English for China free online interactive grammar exercises and activities

Motivate your English class through Beijing 2008 Olympic Games ESL exercises and activities

2008-07-21T06:41:00.000-07:00

Olympics ESL exercises and activities, from ESLTower.com (prepare and motivate your English class for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games through printable vocabulary puzzles, quizzes, flashcards, game cards and exercises related to Olympic Games, sports and countries)

Olympic sports

“Olympic Sports” Dictionary Hunt

"Olympic Sports" Wheel Search Puzzle

"Olympic Sports" Matching Quiz

Olympic Games word puzzle

What we do in sports crossword verbs puzzle

Olympics Games word puzzle

"Olympic Sports" Spelling Quiz

"Olympic Sports" Multiple Choice Quiz

Olympic Sports Vocabulary Game Sheet

Sports and Olympics - Word Puzzle

Countries, Sports and Athletes

Idioms, phrasal verbs and proverbs: discussions and interactive exercises

2008-07-20T11:37:00.000-07:00

Idioms are expressions or groups of words peculiar to a certain language, a person or a group of people and which have meanings different from the individual meaning of the words that make up each expression. The English language has its own unique set of idioms which can be confusing, fascinating or amusing for ESL and EFL students. Related to idioms are phrasal verbs and proverbs (wise sayings).

In answering the interactive exercises, you should follow carefully the prompts and directions. You should read each sentence or part aloud before clicking the answer you think is right. After the correct answer is displayed, think it over as to why it is the correct answer. (Please take note that the correct answer may depend on whether the exercise comes from an American English or a British English website.) After doing so, read the complete sentence again aloud with the correct answer.

To train yourself to think in English, try to recite the sentences with the correct answers from memory and at your full speaking volume. Or you can ask a friend to read out loud the sentences with the correct answers and you repeat them without looking at the computer screen.

[01] Self-Study Idiom Quizzes, from Activities for ESL Students

Numerous interactive quizzes on Idioms, Phrasal Verbs and Expressions, and Slang (with medium and difficult categories)

[02] Idiom Pages, from Answers.com

Contains, among others, idiomatic words and phrases, common proverbs and metaphors, defined and illustrated with sample sentences or quotations; produced in consultation with the editors of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

[03] Phrasal Verb Exercises, from Churchill House School of English Language

[04] Activities in idioms and phrasal verbs, from english-at-home.com

Phrasal verbs with "down"
Phrasal Verbs using "in"
Phrasal verbs with "off"
Phrasal verbs with "on"
Phrasal Verbs using "out"
Phrasal verbs with "up"
Three-part phrasal verbs

[05] Idioms, from English Corner (Rod Rodgers)

Note: Macromedia Flash player required
Idiom Games
Phrasal Verbs (Two-Word Verbs)
American Slang
Common Similes
English Proverbs

[06] American Idioms, from English Daily

[07] Idiom Buster, from english-the-international-language.com

English Idioms – Set 1
English Idioms – Set 2
English Idioms – Set 3

[08] Paint by Idioms, from Funbrain

[09] Idioms, from Interlink Language Center

Multiple choice questions, match the meaning of an idiom.
#1, #2 , #3, #4

[10] Eye on Idioms, from Read Write Think

[11] Online test, from Spanish-English Idioms

[12] Dictionary of American Idioms, from Sky-Net-Eye

More than 8000 idiomatic words and phrases of American English

[13] English Idioms & Quizzes, from The Idiom Connection

Note: Idioms from from A to Z, and from Animal Idioms to Proverbs & Sayings; representative sets of idioms are listed below.
Education & School Idioms
Head & Mind Idioms
Heart Idioms
Relationship & Love Idioms
Sports Idioms

[14] Idiom Dictionary, from The Free Dictionary by Farlex

Compiled from the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms and the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms with explanations of over 7,000 idioms current in British, American and Australian English

[15] Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Terms, and Dictionary of English Phrasal Verbs, from Using English

With 2,256 English idiomatic expressions with definitions, and 2,172 current multi-word verbs with definitions and examples;Note - members get more; sign up for free and gain access to many more idioms and slang expressions. Register now

[16] Exercises on idioms, phrasal verbs and collocations, from English Gateway

Day to Day
Workplace
Getting Personal idioms on party, love and attraction, family, wedding, and entertainment.
Idiomania

Nouns: discussions and interactive exercises

2008-07-16T23:45:00.000-07:00

Nouns are names of persons, places, things, ideas or abstract concepts. For a better understanding of what nouns are, please surf to the websites listed below.

[1] Nouns, from Capital Community College Guide to Good Grammar

[2] Nouns, from Grammar Monster (British English)

[3] Grammar reference: Nouns and phrases, from One Stop English

[4] Nouns, from English Daily

[5] Nouns, from Interlink Language Centers

[6] Nouns, from Using English

[7] Lesson 1 - Nouns, from My English Grammar

[8] Index to articles on Nouns, from Learning English Online www.englisch-hilfen.de (English version)

Listed below are links to interactive quizzes, exercises and activities in nouns from the best ESL and EFL resources on the Internet. Since gerunds and infinitives are used as nouns, we have inlcuded them here. Take time to browse these excellent websites; they are consistently good and fast loading. Besides the materials listed below, these great sites generously offer, free of charge, a tremendous range of valuable resources for the ESL and EFL teachers and students.

In answering the interactive exercises, you should follow carefully the prompts and directions. You should read each sentence or part aloud before clicking the answer you think is right. After the correct answer is displayed, think it over as to why it is the correct answer. (Please take note that the correct answer may depend on whether the exercise comes from an American English or a British English website.) After doing so, read the complete sentence again aloud with the correct answer.

To train yourself to think in English, try to recite the sentences with the correct answers from memory and at your full speaking volume. Or you can ask a friend to read out loud the sentences with the correct answers and you repeat them without looking at the computer screen.

[01] Exercises in nouns from Activities for ESL Students

Assorted Count and Noncount Noun (Kaye Mastin Mallory)
Countable or Non-Countable Nouns (Charles Kelly)
Plural Forms and Irregular Nouns (Barbara Lyons Perez)
Singular, Plural or Possessive (Charles Kelly)

[02] Exercise in nouns from About.com ESL

Countable and Uncountable - Noun Quantifiers

[03] Exercises in nouns from Better English by Pearson Brown (British English)

Noun + noun
Noun + noun 2 (Noun + noun / possessive 's)
Of + determiner
One
Possessives / Plurals
Singular or plural?
Countable nouns + Some / A / An

[04] Exercises in nouns from Capital Community College Guide to Good Grammar

Recognizing Nouns
An Exercise in Noun Definition
Recognizing Count and Non-Count Nouns
Noun: A Crossword Puzzle

[05] Exercise in nouns from Dave Sperling’s ESL Café

Count / Noncount Nouns

[06] Exercise in nouns from English Club

Gerunds Quiz

[07] Exercises in nouns from English Corner (Rod Rodgers)

Note: Javascript required.
What do we call ...? - Exercise 1 Noun modifiers (noun adjuncts) that indicate what something is made of.
What do we call ...? - Exercise 2 Noun modifiers (noun adjuncts) that describe devices.
What do we call ...? - Exercise 3 Noun modifiers (noun adjuncts) that describe food.

