Free online tutoring in conversational English
Learning English and creative writing through photographs
Idioms, phrasal verbs and proverbs
"A picture is worth a thousand words ..." blog
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The English language: Gateway to the world
The English language in its different varieties (American English, British English, etc) is the gateway to the world of education, business, technology and inter-people communication. More than a billion people speak the English language, and there are only a few places in the world where English is not understood.
The goal of this website
It is estimated that two-thirds of the world's population (or more than 3.2 billion people) live in Asian and African countries located 10 degrees latitude north of the equator to 40 degrees latitude north of the equator. If you are a teacher or student from grade school up to college, an employee in government or in the private sector, an entrepreneur or a professional from Asia or Africa, this website is designed to help you improve your mastery of the English language. Proficiency in English will help improve your grades and create opportunities for advancement in work and career.
The design of this website
The website is divided into the traditional classification of English grammar of the eight parts of speech, plus sections on idioms, vocabulary, spelling, listening, speaking, pronunciation, and writing. Based on these divisions, we have searched for and selected good discussions and interactive exercises from more than a thousand ESL (English as Second Language) and EFL (English as Foreign Language) websites.
The websites we have chosen are consistently good, fast loading, and generously offer to their users, free of charge, a wide range of resources. Besides the materials listed in this website, these excellent sites offer a tremendous range of valuable resources for the ESL and EFL teachers and students.
Except for three or four websites, the selected sites come from American, Australian, British or European sources. Thus, you may sometimes find it difficult relating with the situations or the contexts of the discussions and interactive exercises. As soon as we find online English lessons with an Asian or African context, we will include them here.
While broadband connection is becoming more accessible and affordable for homes, you probably still have online access either through slow dial-up connections or through rental by the hour services of Internet cafes. This website thus uses predominantly text links, with very few graphics.
American English and British English
Please take note that these websites either teach American English or British English. For a better understanding of the differences between American and British English, please read the following articles : (1) American and British English differences from Wikipedia; and (2) Differences Between American and British English from About.com.
How to answer the interactive exercises
In answering the interactive exercises, you should follow carefully the prompts and directions. You should read each sentence or part aloud before clicking the answer you think is right. After the correct answer is displayed, think it over as to why it is the correct answer. (Please take note that the correct answer may depend on whether the exercise comes from an American English or a British English website.) After doing so, read the complete sentence again aloud with the correct answer.
To train yourself to think in English, try to recite the sentences with the correct answers from memory and at your full speaking volume. Or you can ask a friend to read out loud the sentences with the correct answers and you repeat them without looking at the computer screen.
Free online tutoring in conversational English; Learning English through photographs
Towards the goal of helping you achieve proficiency in the English language, this website offers two unique features. These are free online tutoring in conversational English and the section on "Learning English and creative writing through photographs". You can contact any of our online tutors through Yahoo Messenger. Photographs, on the other hand, can be a good source of materials for practicing speaking, listening, writing, vocabulary and grammar
Testing your level of English proficiency
Before browsing the other sections of this website, it is a good idea to first test your level of mastery of the English language. Listed below are some online diagnostic and assessment tests. Clicking the blue link will take you to the specific page where the diagnostic and assessment test is located, while clicking the website name will bring you to the site's home page.
[01] Free Online TOEFL, English and Multi-Language Vocabulary Test, from FreeTOEFL.net
Designed for multi-language vocabulary tests (Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, etc) and for English exams like TOEFL, iBT, GRE, SAT and TOEIC
[02] Online Assessment Tests, from World English
Diagnostic Grammar Test
English Grammar Placement Test
English Language Assessment Test
Online English Assessment Tests
[03] Diagnostic tests / Assessment tests on English grammar, from www.english-at-home.com
[04] Assessment Tests, from Churchill House School of English Language
Elementary Level
Intermediate Level
Upper-Intermediate Level (FCE)
Advanced Level (CAE)
[05] Test your English now (vocabulary, grammar, listening and reading (cloze test)
[06] Free online, interactive exercises in grammar, vocabulary and discourse, from Language Project (approved by the British Council)
Elementary English Practice Exercises
Intermediate English Practice Exercises
Advanced English Practice Exercises
Notes:
Spoken English Learned Quickly offers free downloads of lessons and books (Learning Spoken English, a 450-page Student Workbook and an Instructor’s Guide) to your computer, iPod, Blackberry, MP3 player or PDA; Lessons in vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and verb tenses using spoken English exercises; Complete lessons contain enough recorded audio lesson material for two hours of study a day, five days a week for nine months.
englishforjapanese.com offers fee-based language learning study solutions for Japanese students of English for speech, pronunciation, listening, pronunciation, social and business conversation skills; with free but non-interactive exercises and tests in English usage, vocabulary and grammar; some lessons in downloadable PDF format; related blog Two-Minute English offers free daily, non-interactive exercise and activities.
Typical English mistakes by speakers of other languages, by Language Project, (approved by the British Council; more examples available upon registration): Arabic speakers; Chinese speakers; Japanese speakers; Korean speakers; Portuguese speakers; Spanish speakers; Czech speakers; French speakers; German speakers; Greek speakers; Italian speakers; Polish speakers; Russian speakers; Swedish speakers; Turkish speakers.
PresenTired:
"The Voicemail"
from Scott
Schwertly on Vimeo
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Online resources
Common English Mistakes Made by Chinese Speakers, and TOEFL Vocabulary, from English Daily (over a thousand real multiple-choice questions for TOEFL test preparation
Bilingual
Vocabulary Quizzes from The Internet TESL Journal's
Activities
for ESL Students
Arabic
- English
Chinese
- English
Indonesian
- English
Japanese
- English
Korean
-English
Kurdish
- English
Malay
- English
Persian
(Farsi) - English
Portuguese
- English
Russian
- English
Sesotho
- English
Somali
- English
Spanish
- English
Swahili
- English
Tagalog
- English
Thai
- English
Turkish-English
Urdu
- English
Vietnamese
- English
Zulu
- English
Online bilingual dictionaries from www.freedict.com
A Word A Day, from Wordsmith
Women
Today Magazine
Chinese
Women Today
Relationships; Sex & Love; Advice; Beauty; Fashion;
Food; Money; Work; Chat; Online Studies; Life Stories; Wellness
& Spirit; Self-Esteem; Family & Home; Health &
Fitness; Wit & Wisdom
SOON
Online Magazine
Learning English Index
Free world-wide easy-English literature programme; free
copies available on request
Power To Change (English); for other languages, click Arabic; French; German; Italian; Japanese; Malay; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Thai; and Czech
Free vocabulary test for TOEFL, GMT, SAT, GRE and VOA Special English, from Vocaboly
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Verb2Verbe
- Online Verb Conjugator (Alan Paul)
Verbix
- Online Verb Conjugator
Pictorial
Vocabulary Guides, from LanguageGuide.org
Learn the pronunciation and spelling of thousands of words using an image
based interface, with supported languages as English, French, Spanish,
German, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Italian, Greek, Chinese, Chinese
(traditional characters), Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Turkish, Thai,
Viet-namese, and Indonesian
Read 6000+ Online Newspapers @ ThePaperboy.com
Online resurces for reading, writing and listening
8 to 13-year old authors read their own stories and poems as you follow along. Selections are chosen from over ten thousand entries a year from children all over the world
Wired for Books, from WOUB Center for Public Media, Scripps College of Communication, Ohio University
Hundreds of hours of spoken audio in English of a tremendous range of poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for children and adults
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