Suggested Websites for Students

• http://soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu/index.html#english
  The #1 phonetics website. Includes cellphone app and web based app.

• http://www.shiporsheep.com/
• http://www.manythings.org/pp/
• https://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/minimal-pairs.htm
• http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=134:mp2&catid=9:resources&Itemid=108

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Listening

http://www.esl-lab.com/
Lots of listening exercises with downloadable audio. Easy to very difficult. Accompanying exercises.

http://www.englishlistening.com/
Thirty recordings of ordinary English speakers’ everyday language; includes questions.

http://elllo.org/
Close to a thousand clips on various topics. Downloadable audio, audio notes on vocabulary, quizzes and exercises.

http://www.real-english.com/
Video lessons to practice listening and grammar structures. Complete with exercises. Beginners to Upper Intermediate.

http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/eslvideo/
Practice listening skills through watching movie clips. With listening comprehension questions.

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Grammar

http://www.usingenglish.com/
Grammar quizzes: Beginners and Intermediate, including phrasal verbs. Excellent reference pages.

http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/grammar/grammar.html#interact
Grammar rules, grammar tables, interactive exercises

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/grammar.html
Grammar (articles, prepositions, sentence structure, etc.) materials/exercises (cloze, questions, dialogues, fill-in-the-blanks); Beginning to advanced

http://www.englishpage.com/grammar/
Grammar categories with accompanying exercises

http://englishplus.com/grammar/glossary.htm
http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary.html
Glossary of grammar terms

grammarism.com. This comprehensive online platform offers an extensive collection of English grammar exercises and resources

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Writing

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Excellent resource on various kinds of writing, elements and process of writing, and much more. Exercise pages on grammar, punctuation, spelling, and more.

http://www.uc.utoronto.ca/handouts
Writing handouts on essay writing

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Vocabulary

http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/vocabulary/vocabulary.html
Cloze exercises, collocation, word formation, vocabulary games, word lists and more.

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Reading

http://bestofthereader.ca/
Over 100 graded stories for beginners to low intermediate students. Each story has exercises  to go with it. There is also an excellent teacher’s guide that suggests additional activities. It’s all beautifully illustrated with pictures and photos, and free to print and use!

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ESL Links For Students (and Teachers)

Thirty recordings of ordinary English speakers/ every day language; includes questions.

English Page – http://www.englishpage.com
Free online English lessons & ESL/EFL resources including an on-line newsletter, grammar review, and 15 English-foreign language dictionaries.

ESL Online Resources Directory – http://www.cal.org/ericcll/ncbe/esldirectory
Searchable database for teachers and students.

Grammar Self Study Quizzes for ESL Students – http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/grammar.html
Grammar (articles, prepositions, sentence structure, etc.) materials/exercises (cloze, questions, dialogues, fill-in-the blanks) ; Beginning to advanced

Idioms – http://www.rong-chang.com/idioms.htm
Web links to sites teaching American idioms

Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab – http://www.esl-lab.com/
Pronunciation exercises with downloadable audio.

Sara and John’s TEFL Pitstop – http://lingolex.com/jstefl.htm
Games, feedback forum, book samples, and a virtual staff room.

StudyCom’s EFI-English for the Internet – https://study.com/Newsletter, listening and speaking, grammar and writing, resource page.

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Teacher Resources

Cloze exercises – http://www.edhelper.com/cloze.htm
Design on-screen cloze exercises.

Ed Kearn’s Language Learning Links – http://www.gateman.com/favorit2.html#languages
Reading, Listening, Speaking exercises

Edvista – http://edvista.com/claire/internet-esl.html
Links for ESL teachers – professional organizations, instructional materials, theoretical articles.

Emojis in the English Classroom – https://wizardpins.com/en-ca/blogs/education/emojis-in-the-english-classroom

A complete resource for adding some fun to a class, including links to lesson ideas, lesson plans and worksheets.

Puzzlemaker – http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Create word searches, crossword puzzles, math puzzles, and mazes.

TESOL – www.tesol.org
Membership page of ‘Teachers English to Speakers of Other Languages’

TOEFL – www.toefl.org/
The Test of English as a Foreign Language admissions requirement for international students.

