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Activities for Esl Students: Self Study Idiom Quizzes
Vast array of quizzes and self-study exercises based on idioms and idiomatic expressions, categorized in a variety of ways (beginning with A, B, etc., by keyword, or by association with other groupings). Great practice for the ELL/ESL...
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Esl Galaxy
Free help for the ESL teacher. You must have Windows Media Player installed to view some of the resources.
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Boggle's World Esl: Word Searches
A collection of more than 40 printable word search activities designed for ESL students. Searches are organized by level of difficulty (easy, intermediate to difficult) and cover a wide variety of themes, e.g., colors, verbs, the five...
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Mark's English School Online: Esl Games
A commendable teacher-created site by an American ESL educator based in Japan. Includes a nice variety of ESL/EFL games for younger students for learning the past tense or verb usage playing basketball, punctuation playing golf, or new...
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Esl Independent Study Lab
This is a great resource for ESL/EFL students; it presents a collection of more than 250 sites where you can find reading and writing exercises, games, vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and more. Rather than present a straight list,...
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Esl Kid Stuff: Flash Card Games and Activities
50 or more classroom-based games and activities using flashcards. Teachers are encouraged to submit their own ideas as well.
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Grammar Man Efl/esl Comics for Students and Teachers
Creative blend of cartooning and ESL. Students can read the adventures of Grammarman -- where they help Grammarman right evil grammar wrongs -- or do a WebQuest on how to create their own cartoons and submit them to the student gallery....
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Holiday & Festival Activities Esl Kid Stuff
Nice variety of ideas, games, activities, songs, and recommended web resources related to Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Geared toward younger PK-3 English language learners.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Signs of Spring
This site has a high-level thinking activity for your ESL students. Use a Venn Diagram to compare Spring and Winter. It features downloads and resources.
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Easy Things for Beginners: Interesting Things for Esl
Those familiar with ESL web sites will probably recognize this comprehensive site. On this page, the editors helpfully highlight a dozen or so word games and vocabularly activities geared to beginning ESL students and newcomers to the...
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Many Things for Esl Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the well-known Interesting Things for ESL site (the authors are professors teaching in Japan). The Japanese site has many of the same features as the English Only version in fact, it usually goes to the...
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Activities for Esl Students: Grammar Quizzes Easy
These self-tests developed for English language learners by ELL teachers feature self-scoring quizzes for beginning English language learners on use of plurals, a and an, comparisons, and similar aspects of grammar. Fill-in-the blank,...
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Activities for Esl Students: Grammar Quizzes Difficult
These tests developed for English language learners by ELL teachers feature self-scoring quizzes that emphasize word choice, word usage, punctuation, and similar aspects related to the mechanics of language.
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Esl Kid Stuff: Teaching the Alphabet
Dynamic classroom activities for teaching the alphabet -- includes a few classic methods and some great new ideas. All are hands-on; many are group or team oriented.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Nutrition for Newcomers
"Nutrition for Newcomers" is a cooperative thematic unit to teach vocabulary for food names, different tastes, and nutrition. It includes many activities for different English levels.
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Many Interesting Things: Basic Esl Vocabulary Word Lists
Collection of word lists in a variety of categories such as baseball, geography, cooking, and transportation. Learning activities include word finds, hangman, and even typing practice.
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Activities for Esl Students: Vocabulary Quizzes Easy
These tests for English language learners by ELL teachers are self-scoring and reinforce beginning English language learners with vocabulary important in both social and academic settings. Many exercises are devoted to building...
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Activities for Esl Students: Vocabulary Quizzes Difficult
These self-test, self-scoring quizzes developed for English language learners by ELL teachers are designed for intermediate-to-advanced English language learners. Features include vocabulary important to both social and academic...
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Activities for Esl Students: Grammar Quizzes Medium
Self-scoring quizzes tests developed for English language learners by ELL teachers to reinforce intermediate English language learners on all aspects of English grammar. Fill-in-the blank, multiple-choice, and other quiz formats included.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Who's Inside the Mitten?
Lesson plan that will promote student's involvement and self-confidence in your ESL class and thus improve oral language skills. It provides downloads and links.
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Tefl Interactive Esl Games: Mystery Matches
Here are ten interactive mystery match games to play online. Match parts of sentences, similes, professions, colors, famous sayings, etc. Good practice for ELL students.
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English Language Activities, Exercises and Tests
This site offers tests and activities which can be used by a teacher as well as by an advanced ESL high school student doing a self-guided study.
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Activities for Esl Students/ Homographs F Same Spelling Different Meaning
This online activity gives two definitions and asks what word, that begins with "F," fits both. Clicking the box gives the answer. There are twenty-three questions.
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College Edouard Montpetit: Esl Blues
This professor's website has online quizzes for the grammar lessons, including a diagnostic test to help the student assess his or her language level. There are tutorials for grammar lessons on a wide range of topics and explanations of...