Gerunds
Gerund After Preposition 1 Fifteen sentences with gerund after preposition (includes to as preposition and as infinitive marker).
Gerund After Preposition 2 Fifteen more sentences with gerund after preposition (includes to as preposition and as infinitive marker).
Gerund vs. Infinitive Quiz 1 The use of the gerund or infinitive after certain verbs
Gerund vs. Infinitive Quiz 2 A second group of verbs taking the gerund or infinitive

[08] Exercises in nouns from English Grammar 101

Note: frame based, you can reach the specific topics listed below by clickng "Unit 1: Word and Phrase Patterns" or "Unit 2: Clause Patterns" on the left hand frame.
Unit 1: Word and Phrase Patterns
Lesson 1-15: Noun Identification
Lesson 1-17: Subject Identification
Lesson 1-18: Subject Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-19: Subject Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-20: Subject Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-21: Subject Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-22: Subject Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-23: Subject Identification (Continued)

Unit 2: Clause Patterns
Lesson 2-0: Unit 2 Pretest
Lesson 2-31: The Noun Clause
Lesson 2-32: The Noun Clause (Continued)
Lesson 2-33: The Noun Clause (Continued)
Lesson 2-34: Noun Clauses versus Adjective and Adverbial Clauses
Lesson 2-35: Noun Clauses versus Adjective and Adverbial Clauses (Continued)

[09] Exercises in nouns from English Language Centre Study Zone

Regular Plurals of Nouns (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Irregular Plurals of Nouns (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Count and Non-Count Nouns (Introduction & 2 exercises)
How to Count Non-Count Nouns (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Count and Non-Count Nouns (Review) (Introduction & 3 exercises) s and Infinitives:
Gerunds (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Gerunds and Infinitives (Introduction & 6 exercises)

[10] Exercise in nouns from English Learner

Uncountable Nouns crossword

[11] Exercise in nouns from English The Easy Way

Abstract Nouns Quiz

[12] Exercises in nouns from English Works (Gallaudet University)

Cloze Exercise #1: Nouns and Adjectives
Nouns and Pronouns Exercises
Identifying Subjects 1
Identifying Subjects 2
Identifying Subjects 3
Count and Non-Count Nouns: Much/Many
Count and Non-Count Nouns: Arriving at Gallaudet

[13] Exercises in nouns from ESL 3-6 Review

Note: Frame based, only one URL for all exercises
Singular to Plural
Irregular Plural Nouns

[14] Exercise in nouns from Interlink Language Centers

Nouns Pop Quiz 2

[15] Exercises in nouns from Grammar Central (eaonline)

Noun or Pronoun?
Noun or Verbs?
Number (singular or plural nouns?)
More Plural Nouns
Irregular Plural Nouns
More Plural Nouns (“f = > ves”)
Really Irregular Plural Nouns
Borrowed Irregular Plural Nouns
No Singular Irregular Nouns

Flashed ESL
Gender
Plural Nouns
Noun – Verb Agreement
Plural Nouns II

[16] Exercise in nouns from Grammar Monster (British English)

Nouns Test
Singular? Test
Plurals Test

[17] Exercise in nouns from Isabel’s ESL Site

Count - Uncount Nouns

[18] Exercise in nouns from John’s ESL Community English Interactive

Spelling Quiz / Nouns: Singular and Plural

[19] Exercises in nouns from Karin's ESL Partyland

Irregular Plurals: Intermediate
Shopping in the Haight Part One: Gerunds & Infinitives
Shopping in the Haight Part Two: Gerunds & Infinitives

[20] Exercises in nouns from 1-Language.com

Collective Nouns
Abstract Nouns
Noun and Verb Matching / Subjects and Verbs - 1
Noun and Verb Matching / Subjects and Verbs - 2

[21] Exercise in nouns from Lauri's ESL Website

Nouns 1
Nouns 2
Count / Noncount Nouns and Articles
Gerund, Infinitive, or Both?

[22] Exercises in nouns from Learn English Feel Good

ESL Practice: COUNT or NON-COUNT (Intermediate)
ESL Practice: COUNT or NON-COUNT 2 (Intermediate)
ESL Practice: COUNT or NON-COUNT 3 (Beginner)
ESL Practice: COUNT or NON-COUNT 4 (Beginner)
ESL Practice: COUNT or NON-COUNT 5 (Intermediate)
Plurals of nouns - part 1 (Beginner)
Plurals of nouns - part 2 (Beginner)
GERUND or INFINITIVE? (Beginner)
GERUND or INFINITIVE? 2 (Intermediate)
GERUND or INFINITIVE? 3 (Intermediate)
GERUND or INFINITIVE? 4 (Advanced)

[23] Exercises in nouns from Learning English Online, www.englisch-hilfen.de (English version)

Apostrophe 's
's or of-phrase
The plural of nouns
The plural of nouns - Spelling
The plural of nouns – Irregular forms
The plural of nouns – mixed
The plural of nouns
Singular or plural
Nouns – Uncountables
Plural in English - Test 1
Plural in English - Test 2
Plural in English - Test 3

Gerund or infinitive

Gerund and prepositions
Infinitive in English
Infinitive or gerund - Exercise 1
Infinitive or gerund - Exercise 2
Infinitive or gerund after verbs

[24] Exercise in nouns from Marcus Evans Linguarama (British English)

Countable and uncountable nouns (Insurance)

[25] Exercises in nouns from Michael Buckhoff's ESL Website for Students and Teachers

Count / Uncount Noun self-study quizzes
Quiz # 1
Quiz # 2
Quiz # 3
Quiz # 4

Noun clauses / infinitives: Quiz 1
Noun clauses connectors "what and that:" Quiz 2
Noun clauses - using "ever" connectors: Quiz 3
Noun clauses "the subjunctive:" Quiz 4
Noun clauses "Reported Speech:" Quiz 5
Singular / Plural Noun self-study quizzes

[26] Exercise in nouns from 5 Minute English

Go + noun

[27] Exercises in nouns from My English Grammar

Exercise 1 - Nouns
Exercise 10 - Possession (Possessive Nouns)

[28] Exercises in nouns from Online English Grammar (Edunet)

Noun Clause as Subject Upper Intermediate Flash Q & A
Noun or Noun Phrase in Apposition Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Noun-Pronoun (and Quantifier) Agreement Intermediate - Advanced
Plural Nouns in Certain Expressions Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Adjectives and Nouns Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Compound Adjectives (and Adjectives as Nouns) Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Confusing Adjectives and Nouns Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A

[29] Exercises in nouns from OWL English Purdue Grammar and ESL Exercises

Appositives
Count and NonCount Nouns Exercises
Quantity Terms with Count and Noncount Nouns

[30] Exercises in nouns from Rong-Chang Li

Count and Non-count Nouns (1)
Count and Non-count Nouns (2)
Count and Non-count Nouns (3)
Infinitives & Gerunds (1)
Infinitives & Gerunds (2)
Infinitives & Gerunds (3)
Infinitives & Gerunds (4)
Infinitives & Gerunds (5)

[31] Exercise in nouns from The English Nouns Page

[32] Exercises in nouns from The ESL Area

Quantities / Count - non count nouns
What do You Want to Eat?
Do you need some eggs?
How much do we need?
No Place like Home

[33] Exercises in nouns from University of Calgary - The Basic Elements of English Grammar Guide

Noun Identification
Count, Mass, Collective Nouns
Plural & Possessive Nouns

[34] Exercises in nouns from University of Oregon The Tongue Untied

Noun Practice Exercise
Noun Practice Exercise Answers
Interactive Noun Quiz #1
Interactive Noun Quiz #2

[35] Exercises in nouns from Using English

Note: Join the Members' Area and you can gain access to 185 additional free ESL quizzes for beginner, intermediate and advanced level English students. These exercises may also be viewed as printable handouts.

Beginner English
Countable or Uncountable? (41)
Plurals (15)
Plurals - Compound Nouns (10)
Singular or Plural? (11)

Intermediate English
Gerund or Infinitive? (10)
Infinitives with or without 'to' (12)
Try to do & Try doing, etc (9)
Used to & Be / Get Used To (10)
Used to, get used to & be used to (10)

[36] Exercises in nouns from World-English (British English)

NOUNS FROM VERBS
GERUND OR INFINITIVE?

