Student Resources

Resources for Students



These are websites that provide resources for ELL students. These many resources will help with vocabulary acquisition, grammar, social skills, and many other crucial aspects for development. These websites will help transition ELL students into an English speaking world.

This is an online picture dictionary to help ESL students learn English. Students can either look up words by letter or category. The various categories include animals, appliances, body parts, clothing and apparel, colors, fruits, garden and yard, kitchen, musical instruments, numbers, school, sports, tools, transportation, and vegetables. The words can either be looked up in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.*****

This website provides quizzes, tests, exercises, and puzzles to help any ESL student learn the English language. This easy to follow site can help the learner with grammar and vocabulary in forty-two languages including Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese. It also includes Podcasts where the student can read the text while you listen. It’s a great source for students, beginners to advanced, to begin to understand the English language. *****

Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab is a website that offers listening quizzes for any ESL student young or old. This is a great website for learners at any stage because it has general conversations with not only easy to difficult levels, but also with adult and children voices. On top of the general conversation quizzes, there are listening quizzes for academic purposes, 20-minute ESL vocabulary lessons that build your vocabulary and pronunciation or key words, language learning and life tips, and access to long conversations with RealVideo, where you can watch and learn from these interviews and conversations. This site brings together English language learning and new technology together to create an interactive experience that brings helping ESL learners to a new level.
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This site is great for ESL students wishing to study abroad to earn a university degree overseas. It includes a great list of contents such as “Study Abroad: Is It Right for You?” and “Online ESL Study: Preparing Before You Go?”. Due to the depth of this website, it also has a link that helps the student to use the site, and is located in red in the middle of the homepage.

Interesting Things for ESL students is a site for ESL students to make learning fun! There are word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs, and more. It includes over 15 different activities that are located on the left side of the homepage. An ESL student can learn to sing songs that native speakers know, change idioms to plain English, and work on pronunciation with a simple click of their mouse. Not only is this website entertaining, but ESL students will have fun learning.*****

This website is a great resource to jumpstart any search that an ESL student may begin. This site is basically an ESL index page with extra resources that lead the web user to other websites. The topics that are listed on the homepage include general resources, online courses, grammar and spelling, vocabulary, and help with specific tasks among other topics. However, by clicking on the “ESL index page” or “all of our ESL handouts”, it sends the ESL student to a page that has handouts and exercises that are very beneficial to any English language learner. The handouts include topics such as ‘A’ vs. ‘An’, adjective or adverb, capitalization, subject-verb agreement, and other tough grammar concepts that are hard to grasp. Overall this site is a fantastic for any ESL student trying to practice at home outside the classroom.

This site shows a very fun and real way of learning English for ESL students. This site is divided into a teacher and student portion. This site is real and relates to ESL students in a more personal manner by providing discussion forums about relationships, dating, movies, music, food, the internet, etc. Even if the ESL student has trouble navigating around the site, there is a “site tour” link at the top of the homepage that describes what each page has and how to work it. This seems like the ultimate way to practice the English language and captures the attention of any young ESL student.

English Club ESL Learning Centre is where you'll find lessons and resources to help you learn English. If you're an ESL or EFL student, you'll find the online English lessons here useful to learn or revise all aspects of English. You can also use the interactive pages like ESL Forums or ESL Games to have fun and learn English at the same time. If you have a question about English grammar check out ESL Help for answers. In the special interest pages you'll find resources for Business English, Young Learners and other areas of English. ESL or EFL teachers, too, can find material in these pages of use while teaching English.

This site is a great resource for any ESL student. It is a bilingual site that has browse links about culture, daily study, dialogs, dictionaries and reference materials, games, grammar and English usage, idioms, and more. Another great aspect of this site is the listening section which has downloadable podcasts and MP3 that the student can listen to in order to become a better English speaker and writer.*****

This ESL/EFL resource is great for students to practice English on their own. Each section includes exercises that increase in difficulty as you complete them. The sections include grammar, phrasal verbs, vocabulary, links, listening and reading (advanced), and a contact site.