ESOL: Online Resources

Feel free to explore the practice tests on this website to improve your typing skills and practice some common English words.
(You do NOT need to sign up, just close the pop-up window and you can use the website)

This link provides access to some listening practice exercises. Many of them include a short quiz which will allow you to see your progress!

Here you can find some minimal pairs (words that sound the same except for one sound) listening/speaking practice to work on with the help of a tutor!

This site allows you to listen to music, news, and talk radio so that you can practice your English
listening-comprehension skills.

This link may assist tutors in developing a plan for helping their students to practice the English language.

This link provides many activities students can use to practice their English skills.

This is the homepage for the libraries at USM. Start here whenever you need to look for books, articles, or anything else you need for doing a research project or writing an academic essay.

This online writing lab is a great place to start whenever you are looking for additional information about grammar, or whenever you need some practice working on your writing.

Ideas and exercises for working on English language skills

This is a fun, interactive site in which all activities are clearly ranked by English proficiency level. Content varies from vocabulary practice, to grammar quizzes in song lyrics, to idioms and interesting questions to begin conversations. Accessible for all levels of English proficiency.

An extremely useful website: excellent grammar tutorials, quizzes at all levels, 156 links to grammar points, flashcards to learn irregular verbs, links to a phrasal verb dictionary, as well as foreign language dictionaries. Accessible for all levels of English proficiency.

Excellent pronunciation guide. Explains in detail and offers practice producing and listening to the sounds of the English language. Accessible for all levels of English proficiency [except absolute beginners].

This is a classic, well-known site for English learners and teachers. Thousands of links, exercises, explanations. All proficiency levels.

Advanced-level grammar, punctuation and style guide. Useful for explaining English grammar to more advanced students.

A short example on how to understand and use verb tenses in your speech and writing.

This link provides a basic introduction to learning the rules for using articles in English.

A short introduction to teaching verb forms to ESOL learners is a great resource provided by this site.