ESL Skills Site
English as a Second Language
Welcome! A group of ESL instructors have developed these pages to help students practice English language skills. The pages link to grammar, listening, pronunciation, reading, writing, and vocabulary activities for beginning, intermediate and advanced ESL students. The links will give ESL learners the opportunity to enhance their knowledge of English by accessing a variety of activities online.
Grammar
Useful links for ESL students.
Grammar - Beginning
- Adjective & Adverb Exercises
- Adjective & Adverb Grammar Blast
- Apostrophe Game
- Articles – a, an & the
- Comma activity
- Conditional Sentences
- Gerund & Infinitive Exercises
- Irregular Verb Practice
- Nationality Names
- Parts of Speech
- Position of adverbs of frequency
- Prepositional Phrases
- Talking English
- Verb tense practice The top of list is easy; scroll down for more challenging verb tenses.
- Verb Tense Review Explanations & quizzes
Grammar - Intermediate
- Adjective & Adverb Exercises
- Comma activity
- Conditional Sentences
- Gerund & Infinitive Exercises
- Grammar-Quizzes
- Irregular Verb Practice
- Parts of Speech
- Phrasal Verbs
- Prepositional Phrases
- Verb tense practice The top of list is easy; scroll down for more challenging verb tenses.
- Verb Tense Review Explanations & quizzes
- World English – all skills
Grammar - Advanced
- Adjective & Adverb Exercises
- Conditional Sentences
- Gerund & Infinitive Exercises
- Glossary of Grammar Terms
- Grammar-Quizzes
- Phrasal Verbs
- Prepositional Phrases
- Verb tense practice The top of list is easy; scroll down for more challenging verb tenses.
- Verb Tense Review Explanations & quizzes
Listening
Useful links for ESL students.
Listening - Beginning
- Listening Activities: Comprehension and Dictation
- Listening Quizzes Scroll to your level
- Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab Scroll to your listening level.
- Telling Time
Listening - Intermediate
Listening - Advanced
- A Way with Words Podcasts. Click on “Listen”
- ABC News Podcasts
- All Things Considered
- CNN Video News
- Listening Quizzes: Scroll down to your level
- Long Conversations Listening Comprehension Quizzes
- Movie Trailers
- Numbers: Write what you hear
- Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab Scroll to your listening level
- Ted Talks
- Vocabulary, Slang, Idioms, Body Language – Featured Guests Interview
- Voice of America
- Weather
- What are Human Rights?
Pronunciation
Useful links for ESL students.
Pronunciation Beginning
- “Breaking News” News Stories
- “sh” sound – Scroll down
- 500 Basic Words
- A Way with Words Podcasts. Click on “Listen”
- ABC News Podcasts
- Adjective & Adverb Exercises
- Adjective & Adverb Grammar Blast
- Adult Learning Activities – click on a picture to start
- Aesop’s Fables
- All Things Considered
- Alphabet
- Alphabet
- Apostrophe Game
- Articles – a, an & the
- Basic Word Lists & Games
- BBC Pronunciation Tips
- Beginners Vocabulary Games
- Building a Better Vocabulary
- Business Readings
- CNN Video News
- Comma activity
- Conditional Sentences
- Daily Pronunciation and Vocabulary
- Easy Reading
- Easy Vocabulary for Beginners
- elllo ESL Listening
- English Club Pronunciation
- ESL Comics – click under “Blog Archives” for more comics
- ESL Gold Vocabulary – Scroll down to your level.