Note: Spoken English Learned Quickly offers free downloads of lessons and books (Learning Spoken English, a 450-page Student Workbook and an Instructor’s Guide) to your computer, iPod, Blackberry, MP3 player or PDA; Lessons in vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and verb tenses using spoken English exercises; Complete lessons contain enough recorded audio lesson material for two hours of study a day, five days a week for nine months.

Interjections: discussions and interactive exercises

2008-07-15T18:30:00.000-07:00

Interjections are words of exclamation, utterance, surprise, or interruption. For a better understanding of what interjections are, please surf to the websites listed below. Take time to browse these excellent websites; they are consistently good and fast loading. Besides the materials listed below, these great sites generously offer, free of charge, a tremendous range of valuable resources for the ESL and EFL teachers and students.

In answering the interactive exercises, you should follow carefully the prompts and directions. You should read each sentence or part aloud before clicking the answer you think is right. After the correct answer is displayed, think it over as to why it is the correct answer. (Please take note that the correct answer may depend on whether the exercise comes from an American English or a British English website.) After doing so, read the complete sentence again aloud with the correct answer.

To train yourself to think in English, try to recite the sentences with the correct answers from memory and at your full speaking volume. Or you can ask a friend to read out loud the sentences with the correct answers and you repeat them without looking at the computer screen.

[1] Interjections, from Using English
[2] Interjections, from Grammar Monster (British English)
[3] Exercise in interjections from Grammar Monster (British English)

Notes: Spoken English Learned Quickly offers free downloads of lessons and books (Learning Spoken English, a 450-page Student Workbook and an Instructor’s Guide) to your computer, iPod, Blackberry, MP3 player or PDA; Lessons in vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and verb tenses using spoken English exercises; Complete lessons contain enough recorded audio lesson material for two hours of study a day, five days a week for nine months.

Typical English mistakes by speakers of other languages, by Language Project, (approved by the British Council; more examples available upon registration): Arabic speakers; Chinese speakers; Japanese speakers; Korean speakers; Portuguese speakers; Spanish speakers; Czech speakers; French speakers; German speakers; Greek speakers; Italian speakers; Polish speakers; Russian speakers; Swedish speakers; Turkish speakers.

englishforjapanese.com offers fee-based language learning study solutions for Japanese students of English for speech, pronunciation, listening, pronunciation, social and business conversation skills; with free but non-interactive exercises and tests in English usage, vocabulary and grammar; some lessons in downloadable PDF format; related blog Two-Minute English offers free daily, non-interactive exercise and activities.

English for the medical professional, from HospitalEnglish.com (free resources for medical professionals like doctors, nurses, physical therapists, radiologists, physician assistants, pharmacists, etc, studying English and medical printables for teachers; with medical vocabulary builders and pronunciation guide, patient counseling activities, disease state directors, healthcare professional articles, medical flashcards, hospital lesson plans, and ESP worksheets)

Learn English by watching ABC, CBS, CW, FOX, NBC shows online

2008-07-14T19:51:00.000-07:00

If you love to watch your favorite shows online with less commercials, you will definitely enjoy this Google gadget! It is designed to save you valuable clicks and time whole day, every day, and help you learn English at the same time.

Vocabulary resources

2008-07-12T19:02:00.000-07:00

Free vocabulary test for TOEFL, GMT, SAT, GRE and VOA Special English, from Vocaboly

Bilingual Vocabulary Quizzes from The Internet TESL Journal's Activities for ESL Students

Arabic - English
Chinese - English
Indonesian - English
Japanese - English
Korean -English
Kurdish - English
Malay - English
Persian (Farsi) - English
Portuguese - English
Russian - English
Sesotho - English
Somali - English
Spanish - English
Swahili - English
Tagalog - English
Thai - English
Turkish-English
Urdu - English
Vietnamese - English
Zulu - English

Online bilingual dictionaries from http://www.freedict.com/

A Word A Day, from Wordsmith

Pictorial Vocabulary Guides, from LanguageGuide.org

Learn the pronunciation and spelling of thousands of words using an image based interface, with supported languages as English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Italian, Greek, Chinese, Chinese (traditional characters), Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese, and Indonesian

Online resources in journalism

2008-07-11T19:01:00.000-07:00

Online journalism training, from JPPROF the website for teaching journalism
Discussion of skills (reporting, writing, editing, graphics design, photojournalism,, web journalism, opinion writing and broadcasting), issues (news, practices, law, history, ethics), industry (newspapers, magazines, radio and television, news web sites), and with grammar exercises for students

BBC Kids News
Kids news from the British Broadcasting Company out of the United Kingdom, providing young readers with a world view of the news

CBC 4 Kids
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's web site for kids with news, sports, homework help and discussion area, primarily for Canadian kids but includes a Latin news section

Kids News Room
Kid Style News for Kid Style People, a twice-monthly newsmagazine featuring news, games, information and submitted articles from kids and schools from around the United States, and offers student, parent, and teacher educational resources

Paper Lake Times
Students learn journalism through articles and quizzes, write their own stories and interview sources, and receive advice from working journalists.

Silver Chips Online
Online version of award winning student newspaper of Montgomery Blair High School's (www.mbhs.edu), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; a forum for community expression run entirely by students and working closely with print counterpart

The Write Site
An interactive language arts and journalism project for middle schools developed by ThinkTVNetwork, Dayton, Ohio (An OET/SchoolNet Project), teaching students how to do research and discover their own writing style

Time for Kids
Time Magazine’s new site for kids, containing national news, world news and the latest news from talented kids of the entertainment world

YouthInkIt
YouthInk Publications Society is non-profit charitable organization dedicated to promoting literacy in Youth through journalism, communication, publishing and special projects; Teaches young people how to do interviews, write copy, and use HTML to publish on the web; Explores current environmental and social issues. Helps students get their writings published. Requires free registration.

Writing for the Web, from Sun Microsystems
Written by Jakob Nielsen, distinguished engineer; PJ Schemenaur, technical editor; and Jonathan Fox, editor-in-chief, www.sun.com on how users read on the Web and how authors should write.

Topics include Difference Between Paper and Online Presentation; Working With a Designer:; Scannability; Navigation; Writing to Be Read: Headlines and subheads; lists, captions, and hyperlinks; Writing to Be Found; Terms to Avoid; Editorial Review of Web Pages:; Web Facts

A writer’s resources

2008-07-10T18:59:00.000-07:00

The Elements of Style by Strunk and White

Roget's Thesaurus

SpellCheckPlus, from Dr. Terry Nadasdi (University of Alberta, Canada) and Dr. Stefan Sinclair
A tool for writing in English that identifies spelling errors and common grammatical problems. It is able to detect problems with words that sound the same (e.g.: there versus their, its versus it's, etc.), incorrect use of correct words (e.g.: never mined instead of never mind), punctuation / spacing (e.g.: with out instead of without), capitalization (e.g.: saturday instead of Saturday) and hundreds of grammatical errors, e.g.: I have went instead of I have gone. The site is particularly adept at catching commonly confused words and "slips of the pen", e.g.: pier pressure instead of the correct peer pressure, road to hoe instead of the correct row to hoe, etc

Text Content Analysis Tool, from UsingEnglish.com
Provides statistics about your text up to 500 KB including word count; unique words; number of sentences; average words per sentence; with more detailed statistics available to members

Online newspapers

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Read 6000+ Online Newspapers @ ThePaperboy.com

The Key
Published monthly since 1988; the Key New Readers Newspaper is written for new readers and adults with limited reading skills. All material is free of copyright for nonprofit, education purposes only.

