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English-Zone.COM
http://www.english-zone.com
This site is designed for teachers, students, and everybody. It offers lesson plans, references, exercises, chat, and useful links. Visiting it is a must.

English Club.COM: Communities for EFL/ESL Students & Teachers
http://www.englishclub.com
It offers all kinds of help for teachers to design their lessons, to download some activities, to find new subjects for their classrooms. There are plenty of electronic methods that could be used like the chat. it may be also used for by students and other people who need to practice their English. GO THERE, and find out by yourself.

English as a Second Language
http://www.rong-chang.com
This site offers the students a wide range of exercises in the four skills. It is also considered a good source for teachers to find some resources. It is a must see.

Isabel's ESL Site
http://www.isabelperez.com/
I found the appearance of the site is very pleasing. I hope you will like it as well. Exercises and activities are designed especially for secondary students of English. This website offers quizzes, tests, comprehensions, activities for several popular songs such as Grammar, Vocabulary & Culture Quizzes, Tests & Comprehensions, Student Projects & Writings, My Students' Links & Homework Links for Teaching & Learning, and General Links, News Links & Penpal Links. From these major sections, you may find that this is a website Isabel has created for her students in Spain. In each section you will find useful information from Isabel. Don't miss this website! You will enjoy it.

Activities for ESL Students
http://a4esl.org/
I found this website is very useful for learners and teachers. There are over 1,000 activities on the a4esl.org website to help learners study English as a Second Language. It includes a lot of puzzles and quizzes, such as grammar quizzes, vocabulary quizzes, crossword puzzles, some useful ESL links, etc. Furthermore, each activity is designed for different levels of learners/teachers.

The ESL Links Site-
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~babin005/esl/index.htm
I found this website provides a great deal of information for students and teachers of English. There are Grammar | Writing | Reading | Quizzes Games Puzzles Exercises... | Listening | ESL Sites | Other Categories | Links for Teachers | Books | Audio | VHS tapes and Software | Search for ESL | Dictionaries-Translators.
I especially like the section about reading for beginners with illustrated pictures. I think kids/beginners will love it. However, it doesn't have an intermediate level. The others provide related ESL links, which are categorized. It will be more convenient for learners and teachers to find the most optimal related websites. It's a pity that some related websites cannot be found. However, the website still deserve you to enjoy and search more information.

Interesting Things for ESL Students
http://www.manythings.org/
This web site provides many interest things which are related to English learning, such as Quizzes, Word Puzzles, Word Games, Vocabulary Study, Sentence Puzzles, Pages with Sound and so on. The exercises are mainly related to listening and reading. This web site offers very good environment for students who would like to practice English or develop vocabulary and grammar in English. For ESL teachers, this is also a good place to ask students to build up their language ability at home.

The Internet ESL Journal
http://iteslj.org/
This web site is more academic because it provides a lot of on-line journals. There are some classifications of the journals. In other words, this web site divides all of the information into several categories, such as Lessons and Lesson plans, Teaching Techniques, Articles, Some Activities for Your Students and so on. Although this web site only provides some articles and journals. It is searchable. Type in a key word, and then it will help you to search some information that might be close to what you need. This web site also offers another search tool for other related web sites. Therefore, this web site is designed to help ESL teachers to look for some ideas quickly and efficiently.

Aardvark's English-Form.com
http://www.english-forum.com/00/
This web site provides a lot of information on learning English for students and teachers. For students, it offers grammar exercises, and on-line English dictionaries. For teachers, it offers suggestion for ESL books, teachers' messages, and ESL organizations. This web site also provides some related ESL links to some web sites about education around the world. The most special part of the web site is that it not only offers American English but also British English. In addition, international news also can be found in here. If you keep searching, you will find out it also provides information about TOEFL by ETS. In short, this web site offers a lot of good information for every one who involves in learning / teaching English.

Schmooze University.
http://schmooze.hunter.cuny.edu:8000/ (Intro web page)
or http://schmooze.hunter.cuny.edu:8888/ (to connect to SchMooze University)
Do you like online chatting? Do you know what Palace is? This is a multi-user environment for students and teachers to practice English. It is mostly text. This site also has links to a variety of other sites that explain how to use Schmooze U.

