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Teach English

britishcouncil

British council BBC

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English at home

nirmpdsotrd

Advanced Language Workshop

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wiziq

A conference system with scheduled lessons for free members. The room has microphones, a whiteboard and other teaching aids. English is often taught here but so are many other subject. You will get invitations in your email.

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Shared talk

Find a partner to practice any language with you. Search by native speakers and language to learn. You can find someone your age if you like. Live chat and voice chat plus matching service. There are no lessons or learning material.

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eslpod

A great source of American English POD Cast material on a vast range of subjects. Scripts are provided with good vocabulary explanations.

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Listen a minute

Mp3 downloads - Listen and do all the exercises: gap fill, spelling, unjumble words etc.

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Grammar CCC

grammar_ccc

 

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Speak more clearly

Guide to British pronunciation

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East of the Web

eastoftheweb

Short stories and games

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IE languages

ielanguages

Sound files, courses. Good material.

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freerice

As one plays points are donated to the UN World Food program

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Edu Fire

edufire

Online classes

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Teds pronunciation

English Language Learning and Teaching

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Chinese sites

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English speak

englishspeak

Free English learning

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Simple English NEWS PODS

Read and listen at the same time - Enjoy it!

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Gutenberg project

Great site for audio books.

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Better English

A good website. You can sign up for a free regular email lesson.

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Daily Step

My audio email lessons, from beginner to advanced level, take just 5 -10 minutes per day to complete, and there are no advertisements to distract your attention. The audio files can be saved to your Mp3 player or i-pod.

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London School

London School

Find your level of English

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Grammar Reference

bartleby

Nice grammar reference in alphabetical order.

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Teacher Joe

I like the beginners word dictations. Nice idea (LW)

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Kantalk

kantalk

Connect to others who want to practice speaking English on Skype.

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Live Mocha

livemocha

Offers a membership for learning all languages

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Business English

Dedicated to Business English

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Voxo pop

voxopop

Chinswing is a global message board where anyone can add voice messages to ongoing topical discussions. Share your personal interests or hobbies, debate hot issues or find answers to questions. We've combined features of podcasting, text forums and live voice chat to create a whole new way to talk.

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Victoria Australia

Victoria Australia

PDF files for games and activities.

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Breaking News

Ready-to-use ESL/EFL Lessons. No nonsense. No advertising

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Caroline Brown

A set of sites from Caroline and Pearson Brown for various needs - Better English – This site sends free lessons by e-mail if you subscribe and also has exercises that are available without registering. On the left panel, they list a number of other sites that offer English and curltural courses.

Well presented English lessons using flash etc., Lots of ads but not too obtrusive.

Well presented English lessons using flash etc., Lots of ads but not too obtrusive

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English at home

englishathome

We can help you improve your written and spoken English with lessons, articles and interactive tests and exercises.

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EPOTI

English practice on the Internet! EPOTI is a great English practice group. We meet every day. You can play games, chat text or study English in lessons. It's all free.

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A4 ESL

Activities for ESL students- Quizzes etc.. Relies on contributions from teachers

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Education World

Many lessons and activities. Search by subject

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Germanies DICT CC

Great site !!!

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pal Talk

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Easy English tests

easyenglish

No pop-ups. Simple tests of grammar

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Birdwell FR

Birdwell TEFL France. This site markets Birdwell services but contains little useful student content

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Cactus TEFL Courses

cactus

Tries to sign up new teachers to a TEFL course. No other real content for lessons etc.

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EFL net CC

eflnet

News, songs, stories etc. You can listen to many different kinds of audio items and read the texts at the same time. By clicking in the wave form you can start the sound from wherever you like. If you want to listen to one part of the item repeatedly, then you can select that part of the waveform.

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ESL HQ

eslhq

ESL worksheets and flashcards etc.

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EFL Online co UK

For teachers who would like to spend money on a training course to teach English Online. EFLONLINE is currently looking for teachers who hold a recognised qualified in Teaching English online. Perhaps you could apply for a job here to correct their grammar! Perhaps the course is not bad but they are selling courses and want you to believe that only their certificate is a recognised online EFL teaching certificate

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EI GO PASS

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Homebased teacher

homebasedteacher

This is the site for teachers

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Eleaston speak

Speaking activities, Conversation topics, pronunciation, and a lot more

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Online English Teaching

ontue

Teachers can register and get students.

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ELLLO

elllo

Listen here

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ELT News

eltnews

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English Forum

englishforum

Many good things plus dictionaries

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English Language Jobs

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English page

englishpage

Free online English lessons & ESL / EFL resources. Plenty of good explanations and exercises. It's worth a look!

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English Raven

raven

A web-based collection of resources, materials and teaching ideas for EFL/ESL.

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English Role play

roleplay

Teachers can register and get students.

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English Town

englishtown

I'm afraid I can't recommend this site for students on account of the high price for large groups and not consistently high quality lessons.

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ESL Cafe

ESL cafe

Good site lessons to print

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ESL go

eslgo

ESL go is a free English community of ESL students and ESL teachers.