Learning Edge
An interactive on-line newspaper for adult literacy students coming from Wellington County Learning Centre from Arthur, Ontario, and with games, crossword puzzles, on-line quizzes, and writing contests

Today's Front Pages

From Asia and Middle East

China Peoples Daily

Philippine Daily Inquirer

Times of India

Deccan Herald (South India)

Japan Times

Jerusalem Post

The Jewish Chronicle

Middle East Times

New Zealand Herald

Jamaica Observer

Santiago Times

Dispatch (South Africa)

Zimbabwe Independent

Granma (Cuba)

Guardian (Nigeria)

South America Daily

From England

Guardian Unlimited

Education Guardian

The Independent

The Times

Daily Telegraph

Financial Times

Daily Mail

Daily Mirror

The Sun

From Europe

The Irish Times

Copenhagen Post

France Daily

Gibraltar Chronicle

German Times

Moscow Times

Sofia Echo

Prague Post

Warsaw Voice

The New York Times (USA)

CBC.CA (Canada)

Canberra Sunday Times (Australia)

Free ESL download: Spoken English Learned Quickly

2008-07-08T18:58:00.000-07:00

Spoken English Learned Quickly

Free downloads of lessons and books (Learning Spoken English, a 450-page Student Workbook and an Instructor’s Guide) to your computer, iPod, Blackberry, MP3 player or PDA; Lessons in vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and verb tenses using spoken English exercises; Complete lessons contain enough recorded audio lesson material for two hours of study a day, five days a week for nine months.

Online dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases

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OneLook® Dictionaries Definitions and spellings of more than seven million words from over 1001 indexed online dictionaries

Visual Dictionary and Encyclopedia

The Internet Picture Dictionary

Encyclopedia Britannica On-line

MSN Encarta Dictionary

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Online bilingual dictionaries from www.freedict.com

Online English to African / African to English Dictionary
Online English to Indonesian / Indonesian to English Dictionary
Online English to Japanese / Japanese to English Dictionary
Online English to Spanish / Spanish to English Dictionary
Online English to Swahili / Swahili to English Dictionary

Information Please On-Line Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, Atlas and Almanac Reference

English-Chinese Dictionary and Chinese-English Dictionary (from TigerNT)

Webster's Online Dictionary. With Multilingual Thesaurus Translation

YourDictionary
Free online English dictionary with definitions, thesaurus entries, spelling, pronunciation, synonyms and etymology

RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus

AskOxford.com (UK)

AskOxford.com (US)
English grammar, spelling, usage and writing; dictionary; crosswords and puzzles

Online diagnostic / assessment tests

2008-07-06T18:56:00.000-07:00

Test your English now (vocabulary, grammar, listening and reading (cloze test)

Free online, interactive exercises in grammar, vocabulary and discourse, from Language Project (approved by the British Council)

Elementary English Practice Exercises
Intermediate English Practice Exercises
Advanced English Practice Exercises

Free Online TOEFL, English and Multi-Language Vocabulary Test, from FreeTOEFL.net
Designed for multi-language vocabulary tests (Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, etc) and for English exams like TOEFL, iBT, GRE, SAT and TOEIC

Online Assessment Tests, from World English

Diagnostic Grammar Test
English Grammar Placement Test
English Language Assessment Test
Online English Assessment Tests

Diagnostic tests / Assessment tests on English grammar, from http://www.english-at-home.com/

Assessment Tests, from Churchill House School of English Language

Elementary Level
Intermediate Level
Upper-Intermediate Level (FCE)
Advanced Level (CAE)

Online magazines

2008-07-05T18:55:00.000-07:00

Chinese Women Today (online magazine with great English and Chinese writing on contemporary issues)

SOON Online Magazine Learning English Index (free world-wide easy-English literature programme)

Power To Change online magazine (English); for other languages, click Arabic; French; German; Italian; Japanese; Malay; Russian; Spanish; Czech; Thai and Chinese

Tips on Public Speaking by Scott Ginsberg

2008-07-03T18:34:00.000-07:00

Free Online Lessons : Using Humor in Your Speech: The Art of Public Speaking -- powered by ExpertVillage.com

Other topics include:

How to Begin a Public Speech

Public Speaking in a Business Setting

How to Use Your Voice in Public Speaking

Tips for Giving a Memorable Public Speech

How to Use Openers in Public Speaking

How to Use Storytelling in Public Speeches

How to Use Humor in Public Speaking

Tips for Managing Time in Public Speaking

How to Engage an Audience in Public Speaking

How to Make an Audience Feel Comfortable in Public Speaking

How to Prepare a Public Speech

How to Close a Public Speech

How to Pace a Public Speech

Memorizing Vs. Notes in Public Speaking

Public Speaking Rules & Advice

How to Be a Good Public Speaker

Adverbs: discussions and interactive exercises

2008-07-02T23:44:00.000-07:00

Adverbs are words or phrases that modify or describe an adjective, verb or another adverb. For a better understanding of what adverbs are, please surf to the websites listed below. Clicking the blue links will take you to the specific page where the definitions, classifications or interactive exercises are located, while clicking the website name will take you to the home page.

[1] Adverbs, from Capital Community College Guide to Good Grammar

[2] Adverbs, from Grammar Monster (British English)

[3] Adverbs, from English Daily

[4] Adverbs, from ESL Resource Center

[5] Adverbs, from Using English

[6] Lesson 4 - Adverbs, from My English Grammar

[7] Adjective or Adverb; How to Use Adjectives and Adverbs, from The OWL at Purdue

[8] Using Conjunctive Adverbs, from The Writing Center, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Listed below are links to interactive quizzes and exercises in adverbs from the best ESL and EFL resources on the Internet. Besides the materials listed below, these great sites generously offer, free of charge, a tremendous range of valuable resources for the ESL and EFL teachers and students.

In answering the interactive exercises, you should follow carefully the prompts and directions. You should read each sentence or part aloud before clicking the answer you think is right. After the correct answer is displayed, think it over as to why it is the correct answer. (Please take note that the correct answer may depend on whether the exercise comes from an American English or a British English website.) After doing so, read the complete sentence again aloud with the correct answer.

To train yourself to think in English, try to recite the sentences with the correct answers from memory and at your full speaking volume. Or you can ask a friend to read out loud the sentences with the correct answers and you repeat them without looking at the computer screen.

[01] Exercise in adverbs from a4esl.org, Internet TESL Journal

[02] Exercises in adverbs from Better English by Pearson Brown(British English)

[03] Exercise in adverbs from Bedford St. Martins (Exercise Central)

[04] Exercises in adverbs from Capital Community College Guide to Good Grammar

[05] Exercises in adverbs from English Corner (Rod Rodgers)

Adverbs of Frequency - Exercise 1 Rewrite each sentence using the adverb of frequency in parentheses.
Adverbs of Frequency 1
Adverbs of Frequency 2

[06] Exercises in adverbs from English Grammar 101

Lesson 1-35: Adverb Identification
Lesson 1-36: Adverb Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-37: Adverb Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-38: Adverb Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-47: Adjective and Adverbial Phrases
Lesson 1-48: Adjective and Adverbial Phrases (Continued)
Lesson 1-49: Adjective and Adverbial Phrases (Continued)
Lesson 1-54: Adverbs Modifying Adjectives
Lesson 1-55: Adverbs Modifying Other Adverbs

[07] Exercises in adverbs from English Language Centre Study Zone

Adverbs (Introduction and 2 exercises)
Adverb Phrases (Introduction and 2 exercises)
Adverb Clauses (Introduction and 1 exercise)

[08] Exercise in adverbs from The English adverbs Page

[09] Exercises in adverbs from English Works (Gallaudet University)

This/That/These/Those Exercise 1
This/That/These/Those Exercise 2
This/That/These/Those Exercise 3
This/That/These/Those Exercise 4
This/That/These/Those Exercise 5

[10] Exercise in adverbs from ESL 3-6 Review

Adjectives and Adverbs

[11] Exercise in adverbs from esl-Lounge

Position of Adverbs

[12] Exercise in adverbs from Interlink Language Centers

Adverbs Pop Quiz 5

[13] Exercises in adverbs from Grammar Central (eaonline)

