
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Writing den
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/
www. Geocities. Com / Build your own web site !
http://geocities.yahoo.com/home/

Keypals sites
Find an electronic pen pal at these sites.Intercultural E-mail Classroom
http://www.iecc.org/
Connections Buddy Project
http://www.buddyproject.org/
Keypal opportunities
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/keypal.htm
Linguistic Funland
http://www.linguistic-funland.com/penpalpostings.html

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GAMES AND QUIZZES

Bell English Online - The best on the web
http://www.bellenglish.com/
Dave’s EFL café quiz centre
http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/
Eclipse text rebuilding
http://www.stir.ac.uk/departments/humansciences/celt/Eclipse/index.htm
English at home have four games to help you improve your English
http://www.games.english-at-home.com/
In-house quizzes
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/elc/indexli.htm
Internet anagram server
http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html
Osiris trivia quiz
http://osiris.sund.ac.uk/online/quiz/quiztime.html
Self study quizzes for ESL students
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/
Test your English
http://www.edunet.com/english/practice/test-ces.html
Thumbs up! ESL
http://tor-pw1.netcom.ca/~the2imps/tuindex.html
X word crossword puzzles
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/XWord/xword.htm

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EXAMS

Bell English Online - The best on the web – Coming soon !
http://www.bellenglish.com/
Exam practise activitiesCambridge examsUCLESFor general information about the five Cambridge exams look at the UCLES web site.
http://www.cambridge-efl.org/exam/efl3.htm
Flo-joeHas some FCE and CAE exam papers for you to try
http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/
TOEFLTOEFL exercise5 reading passages / one structure activity available for free
http://members.xoom.com/u3621195/index.html
English test Prep.A Canadian site that has some free TOEFL material. Sample materials for reading. Listening and Structure papers are available
http://www.studint.net/toefl/TOEFL_JS.HTM
Stuff MediaSome TOEFL practise materials available but not indexed. Structure and written Expression only.
http://www.stuff.co.uk/toefl.htm
University of Science and Technology of ChinaSome free activities for Sections 1, 2 and 3 of the exam.
http://www.bellenglish.com/resources/<u><font%20color="#0000ff%22%3Ehttp://www.ustc.edu.cn/%7Ehxu/other-hxu/ets/toefl/tstprpmt.html%3C/font%3E%3C/u%3E%3Ci%3E%3C/i%3E
IELTSThe Official IELTS home page
http://www.ielts.org/
Lots of information and some free sample activities available. These are not interactive. Adams and Austen PressOne free reading, writing, listening and speaking paper. Five other sample papers can be ordered but not viewed. Requires RealPlayer. Another set of papers are currently being prepared and should be available soon.
http://www.aapress.com.au/ielts/english/ielts.htm
Holmesglen Institute
http://international.holmesglen.vic.edu.au/IELTS01.htm
Lots of information about the exam and question types with practise material for reading, writing, listening and speaking ( watch out for the occasional error ! ). The practise activities can only be completed on line. The listening material is limited to part of a lecture but is available through Windows Media Player.

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BUSINESS ENGLISH

Bell English Online - The best on the web
http://www.bellenglish.com/
English international business English exercise
http://www.better-english.com/exerciselist.html
Linguarama business English
http://www.linguarama.com/ps/index.html
The Besig links page:
www.lydbury.co.uk/besig/pages/links.htm
An Austrian teacher’s page. Very good.
www.vhs21.ac.at/english-business/home/links.html
Another very good page
http://eleaston.com/biz/bizhome.html
The Business English Market:
http://www.geocities.com/athens/sparta/9486/index.html
Practise your business Engish.
http://www.davevolek.com/
The Language key is a monthly online business English magazine with lots of resources for students
http://www.languagekey.com/

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DICTIONARIES & THESAURUS

Cambridge University Press Dictionaries
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Longman Dictionaries
http://www.longman-elt.com/dictionaries/
Newbury house online dictionary of American English
http://nhd.heinle.com/
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
http://www1.oup.co.uk/elt/oald/
Wordsmyth English dictionaries- thesaurus
http://www.wordsmyth.net/
Plumbline visual thesaurus
http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus
Dictionary list
http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries_noframes.html

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VIRTUAL SCHOOLS

Bell English Online - The best on the web
http://www.bellenglish.com/
English school
http://edx.org/english.shtml
English club
http://www.englishclub.net/
Peak
http://www.dli-peak.com/
Tower of English
http://www.towerofenglish.com/

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ENCYCLOPAEDIAS

Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/
Biblomania
http://www.bibliomania.com/
Encyclopedia
http://www.encyclopedia.com/
Encyclopedia smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/
Linguistics
http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ccsd/