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Idioms, phrasal verbs and proverbs
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Vocabulary: discussions and interactive exercises
Words are the building blocks of any language. The more words you have in your written or spoken vocabulary, the greater are the possibilities of your success in academics, business or career.
Listed below are links to discussions and interactive exercises in vocabulary from the best ESL and EFL resources on the Internet. Clicking the blue links will take you to the specific pages where the quizzes or exercises are, while clicking the website name will take you to the home pages. Take time to browse these excellent websites; they are consistently good and fast loading. Besides the materials listed below, these great sites generously offer, free of charge, a tremendous range of valuable resources for the ESL and EFL teachers and students.
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.
[01] Vocabulary activities, from About.com
Action Idioms Quiz (Understanding through context of selected action verbs)
Key Words List (850 word-list developed by Charles K. Ogden in 1930, a great starting point for building up a vocabulary which allows you to converse fluently in English)
Financial Terminology Quiz
British to American / American to British - Vocabulary Converter
Building Phrasal Verb Vocabulary
Collocations
Useful Business English Phrases
[02] Vocabulary Quizzes, from Activities for ESL Students
Vocabulary – Easy
Vocabulary - Easy with Pictures
Vocabulary – Medium
Vocabulary - Difficult
[03] Antagonyms
Extensive list of English words with meanings which contradict each other
[04] Grammar and Vocabulary, from BBC Learning English
News vocabulary, Science vocabulary, Football vocabulary, and Tennis vocabulary
[05] The University Word List, from John Bauman
[06] Business English Vocabulary Lessons, from Business English Grammar Lessons (Pearson Brown)
[07] Building a Better Vocabulary, from Capital Community College Guide to Good Grammar
Numerous college-level work quizzes, including words that have appeared on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests and Graduate Record Exams, and with a downloadable Pop-up Lexicon (93Kb) containing 365 SAT- and GRE- level vocabulary words, definitions, and sample sentences
[08] Full Dolch Word List (220 Words and 95 Nouns), from Dolch-words
The Dolch words are the 220 most frequently found words in books thatchildren read, and are usually learned in first and second grade. Students who learn these words have a good base for beginning reading. Many of these words cannot be sounded out because they do not follow decoding rules, so they must be learned as sight words.
[09] The Academic Word List, from English as Second Language
[10] Vocabulary, from English at Home
Numerous activities and resources include English Phonetic Spelling, Say or Tell? Say or Tell Quiz; Do or Make? Do or Make Quiz; Irregular Adjectives (good, better, the best); Prefixes (non-, inter-, post-); Contractions (I'm, aren't, here's); Informal Contractions (gimme, gonna, wanna); Figures of Speech (like a bat outta hell); Illustrated Vocabulary ; Computer Vocabulary (backup, cache, DOS); Football Vocabulary (foul, goal, pass); Practical Vocabulary
Test Yourself
[11] Vocabulary, from English Corner (Rod Rodgers)
Activities include Collocations; Crosswords; Definitions; False Cognates; Games; Picture Quizzes; Vocabulary Links; Word Formation; Word Lists; Word Studies
[12] Vocabulary exercises to practice phrases used in business, from English Exercises Online
[13] TOEFL Vocabulary, from English Daily
Over a thousand real multiple-choice questions for TOEFL test preparation
[14] English Vocabulary, from E L Easton Materials for Teaching and Learning
[15] Index to topics, from English Learner
Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Vocabulary categories, including Colours crossword, Idioms with colors, Fruit quiz and Eponyms (words from names)
[16] Advanced Vocabulary and Holiday Vocabulary Lessons, from English Page
[17] Actvities in vocabulary, from Esl-lounge
[18] ESL Vocabulary, from English Works! (Gallaudet)
Ideas for Improving Your Vocabulary
Suffixes to Know
Vocabulary Exercises
[19] Vocabulary for learners of English, from Frankfurt International School
Categories of activities include Easier, Harder, Random, and with lessons in Geography/History, Science, Math, and Mainstream English
[20] 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions, by Free Vocabulary (Steve Baba, Ph.D)