[14] Exercise in adverbs from Grammar Monster

Adverbs Test

[15] Exercise in adverbs from Grammar Workout (Empre State College)

Exercise 7: Adverbs and Adjectives

[16] Exercise in adverbs from Interactive Quizzes, John Wong (British English)

Adjective / Adverb

[17] Exercises in adverbs from John’s ESL Community English Interactive

[18] Exercise in adverbs from 1-Language.com

Adverbs

[19] Exercises in adverbs from Learn English Feel Good

[20] Exercises in adverbs from Learning English Online, www.englisch-hilfen.de (English version)

[21] Exercise in adverbs from Marcus Evans Linguarama

[22] Exercises in adverbs from Marcus Evans Linguarama

[23] Exercises in adverbs from Michael Buckhoff's ESL Website for Students and Teachers

[24] Exercise in adverbs from My English Grammar

Exercise 4 - Adverbs (Types of Adverbs)

[25] Exercises in adverbs from Online English Grammar (Edunet)

Adjectives and Adverbs Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Comparisons (Form of Adjective or Adverb) Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A

[26] Exercises in adverbs from OWL English Purdue Grammar and ESL Exercises

Adjective or Adverb?

[27] Exercises in adverbs from Rong-Chang Li

[28] Exercises in adjectives from The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuations

[29] Exercises in adverbs from The ESL Area

Adverbs of frequency

[30] Exercises in adverbs from University of Calgary - The Basic Elements of English Grammar Guide

[31] Exercises in adverbs from University of Oregon The Tongue Untied

[32] Exercises in adverbs from Using English

Note: Join the Members' Area and you can gain access to 185 additional free ESL quizzes for beginner, intermediate and advanced level English students. These exercises may also be viewed as printable handouts.

Beginner English

Adverbs - Position (15)

Intermediate English

Notes: Spoken English Learned Quickly offers free downloads of lessons and books (Learning Spoken English, a 450-page Student Workbook and an Instructor’s Guide) to your computer, iPod, Blackberry, MP3 player or PDA; Lessons in vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and verb tenses using spoken English exercises; Complete lessons contain enough recorded audio lesson material for two hours of study a day, five days a week for nine months.

englishforjapanese.com offers fee-based language learning study solutions for Japanese students of English for speech, pronunciation, listening, pronunciation, social and business conversation skills; with free but non-interactive exercises and tests in English usage, vocabulary and grammar; some lessons in downloadable PDF format; related blog Two-Minute English offers free daily, non-interactive exercise and activities.

Typical English mistakes by speakers of other languages, by Language Project, (approved by the British Council; more examples available upon registration): Arabic speakers; Chinese speakers; Japanese speakers; Korean speakers; Portuguese speakers; Spanish speakers; Czech speakers; French speakers; German speakers; Greek speakers; Italian speakers; Polish speakers; Russian speakers; Swedish speakers; Turkish speakers.

Writing: discussions and interactive exercises

2008-07-01T19:01:00.000-07:00

Kiran Desai, an Indian author whose novel "The Inheritance of Loss" won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, said during a book-signing interview with CNN, "Writing is difficult." Decades ago, poet and Nobel laureate T.S. Eliot said in typical British fashion, "Writing is a bloody business."

Listed below are links to discussions and interactive exercises in writing from the best ESL and EFL resources on the Internet. Besides the materials listed below, these great sites generously offer, free of charge, a tremendous range of valuable resources for the ESL and EFL teachers and students.

In answering the interactive exercises, you should follow carefully the prompts and directions. You should read each sentence or part aloud before clicking the answer you think is right. After the correct answer is displayed, think it over as to why it is the correct answer. (Please take note that the correct answer may depend on whether the exercise comes from an American English or a British English website.) After doing so, read the complete sentence again aloud with the correct answer.

To train yourself to think in English, try to recite the sentences with the correct answers from memory and at your full speaking volume. Or you can ask a friend to read out loud the sentences with the correct answers and you repeat them without looking at the computer screen.

[01] ABC’s of the Writing Process

Provides user friendly online resource for teachers and students in each of the five steps of the writing process – Prewriting, Writing, Revising, Editing and Publishing

[02] Easily confused words, from A Guide To Writing in English, by Online English Grammar

Words easily confused when writing English, with word pairs, definitions, examples and sound files

[03] Amy Lynn's Poetry Pages

Tools and information that inspire and equips young poets to be better and more thoughtful writers, and how to get rid of writer’s block through structured exercises

[04] BBC Kids News

Kids news from the British Broadcasting Company out of the United Kingdom, providing young readers with a world view of the news

[05] CBC 4 Kids

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's web site for kids with news, sports, homework help and discussion area, primarily for Canadian kids but includes a Latin news section

[06] Young Writers' Clubhouse, from Deborah Morris

Encouragement for young writers by author of the Real Kids, Real Adventures series

[07] English Writing for ESL learners, from EnglishClub.com

The English Alphabet
Use of Large Letters (Capitals)Spelling Rules
Spelling variations in English and American English.
English Punctuation Hyphenation

[08] Writing – How to write English Texts, from English Grammar Online 4 U

Essays & Presentations
General Information on Writing English Texts
General Information on Spoken Texts
Summaries Comments (Stating Your Opinions)
Reviews (Films and Books)PresentationBusiness English Business Letter (Structure)
Business Letter (Generator)
Cover Letter
Curriculum Vitae, CV, Resume
Other Topics: Stylistic Devices, Rhetorical Devices; Definitions; Picture Description

[09] Writers' Window, from English Online

Provides guides to writing stories, poems, reviews, and research papers, and features Continuous Stories and selected writings of children and teenagers (aged from 5 to 18)

[10] Writing Techniques, from English On The Run

The Paragraph; How to Write a Paragraph; Transitional Signals; Punctuation Rules; Capitalization Rules; The Essay

[11] The Writing Index, from English Works! Gallaudet University

The Writing Process
Prewriting, Writing, and Revising
Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Avoiding Plagiarism

Types of Writing
Essays
Research Papers, Citations and Reference Formats
Abstracts and Summaries
Lab Reports
Business English
Letters
Journalism
Dissertations

[12] Essay Writing Center, from Essay Info

Basics of Essay Writing:: Outline, Thesis, Introduction, Body, Conclusion;

Writing Guides: Articles, Free Essays, Writing Tips, Style Guide

Essay Types: 5-paragraph Essay, Admission Essay, Argumentative Essay, Cause And Effect Essay, Classification Essay, Comparison Essay, Critical Essay, Deductive Essay, Definition Essay, Exploratory Essay, Expository Essay, Informal Essay, Literature Essay, Narrative Essay, Personal Essay, Persuasive Essay, Research Essay, Response Essay, Scholarship Essay

Citation Styles: MLA, APA, Turabian, ChicagoPresentation Writing: Organization, Mechanics, Text, Visual Aids, 7 Things to RememberBusiness Writing: Resume Writing, Cover Letter Writing

[13] ExampleEssays.com

Free preview of sample essays, with the rest requiring paid subscription

[14] For Kids: Secrets and Surprises about Writing

Children's book author Pamela Jane tells how she gets ideas for writing

[15] Principles of Good Composition, from Guide To Grammar and Writing

With comprehensive discussions on various levels (Sentence, Paragraph and Essay), Paragraph Level, Sentence Variety, Consistency of Tense and Pronoun Reference;Sentence-Combining Skills; Coherence and Transitions; Paragraph Development Essay Level

Principles of Composition: Getting Started, Structure, Tone, Transitions, Editing, Logic, Formats, Rhetorical Patterns, Argumentative Essays, Research Papers, among other topics, with sample essays