- ESL Gold Writing
- ESL Mania News Stories
- General Links: You choose
- Gerund & Infinitive Exercises
- Glossary of Grammar Terms
- Grammar-Quizzes
- Holidays in America
- Idiom Site
- Idioms & Expressions with quizzes
- Idioms, Intermediate Level – Intermediate Level Idioms
- Illustrated Vocabulary
- Intonation 10a
- Intonation 10b – Practice
- Intonation 10c – Meaning of rising and falling intonation
- Irregular Verb Practice
- Learn English Through Songs
- Listening Activities: Comprehension and Dictation
- Listening Quiz: A Customer Request
- Listening Quizzes – Scroll to your level
- Listening Quizzes: Scroll down to your level
- Literature online
- Long Conversations – Listening Comprehension Quizzes
- Many Things Vocabulary
- Medical Vocabulary Quiz
- Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary
- Movie Trailers
- Nationality Names
- News Story Archives
- Number Pronunciation and Spelling
- Numbers: Write what you hear
- parallel structure worksheet
- paraphrasing
- Parts of Speech
- Parts of Speech
- Past Tense -ed
- Phonetics
- Phrasal Verbs
- Position of adverbs of frequency
- Prepositional Phrases
- Pronunciation of Individual Sounds – Click on the sounds you need to practice.
- Proofreading Exercises – Capitalization and Punctuation
- Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab – Scroll to your listening level.
- Reading Comprehension activities
- Reading Comprehension for Beginners
- Reading Room – online newspapers, magazines, books
- Readings with activities
- Readings with comprehension questions
- Readings with comprehension questions
- Reuters Video News
- Rhythm through Rhyme: Part A
- Rhythm through Rhyme: Part B
- s / es Plural Endings
- self editing
- sentence patterns
- Sentence Stress
- sentence structure
- Short Conversations
- Short Stories at East of the Web
- Short Stories at English Club.com
- Sounds of English
- Sozo Listening Video and Vocabulary
- Stress and Rhythm 9a
- Stress and Rhythm 9b
- Stress and Rhythm 9c
- Stress for Emphasis 8b
- Stress Patterns 8a Content vs. Function Words – Content vs. Function Words
- Stress Patterns 8c
- Super Easy Stories
- Talking English
- Ted Talks
- Telling Time
- Test Your Vocabulary – hear, read, and write vocabulary words
- Thought Groups: 7a
- Thought Groups: 7b
- Timed Reading exercises
- Useful Word Lists
- Verb tense practice – The top of list is easy; scroll down for more challenging verb tenses.
- Verb Tense Review – Explanations & quizzes
- Vocabulary, Slang, Idioms, Body Language – Featured Guests – Interview
- Voice of America
- Weather
- What are Human Rights?
- Word Stress
- Word Stress: 6b – Number of syllables
- Word Stress: 6c – Practice state names and capitals
- Word Stress: 6d – Continue states and capitals
- World English – all skills
- Writing Business Letters
Pronunciation Intermediate
- “Breaking News” News Stories
- “sh” sound – Scroll down
- 500 Basic Words
- A Way with Words Podcasts. Click on “Listen”
- ABC News Podcasts
- Adjective & Adverb Exercises
- Adjective & Adverb Grammar Blast
- Adult Learning Activities – click on a picture to start
- Aesop’s Fables
- All Things Considered
- Alphabet
- Alphabet
- Apostrophe Game
- Articles – a, an & the
- Basic Word Lists & Games
- BBC Pronunciation Tips
- Beginners Vocabulary Games
- Building a Better Vocabulary
- Business Readings
- CNN Video News
- Comma activity
- Conditional Sentences
- Daily Pronunciation and Vocabulary
- Easy Reading
- Easy Vocabulary for Beginners
- elllo ESL Listening
- English Club Pronunciation
- ESL Comics – click under “Blog Archives” for more comics
- ESL Gold Vocabulary – Scroll down to your level.