Words from from abase to zodiac, with PDF version
[21] Vocabulary and Idioms, from Interlink Language Resources
[22] Vocabulary activities, from Interesting Things for ESL Students
Numerous activities and resources including Easy Vocabulary Quizzes, English Vocabulary Games with Pictures, English Vocabulary Word Lists with Games, Puzzles and Quizzes, Anagrams, Flashcards
[23] Vocabulary Exercises, from Isabel's ESL site
[24] Vocabulary Quizzes, from John’s ESL
Activities and resources include Vocabulary Lists, 1000 Commonly Used Words, specialized vocabulary (Geography, Aviation and Medical), and Picture Vocabulary
[25] Vocabulary activities, from Karin’s ESL Partyland
Easy, Medium and Difficult categories; multiple choice, fill-in, cloze
[26] ESL Online Wordsearches, from 1-language.com
Fun and easy way to learn vocabulary through 100 different puzzles; Note: Java-enabled browser required
[27] Vocabulary activities, from LanguageGuide.org
Practice the 100 most common words in the English
Pictorial Vocabulary Guides
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, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian
[28]
Vocabulary
Activities, from Lauri’s
ESL Website
[29] Free
Online Vocabulary Exercises, from Learn
English Feel Good
Each exercise centers around one theme or topic, using only common and useful English words and expressions; Business English Vocabulary; and American and British English: Differences in Vocabulary
[30] English vocabulary – Index, from englisch hilfen
[31] The Most Important Vocabulary for Students of English, from Teacher Joe
Topics include Business English and Basic English Vocabulary
[32] ESL Vocabulary Lessons, from 5 Minute English
[33] Vocabulary activities and resources, from Michael Buckhoff
Topics include Picture Vocabulary, Professions and Tools
[34] 50 commonly misspelled words, from A Spelling Test by Mindy McAdams
[36] Free Online Spelling Tutor and game, from OZspeller
Categories from Kinder to Frequent and Advanced; words spoken by your computer, with hints, definitions and sentences, repeatable audio clips, and three versions: Oz Speller with Australian Spelling; Oz speller with US Spelling; Oz speller with British Words
[37] Vocabulary for English Language Learners, from Ohio ESL
[38] Vocabulary lessons, from One Stop English
Theme-based lesson plans for American and British English, including phrasal verbs, and metaphors
Business and financial texts, engineering reports, legal documents, and social work papers; meaning, pronunciation, sample passages and exercises
[40] Puzzles, Games, etc. from The Puzzle Depot
[41] 100 Most Common SAT Words, from Quia Web
[42] SAT Preparation
[43] Vocabulary Level Test, from The Compleat Lexical Tutor
Use these tests to find the growth-edge of your vocabulary: Version A and B, 1000 level up to University Word List and 10,000 level
Extensive list of English words which have different meanings when pronounced differently
[45] Free vocabulary test for TOEFL, GMT, SAT, GRE and VOA Special English, from Vocaboly
Free interactive vocabulary puzzle and activity sessions use Latin and Greek "roots and cells" to help unlock word meanings;
Vocabulary from texts: 111 Recommended High School/Junior High Reading, among others, 1984; All Quiet on the Western Front; Animal Farm; A Raisin in the Sun; A Tale of Two Cities; Call of the Wild Jane Eyre; Julius Caesar; Johnny Got His Gun; The Joy Luck Club; Lonesome Dove, etc
[47] Vocabulary Builder, from Vocabulix
Improve your vocabulary in various foreign languages (English, German and Spanish), online and free
[48] Vocabulary Training Exercises In English, German, French and Spanish
[49] Focusing On Words, from wordfocus.com
Vocabulary builder based on learning the Latin and Greek roots from which half the words in English come from
[50] A Word A Day, from Wordsmith
Explore the world of words, share, and delight in the joy of words with a community of more than 600,000 linguaphiles in at least 200 countries, from Australia to Zimbabwe
Today’s Word
Internet Anagram Server (Advanced programming, Topical Anagrams, Anagram Hall of Fame, Odds and Ends)
[51] Vocabulary activities and tests, from World English
Activities and topics include English First Names and Meanings, Difficult English Words, Vocabulary test from A to Z, and specialized vocabulary (Banking, Medical and Financial)
[52] Interactive games and exercises, from Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun
CrossWords; HangMouse; Match Game; UnScramble; Letter Blocks; Clueless Crossword
[53] Online vocabulary topics for intermediate and advanced ESL learners, from English Gateway