[16] How to Write an Essay

A step-by-step tutorial on how to write an effective essay for late high school or early university.; Topics include Research, Proposal, Compiling your notes, Planning the essay, Writing the essay, The finished product, Extras that make essays stand out, and Examples of good and bad writing

[17] Step by step, paragraph revision, from Interlink Language Centers

[18] Writing Machine, from the IT Integration Project of The English Centre, University of Hong Kong

Introducing the academic essay; Topics, titles, introductions; The body of the essay; Inside the paragraph: cohesion and topicalisation; Inside the paragraph: functional and propositional development; Writing conclusions; Academic versus nonacademic writing; Sources of data and bibliographies; Note taking from written sources; Editing and proofreading

[19] The Writing Room, from John’s ESL Interactive

Writing Tutorials; The Writing Process; Sentence Structure; Simple Sentences; Compound Sentences; Complex Sentences; Sentence Fragments; Run-on Sentences; The Passive Voice; Writing Paragraphs

[20] Guide To Writing a Basic Essay from Kathy Livingston

Decide on your topic
Prepare an outline or diagram of your ideas
Write your thesis statement
Write the body Write the introduction
Write the conclusion Add the finishing touches

[21] Kids News Room

Kid Style News for Kid Style People, a twice-monthly newsmagazine featuring news, games, information and submitted articles from kids and schools from around the United States, and offers student, parent, and teacher educational resources

[22] Application Essay Writing 101, from 1-language.com

Lesson One: Tackling the Question
Lesson Two: Brainstorming a Topic
Lesson Three: Structure and Outline
Lesson Four: Style and Tone
Lesson Five: Intros and Conclusions
Lesson Six: Editing and Revising
Online ESL Writing Worksheets (Motivating and thought-provoking ESL Writing worksheets for students)

[23] Writing, from Language and Learning Online (Monash University)

General writing
Writing essays
Writing reports
Writing postgraduate literature reviews
Editing your honours or postgraduate thesis
What makes a good essay
What makes a good review
Writing for subjects
Art & Design
Arts
Business and Economics
Education
Engineering
Information Technology
Law
Medicine
Pharmacy
Science

[24] Activities, from Lauri’s ESL Website

Make a Story 1 (Flash)
Make a Story 2 (Flash) (Thanks to Jeremy Taylor)

[25] Learn English Writing, from Learn English Free with Teacher Joe

Sample compositions with comments and improvements; Write English paragraphs using the "PREP" formula; Write Powerful Introductions! Write Memorable Conclusions! Write English sentences well.

[26] Writing, from Michael Buckhoff’s ESL Website for Teachers and Students

Appropriate Word Choice Exercises; Correcting Comma Splices, Run-ons, and Fragments Exercises; Editing Practice Exercises for the TWE; TWE Sample essay; Making Sentences More Concise Exercises; Recognizing Common Errors in Writing Exercises (subject-verb agreement, pronouns, differentiating between adjectives and adverbs, and verb tenses); Recognizing other ESL Errors in Writing Exercises (articles, auxiliary and main verb usage, using modals, and have + past participle, i.e.., ed, en, or irregular forms); Scoring Practice TWEs Exercises; Sentence Variety Exercises

[27] ESL Writing Skills, from 5 Minute English

Using Parentheses; Using Quotation Marks; Capitalization; Spelling when adding "-ing"

[28] Oswego High School Online Writing Guide

Lessons on how to create outlines, write traditional essays, thematic essays, and DBQ essays, and crafting a thesis statement and writing a thesis paper

[29] Paper Lake Times

Students learn journalism through articles and quizzes, write their own stories and interview sources, and receive advice from working journalists.

[30] Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

Choosing Your Subject
Freewriting The Whole and Its Parts
Planning, Freewheeling, Adjusting
The Journalists' Questions
Various sections on organizing, revising, editing, informal essays, thesis/support essays, argumentative essays, exploratory essays, and documenting

[31] Paragraphpunch.com

Online writing tutorial; takes students through the actual steps of writing a paragraph

[32] Writing User-Friendly Documents, from Plain Language

Introduction - How Can We Be Better Writers?; Summary of Techniques for Better Writing; Engage Your Readers; Write Clearly; Write in a Visually Appealing Style; More About Techniques for Better Writing; Identify Your Audience; Organize Your Documents Carefully; Use a Question-and-Answer Format; Use "You" to Speak to the Reader; Use Pronouns to Represent the Reader and to Refer to the Agency; Use Active Voice; Use Short Sentences; Address One Person, Not a Group; Use the Present Tense; Use "Must" to Indicate Requirements; Place Words Carefully; Use If-Then Tables; Avoid Words and Constructions that Cause Confusion; Use Lots of Informative Headings; Divide Your Material Into Short Sections; Limit Each Paragraph to One Topic; Use Lots of Lists

[33] Plain Language Online Training

PlainTrain or the Plain Language Online Training Program, offers helpful tips and techniques for improving your communication skills with the use of plain language; topics include Digest; Introduction; Reader And Purpose; Organizing Ideas; Appropriate Words; Simple Sentences; Effective Paragraphs; Design; and Testing

[34] Guides to Writing, from Presbyterian College

Principles of good writing for various subject matters (Art; Biology; English; History; Mathematics; Music; Political Science; Psychology; Religion; Sociology)

[35] The Process of Writing, from Rio Salado College Online

[37] 11 Rules of Writing

Concise guide to some of the most commonly violated rules of writing, grammar, and punctuation andintended for all writers as an aid in the learning and refining of writing skills

[38] Writing With Writers, from Scholastic.com

Biography Writing; Descriptive Writing; Folktale Writing; Mystery Writing; Myth Writing; News Writing; Poetry Writing; Speech Writing; Writing a Book Review

[39] Silver Chips Online

Online version of award winning student newspaper of Montgomery Blair High School's (www.mbhs.edu), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; a forum for community expression run entirely by students and working closely with print counterpart

[40] Story Quest

Tells how to write and share a good story; topics include POWERS Writing Process (Prepare; Organize; Write; Edit; Rewrite), The Standard Writing Process; How to Proofread Your Paper; How Should Your Paper Look; The Brain Drain Writing Process

[41] Writing for the Web, from Sun Microsystems

Written by Jakob Nielsen, distinguished engineer; PJ Schemenaur, technical editor; and Jonathan Fox, editor-in-chief, www.sun.com on how users read on the Web and how authors should write.Topics include Difference Between Paper and Online Presentation; Working With a Designer:; Scannability; Navigation; Writing to Be Read: Headlines and subheads; lists, captions, and hyperlinks; Writing to Be Found; Terms to Avoid; Editorial Review of Web Pages:; Web Facts: Significant improvements in all metrics

[42] Writing Resources, from The Emory Writing Center Emory University

Conceptualizing Your Essay; Quoting Sources; Research; Conclusions; Introductions; Titles; Thesis Statements; Revision and Editing; Argumentation; Documentation Formats; Suppor; Evidence; Grammar; Paragraphs; Style; Transitions; Avoiding Plagiarism

[43] The Five Paragraph Essay Wizard

Resource for grades 5-9 and advanced learners for students to learn to write a five paragraph essay; topics include Structure of the Essay; Getting Started; How to Write the Essay; Editing, Revising, and Evaluating; Expository Essay and Prompts; Narrative Essay and Prompts; Persuasive Essay and Prompts; General Writing Prompts for Your Use; Tips and Techniques for Effective Essays

[44] Online Writing Lab, from The OWL at Purdue

The Writing Process
Creating a Thesis Statement
Developing an Outline
Proofreading Your Writing
Starting the Writing Process
Writer's Block/ Writer's Anxiety

Professional, Technical, and Scientific Writing; Job Search Writing; General Academic Writing; Research and Citation; Grammar and Mechanics; English as a Second Language; Literary Analysis and Criticism; Writing in the Social Sciences; Writing in Engineering; Creative Writing; Teaching Writing

