English Language Resources for students of English

ABC Teach

Free English learning materials and creative activities for students, with over 5,000 free documents available, including printable worksheets and interactive activities.

English Accent Coach

English Accent Coach is an online tool for developing English pronunciation skills - focusing on vowels and consonants using an interactive game approach.

Spellathon

Aimed at improving literacy and raising funds for your school and Mencap, Spellathon is presented by 'The Professor', an amazing 3D bee voiced by Stephen Fry

Purdue Online Writing Lab

The Purdue Online Writing Lab is one of the best free online resources for students who want to improve their written English, either as a first or second language.

vocabulary.com

Vocabulary.com can help you improve your English vocabulary, combining an adaptive learning system with the world's fastest dictionary to help you learn efficiently.

ESOL Courses

ESOL Courses provide free online English courses. There are courses for beginners, pre-intermediate and intermediate levels, plus advanced and IELTS students.

Exam English

Examenglish.com is for people studying for an ESL English language exam. The site contain free online practice tests for IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, CAE, FCE, and PET.

Many things for ESL students

Offering free English language resources, manythings.org is ideal for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL).

ESL Gold

ESL Gold provides free English language resources for ESL students on speaking, listening, reading and writing, vocabulary, English grammar, idioms and more.

Inglese - English Quizzes

Free English language quizzes and exercises provided by a group of ESL teachers in Milan There are around 35 quizzes, listed according to their level of difficulty.

Josie's Poems

Josie's poems are a great way to introduce your children to poetry. As a child, teenager or adult, Josie's poems are written to charm you into a lifelong love of poetry.

Storynory

If you teach English to children, Storynory produce free audio stories for kids that you'll love! Storynory has published a new audio story every week for 6 years.

Vocabulary Size Test

How big is your English vocabulary? Take this vocabulary test and find out! ESL learners require at least 10,000 words to score high on TOEFL, GRE and GMAT.

Vocabulary can be fun

This site offers free online word games designed to build your vocabulary skills and motivate students through fun practice in spelling, phonics, and vocabulary.

English Listening Library Online

The site provides free listening lessons from high-elementary level upwards. There are currently in excess of 1000 audio lessons to try, all with additional activities.

Randall's ESL Listening Lab

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab is one of the best-known ESL student resources on the web, and one of the best for students who want to improve their listening skills.

New York Times Learning Network

The NYT learning network provides a learning materials in the form of news stories, ideal for higher level students who want to improve their reading skills.

Strivney English

Teach your Child to Read with Strivney English - English Exercises Online. Strivney is a free, interactive, English program for teaching children to read using phonics.

Michael Rosen's website and blog

Michael Rosen is a broadcaster, writer and former Children's Laureate. His writing and poetry can be useful to English teachers of all types, as well as being a good read!

engVid English Video Lessons

Engvid.com provides hundreds free English video lessons aimed at ESL students. There are over 300 videos available, all created by experienced ESL teachers.

Tweet Speak English

Tweet Speak English helps ESL students to improve their spoken English and listening skills by providing podcasts of useful English from Twitter.

Grammar Monster

Grammar Monster provides interactive teaching of English grammar and punctuation for native English speakers who need to improve their correspondence.

English Level Test

Do you want to find out your level of English in a free online test you can take anytime? You can find your English level with Kaplan's Free English Level Test

Lanternfish

Lanternfish provides printable English resources for both ESL teachers and students of English on a wide range of categorised topics.

My happy English

My happy English, created by Michael, an English teacher in New York, provides students with a variety of one-point English lessons on a wide variety of topics.

Children's Digital Library

The International Children's Digital Library is heaven for children who are bookworms, and also a fantastic resource for English language teachers.

English Grammar (org)

The English Grammar website is a free English language resource, offering a huge range of grammar explanations and downloadable pdf format lessons.

Knowble

Use Knowble Articles to improve your English vocabulary by reading interesting newspaper articles for your language level, at home and at your own pace.