GRAMMAR

• Bell English Online - The best on the web
  http://www.bellenglish.com/
• Dave’s ESL café has some interactive grammar quizzes
  http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/#grammar
• Digital educational network: online English grammar
  http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/
• English at home has free grammar exercises
  http://www.english-at-home.com/
• English Forum – 8 interactive exercises to improve your grammar
  http://www.english-forum.com/
• Grammar bytes is a site that gives simple explanations for English grammar terms
  http://www.chompchomp.com/terms.htm
• Grammar handbook has explanations and rules
  http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/grammarmenu.htm
• Hong Kong Polytechnic university has lots of grammar exercises
  http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/english.htm
• Interactive grammar quizzes at three levels
  http://www.cityu.edu.hk/elc/iowa/quiz/
• Online English grammar clinic
  http://www.lydbury.co.uk/grammar/index.htm
• Ruth Vilmi’s online grammar
  http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/LangHelp/Grammar/
  

VOCABULARY

• Bell English Online - The best on the web
  http://www.bellenglish.com/
• Cobuild idiom of the day
  http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/Idiom.html
• Dave’s EFL café idiom bar
  http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/
• English at home has lots of free vocabulary activities
  http://www.vocabulary.english-at-home.com/
• Hong Polytechnic university has lots of free vocabulary exercises including crosswords
  http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/english.htm
• Longman dictionaries have free exercises
  http://www.longman-elt.com/dictionaries/resources/student_index.shtml
• Miriam Webster online language centre has lots of quizzes and games
  http://www.m-w.com/mw/home.htm
• TESL J has lots of vocabulary activities
  http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/vocabulary.html
• Hong Kong Polytechnic university has lots of vocabulary exercises
  http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/VOCAB/vocabindex.htm
• Word for word – lots of information about strange or unusual words and phrases
  http://plateaupress.com.au/
• Word list: frequency indicator
  http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/webtools/web_freqs.html
• Test your Internet vocabulary @
  http://www.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp/faculty/jreinhar/surfivq.html
  

LISTENING

• English Language Learning Lab Online
  http://www.elllo.org
• BBC audio and video resources
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/audiovideo/
• Bell English Online - The best on the web
  http://www.bellenglish.com/
• English at home has radio from the USA, Australia, Canada and the UK as well as BBC World TV and Bloomberg TV. Plays through Windows Media Player.
  http://www.englishlive.english-at-home.com/
• Listening activities for ESL students
  http://grove.ufl.edu/~ktrickel/activity.html#listen
• Interactive listening comprehension practise
  http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/LCRA/
• On-line news hour. Hourly news from PBS in the USA
  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/realaudio.html
• Randall’s cyber listening lab has lots of listening activities. You will need a RealPlayer
  http://www.esl-lab.com/
• English listening lounge
  http://www.englishlistening.com/
• Okanagan University College has lots of pronunciation activities and games at this Canadian site. You will need a Shockwave player.
  http://www.faceweb.okanagan.bc.ca/pron/
• Realplayer’s guide to all their audio and video resources.
  http://realguide.real.com/
  
  Songs
  
  
• Song lyrics
  http://songfile.snap.com/index_2.htmlhttp://songfile.snap.com/
• The Lyrics site has the words to over two million songs
  http://www.lyrics.ch/
  
  

SPEAKING

• Bell English Online - The best on the web
  http://www.bellenglish.com/
• English at home has suggestions for improving your spoken English
  http://www.speaking.english-at-home.com/
• Okanagan University College has lots of pronunciation activities and games at this Canadian site. You will need a Shockwave player.
  http://www.faceweb.okanagan.bc.ca/pron/
• Tongue twister database
  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html
  
  

READING

• Bell English Online - The best on the web
  http://www.bellenglish.com/
• English teaching and learning materials
  http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/Impact/
• Impact On-line
  http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/kitao/material.htm
• Internet public library
  http://www.ipl.org/
• Real reading
  http://www.aec.ukans.edu/staff/cheacock/real_rdg/index.html
• Soon On-line magazine
  http://www.soon.org.uk/content.htm
  

WRITING

• Bell English Online - The best on the web
  http://www.bellenglish.com/
• Dave’s ESL café graffiti wall
  http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/wall.html
• The electric poster
  http://postcards.www.media.mit.edu/Postcards/Welcome.html
• Guide to writing and grammar
  http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm
• Paradigm On-line writing assistant
  http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm
• Purdue On-line writing lab web server home page
  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
• Writing den
  http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/
• www. Geocities. Com / Build your own web site !
  http://geocities.yahoo.com/home/
  