Comenius English Language Center.
http://www.comenius.com/
This is a small commercial website. It offers a monthly idiom, fables, and an idea how much ESL classes might cost. Also, it has a nice page of links to other sites.

PEAK English.
www.peakenglish.com
Another commercial website that offers ESL lessons via computer. After the initial online placement test, students receive a report card directing them into online, self-paced classes. Plus, PEAK uses chat and message boards to keep student interest high. Teachers get free memberships.

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
http://www.esl-lab.com/
This ESL Listening Lab is suitable for beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners to practice English. Learners can choose the interesting topics, listen to active recordings, and answer the short quizzes. It is useful for ESL learners to practice speaking and listening. Especially, those dialogues seem to happen around your life and contain actual native English speakers on the recordings. For self-study learners, it really provides good designs for listening practice. Therefore, this site is good for students who want to improve their listening comprehension skills.

Interesting Things for ESL Students
http://www.manythings.org/
This web site is designed for those who are ESL or EFL learners to learn English. The site includes quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other study materials. Even native English speakers, I think that they may also enjoy interesting things on this site. It is easy and fast to download the practices. For learners, the site really provides opportunity to practice the target language.

ESL.Kids
http://station05.qc.ca/css/cybersite/eslkids/Accueil.html
For younger ESL learners / children, this site is very interesting and suitable. It allows the beginning level of learners to practice English through pictures, music, games and photos. This site has an interesting, funny and useful learning in this site. In addition, this site is not only helpful but also draws the children's attention; therefore I recommend those who are teaching children learning ESL to use this source.

ESL Party Land.
http://www.eslpartyland.com
The site offers pages for ESL students and teachers. The student pages have over 75 interactive quizzes, 15 discussion forums, interactive lessons on a variety of topics, a chat room, and lots of great links. On the teacher side are lesson plans and reproducible materials to use in class. There are also discussion forums, a chat room, a job board, links, and more.

The English Global Village
http://www.amalnet.k12.il/meida/english/default.asp
This site will take you to The English Global Village. It uses a web-quest approach or guided research to tour the internet. It is a modern, interactive system that is based around themes: cyberworlds, a newsroom, ESL resources, a holiday bus, and an email village. There are lots of fun activities and links.

Interesting Things for ESL Students
http://www.manythings.org
The site offers quizzes, word games, puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator, and other study materials. There are also pages with sound for listening skills practice. The site is optimized for speed and is easily navigable.

English for Free
http://www.freeenglish.com/
This site claims to be the best online ESL resource available today. All they offer is free including, downloading ENGLISH PRO Web Edition, which they claim is the best English language-training program on the Internet. The ENGLISH PRO Web Edition helps improve pronunciation, spelling skills, vocabulary, and general knowledge of the English language. They also offer games, software, newsletters and other beneficial information.

Languages on the Web: best English links, everything to learn foreign languages and more.
http://www.languages-on-the-web.com/
This site is a definite must in understanding the languages of those whom you are teaching. This is a non-profit site that professes to have 30, 000 language links! They provide an online guide to the many languages of the world and innovative courses, which would be beneficial to any ESL practitioner. This site also provides links to the top 100 language sites, of those selected, they must be comprehensive and useful according to the team who has developed the site. They also offer bilingual texts and professional translator assistance.

Business English Links for ESL
http://www.geocities.com/kurtracy/
This is a web page for students and teachers interested in learning or teaching Business English. The site organizer is Tracy Schall, who currently works for the Dial Center for Oral and Written Communications at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. This web page serves as both a source of activities and lessons and as a guide to resources that may be adapted to business lessons for English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language.

Dave's ESL Cafe
http://www.eslcafe.com/
I am sure many of you have already heard about the popular web site of Dave Sperling. Dave Sperling, who is teaching an English writing class in the California State University, is the founder of this page. His web site is full of rich ESL resources both for teachers and students. Dave's Esl cafe includes many forms for students and teachers who can discuss a particular topic. The teacher forums include class activities, adult education, linguistics, bilingual education, computer-assisted language learning, elementary education and employment. It has 15 student forums on such topics as hobbies, holidays, current news, movies, computers, literature, and music and learning English. I strongly recommend you attend one of the forums, learn from others and share your knowledge with the teachers from all over the world.

