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Internet Resources for ESL Non-Credit:

About.com's English as a Second Language Site - Contains vocabulary, grammar, listening, and pronunciation.

Activities for ESL Students - Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL). This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers." To be added to the "Internet Resources for ESL" page, between "About.com" and "Aula-Fácil.

AulaFácil.com Cursos Gratis On-Line English is a fundamental language for tourism as well as for businesses.  With the Intermediate English Course you will be able to further your knowledge and also resolve numerous exercises.

BBC World Service - Learning English - This site has Learning English: In the News, For Work, With Music, and Through Sport.

Better English Website - Grammar Explanations, Easier Exercises, Grammar Exercises Strong Collocations, Vocabulary Exercises, Multi Word Verbs Spelling exercises, Sentence Construction exercises Find the Pairs Exercises, Missing Words Exercise Business English Crosswords, Business English Hangman Matching Exercises, Text Exercises, Free Stuff, Intensive English language programs The Electric Library This is an excellent database of newspaper and magazine articles. Highly recommended.

California Distance Learning Project - Subjects include: News Stories, Family, Community, and Work, ESL Connection Online, Workplace ESL Online, How To Vote, How To Be Heard, Safe Streets, Employment Application, How to Get a Job in California, and an E-Mail Project.

Cambridge's Venture Arcade - Practice English at your level. Levels include: Basic, 1, 2, 3, and 4. There is also practice for U.S. Citizenship.

Dave's E.S.L. Cafe - A variety of sites are here including: Idioms, Phrasal Verbs, Quizzes, Slang, and a search forum.

Digital Dialects - Language Learning Games

E.L. Easton English Online - This site has links to: Grammar, Quizzes & Tests, Test Your English, Reading, Writing, Spelling, Vocabulary, Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation.

ESL FLOW - Searchable source of thematically-based ESL lesson in grammar, speaking, vocabulary, pronunciation.

ESL Independent Study Lab - Links to Listening, Pronunciation, Vocabulary, Reading, Writing, Grammar, Fun and Games.

ESLhome.org - ESLhome.org is a welcoming place for students and teachers to explore the Internet world of learning.

Easy English - This site has Tests and the lessons go to sites for grammar explanations and practice.

English Club.com - This site has English lessons for Grammar, Pronunciation, Vocabulary, Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening.

English Learner.com - English lessons and tests on grammar, reading, and vocabulary. Has crossword puzzles and hangman.

English Page - Grammar, Vocabulary, Reading and Listening. Grammar includes explanations and practice exercises. Weekly vocabulary lessons on various themes, including holidays.

English at Home - Learn English grammar, vocabulary, verbs and speaking with ESL games.

Focus on Grammar's Companion Website - Introductory, Basic, Intermediate, High-Intermediate, and Advanced writing activities that go with the textbook.

Focus on Grammar's Companion Website - (The Blue Book {Level 2})

FreeRice.com - For each English vocabulary word you answer correctly, they will donate 20 grains of rice.

Global Study Site - Has links to sites around the world to study English.

Hello English - This website requires a membership for some activities, but there are several activities to work on that are free. Some of these are: Animals, The Calendar, Colors, Dictionary, Exercises, Letters (The Alphabet,) Numbers, Pronouns, and Time.

Houghton Mifflin's Textbook Companion Site for E.S.L - This site has grammar practice that goes along with the computer program Grammar Links that we use here in the Language Lab. Included are practice grammar tests and flashcards for vocabulary practice.

Hypergrammar - Hypergrammar has several exercises that will help you to understand: grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and reading.

Interlink's ESL Resource Center - Lessons and Exercises including: Grammar, Reading and Writing, Vocabulary and Idioms, Spelling, Pronunciation, and Listening.

LBCC E - ESL (Long Beach Community College's Electronic ESLThe Big List Web resources are grouped into categories such as Simple Present & Present Continuous, Simple Past & Past Continuous, Perfect Tenses, Future Tenses, Modals, Conditionals, Phrasal Verbs, Tag Questions, Nouns & Pronouns, Adjectives & Adverbs, Clauses, Articles, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Connectors & Transitional Expressions, and Punctuation. Reported Speech Passive Voice

Learning Chocolate.com - Learning Chocolate is web site aims to help students to memorize vocabulary in an easy and efficient way, by using pictures, sounds and games. Try their games and enjoy learning, like eating chocolate.