  Keypals sites
  
  
• Find an electronic pen pal at these sites.Intercultural E-mail Classroom
  http://www.iecc.org/
• Connections Buddy Project
  http://www.buddyproject.org
• Keypal opportunities
  http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/keypal.htm
• Linguistic Funland
  http://www.linguistic-funland.com/penpalpostings.html

GAMES AND QUIZZES

• Bell English Online - The best on the web
  http://www.bellenglish.com/
• Dave’s EFL café quiz centre
  http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/
• Eclipse text rebuilding
  http://www.stir.ac.uk/departments/humansciences/celt/Eclipse/index.htm
• English at home have four games to help you improve your English
  http://www.games.english-at-home.com/
• In-house quizzes
  http://www.cityu.edu.hk/elc/indexli.htm
• Internet anagram server
  http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html
• Osiris trivia quiz
  http://osiris.sund.ac.uk/online/quiz/quiztime.html
• Self study quizzes for ESL students
  http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/
• Test your English
  http://www.edunet.com/english/practise/test-ces.html
• Thumbs up! ESL
  http://members.attcanada.ca/~the2imps/tuindex.html
• X word crossword puzzles
  http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/XWord/xword.htm
  

EXAMS

• Bell English Online - The best on the web – Coming soon !
  http://www.bellenglish.com/
• Exam practise activitiesCambridge examsUCLESFor general information about the five Cambridge exams look at the UCLES web site.
  http://www.cambridge-efl.org/exam/efl3.htm
• Flo-joe has some FCE and CAE exam papers for you to try
  http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/
• TOEFL exercise 5 reading passages / one structure activity available for free
  http://members.xoom.com/u3621195/index.html
• English test Prep.A Canadian site that has some free TOEFL material. Sample materials for reading. Listening and Structure papers are available
  http://www.studint.net/toefl/TOEFL_JS.HTM
• Stuff MediaSome TOEFL practise materials available but not indexed. Structure and written Expression only.
  http://www.stuff.co.uk/toefl.htm
• University of Science and Technology of ChinaSome free activities for Sections 1, 2 and 3 of the exam.
  http://www.ustc.edu.cn/~hxu/other-hxu/ets/toefl/tstprpmt.html
• The Official IELTS home page
  http://www.ielts.org/
• Lots of information and some free sample activities available. These are not interactive. Adams and Austen PressOne free reading, writing, listening and speaking paper. Five other sample papers can be ordered but not viewed. Requires RealPlayer. Another set of papers are currently being prepared and should be available soon.
  http://www.aapress.com.au/ielts/english/ielts.htm
• Holmesglen Institute
  http://international.holmesglen.vic.edu.au/IELTS01.htm
  

BUSINESS ENGLISH

• Bell English Online - The best on the web
  http://www.bellenglish.com/
• English international business English exercise
  http://www.better-english.com/exerciselist.html
• Linguarama business English
  http://www.linguarama.com/ps/index.html
• The Besig links page:
  www.lydbury.co.uk/besig/pages/links.htm
• An Austrian teacher’s page. Very good.
  www.vhs21.ac.at/english-business/home/links.html
• Another very good page
  http://eleaston.com/biz/bizhome.html
• The Business English Market:
  www.geocities.com/athens/sparta/9487/index.html
• Practise your business Engish.
  http://www.davevolek.com/
• The Language key is a monthly online business English magazine with lots of resources for students
  http://www.languagekey.com/
  

DICTIONARIES & THESAURUS

• Cambridge University Press Dictionaries
  http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
• Longman Dictionaries
  http://www.longman-elt.com/dictionaries/
• Newbury house online dictionary of American English
  http://nhd.heinle.com/
• Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
  http://www1.oup.co.uk/elt/oald/
• Wordsmyth English dictionaries- thesaurus
  http://www.wordsmyth.net/
• Plumbline visual thesaurus
  http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus
• Dictionary list
  http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries_noframes.html
• The Free Dictionary
  http://www.TheFreeDictionary.com
• Dictionary.Net
  http://www.dictionary.net
• Aigam Webdirectory
  http://www.aigam.com
  

VIRTUAL SCHOOLS

• Bell English Online - The best on the web
  http://www.bellenglish.com/
• English club
  http://www.englishclub.net/
• Tower of English
  http://www.towerofenglish.com
  

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS

• Britannica
  http://www.britannica.com/
• Biblomania
  http://www.bibliomania.com/
• Encyclopedia
  http://www.encyclopedia.com/
• Encyclopedia smithsonian
  http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/
• Linguistics
  http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ccsd/

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