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Content/Topic Based Websites

Dr. Seuss – http://www.seussville.com/
Games based on Dr. Seuss’s books, extensive biographical information

Holiday Celebrations – http://www.holidays.net
Holiday Celebrations, calendars, crafts & Recipes, music, graphics, historical information, suggested activities, kids pages, links, and other…

Idioms – http://www.englishdaily626.com/
Includes American slang expressions, proverbs, grammar, common mistakes, song lyrics and other topics.

The White House – http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Official web site for the White House and President George W. Bush, Features a virtual historical tour, history of American presidents and their families, links to a kids website.

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Christian Websites

All About God – www.allaboutgod.com
Ever-expanding list of apologetic and discipleship materias online

Bible Info – http://christiananswers.net/bible/about.html
Basic information about the Bible

Bibles @ Ethnic Harvest  – http://www.ethnicharvest.org/bibles/
Bibles – printed and audio in many languages

Bible On-line – www.WebBible.net
On-line Bible in 37 different languages including tools for understanding the Bible.

The Bible Gateway – http://biblegateway.com
An excellent page for searching from various modern English Translations (NIV,NASB,NLT,NKJV) and European and Asian languages.

Bible Study Helps – http://www.unboundbible.org/
The Unbound Bible (Biola University) is a collection of searchable Bibles consisting of:

• 10 English versions including the NASB
• Greek and Hebrew Versions (the original Bible languages)
• 4 ancient versions
• 42 versions in other languages

Bible Tools

• Easton’s Bible Dictionary Paul’s Missionary Journey
• Matthew Henry’s Commentary Read the Bible in a Year
• Naves Topical Bible Parallel View Search
• Greek & Hebrew Lexicon Greek Lexical Parser

Crosswalk.com – http://bible.crosswalk.com/
Bible study tools

Every Tongue – http://www.everytongue.com/

God’s Story – http://christiananswers.net/godstory/home.html
God’s Story – excellent – playable or downloadable in a zillion languages
God’s Story: From Creation to Eternity – video presenting a summary of the Bible using original art and excellent narration.Audio available in many different languages

The Hope Video  – www.thehopevideo.com
Dramatic overview of the ‘greatest story ever told.’

International Student Ministry – http://ism.intervarsity.org/resource

Unshackled – http://www.unshackled.org/
Faith-based stories to listen to online in English.

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More websites compiled from veteran ESL teachers

On language learning in general (lots of good stuff) – www.languageimpact.com

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General and Teacher ESL sites

• Learn English Today http://www.learn-english-today.com/index.html
• Dave’s ESL cafe: www.eslcafe.com (Tried and true)
• Internet TESL Journal: www.iteslj.org (This tends to be scholarly, yet practical)
• ESL Jokes http://esljokes.net/ Jokes written in graded English and followed by grammar and vocabulary exercises.
• ESLflow: www.eslflow.com
• http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/s/
• http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/idioms.html
• http://www.prenticehall.ca/esl/links.html
• http://www.esl-lab.com/
• http://www.edunet.com/
• http://www.lsi.edu/
• www.esl-lounge.com
• http://www.englishpage.com/
• http://wordsmith.org
• Practical English Conversations (beginners’ level)
• ELT Resourceful (ready made lesson plans with inspiring videos)

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Professional Organizations

• www.atesl.ca
• www.tesl.ca
• https://tutela.ca – The online community for ESL/FSL professionals!

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Canadian Language Benchmarks

• www.language.ca
• http://bookshelf.language.ca/ (a new website that contains the revised CLB, the Support Kit and other CLB resources, all in an easy-to-read format without having to download large documents)

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Software Sales

• http://www.nas.ca/

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Studying

• U. of Saskatchewan – Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language (CERTESL)
• ESL in Canada http://www.eslincanada.com/tesl.html

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Even More Great Websites

• Another great site is “Peggy’s Place” – http://www.gospel.com/ministries/peggies-place
• And there’s Ed Kearn’s “Links to assist International Christians” site… – http://www.gateman.com/islinks.html
• Association for Christians Ministering to Internationals: https://www.acmi-ism.org