- ESL Gold Writing
- ESL Mania News Stories
- General Links: You choose
- Gerund & Infinitive Exercises
- Glossary of Grammar Terms
- Grammar-Quizzes
- Holidays in America
- Idiom Site
- Idioms & Expressions with quizzes
- Idioms, Intermediate Level – Intermediate Level Idioms
- Illustrated Vocabulary
- Intonation 10a
- Intonation 10b – Practice
- Intonation 10c – Meaning of rising and falling intonation
- Irregular Verb Practice
- Learn English Through Songs
- Listening Activities: Comprehension and Dictation
- Listening Quiz: A Customer Request
- Listening Quizzes – Scroll to your level
- Listening Quizzes: Scroll down to your level
- Literature online
- Long Conversations – Listening Comprehension Quizzes
- Many Things Vocabulary
- Medical Vocabulary Quiz
- Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary
- Movie Trailers
- Nationality Names
- News Story Archives
- Number Pronunciation and Spelling
- Numbers: Write what you hear
- parallel structure worksheet
- paraphrasing
- Parts of Speech
- Parts of Speech
- Past Tense -ed
- Phonetics
- Phrasal Verbs
- Position of adverbs of frequency
- Prepositional Phrases
- Pronunciation of Individual Sounds – Click on the sounds you need to practice.
- Proofreading Exercises – Capitalization and Punctuation
- Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab – Scroll to your listening level.
- Reading Comprehension activities
- Reading Comprehension for Beginners
- Reading Room – online newspapers, magazines, books
- Readings with activities
- Readings with comprehension questions
- Readings with comprehension questions
- Reuters Video News
- Rhythm through Rhyme: Part A
- Rhythm through Rhyme: Part B
- s / es Plural Endings
- self editing
- sentence patterns
- Sentence Stress
- sentence structure
- Short Conversations
- Short Stories at East of the Web
- Short Stories at English Club.com
- Sounds of English
- Sozo Listening Video and Vocabulary
- Stress and Rhythm 9a
- Stress and Rhythm 9b
- Stress and Rhythm 9c
- Stress for Emphasis 8b
- Stress Patterns 8a Content vs. Function Words – Content vs. Function Words
- Stress Patterns 8c
- Super Easy Stories
- Talking English
- Ted Talks
- Telling Time
- Test Your Vocabulary – hear, read, and write vocabulary words
- Thought Groups: 7a
- Thought Groups: 7b
- Timed Reading exercises
- Useful Word Lists
- Verb tense practice – The top of list is easy; scroll down for more challenging verb tenses.
- Verb Tense Review – Explanations & quizzes
- Vocabulary, Slang, Idioms, Body Language – Featured Guests – Interview
- Voice of America
- Weather
- What are Human Rights?
- Word Stress
- Word Stress: 6a
- Word Stress: 6b – Number of syllables
- Word Stress: 6c – Practice state names and capitals
- Word Stress: 6d – Continue states and capitals
- World English – all skills
- Writing Business Letters
Pronunciation Advanced
- “Breaking News” News Stories
- “sh” sound – Scroll down
- 500 Basic Words
- A Way with Words Podcasts. Click on “Listen”
- ABC News Podcasts
- Adjective & Adverb Exercises
- Adjective & Adverb Grammar Blast
- Adult Learning Activities – click on a picture to start
- Aesop’s Fables
- All Things Considered
- Alphabet
- Alphabet
- Apostrophe Game
- Articles – a, an & the
- Basic Word Lists & Games
- BBC Pronunciation Tips
- Beginners Vocabulary Games
- Building a Better Vocabulary
- Business Readings
- CNN Video News
- Comma activity
- Conditional Sentences
- Daily Pronunciation and Vocabulary
- Easy Reading
- Easy Vocabulary for Beginners
- elllo ESL Listening
- English Club Pronunciation
- ESL Comics – click under “Blog Archives” for more comics
- ESL Gold Vocabulary – Scroll down to your level.
