Here are a few useful websites for students, listed by category:
💻 COMPUTER PRACTICE 🖱
1. Sense-lang
Keyboard practice site with great lessons.
2. Power Typing
Improve your typing skills and measure how fast you can type.
Practice using the mouse (from Palm Beach County Library).
🎧 LISTENING 👂
1. English Listening Lesson Library Online (ELLO)
Listening exercises on a variety of topics, with transcripts and quizzes.
2. StoryCorps
Real-life stories told by real people, accompanied by great animation that aids comprehension.
3. Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
Numerous listening exercises on a variety of topics with accompanying quizzes.
4. ESOL Listening Practice Tests
A few good listening practice tests, from beginning to advanced, from Seminole State College of Florida.
🗣 PRONUNCIATION 👄
Simple, basic English pronunciation.
More advanced pronunciation practice.
👵🏼 GRAMMAR 👵🏽
Online grammar exercises.
An assortment of many quizzes that you can take to test your grammar skills.
3. English Club
Good grammar lessons and quizzes.
💡 MISCELLANEOUS 🧭
Reading, listening, and grammar exercises, plus some good dialogs and links.
Interactive lessons on everything from applying for jobs to computer skills to reading.
Grammar exercises, games, read-alongs, and videos.
4. We Speak NYC
Great videos about people in New York, plus study guides and reading material.
5. REEPworld
Videos, listening exercises, and life skills activities for beginning and intermediate students focusing on health, family, and work.
6. Multi-Cultural Educational Services
A website with listening, reading, grammar exercises, and many other things.
7. Real English
Great videos and grammar exercises.
Simple grammar, pronunciation, and reading activities.
A bunch of online grammar and vocabulary games. Fun!
10. Study Zone
Advanced help preparing for college and graduate school entry exams, with study tips and practice tests.
11. Language Guide
A site that lets you listen to vocabulary words and look at pictures at the same time – a great way to learn new words!
A great website to help you practice and remember new words. It also has games and videos.
13. ESL Fast
365 short stories and vocabulary and comprehension exercises for intermediate learners.
14. Ventures Arcade
A great collection of interactive lessons and games that supplement the Ventures textbook series.
15. My English Pages
A website that has just about everything: reading, vocabulary, listening, idioms, and more.
Fun, easy, interactive vocabulary exercises.
17. Let Them Talk TV (YouTube)
Intermediate and advanced investigations into the English language, with a British twist.
📰 NEWS 📰
Articles, audio, and comprehension activities from Voice of America.
Advanced-level current events stories with accompanying comprehension and vocab activities.
A smorgasbord of online lessons, videos, and games from the BBC.
4. NY1
A 24-hour news source for New York City.
A great online newspaper with news articles and a special New York section.
FOR SPANISH SPEAKERS
1. Pumarosa
Beginning to intermediate bilingual lessons, plus lessons on U.S. civics and citizenship.
Bilingual listening, reading, vocabulary, and grammar lessons and exercises.
3. Curso-Ingles
Great bilingual lessons, beginning to advanced.
👦🏽👦🏻 FOR KIDS 👧🏻👧🏽
1. ABCya.com
Simple, fun games to practice typing, counting, and spelling. Designed for kids, but fun for adults too!
2. Starfall.com
Simple stories with audio and illustrations.