These sites provide numerous activities for ESL learners to practice English. Other sites which may provide additional materials can be found under Interactive Sites and/or Multipurpose Sites.
Activities for ESL Students
http://a4esl.org/
Quizzes (including bilingual ones), crossword puzzles, and other puzzles. Focuses on grammar and vocabulary and includes activities for learners at all levels.
Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom
http://iteslj.org/questions/
Provides a large number of questions appropriate for use in an ESL conversation class. Also provides lessons, games, activities, and links of interest to students and teachers of ESL.
Crossword Puzzle Maker
http://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/
Generates simple crossword puzzles from user-provided words and clues.
Dave's ESL Café
http://eslcafe.com/
The Internet's meeting place for ESOL teachers and students from around the world. Includes discussion forums, chat rooms, message boards in addition to pages devoted to specific English language skills including such things as idioms, slang, and quotes.
English-Zone.com
http://english-zone.com/index.php
Quizzes, worksheets and other activities at varying levels of difficulty, dealing with grammar, verbs, spelling, vocabulary and basic life skills, e.g., calendar and dates, map reading, money, time. Some activities require paid membership.
ESL HQ
http://www.eslhq.com
Contains numerous ESOL teaching resources which can be downloaded and printed out, e.g., over 2,000 worksheets and games, flashcards, templates to create your own worksheets.
ESL Study Hall
http://home.gwu.edu/~meloni/eslstudyhall
This site has many different exercises and quizzes for reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and listening.
Interesting Things for ESL Students
http://www.manythings.org/
This site includes word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, idioms, and grammar activities. There is a section on easy things for beginners and another on computer-assisted sentence production to help students write easy sentences. Some of the games and activities relate to life skills.
Linguistic Funland TESL Activities for Students
http://linguistic-funland.com/teslact.html
A collection of links to activities that learners can access online, including word games, grammar exercises, writing activities, and idioms.
News for You
http://www.newsforyouonline.com
Weekly online newspaper provides adult ESL and new readers with news that is easy to read and understand. The timely stories will help students build language, reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, listening, and speaking skills.
Short Stories for ESL Learners
http://www.rong-chang.com/qa2/
100 short English stories about life in America for ESL learners. Each story is accompanied by an audio narrative which requires Real Player; exercises follow each story. Useful for ESOL students who have at least reached the high beginning level of English.
Tower of English
http://towerofenglish.com/index.html
This site contains about 300 websites in 34 different categories to help ESL students and teachers find places to practice English.