[45] Strategies to succeed in Writing, from The School for Champions

Affirm Your Esteem as a Writer; Getting Started by Writing a Journal; Getting the Reader's Interest; Importance of a Good Vocabulary in Writing; Computer-Based Grammar Checkers; Creative Methods; Enhance Writing Creativity Using Graphical Outlines; Outlining Enhances Writing Creativity and Productivity; Writing by DictationSimple Plot and a Random Story Generator; Computer-Aided Writing; Aid for Writing a Short Speech; Aid for Writing a Book Report; Types of Writing; Screenplay writing; The Screenplay Paradigm; Speech writing; Succeed by Studying Great Speeches; Children's stories; Interpreting Aesop's Fables to Teach Values; Technical Writing; Succeed in Technical Writing - lessons on technical writing methods and getting a job as a technical writer

[46] The Write Site

An interactive language arts and journalism project for middle schools developed by ThinkTVNetwork, Dayton, Ohio (An OET/SchoolNet Project), teaching students how to do research and discover their own writing style

[47] Grammar Workout, from The Writer’s Complex (Empire State College SUNY)

Academic Writing
What is Academic Writing?; Values in Academic Writing; Key Terms in Academic Writing; Types of Academic Writing; Strategies for Academic Writing

Essay Writing Workshop (Grammar Workout)
Essay Definition; The Nature of the Beast/Academic Writing; Prewriting; Developing Ideas for Writing/Prewriting; Working with Prewriting: Moving from Self to Subject; Gathering Information; Shaping Information; Thesis Definition; Thesis Characteristics; Analyzing the Thesis to Gather and Shape Information; More Information on Analyzing the Thesis; Topic Sentence Definition; Ordering Information in the Body of the Essay; Transitions; Outlining; Building the Essay Draft Revising; Research Paper in Progress

[48] The Writing Process, from The Writing Center of Cleveland State University

Invention; Critical Reading; Thesis; Organization; Paragraphing; Word-Processing; Revision; Documentation; Proofreading

[49] Stages of the writing process, from The Writing Center of University of Wisconsin – Madison

Planning to Write: Preparing to Write a Play Review; Reading Poetry to Write About It; Reading a Nonfiction Book to Review ItCreating an Argument: Thesis vs. Purpose Statements; Developing a Thesis Statement; Planning and Writing a Research PaperWorking with Sources: Quoting and Paraphrasing Sources; Using Literary Quotations; Citing Sources in Your Paper; Drafting and Revising Your Paper: Peer Reviews; Finishing Your Paper

Twelve Common Errors: An Editing Checklist; How to Proofread your PaperLetters and Application Essays; Literary Analysis Papers; Proposals andDissertations; Research Papers; Reviews; Scientific Reports

{50] How To Answer Esssay Questions (Powerpoint) and How To Write the Five Paragraph Essay, from The Writing Page

[51] Time for Kids

Time Magazine’s new site for kids, containing national news, world news and the latest news from talented kids of the entertainment world

[52] Tips for Writing an Essay

Presents a simple five-step approach

[53] Improving Your Style, from University of Guelph

[54] Online Guide to Writing and Research, from the University of Maryland University College (UMUC)

College Writing
The Writing Process
Thinking Strategies & Writing Patterns
The Research Process
Academic Integrity & Documentation
Assessing Your Writing
Writing Plan & Project Schedule

[55] Writing. from the University of Toronto

Advice on Academic Writing
Planning & Organizing; Reading & Researching; Using Sources; Specific Types of Writing; Style & Editing; Grammar & Punctuation; ESL Answers

[56] Text Content Analysis Tool, from Using English

Simply write or paste text you want to analyze (up to 500KB in size) and this website’s free text analysis tool will give you statistics on word count, unique words, number of sentences, average words per sentence, lexical density, and the Gunning Fog readability index. More detailed statistics are available to members.

[57] The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing, from Washington College

Topics include Thinking, Style, Structure, Evidence, Mechanics

[58] What Makes a Good Story?

Through a classic short story, "A Jury of Her Peers," by Susan Glaspell, you'll solve the mystery of whether Minnie Wright killed her husband and learn the about story's literary elements and structure through an interactive exhibit

[59] Tips-o-matic, from Writing Den

Helpful tips on writing sentences, paragraphs and essays

[60] Writing, from World English

TEST YOUR WRITING SKILLS
HELP WITH WRITING
LEARN ENGLISH PUNCTUATION

[61] YouthInkIt

YouthInk Publications Society is non-profit charitable organization dedicated to promoting literacy in Youth through journalism, communication, publishing and special projects; Teaches young people how to do interviews, write copy, and use HTML to publish on the web; Explores current environmental and social issues. Helps students get their writings published. Requires free registration.

[62] Online journalism training, from JPPROF the website for teaching journalism (by Prof. James Glen Stovall of the University of Tennessee)

Discussion of skills (reporting, writing, editing, photojournalism, graphics design, web journalism, opinion writing and broadcasting), issues (news, practices, law, history, ethics), industry (newspapers, magazines, radio and television, news web sites), and with grammar exercises for students.

[63] Making better presentations

Seven steps to better presentations by Jeff Veen
How to give a great presentation by D. Keith Robinson
How to get a standing ovation by Guy Kawasaki T
The problem with presentations by Doc Searls
Great and witty video on giving better presentations (uses Hollywood movie posters and discusses among others The Morgan Freeman Rule)

WhiteSmoke: Check Your English Grammar and Spelling

2008-06-30T19:53:00.000-07:00

The WhiteSmoke gadget gives you an online grammar checker, a spell checker, and English text enrichment - in any service that supports Google Gadgets. Check your grammar and spelling with WhiteSmoke and write better, right now. Type or copy/paste your text into the window and then hit check icon.

Learning English and creative writing through the use of photographs: discussions and interactive exercises

2008-06-24T17:59:00.000-07:00

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” More than the mechanical recording of events, photography has the power to convey a mood or share our insights with others. It has the power to capture not only our perfect moments of love and happiness, but also searing images of cruelty and poverty. It has the power to preserve in a rectangular frame the beauty of a thousand sunsets, the joys of parents seeing their child just learning how to walk on its own, and the sublime happiness of students graduating after years of hard work and sacrifice.

Photographs (whether your own, those of others, or cut out from newspapers and magazines) can be a very effective way of teaching and learning the English language. Joep van der Werff, in his very informative article entitled “Using Pictures from Magazines” from The Internet TESL Journal, discusses how pictures can be a good source of material for practicing speaking, listening, writing, vocabulary and grammar. In this article, van der Werff relates the inspiring story of how one student overcame his shyness and reluctance to participate in the English class through an activity involving pictures.

We will be posting pictures in our blog “A picture is worth a thousand words.” As a good way of learning how to write in English, you can write descriptions, narrations, dialogue, expositions, etc based on your thoughts and feelings about these pictures. For a good discussion on how to describe pictures, please read the article “Picture Description” from http://www.ego4u.com/.

You can compose short essays about any of the pictures, e-mail them to us, and we will publish them in the blog. Other ESL and EFL teachers and students from around the world can then read your essays and give their comments on your grammar, coherence or unity of ideas, style of writing, and areas for improvement. We will just publish your essays without your name or e-mail address to protect your privacy and prevent spam. You can just give a general description about yourself like nickname, age or school level, gender, country, etc.

Listed below are some discussions and activities on the teaching and learning of English through the use of pictures.

[01] Teach Them To See - Higher Level Thinking And Tasks Through Photojournalism

[02] Picture games, from Compass

[03] Picture Stories and Thought Groups, from Developing Teachers.com

[04] Catchy Captions: Students write captions for pictures cut from newspapers and then match the real captions to the pictures, from Education World

[05] Fun with pictures, from ELT Newsletter

[06] Here’s Me – Showing Photographs (Lesson plan: showing pictures to describe personal experiences and share information), from English Language Institute (The University of British Columbia)

[07] Activities from EnglishLearner.com

Variations on a theme
Which picture is it about?