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ESL-lab Listening

esllab

Listening activities only

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ESL party

esl party

Quizzes and games

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ESL lounge

Lots of activities + lesson plans

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Erev Japan

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Europa pages

Language job offers

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FEN Walls

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Fashion

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Home lingua

Have students in your house while you teach

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International House

TEFL recruitment

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English Riddles

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English Courses

insideout

Inside Out is a classroom-tested English course designed to develop real-life communicative skills. Written by teachers, it is an enjoyable, lively course for adults and young adults.

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ISIS

isis

Teacher Development

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Italki

italki

Language Learning Community

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John and Saras

johnandsara

You'll find games and a lot of other things there.

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Linguarama

lingurama

Language Training and Cross Cultural Training

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macmillan

MacMillan English

Worksheets, placement tests

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Malkam

Language Training

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Novatores grammar

novatores

A very nicely created website about grammar

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One stop English

is a teacher’s resource site published by Macmillan English Campus, part of the Macmillan Education Group, one of the world’s leading publishers of English language teaching materials. All materials are written and edited by expert teachers and authors and are organized into core subject areas such as Skills, Grammar and Vocabulary, Business and ESP, Exams and Young Learners (for EFL, ESL and ESOL). In each category, some material is available for free and more on subscription.

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IT ESLJ .org

  • The Internet TESL Journal published articles from 1995 through 2010.
  • This website is now an online resource book for teachers who can refer to our published articles on teaching techniques and other things of interest to EFL and ESL teachers.
  • Approximate Numbers:
    • Articles & Research Papers = 230
    • Articles on Teaching Techniques = 310
    • Lessons & Lesson Plans = 191
  • We plan to continue publishing new issues on an irregular basis, so those interested in being informed of new issues should subscribe to our RSS feed.
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English Cafe

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Nonstop English

is a very good site for self learning English. The material is divided into levels of learning and on a free registration you will get lessons on e-mail. A great resource that can be used to supplement your classes.

MES English

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This is a good site both for those who want immediate communication skills – with key grammatical concepts and conversational tools and for those who want a more academic, accuracy-based approach. Every unit starts with a few conversation examples (you can hear audio, if you wish to) and then talks about the concept. There are a few simple exercises to practice and you can get immediate score. It has four divisions, starter, elementary, pre-intermediate and upper intermediate.

activities – applications, resumes, hiring, firing etc.

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Oxford dictionary

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OWL Purdue

owl purdue

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Skype

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Stateside sounds

statesidesounds

Authentic audio to listen to

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Studio classroom

studioclassroom

A free site from Taiwan. Chinese explanations of English for speakers of Chinese. Three levels basic - intermediate and advanced

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Teaching English Games

Games and lesson plans but you have to pay for them

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TEFL in Taiwan

tealit

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TEFL dot com

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TEFL jobs co.uk

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TEFL jobs .net

teflnet

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TEFL course

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using English

useenglish

Good content for people who really want to study English and test their knowledge

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Vocabulary A-Z

voabulary

Tool to learn vocabulary

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Web English Teacher

webteacher

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Word Central

Daily buzzword

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Word champ

worldchamp

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Zozanga

zozanga

Grammar lessons and exercises

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ESL biz

esljobs

ESL jobs

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Basic English word lists

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My language exchange

The Language exchange. Nobody here!!! Customer support is not very good
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Linguistic Mystic

Some material about phonetics

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Online UK English

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Web2 uvcs

Choose your level and do some exercises

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English zone

Good Site!!

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Algonquin college

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Weather Network CA

weather

Excellent for weather themes

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Nald CA

nald

Stories plus exercises
The NALD Library is made up of two main collections, Research Materials and Learning Materials.

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Spelling Hemscott

Great for spelling

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Behind the name

behindname

Meaning of your name

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English Everywhere (Japan)

englisheverywhere

Learn English or Japanese online

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English I Talk NR

Learn English Online

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English World

English Idioms and jargon

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Orangutan English

orangutan

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Shvoong

Write articles and share them with others. Translate them. Funded by advertising.

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ESL point

For more functional language

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Leo Network

leonet

English Dictations -A great site with a lot of activities

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BBC

bbchistory

Read about history - very interesting

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BBC

bbchistory

Nicely prepared exercises and explanations

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BBC quizzes

plenty of quizzes you can go through

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BBC pronunciation

pronunciation Tips

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Internet Grammar

grammar

Learn about Word classes, phrases, form and functions

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Talk easy

ESL Worksheets & Online Tasks Index - Describing people

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UK Studentlife

A nice collection of Dictionaries

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Lets Learn English

letslearn

Take a placement test or look at the games. There is a lot more to have a look at

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englishweb

English tenses

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English Grammar Glossary

useful terminology for teachers and learners of English

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English International language

englishinter

Free English Lesson, Resources, Advice

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English for Japanese

Online Resources: Free English usage, Vocabulary and Grammar Exercises and Tests. Great site and not only for Japanese

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phrasaldemon

Complete guide to phrasal verbs

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Bob Wilson's Auto English

autoenglish

Free interactive exercises and handouts for ESL students and teachers

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Collo and Spark

Learn English pronunciation and vocabulary through rap tunes and instructional videos with Jason and friends.
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Listen to English

To improve your English by listening and reading. Podcasts daily. (Hildegard)

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English Tips

This is a great site with great sources, not only for teachers but for learners as well. (Same Ko)

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Learn English with xxx
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