Language/ ESL

(Section updated May 3, 2020)

There are 22,000 FREEBIES with keyword ESL and selecting "free" on Teachers Pay Teachers

Other Language Materials - primarily designed for Teaching English as a Second Language, but easily adapted for children with language-learning disorders and adults who are re-learning language following a stroke.

• Marc Belley's Learn Language On Your Own website with quality content related to language learning, including grammar tips as well as pronunciation techniques (learnlanguagesonyourown.com)
• Michelle Henry's Pronunciation page 1 and Pronunciation page 2 are filled with many good links to freely-available activities and exercises to improve pronunciation of English.
• Terry the Terrible Teacher is an ESL site with many activities for higher-functioning language issues (http://web.archive.org/web/20120304061220/https://www.tcet.com/eaonline/TerribleTeacher/index.html)
• Match between picture and written word (http://web.archive.org/web/20100316192615/http://www.web-books.com:80/Language/Inter0/Pages/TestW/Default.htm) - be patient - loads slowly
• English Exercises (www.englishexercises.org/) has MANY activities, including
  • What Can They Do? (www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=5204)
• Classroom Games and Activities (https://www.eslkidstuff.com) includes samples of Flashcards (https://www.eslkidstuff.com/flashcards.htm) and worksheets (https://www.eslkidstuff.com/worksheets.htm) and more potential therapy activities.
• What American Accent Do You Have? (www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have)
• Interesting Things for ESL Students (www.manythings.org)
• Speech Accent Archive (http://acc ent.gmu.edu) examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph.
• Lanternfish (bogglesworldesl.com/)is a treasure chest of materials
• TESL: Handouts for Classroom Use language activities (http://iteslj.org/links/TESL/Handouts_for_Classroom_Use/p2.html)
• Daniel Kies Modern English Grammar - a hypertext book (http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/grammar/)
• ESL Handouts - free English grammar and vocabulary worksheets and printable handouts, for English language and English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers and instructors to use in the classroom or other teaching environment. (www.usingenglish.com/handouts/)
• Self study quizzes for ESL students (www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/) - Grammar Quizzes, Homonyms, Idioms, Phrasal Verbs & Slang, Scrambled Words, Vocabulary Quiz Quizzes, Holidays, Trivia and Misc.
• Lots of ESL (language) activities (http://www.eflclub.com/index.html)
• The English Zone (www.english-zone.com/) GREAT SITE has worksheets for grammar, verbs, idioms, vocabulary, spelling, conversation, study skills, reading, and writing. Can subscribe for a fee but also has several free items.
• Interesting Things for ESL Students (http://www.manythings.org)contains word games, puzzles, quizzes, slang, and proverbs. Be sure to check the flashcards here (www.manythings.org/fc/) and here (www.manythings.org/fq/)
• Dave's ESL Cafe (www.eslcafe.com) has a collection of language materials. Check under Resources
• 1-language.com (www.1-language.com) is comprehensive ESL Site including forums, realtime chat, grammar, writing, interactive quizzes and games, flashcards, phonics, streaming audio materials, world news, TOEIC modules, helplines, multi-lingual content, and much more.
• Breaking News English - Ready-to-use EFL/ESL Lesson Plans & Podcast (www.breakingnewsenglish.com/)
• Helpful sites to work on pronunciation and accent reduction
  • Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary - audio files of how to pronounce words (http://www.m-w.com/)
  • Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab (http://www.esl-lab.com/)
  • Daily ESL: Readings and Discussion for English Students (http://www.dailyesl.com/)
  • Train your accent (http://www.trainyouraccent.com/)
  • EZ Slang (http://www.ezslang.com/)
  • English Listening Activities (http://www.elllo.org/)
  • ESL Gold - audio files, vocabulary lists (http://www.eslgold.com)
  • Learn a Song podcasts - Learn to sing folk songs, campfire songs and group-singing songs that native English speakers sing. (www.manythings.org/songs/)
  • English Pronunciation Lesson for Health Care Professionals - MP3 files of 28 typical English phrases used by doctors and nurses (http://www.altalang.com/beyond-words/2009/05/05/english-pronunciation-lesson-for-health-care-professionals/.
  • Judy's Pronunciation Clubs Continue - web page to support students in China who were part of a 5-week "club" on English pronunciation.
• iSLCOLLECTIVE - free, printable ESL worksheets by teachers for teachers in several languages including English and Spanish (http://en.islcollective.com/worksheets/search_result?Skill=Speaking)
• English Education: Grammar and Punctuation
• Help Teaching has free English language worksheets as well as a free online test creation tool allowing custom worksheets to be created from a library of over 130,000 questions