Jeff Avery's List: 25 Best Learner Resources

This is a great site for helping ESL students learn to communicate in English. One really interesting feature of this site is that students can join into a chat room designed specifically for helping students learn to communicate in English.


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This site is a great ESL site. It is broken up into zones. Examples include: Grammar zone, Reading Zone, Vocabulary Zone, and Writing Zone. Each zone is packed with activities.


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This is a great site for English vocabulary. This site attempts to help learners memorize vocabulary in an effective way using games and images.


This web site aims to help students to memorize English vocabularies in an easy and efficient way, by using pictures, sounds and games. Try our games and enjoy learning, like eating chocolate.

This is another listening web site. What separates this site from the rest is the content contained in the podcasts. They are all really neat interesting things. Some are about poisonous plants with others are about current events. Most come with a text from of the audio and an exercise, such as fill in the blank.


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Grammarman is a fun site that has lots of games and puzzles for ESL learners. The site is leaded with comics and free stuff. An interesting thing about this site is that they host competitions of their online games, winners get prizes.


Index page for Grammarman Comic - the home of the ESL EFL grammar superhero, and his friends Alpha-bot and Syntax.

This site is a great little site for ESL flash cards. The site contains hundreds of printable, downloadable flashcards. Examples include: action, adjective, alphabet, animals, and body parts, just to name a few. All of the cards are free.


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This is a wonderful site for the English learner. This site is packed with exercises, tests, and games, as well as grammar and vocabulary. This site is focused towards the learner but also contains many tools that are great for the teacher. A great feature of this site is that it’s loaded with links to other free ESL sites.


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Elllo is an online listening lab for English. The lab contains numerous audio samples of English. Each audio clip comes with images and an online quiz. The best part about this lab is that many of the audio samples are discussions of modern events, this makes the content much more interesting.



ELLLO is a collection of over 800 audio activities that ESL, EFL, and English students and teachers can access freely via the net. Most audio comes with pictures of the speaker, the transcript, and downloadable audio in mp3 format.

This is a great site for both the learner and the teacher of English. This site is packed with tools, games, and information about English. For the learner, there is a great deal of information about the grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation.



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This is a Visual dictionary. This dictionary is an interactive visual dictionary that is using and innovative approach. The dictionary is broken up into 15 themes with over six thousand images. An example would be a picture of a door handle with a deadbolt and every part of the lock would be labeled.

Usingenglish.com is a great site packed full of resources and tools. One of the more interesting tools it has is a word checker, a learner can enter a word and it will give them its use in various parts of speech. This site is also loaded with tests, articles, and discussion boards, making it a great site for both the learner and the teacher.


ESL (English as a Second Language) resources for learning English. Browse our grammar glossary and language reference area, join our busy forums, read our articles and teacher handouts, and find useful links and information on English here.

This is an interesting site that is very popular. This site is a lab that is setup for students to listen to various parts of English. Examples include Answering Machines, Hotel Check-in, and Emergency Calls. The recordings are broken up into various levels of difficulty.

This ESL listening Web site created by Randall Davis helps ESL/EFL students improve their listening comprehension skills through practice with self-grading quiz pages.

This site allows the learner to listen to English being spoken live online. This English that the learner is listening to is fair and balanced news. The news is reported in proper, standard, English.

Description: This site contains a collection of online language arts games that will help build skills for grades Pre-K through 12. Students of almost any age will benefit from using these games. They make language learning a little more fun.

This is a great site designed to help with English reading comprehension. Learners can read a very short paragraph and then answer questions about its meaning. The site offers different levels of difficulty for the same paragraphs.

Learners can learn a great deal about English by reading. This site is a great source of English that is written correctly and without errors. The Washington Post provides learners of English with a real and practical way of practicing reading comprehension.



The Washington Post is a leading source for news and video on politics, national, federal government, foreign policy, business, green issues, science and local issues. We also offer award-winning opinion writing, entertainment information and restaurant reviews. Our local coverage includes reporting on education, crime, weather, traffic, real estate, jobs and cars for DC, Maryland and Virginia.

This is an excellent site designed to help with English Grammar. This site allows the learner to input level of difficulty or the part of speech desired to study. The site then allows the learner to choose from quizzes or lessons of this particular part of speech or degree of difficulty.


The Guide to Grammar and Writing contains scores of digital handouts on grammar and English usage, over 170 computer-graded quizzes, recommendations on writing -- from basic problems in subject-verb agreement and the use of articles to exercises in parallel structures and help with argumentative essays, and a way to submit questions about grammar and writing. Javascript and cgi-based quizzes (form enabling required). Acrobat Reader, sound card, and PowerPoint recommended but not required.

This site focuses on grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. The purpose of this website is to guide learners of English in effective and enjoyable ways of improving their language ability.


The purpose of this website is to guide learners of English in effective and enjoyable ways of acquiring their new language.
There are hundreds of exercises, in grammar and vocabulary, reading and writing, as well as many pages of information and advice about the English language and language learning. Parents and mainstream teachers have special responsibilities in guiding school-age English language learners. They too will find much of interest and use in these pages.

This site is designed to help with grammar and vocabulary. It contains numerous games and quizzes. Also contains a section that helps determine differences between general and business English.

This site contains 11 units and 52 lessons of free English lessons. This site requires a Shockwave Player and Realmedia Player, which are offered free. The lessons pronounce all English words. The lessons are very clear, straight forward, in design. Sites like this are putting ESL teachers out of the job.