The Language Fun Farm: For Teachers and Lovers of Language
http://www.teflfarm.com/
The TEFLFarm is one of the most interesting and unusual sites for English language teachers on the Web. You will find many pages which focus on different interests in teaching (learning) English. TEFLFarm is full of vivid colors and graphics, which probably attract learners' and teachers' attention. As a teacher of English you can even make your own contribution and display your philosophy on teaching English. Not only will you find innovative and hands-on activities but also many academic articles, reviews and interviews.

Internet TESL Journal.
http://iteslj.org/
This website is a gold mine for those who are interested in reading academic articles and following current teaching theories. Internet TESL journal is a monthly web journal in which you will find articles, research papers; lesson plans, teaching ideas and links. Internet TESL journal also provides many over 1,000 activities for ESL students. Do a favor for yourself this week and visit these websites in your spare time! You will definitely lose yourself in the enchanting world of ESL!

ESL Lounge: Communicative ESL Materials
http://www.esl-lounge.com/
This cleanly designed and easy-to-navigate site offers hundreds of free, printable lesson plans for TEFL and TESOL teachers who want to emphasize communication. Materials are available at multiple proficiency levels and cover grammar, pronunciation, reading, and comprehension in formats such as worksheets, board games, flashcards, song lyrics, role-plays, and more. Many other "teacher-support" features are highlighted, including "Book Worm" sections which recommend some the latest, most interesting books available on a variety of teaching and ESL topics, a teacher "Embarrassing Moments" log, a "Best Sites for Teachers" link, as well as a teacher forum and interactive page.

English Space
http://www.englishspace.ort.org
Of all the websites I have visited so far, this one is definitely the most visually creative and professionally executed. With its space metaphor, it is very fun to navigate - particularly for younger learners. The site was originally developed by World ORT (a non-profit British organization focused on delivering high-quality educational services and materials to underprivileged groups) in an effort to make English accessible to teenage refugees and immigrants at the beginner, pre-intermediate, and intermediate levels. Over 60 hours of interactive lesson materials for self-study or group work are presented, including puzzles, games, exercises, and projects that emphasize reading, writing, listening, and communicating.

ESL Blue(s)
http://www.collegeem.qc.ca/cemdept/anglais/trouindx.htm
What this site lacks in visual interest, it makes up for in variety. There is a wide range of grammar, reading, and vocabulary exercises introduced through a host of interesting topics - with immediate feedback available. To help pre-intermediate, intermediate, and high-intermediate learners efficiently locate the most valuable resources, the site suggests taking their diagnostic quiz to identify errors and receive direction to the appropriate level. There are special helps for teachers as well, including a tutorial on how to use ESL Blue(s) templates to create quizzes.

Dave's ESL Cafe.
http://www.eslcafe.com/
Granted, this is the "Big Daddy" of the ESL websites (and probably the first on every search engine's list), but it is still very useful for both teachers and students of ESL. There are numerous links to different types and levels of activities for students. One nice aspect is the different chat and discussion forums for ESL teachers to interact and gain new insights into better teaching.

Karin's ESL Partyland
http://www.eslpartyland.com/
This website offers numerous links for both students and teachers. It has a nice clean layout, compared to Dave's ESL Cafe, making it easier to determine what is for students and what is for teachers. In the student part, there are over 70 different activities and quizzes. The teacher's part contains lesson plans, quizzes, and other free down-loadable materials to help with teaching. There is also a place for job listings.

CNN Newsroom and Worldview for ESL
http://lc.byuh.edu/CNN_N/CNN-N.html
This website is run by Brigham Young University-Hawaii. It incorporates the CNN Newsroom site that is available free of charge to all schools with specially designed ESL exercises. This would be an excellent resource for high school classroom teachers with ESL students. Reports on a variety of topics are provided, along with corresponding grammar and vocabulary exercises based on the reports. This is a great site for higher-level learners.
Two related CNN sites are as follows: http://www.cln.org/subjects.html
and http://www.cln.org/subjects/esl_inst.html