Sharpen Your Spelling Skills

In order to become a fluent English writer, you need to be able to spell English words correctly.  This can be a challenge for second language students because there are a lot of exceptions to the spelling rules.  If you want to improve your English spelling skills, you need to practice, and you can do [...]

Academic Vocabulary

In order to improve your English vocabulary, you should be learning new words every single day and practicing them until you know what they mean, how to pronounce them, and how to properly use them.  Start out by learning these academic words and trying to memorize each set of 60 words every week. http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/eap/wordlists.htm#list10

Learn English Listening to Music

Do you have a favorite song, but just can’t seem to figure out what all the words are or exactly what they are saying?  No problem, now you can go to this website and find all your favorite songs with the lyrics included.  Click on the song and you will hear the music, watch the video, and follow [...]

Past or Present Perfect Practice

Need practice choosing between past tense adverbs or present perfect adverbs in a sentence?  Then test yourself with this quick and easy to understand quiz that will help you make the right choice. www.grammar-quizzes.com/presperf5a.html

A Piece of Cake?

Idioms are common words and phrases that native speakers of use  in their every day language that might not be easily understood by the ESL learner because they don’t necessarily translate correctly.  They are not easy to learn, so get to know your idioms by teaching yourself a few new ones every day. www.idiomsite.com

Place Adverbs

Learn more about adverbs and prepositional phrases that express movement toward a place.  Then take the quizzes at the bottom to test what you’ve learned. www.grammar-quizzes.com/adv_place.html

Notorious Confusables

Some English words are just so darn confusing that it takes a lot of practice before you start getting them right every time.  Knowing when to correctly use words like except or accept;  lie or lay;  and its or it’s can be difficult even for the native speaker.  The only way you will improve upon these notorious [...]

The Daily English Show

The Daily English Show is an online video program that is produced in Japan and hosted by a New Zealander, but they have some pretty interesting and entertaining topics that they cover.  You can watch the videos and also read the transcripts as you watch the videos.  Several of them even have translated scripts in different languages to help [...]

Modal Verbs

Modals are those special verbs that behave differently than regular verbs, so they are very difficult for most second language learners to remember how to use them correctly.  Words such as can, could, will, would, shall, should, may, and might are all common modal verbs.  The following tutorials and exercises will help you understand how [...]

Learning English Through Movies!

Here’s another great website that makes learning English fun by watching movies!  This website has short movies, movie trailers, commercials, and homemade movies that show subtitles as you are watching them.  Once you are done you can take a quiz to see how well you were able to understand what was happening in the video.  Hours of [...]

Listen and Learn English Podcasts

This is a wonderful site that has hundreds of free ESL audio podcasts that you can listen to on a variety of interesting topics and current news items.  They upload several new audio podcasts per week along with word lists that will help you increase your vocabulary while sharpening your listening skills.  You can also become [...]

Citizenship Exam Questions

Many ESL students are practicing improving their English language skills in order to prepare for the U.S. citizenship test.  Having advanced English language skills, a general knowledge of U.S. history/government facts, and a high level of language comprehension are all necessary if you plan on becoming a citizen in the United States.  Even if you are not taking the test [...]

Super Quiz Machine

Want to take a quick quiz to help sharpen your English grammar skills?  Then visit the Super Quiz Machine and test yourself during lunch, before bedtime, or on a lazy Sunday afternoon.  Any time is a good time to test your English language skills!  Click the “reload” button to get an endless amount of new quiz [...]