[54] Free online, interactive vocabulary exercises, from Language Project (approved by the British Council; also includes hundreds of free grammar and discourse exercises)
Elementary Vocabulary Questions
At Home; Basic Adjectives; Clothes; Common Verbs; Confusing Words; Days and Dates; Driving Words and Phrases; Family Members; Groups Of Things; More Word Building; Possessions; Sports; The Natural World; The Weather; Things On The Street; Work: People and Places
Intermediate Vocabulary Questions
Accommodation; At Work; Body Movement; Verbs; Cinema Film Reviews; Flying; General Nouns; Health; Problems; Health Word Building; Opposite Adjectives; Personality Adjectives; Personality Word Building; Prefixes: Re-Roads and Trains; Science; Shopping; Shopping Word Building; Speech Verbs; Strong Adjectives; Television; The Environment; Verbs With Up; Word Building
-ate Verbs; -en Verbs; -ify Verbs; Animal Noises; Body Idioms; Body Parts; Cars And Driving; Colour Idioms; Comparatives with 'as'; Containers and Quantifiers; Eating Out; Expressions with "as"; Expressions with "for"; Expressions with "no"; Expressions With "with"; Food; Food Idioms; Health; Key Moments; Law And Order; Money; More "no" Expressions; Newspapers; On The Road; Parks; Problem Adjectives; Proverbs; Quantity Expressions; Reflexive Expressions; Relationships; Slang; Sounds; Sports Equipment; Telephones; The Environment; Types of writing; Verbs With "Off"; Water Words; Ways Of Walking; Weather Adjectives; Words Ending "-less"
[55] Word Cup (an international, online vocabulary competition for all ages, students and adults, sponsored among others by Oxford University Press), from eSpindle
eSpindle is a non-profit organization offering customized vocabulary tutoring online. It is supported through memberships, and memberships are matched with free licenses for disadvantaged students. Other services and resources offered by eSpindle:
Practice quiz for the Word Cup (Choose between easy, average and hard words; quiz updated twice a month)
Free, moderated online spelling bee and Word Cup forum (exchange ideas, make friends, find encouragement)
Root word directory (prefixes, root words and suffixes)
[56] Dolch word lists, phrases, worksheets and activities, from Mrs. Perkins' Dolch Words
Vocabulary word lists, flashcards and Powerpoint presentations; variety of lists with the Dolch words ordered alphabetically, by frequency or by grade; lesson plan templates, counting charts, blank calendars, cut-out dominoes, and forms for testing and assessment; for teachers and parents who want to teach Dolch sight words to their children
Dolch Word Lists
Dolch Phrases
Dolch Worksheets
Classroom Forms and Testing
Note: Olympics ESL exercises and activities, from ESLTower.com (prepare and motivate your English class for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games through printable vocabulary puzzles, quizzes, flashcards, game cards and exercises related to Olympic Games, sports and countries)
Olympic sports
“Olympic Sports” Dictionary Hunt
"Olympic Sports" Wheel Search Puzzle
"Olympic Sports" Matching Quiz
Olympic Games word puzzle
What we do in sports crossword verbs puzzle
Olympics Games word puzzle
"Olympic Sports" Spelling Quiz
"Olympic Sports" Multiple Choice Quiz
Olympic Sports Vocabulary Game Sheet
Sports and Olympics - Word Puzzle
Countries, Sports and Athletes
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Miscellaneous Links
Bilingual Vocabulary Quizzes from The Internet TESL Journal's Activities for ESL Students
Arabic
- English
Chinese
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Indonesian
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Japanese
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Korean
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Kurdish
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Persian
(Farsi) - English
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Russian
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Sesotho
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Spanish
- English
Swahili
- English
Tagalog
- English
Thai
- English
Turkish-English
Urdu
- English
Vietnamese
- English
Zulu
- English
Common
English Mistakes Made by Chinese Speakers,
from
English Daily
Typical English mistakes by speakers of other languages, by Language Project, (approved by the British Council; more examples available upon registration): Arabic; Chinese ; Japanese; Korean; Portuguese; Spanish; Czech; French; German; Greek; Italian; Polish; Russia; Swedish; Turkish. .
