ELL Online Resources

Listed below are numerous online resources that can be used to supplement traditional classroom language instruction. Including grammar, verbs, and activities for any student.

Guides for Instructors & Students:

COCC's ELL faculty have designed a guide for instructors working with ELL students. Here is the Instructor Guide to Supporting English Language Learners (ELL) in the Classroom.

There is also a guide for ELL students. Click one of the below links to access the student guide in English or Spanish.

How to be Successful in COCC Writing Classes: A Guide for ELL Students (in English)
Cómo tener éxito en las clases de escritura del COCC: Una Guía para Estudiantes de ELL (en Español)

 

ELL Resources:

a4esl.org - has quizzes for all levels, crosswords, etc.

http://www.eslamerica.us/ - contains many links to other sites

http://www.englishpage.com - vocabulary, verb tenses, prepositions, irregular verbs, listening, reading, games, and more! Choose from the menu on the left.

http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasaldictionary.html- phrasal verb dictionary. This is great to learn and understand phrases such as "run into", "run out of", "talk back", "blow over", etc. Click on one of the letters on the left to see a list of phrasal verbs starting with that letter.

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html- has a good review of all of the verb tenses with exercises

http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/prepositions.html- prepositions and very common phrasal verbs

http://www.eslpartyland.com/ - many great activities

www.manythings.org

http://www.eslcafe.com/students/ - idioms, phrasal verbs, pronunciation, quizzes, slang

www.esl-lab.com - listen and do exercises

www.elllo.org - listen to interviews from English speakers around the world. Then do an exercise about what you heard.

Grammar Quizzes

• http://www.adelescorner.org/
  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://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://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.

Games

• http://www.teflgames.com/interactive.html
  This 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.

Reading Activities

• 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.
  https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/reading/smicat1/
  https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/reading/xmas1

Vocabulary

• https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/vocab/
  Vocabulary Quizzes, with sound
• http://www.pdictionary.com/
  The Internet Picture Dictionary
• http://iteslj.org/v/
  Bilingual Vocabulary Quizzes

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.

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.