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A collection of interactive grammar quizzes on many topics. Beginner to advanced level.

Activities using videos, music, news vocabulary and more. Practice listening, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. Special section for Business English. NOTE: This is British English, not American English as spoken in the U.S.

Free online learner's dictionaries from Cambridge University Press. Dictionaries include: Learner's, Advanced Learner's, American English, Idioms, and Phrasal Verbs.

Lessons and quizzes to practice grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, idioms, slang and more. Registration required to post questions on the Help Center page or communicate with ESOL students around the world using the online Student Forums.

This site offers some challenging listening and reading practice activities based on Wikipedia articles as well as TOEFL level grammar exercises.

Free grammar lessons and interactive exercises. Lots of practice with verb tenses and prepositions.

Free reading material for English language learners. Simplified ghost stories and strange news stories with reading exercises. Most stories are for intermediate to upper-intermediate level learners. Stories are written in British English.

A monthly electronic journal devoted to educational technology.

An online tool that allows a teacher to import digital text from a website or word document to create lesson plans and instructional materials for teaching English language skills.

Read news stories adapted for new readers and English language learners. There are stories and reading and vocabulary exercises on many topics, from business or politics to adventures, crime and more. No new stories have been added since 2005.

Includes an interactive atlas, down to the street level.

Contains over 6,000 images. Look up a word alphabetically or browse images organized by theme (subject).

Downloadable version of Teaching Adults to Read, a research-based guide for teaching alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Information about teacher certification, the "No Child Left Behind" Act, State Learning Standards, curriculum resources, assessment information, etc.

Links to websites for practice with listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and more. News, quizzes and other activities for all levels of English language learners.

The Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) offers clear, concise review pages on many grammar points as well as useful cultural lessons on the higher education system in the US, workplace writing and other topics. Dozens of interactive and printable exercises on grammar, punctuation, and spelling are also available.

Short video lessons using interviews with real people filmed on the streets of New York, Miami Beach, and Seattle. There are exercises for many videos, but for some there is only a transcript. Materials are available for English learners at different levels.

An online guide to grammar, style and punctuation for native speakers of English. Some practice exercises and quizzes are included. The guide follows Associated Press Style guidelines.

Listen to special news stories written for non-native speakers of English. There are current world news stories and feature stories on economics, education, health, American history and popular culture and other topics. You can read along with the text of the story while you listen.