- ESL Gold Writing
- ESL Mania News Stories
- General Links: You choose
- Gerund & Infinitive Exercises
- Glossary of Grammar Terms
- Grammar-Quizzes
- Holidays in America
- Idiom Site
- Idioms & Expressions with quizzes
- Idioms, Intermediate Level – Intermediate Level Idioms
- Illustrated Vocabulary
- Intonation 10a
- Intonation 10b – Practice
- Intonation 10c – Meaning of rising and falling intonation
- Irregular Verb Practice
- Learn English Through Songs
- Listening Activities: Comprehension and Dictation
- Listening Quiz: A Customer Request
- Listening Quizzes – Scroll to your level
- Listening Quizzes: Scroll down to your level
- Literature online
- Long Conversations – Listening Comprehension Quizzes
- Many Things Vocabulary
- Medical Vocabulary Quiz
- Movie Trailers
- Nationality Names
- News Story Archives
- Number Pronunciation and Spelling
- Numbers: Write what you hear
- parallel structure worksheet
- paraphrasing
- Parts of Speech
- Parts of Speech
- Past Tense -ed
- Phonetics
- Phrasal Verbs
- Position of adverbs of frequency
- Prepositional Phrases
- Pronunciation of Individual Sounds – Click on the sounds you need to practice.
- Proofreading Exercises – Capitalization and Punctuation
- Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab – Scroll to your listening level.
- Reading Comprehension activities
- Reading Comprehension for Beginners
- Reading Room – online newspapers, magazines, books
- Readings with activities
- Readings with comprehension questions
- Readings with comprehension questions
- Reuters Video News
- Rhythm through Rhyme: Part A
- Rhythm through Rhyme: Part B
- s / es Plural Endings
- self editing
- sentence patterns
- Sentence Stress
- sentence structure
- Short Conversations
- Short Stories at East of the Web
- Short Stories at English Club.com
- Sounds of English
- Sozo Listening Video and Vocabulary
- Stress and Rhythm 9a
- Stress and Rhythm 9b
- Stress and Rhythm 9c
- Stress for Emphasis 8b
- Stress Patterns 8a Content vs. Function Words – Content vs. Function Words
- Stress Patterns 8c
- Super Easy Stories
- Talking English
- Ted Talks
- Telling Time
- Test Your Vocabulary – hear, read, and write vocabulary words
- Thought Groups: 7a
- Thought Groups: 7b
- Timed Reading exercises
- Useful Word Lists
- Verb tense practice – The top of list is easy; scroll down for more challenging verb tenses.
- Verb Tense Review – Explanations & quizzes
- Vocabulary, Slang, Idioms, Body Language – Featured Guests – Interview
- Voice of America
- Weather
- What are Human Rights?
- Word Stress
- Word Stress: 6a
- Word Stress: 6b – Number of syllables
- Word Stress: 6c – Practice state names and capitals
- Word Stress: 6d – Continue states and capitals
- World English – all skills
- Writing Business Letters
Reading
Useful links for ESL students.
Reading - Beginning
- Adult Learning Activities click on a picture to start
- Easy Reading
- ESL Comics click under “Blog Archives” for more comics
- Holidays in America
- Reading Comprehension for Beginners
- Readings with comprehension questions
Reading - Intermediate
Reading - Advanced
Vocabulary
Useful links for ESL students.
Vocabulary - Beginning
- 500 Basic Words
- Basic Word Lists & Games
- Beginners Vocabulary Games
- Easy Vocabulary for Beginners
- ESL Gold Vocabulary Scroll down to your level.
- Illustrated Vocabulary
- Learn English Through Songs
- Test Your Vocabulary hear, read, and write vocabulary words
Vocabulary Intermediate
- Building a Better Vocabulary
- Daily Pronunciation and Vocabulary
- ESL Gold Vocabulary Scroll down to your level.
- Idiom Site
- Idioms & Expressions with quizzes
- Idioms, Intermediate Level Intermediate Level Idioms
- Many Things Vocabulary
- Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary
- Test Your Vocabulary hear, read, and write vocabulary words
- Useful Word Lists
- World English – all skills
Vocabulary Advanced
Writing
Useful links for ESL students.
Writing - Beginning
- Alphabet
- ESL Gold Writing
- parallel structure worksheet
- Parts of Speech
- Proofreading Exercises Capitalization and Punctuation
- sentence patterns
- sentence structure
