ELL Online Resources

Listed below are numerous online resources that can be used to supplement traditional classroom language instruction.

Grammar Quizzes

http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~adelegc/index.html
This website has numerous grammar quizzes. It also has a nice selection of listening activities, though most of the people speaking have an Australian accent.
http://www3.telus.net/janis-esl/quizzesandgames4.html
This website has many quizzes on specific topics: clothes, geography, places in the community, and recreation. It also has numerous listening quizzes.
http://www.manythings.org/vq/index.html
This website has picture quizzes on various nouns, adjectives, and verbs. It is best suited for beginning students.
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/index.htm
This website has lessons, followed by interactive activities on many grammar topics. The grammar lessons are very well-explained, but they may be best suited for more advanced students.
http://www.englishclub.com/esl-quizzes/index.htm
This is a very comprehensive website with many quizzes on topics such as grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and general knowledge.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/literacy/ie/interact.htm
This website has several grammar activities, homophone exercises, and a few crossword puzzles.

Games

http://www.teflgames.com/interactive.htmlThis portion of the website from Teflgames.com contains interactive concentration card games, where students have to pick to cards and find matches for various vocabulary words, synonyms, etc.
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/java/counting/money.htmlThis is a money game that teaches about the different coins and currency that are used in the U.S. It is quite simple but may be a fun to use in a unit on money.
http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/cncgame.phpThis is a shoot-out game where students have to target the moving count nouns and then click on them to get points.

Life-Skills

http://www.mcedservices.com/litex.htm
This website from the University of Minnesota has several great life-skills online activities, such as writing a check and filling out a timecard. The students listen to a brief explanation of the lesson and then complete several activities which reinforces what they have learned.
http://www.clta.on.ca/EAOnline/MouseMaster/index.html
This website explains how to use a computer mouse and has a variety of activities to help the students become more comfortable with computer use.

Listening Activities

http://newterra.chemeketa.edu/faculty/vanslyt/classes/B2/activities/buro/index.htm
In this activity, students will listen and read a story, and then have several activities to check for comprehension. There are also accompanying grammar activities.
http://www.cdlponline.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=stories&topicID=6
This is a great website that has real news stories in both written and audio format. In addition, some of the stories have videos, where students can view the news reports. After the students read and listen to the story, there are various online comprehension and vocabulary activities that they can do.
http://newterra.chemeketa.edu/faculty/vanslyt/classes/a2/family/index.htm
In this activity, students will listen and read a story about a family reunion. Following this, there are 8 matching, cloze, and scrambled sentence activities that they may choose to do.

Reading Activities

http://www.cdlponline.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=stories&topicID=6
This is a great website that has real news stories in both written and audio format. In addition, some of the stories have videos, where students can view the news reports. After the students read and listen to the story, there are various online comprehension and vocabulary activities that they can do.
http://eslpartyland.com/quiz/bus.htm
This is a reading activity where students read a short conversation and then have to answer questions about what they read.
In the following reading activities, students read a short story and then complete three activities: a multiple choice reading comprehension activity, a story-building activity, and then a cloze activity.
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/reading/smicat1.htm
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/reading/xmas1.htm

Vocabulary

Examples of Theme-Specific Activities

Jobs and Professions

Food and Eating

Specific Grammar Activities

Prepositions

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/prepositions/
This website has three different activities that have students work with prepositions. It is designed for younger native-English speaking students, but the activities are interesting and would work well in a multi-level class.

Pronouns

http://www.clta.on.ca/EAOnline/GrammarCentral/pronouns.html
This website has several mini-lessons about how pronouns are used, each followed by a short quiz testing the student's knowledge. This webpage may be best suited for more advanced students.

Adjectives

http://www.manythings.org/vq/mc-adj.html
This web-based quiz is great for beginning students. It quizzes students on common adjectives, using pictures to describe the adjective.

Websites That Can Be Used in a Variety of Classroom Activities

http://www.karenika.com/50states/
This website contains numerous photographs from every state and lends itself to a variety of speaking and writing activities where students may be asked to express their opinion. For example, students may be assigned two or three states and then have to look at the pictures from these states. Then they may be assigned to choose the state that they would prefer to live in and share this with a partner, giving an explanation for their choice. In this manner, students are using both computer skills and English skills.
http://www.mapquest.com/
This website can be used to practice reading directions and maps. Students can be assigned to input their home address and another interesting destination in the city or in the United States. They then can be assigned to explain how to get from their home location to their destination to a partner.