Little Explorers Picture Dictionary - On-line dictionary. English-Spanish, English-French, English-German, English-Portuguese. Famous explorers, rhymes and several activities.

Many Things.org - This site covers several skill areas including: grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, reading, spelling, and idioms; just to name a few.

Mousercise - This site gives the students an introduction to using the mouse. It is provided from The Ultimate Christmas Site.

Ohio ESL - Grammar, Listening, Writing, Reading exercises.

Okanagan University College's English Pronunciation/Listening Site - Minimal Pair Practice.

PIZZAZ! - PIZZAZ! is dedicated to providing simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable (yes, copyable!) handouts for use with students of all ages. Permission is given to use these resources for in-class, non-profit use only.

Pumarosa© - This site has 15 beginning and 15 intermediate grammar lessons for Spanish speaking students who want to learn English.

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab - This site has information on study materials, workshops, and tutorials all to assist you with writing topics. Handouts and resource pages are available for ESL. These cover writing, grammar and punctuation topics.

Quia! Activities - Games to help learn vocabulary and phrases.

Randall's CyberListening Lab - Easy, Medium, and Difficult Levels of Listening Activities.

Selected Links for ESL Students - Grammar, Reading, Vocabulary, Quizzes that will help you to learn English better.

TESL Journal's Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students - Grammar quizzes at Easy, Medium, and Difficult Levels.

The English Zone.com - This site has spelling, reading, verbs, idioms, conversation, writing, study skills, irregular verbs, and some fun activities, too.

The Online English Grammar by Anthony Hughes - The follow grammar explanations are included: adjectives, adverbs, determiners, direct & indirect speech, ING form, nouns, passive, possessive with 's and', relative clauses, the infinitive, to get, verbs & verb tenses.

Tower Of English - This site has links to the following: Culture, ESL Sites, Grammar, Holidays, Idioms/Slang, Listening, Mysteries, News, Poetry, Pronunciation, Puzzles, Quizzes, Reading, Tests, Vocabulary, Writing and more.

University of Iowa's-Phonetics (The Sounds of Spoken Language) - This site allows you to view/hear sounds being produced with the diagram, step by step descriptions, and an audio/video of a person pronouncing the sound.

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Audio Cassette Programs:

  • Accent Activities
  • Appendix 12 Irregular Verbs
  • Irregular Verbs
  • Oxford Picture Dictionary

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Audio CDs:

  • English Pronunciation Made Simple
  • Focus on Grammar 2, 3, 4, 5
  • Foundations
  • Grammar Links 2nd ed.
  • Quest 1
  • Step Forward 1, 2, 3, 4
  • Touchstone 1, 2, 3, & 4 

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Software on CD:

  • All-Star Interactive Beginning & Intermediate
  • American Speech Sounds
  • Asterix English 1 & 2
  • Business English Meetings
  • Cambridge TOEFL
  • Delta's Key to the TOEFL
  • EASY (English Academic Success for You) -ESL Series Parts 1 & 2
  • Easy Language Conversation
  • Easy Writer
  • English Discoveries
  • English Now!
  • English Plus Grammar
  • English Tutor
  • English Your Way
  • Fish Trek
  • Focus on Grammar Interactive 2, 3, 4, & 5
  • Focus on Grammar (Basic, Intermediate, High Intermediate, & Advanced)
  • Grammar 3D
  • Grammar Links 1, 2, & 3
  • Grammar Sense 1, 2, & 3
  • Houghton-Mifflin Grammar
  • Live Action English
  • Longman TOEFL
  • North American Idioms
  • Pronunciation in American English
  • Pronunciation Power 1 & 2
  • Pronunciation Power Idioms
  • Road to Citizenship
  • Rosetta Stone
  • Side by Side Interactive (IA, IB, 2A, and 2B)
  • Steinbeck on CD-ROMs (Of Mice & Men, The Pearl, and The Red Pony)
  • Tell Me More (Basic, Intermediate, & Advanced)
  • Tense Buster (Elementary, Low Intermediate, Intermediate, Upper Intermediate, & Advanced)
  • TOEFL PowerPrep
  • Triple Play English
  • Understanding & Using English Grammar Interactive

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