Verb2Verbe
- Online Verb Conjugator (Alan Paul)
Verbix
- Online Verb Conjugator
Spoken English Learned Quickly 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 on 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.
Text Content Analysis Tool, from UsingEnglish.com (provides statistics about your text up to 500 KB including word count; unique words; number of sentences; average words per sentence; with more detailed statistics available to members)
Online magazines
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
Online dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, translators
OneLook®
Dictionaries
Definitions and spellings of more than seven million words from over
1001 indexed online dictionaries
Visual Dictionary and Encyclopedia
The Internet Picture Dictionary
Encyclopedia Britannica On-line
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Online bilingual dictionaries from www.freedict.com
Online
English to African / African to English Dictionary
Online
English to Indonesian / Indonesian to English Dictionary
Online
English to Japanese / Japanese to English Dictionary
Online
English to Spanish / Spanish to English Dictionary
Online
English to Swahili / Swahili to English Dictionary
Information
Please
On-Line Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, Atlas and Almanac Reference
English-Chinese
Dictionary
Chinese-English
Dictionary
from
TigerNT
Webster's Online Dictionary. With Multilingual Thesaurus Translation
YourDictionary
Free online English dictionary with definitions, thesaurus entries,
spelling, pronunciation, synonyms and etymology
RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus
AskOxford.com
(UK)
AskOxford.com
(US)
English grammar, spelling, usage and writing; dictionary; crosswords
and puzzles
Reverso free online translation
Online libraries
The
Elements of Style
by Strunk and White
(complete manuscript)
Project
Gutenberg Official Home Site: Easy to access literary works for
free
Top
100
Online
Book Catalog - Overview
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
English
Online Resources Electronic Text Center, University Of Virginia
Complete texts of thousands of works of English
literature, including novels, plays, poetry and Bibles
Humanities
Text Initiative
University of Michigan
Online access to complete texts of many works of English literature
Project
Bartleby Archive
Complete texts of many works of English literature
The Internet Classics Archive Complete texts of hundreds of works of English literature.
The On-Line Books Page Complete texts of more than 7,000 works of English literature
The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare
Online newspapers
Read 6000+ Online Newspapers @ ThePaperboy.com
The
Key
Written for new readers and adults with limited reading skills. All
material is free of copyright for nonprofit, education purposes only.
Learning
Edge
An interactive on-line newspaper for adult literacy students, with games,
crossword puzzles, on-line quizzes, and writing contests
From Asia and Middle East
China Peoples Daily
Philippine
Daily Inquirer
Times
of India
Deccan
Herald (South India)
Taipei
Times (Taiwan)
Japan
Times
Jerusalem
Post
The
Jewish Chronicle
Middle
East Times
New
Zealand Herald
Jamaica
Observer
Santiago
Times
Dispatch
(South Africa)
Zimbabwe
Independent
Granma
(Cuba)
Guardian
(Nigeria)
South
America Daily
The
New York Times (USA)
CBC.CA
(Canada)
Canberra
Sunday Times (Australia)
From Europe
The
Irish Times
Copenhagen
Post
France
Daily
Gibraltar
Chronicle
GermanTimes
Moscow
Times
Sofia
Echo
Prague
Post
Warsaw
Voice
Online diagnostic and assessment tests
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
Diagnostic tests / Assessment tests on English grammar, from www.english-at-home.com
Assessment Tests, from Churchill House School of English Language
Miscellaneous links
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.
English for the medical professional, from HospitalEnglish.com (free resources for medical professionals (doctors, nurses, physical therapists, radiologists, physician assistants, pharmacists, etc) studying English and medical printables for teachers; with medical vocabulary builders and pronunciation guide, patient counseling activities, disease state directors, healthcare professional articles, medical flashcards, hospital lesson plans, and ESP worksheets
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