A list of top-notch online ESL resources, mostly for ESL students, but there are some goodies for ESL teachers, as well. If you have a suggestion to make, please send it through the contact form.
Reading Resources
Online Free Reading
- Reading Skills 4 Today
- English-e-Reader
- ESL Bits This site is not encrypted, so your browser may warn you to stay away. It’s safe as long as you don’t send any personal information, which you won’t because you can’t!
- Eye Can Learn This site is designed for those who help children with difficulty reading, but there are lots of resources that fit well with teaching adult literacy students, as well.
- University of Victoria Multiple activity types for multiple levels.
- eReading Worksheets A large collection of stories, concepts, and worksheets. Thank you, Mr. Morton!
Listening Resources
Online Free Listening
- elllo.org Note that the letter L repeats three times, not twice!
- Breaking News English Multi-level topical news stories and automatically graded quizzes.
- English Accent Coach An academic, research-informed approach to hearing the sometimes subtle differences in English sounds, vowels in particular.
- Talk English has a variety of audio and video resources as a variety of levels. Many comprehension quizzes, as well!
- BBC Sounds of English This is similar to the English Sounds part of this website, but from the BBC.
Teacher Resources
This is mostly stuff for me because I’m tired of losing my links!
- printfriendly.com Removes formatting from webpages so you can copy/print/email articles without advertising, etc. It’s magic!
- online-convert.com Converts just about anything to just about anything. More magic!
- randomlists.com Simply enter the names on your class list into the box and this site will help you find volunteers(!)
- sejda.com/pdf-forms Change pdf worksheets into fillable forms for free.
- https://library.douglascollege.ca/learningcentre/english-language-learning-resources Lots of good stuff from Douglas College, as well as links to other resources.
- Gleneagle ESL Resource List I’m not above letting somebody else gather resources for me. Here is the proof!
- UsingEnglish.com Themed PDFs and lesson plans.
- eReading Worksheets Worksheets of various kinds and purposes.
- https://test-english.com/ Self-correcting activities. Separate sections for various aspects of learning English.
- https://test-english.com/ Lots of auto-graded activites at a variety of levels.
- https://esldirections.ca/ Lots of lower-level materials, as well as great examples of using technology that is actually helpful for ESL learners.