English as a Second Language (ESL)

This site offers a wide variety of resources for both English language teachers and learners. Students will find tools to improve grammar and vocabulary, as well as reading, writing and listening skills. Teachers will find lesson plans, teaching techniques and career information.

A project of The Internet TESL Journal, this site contains thousands of quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles. It also links to ESL podcasts and videos.

Produced by the US State Department, this site "is a resource center for teaching and learning about American English language and culture." The site features a "variety of engaging materials and resources for teachers' professional development and for students in the classroom."

Follow this telenovella style drama in easy to follow English. There are also DVDs for this series in the library to borrow.

This website takes a highly engaging, multimedia approach to teaching English. Through features such as specially prepared news videos, with accompanying text; an ongoing, animated YouTube series called The Flatmates; and an audio series entitled Keep Your English up to date, BBC Learning English informs and entertains students while teaching them language skills. Although the English used is British, ESL learners and instructors everywhere will find this site of value.

This site features lessons based on current news stories. Lessons include the text of the story, along with reading, writing and listening exercises. Lessons and news stories in MP3 format can be downloaded.

Funded by the US Office of Vocational and Adult Education, the CAELA Network's mission is to provide high-quality professional development resources and information to ESL teachers, administrators, and others who work with adult ESL learners. Included are briefs and digests, an ESL resource database, a quarterly newsletter, publications for order, bibliographies and a calendar of upcoming CAELA events.

Created and maintained by Dave Sperling, an experienced ESL teacher, this comprehensive site offers teaching ideas and discussion forums for teachers, as well as grammatical and pronunciation help, quizzes and forums for students. The ESL Cafe also provides links to many other ESL web pages, including job sites.

Useful for both ESL students and teachers of English, this site provides free lesson plans, games, quizzes and links to the spoken language. It also includes information on grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary and business English. On-site registration allows access to the ESL Progress newsletter, ESL forums and chat rooms.

Particularly good for verb tense review. Offers 30 exercises.

This website conjugates verbs. Simply type a verb you wish to conjugate into the search box. This will generate a complete conjugation of the verb.

This website offers 1348 free video lessons given by by experienced native-speaker teachers. Classes cover English grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, IELTS, TOEFL, and more.

This site features ESL resources for students and teachers alike. Students will find activities, games, quizzes and readings on a variety of topics. Teachers will find lesson plans, handouts, worksheets and other helpful materials.

A great site to grow your vocabulary! You answer questions, and for each correct answer, 10 grains of rice are donated through the UN Food Program to help end hunger in the world.

A writer's guide for international students from Purdue University.

A few practice questions from previous TOEFL tests.

Immigrants who are applying for citizenship can use the materials here to increase their knowledge and understanding of American history and government for the naturalization test.