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Dave's ESL Cafe - popular ESL website created by Dave Spirling which includes a wide variety of features for students and teachers alike including news, discussion pages, chats, quizzes, e-mail and job postings. Also included are a wide variety of lesson materials on idioms, slang, verbs and quizzes.

Ventures - website for Cambridge workbook series Ventures which includes practice online lessons for the Basic level and levels 1-4.

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab - This free multimedia site is designed to help English Learners improve their listening comprehension through a variety of audio and video conversations, interviews, and news reports.

Activities for ESL Students - this page developed by the Internet TESOL Journal contains a large number of activities for ESL students including grammar quizzes, vocabulary quizzes, crossword puzzles and Bilingual quizzes.

ESL Home Page - A starting point for ESL learners who want to learn English through the Web. This site links you to several good and free ESL places.

Guide to Grammar and Writing - Provides an excellent and comprehensive guide to English grammar, sentence construction, spelling and composition. Also find categories for Forms of Communication, Ask Grammar and Online Interactive Quizzes.

AAA Spelling Lessons - this site has spelling lessons comprised of 30 lists of vocabulary word for each for grade 1 to 8. The word list are the same as that used for the AAA Vocabulary Lessons. One of the many options available is to hear the word pronounced and then attempt to spell it. This site should be helpful for ABE and ESOL students.

AAA Vocabulary Lessons - this site has vocabulary lessons comprised of 30 lists of vocabulary word for each for grade 1 to 8. The word list are the same as that used for the AAA Spelling Lessons.

Written Alphabet - this E.L. Easton site is useful to ESL and beginning students. Students can click on a letter of the alphabet and hear how it sounds. The alphabet song is available for playing and practicing. There is also a link to in depth vowel and consonent sounds.

Alphabet Practice - Students will learn or review the upper/lower case letters by clicking on each letter to hear the letter. Try to guess the letter before clicking on the letter.

Learn to Read - this site has several levels of online activities for emergent readers including phonemic awareness, phonics, sight words and stories to read.

Phonics Online - a number of online games provided by Sadlier-Oxford which cover PreK through 6th grade reading skills. Skills range from picture matching to alphabet, long and short vowel sounds, r controlled words, consonent blends, diagraphs, dipthongs, prefixes, suffixes, roots, contractions, antonyms, and synonyms.

Readquarium - this collection of online reading activities for beginning readers inludes sections on phonics and phonemes, sight words, fluency and books, vocabulary and comprehension.

Easy Stories to Read - a collection of online stories for beginning readers.

Idioms - links to various sites dealing with English -dioms

Spelling Rules - A compilation of spelling rules to improve students'spelling.

Word of the Day - For those who are trying to improve or increase their vocabulary, you might like to try this site. Each day delivers a different word, with pronunciation, definition and example sentences.

Word Games - Several word games which are updated on a daily basis

Change Maker - An online game whereby students can buy something but they will have to choose the correct amount of coins and bills first. Adaptable for U.S., Canadian, U.K., Australian, and Mexican currencies, in degrees of difficulty from amounts less than $1.00 to Big Spenders.

Interactive Money Flashcards - This site contains a wide variety of math flashcards of which the money flashcards are of special usefulness to ESOL students. The program allows your students click on money, add up the coins, enter their amount, and see if they are right.

Story Fun - This site is a "mad-libs" story format. Practice parts of speech such as adjectives, nouns, etc., just have fun making the weirdest stories you can possibly think of and see what's returned to you!

Grammar Gorillas - Students will enjoy practicing and reinforcing their grammar skills with this online game from Funbrain. Both beginner and advanced levels are available.

Linguistic Funland - Links to a large number of ESL/ESOL activities.

ESL Handouts - A large collection of handouts which will help ESL students with specific areas of English usage.

Babel Fish Translation Program - This program will translate a block of text or a whole web page from one language to another.


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