Resources for language learners


 

Home   Resources for researchers   Resources for language teachers

 

Reading Listening Pronunciation

Stories & Fables

Aesop fables

Stories for kids

Short stories for ESL learners

Light up your brain (stories for children)

Magazines online

Time Magazine

Newsweek

US News and world report   

 

Beginners& intermediate

ESLcafe

 Randall's cyber listening lab 

English listening lounge

 Everyday English in conversations

English bite

ESL pods (intermediate podcasts)

Advanced

TH online (Updated news & stories with transcripts to print)

Stone soup

National Public Radio

Breaking news-English

Minimal pairs

Sheep or ship

Minimal pair practice and quizzes

Different accents

Phonetics

American English

Phonetic focus

Oddcast (enter a sentence and have it pronounced by a native speaker of American, British or Australian English)

Vocabulary Grammar Writing

Vocabulary

Bussola Escolar (Click on the picture and hear the pronunciation)

English media (Vocabulary in videos)

200 vocabulary exercises

Vocabulary games

SuperKids school Vocabulary

English Vocabulary Word Lists with Games, Puzzles, and Quizzes

SuperKids Vocabulary Builders

English2U

Idioms/ phrasal verbs/ slangs

Common American Slang

ESL Idiom Page

ESL Cafe's Phrasal Verb Page

ESL Cafe's Slang PagePhrasefun

 Grammar for Beginners & intermediate learners

Learn English for free

Learn American English online

English grammar 101

BBC Skillwise

Grammar for advanced learners

English Grammar Online.

Grammar Grater (podcasts about grammar and vocabulary)

English Page.

Daily Grammar.

Dr. Grammar - Frequently Asked Questions.

Grammar Bytes.

Flo-Joe (Daily exercises  for Cambridge exams (FCE, CAE and CPE) test takers

Online dictionaries

Merriam-Webster Dictionary  

Dictionary.com

Babylon dictionary & translator

Picture dictionary

Cambridge dictionary Additional worksheets for Cambridge dictionary owners

Writing resources

Writing activities

Guide to Grammar and Writing.

Grammar Slammer

English Grammar Book

 

 

 

Some of the resources in the  Materials for busy teachers  section can also be used by language learners

Compiled by Monica S.Cardenas-Claros. Last update July, 2008