For Students

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.

3.  Mousing Around

Practice using the mouse (from Palm Beach County Library).

4.  Seniornet.org Mouse Exercises

More simple, fun mouse practice!

🎧 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 👄

1.  ABC Fast Phonics

Simple, basic English pronunciation.

2.  Rachel’s English

More advanced pronunciation practice.

👵🏼 GRAMMAR 👵🏽

1.   OWL Grammar Exercises

Online grammar exercises.

2.   Self-Study Grammar Quizzes

An assortment of many quizzes that you can take to test your grammar skills.

3.   English Club

Good grammar lessons and quizzes.

💡 MISCELLANEOUS 🧭

1.   Rong-chang.com

Reading, listening, and grammar exercises, plus some good dialogs and links.

2.   GCF Learn Free

Interactive lessons on everything from applying for jobs to computer skills to reading.

3.   Manythings.org

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.   Healthy Roads Media

Excellent videos and readings on a variety of health-related topics in a variety of languages.

6.   REEPworld

Videos, listening exercises, and life skills activities for beginning and intermediate students focusing on health, family, and work.

7.  Multi-Cultural Educational Services

A website with listening, reading, grammar exercises, and many other things.

8.  Real English

Great videos and grammar exercises.

9.  Easy World of English

Simple grammar, pronunciation, and reading activities.

10.  CDLP Adult Learning Activities

Intermediate to advanced reading and vocabulary exercises about jobs, health, government, and other subjects.

11.  ESOL Help Games

A bunch of online grammar and vocabulary games. Fun!

12.   Study Zone

A few interactive grammar, reading, and vocabulary lessons from the University of Victoria.

13.   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!

15. Vocabulary Spelling City

A great website to help you practice and remember new words. It also has games and videos.

16.   ESL Fast

365 short stories and vocabulary and comprehension exercises for intermediate learners.

17.  Ventures Arcade

A great collection of interactive lessons and games that supplement the Ventures textbook series.

18.  My English Pages

A website that has just about everything: reading, vocabulary, listening, idioms, and more.

19.  Learning Chocolate

Fun, easy, interactive vocabulary exercises.

📰 NEWS 📰

1.   Voice of America

Articles, audio, and comprehension activities from Voice of America.

2.   Breaking News English

Advanced-level current events stories with accompanying comprehension and vocab activities.

3.   BBC Learning English

A smorgasbord of online lessons, videos, and games from the BBC.

4.   NY1

A 24-hour news source for New York City.

5.  The Times in Plain English

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.

2.  La Mansion del Ingles

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.