[08] Activities from eslflow.com

Adjective Gallery
Pic Tac Toe (A fun visual-linguistic lesson plan for presenting, reviewing and comparing verb tenses)
Pic / sentence prediction for present continuous Superlative island

[09] Lesson Plan - Describing Picture Scenes, from ESL Lesson Plan (Carol Rueckert)

[10] Advanced picture dictation (science), from ESOL Online

[11] ESL Work with illustrations, from Heinle and Heinle Grammar Activity Inventory (Georgia State University)

[12] Adapting a picture story, from Malta Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language

[13] Activities round a Group Picture, from Pilgrims English Language Courses

[14] Modern art (PDF) using connectors to compare and contrast, from Skyline-English

[15] Picture Stories, from Strategies for Empowering Students (Urban Programs Resource Network)

[16] Teaching ideas for using pictures, from teachers.net

[17] Activities from teAchnology.com

Award Certificate Maker
Bus Pass Maker
Grammar Lesson Plans
Grammar Teaching Theme
Ideas For Teaching Writing
Meeting New Vocabulary Graphic Org
Memory and Observation Skills Worksheets
Phonics Worksheets
Photographs
Pictures Internet Secret/Tricks
Project Rubric Generator
Sentence Building Worksheets
Spiral Vocabulary Worksheet Maker
Visual Art Lesson Plans
Word Game Sites
Writing Lesson Plans

[18] Activities from teaching English

Dating Game: describing people activity using pictures with the aim of getting students talking
Picture Dictation

[19] Junk Mail Catalogs: A Treasure-Trove for Language Teachers by Susan L. Schwartz, from The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning and Teaching

[20] Partial Pictures teaching idea, from Three Wise Monkeys

[21] Pairwork with pictures, from Using English for Academic PurposesA Guide for Students in Higher Education

[22] Picture dictation, from University of Virginia

[23] Improving writing through the use of imagery, from Workforce Education LAB

Online spelling resources

2008-06-20T19:05:00.000-07:00

Free online spell checker (up to 20,000 characters), from SpellCheck.net

Often Misspelled Words in English, from http://www.yourdictionary.com/

100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English

150 More Often Misspelled Words In English

Free Online Spelling Tutor and game, from OZspeller
Categories from Kinder to Frequent and Advanced; words spoken by your computer, with hints, definitions and sentences, repeatable audio clips, and three versions: Oz Speller with Australian Spelling; Oz speller with US Spelling; Oz speller with British Words

Online verb conjugators

2008-06-19T19:04:00.000-07:00

Verb2Verbe - Online Verb Conjugator (Alan Paul)

Verbix - Online Verb Conjugator

English for Special Purpose resource

2008-06-18T19:03:00.000-07:00

English for the medical professional, from HospitalEnglish.com

Free resources for medical professionals like doctors, nurses, physical therapists, radiologists, physician assistants, pharmacists, etc, studying English and medical printables for teachers; with medical vocabulary builders and pronunciation guide, patient counseling activities, disease state directors, healthcare professional articles, medical flashcards, hospital lesson plans, and ESP worksheets

Common English mistakes

2008-06-17T19:02:00.000-07:00

Typical English mistakes by speakers of other languages, by Language Project, (approved by the British Council; more examples available upon registration):

Arabic speakers;
Chinese speakers;
Japanese speakers;
Korean speakers;
Portuguese speakers;
Spanish speakers;
Czech speakers;
French speakers;
German speakers;
Greek speakers;
Italian speakers;
Polish speakers;
Russian speakers;
Swedish speakers;
Turkish speakers.

Common English Mistakes Made by Chinese Speakers, from English Daily

Tips for better presentations

2008-06-16T18:55:00.000-07:00

The Morgan Freeman Rule and "The Biggest Loser" in making better presentations

Seven steps to better presentations by Jeff Veen

How to give a great presentation by D. Keith Robinson

How to get a standing ovation by Guy Kawasaki

The problem with presentations by Doc Searls

Prepositions: discussions and interactive exercises

2008-06-15T11:48:00.000-07:00

Prepositions are words which are usually followed by a noun or pronoun, and which express relationships, for example, of time or place For a better understanding of what prepositions are, please surf to the websites listed below.

[1] Prepositions: Locators in Time and Place, from Capital Community College Guide to Good Grammar

[2] Prepositions, from Grammar Monster (British English)

[3] Prepositions, from English Daily

[4] Prepositions, from Interlink Language Centers

[5] Problems with prepositions, from The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuations

[6] Prepositions, from Using English

[7] Prepositions and Nouns, from English Language Centre Study Zone

[8] Lesson 8 - Prepositions, from My English Grammar

[9] Index to articles on Prepositions, from Learning English Online www.englisch-hilfen.de (English version)

[10] Prepositions, from The OWL at Purdue )

Listed below are links to interactive quizzes and exercises in prepositions from the best ESL and EFL resources on the Internet. Take time to browse these excellent websites; they are consistently good and fast loading. Besides the materials listed below, these great sites generously offer, free of charge, a tremendous range of valuable resources for the ESL and EFL teachers and students.

In answering the interactive exercises, you should follow carefully the prompts and directions. You should read each sentence or part aloud before clicking the answer you think is right. After the correct answer is displayed, think it over as to why it is the correct answer. (Please take note that the correct answer may depend on whether the exercise comes from an American English or a British English website.) After doing so, read the complete sentence again aloud with the correct answer.

To train yourself to think in English, try to recite the sentences with the correct answers from memory and at your full speaking volume. Or you can ask a friend to read out loud the sentences with the correct answers and you repeat them without looking at the computer screen.

[01] Exercises in prepositions from Activities for ESL Students

Prepositions: At, In and On (Nuala Ivic)
Prepositions (Vera Mello)
Prepositions: At, In & On (Jack Bradshaw)
In, At or On (Douglas Gilbert)
Prepositions (Charles Kelly)
Prepositions 1 (Ilker Utlu)
Prepositions 2 (Ilker Utlu)
Prepositions (Barbara Donnelly)
Prepositions I (Vera Mello)
Prepositions II (Vera Mello)
Prepositions III (Vera Mello)
Prepositions - Level 1 (Vera Mello)
Prepositions (Yanti Nading)
In-At with Places (Letitia Bradley)
In-On-At (Letitia Bradley)
Prepositions (Edmilson Sa)
Prepositions - Type in the Answer (Charles Kelly)
After, For or Since (Vera Mello)
Prepositions (Charles Kelly)
Correct or Incorrect - Prepositions (Vera Mello)
Prepositions (Charles Kelly)
Pick a Particle: In, On or Up (Richard Davies)
Prepositions (Cheryl Newman-Marris)
Prepositions - Level 2 (Vera Mello)
Prepositions - Level 3 (Vera Mello)
Astronomy (Preposition Quiz) (Joan M. Diez)
The Manatee (A Quiz on Prepositions) (Alexandra Sanchez)
Particles in Conversation Questions - 1 (Ted Power)
Particles in Conversation Questions - 2 (Ted Power)
Particles in Conversation Questions - 3 (Ted Power)
Particles in Conversation Questions - 4 (Ted Power)
Particles in Conversation Questions - 5 (Ted Power)
Particles in Conversation Questions - 6 (Ted Power)
Particles in Conversation Questions - 7 (Ted Power)
USA Celebrations & Holidays (Vera Mello)

[02] Exercises in prepositions from About.com ESL

Prepositions Quiz 1
Common Prepositional Phrases Quiz 1
Common Prepositional Phrases Quiz 2
Common Prepositional Phrases Quiz 3
Verbs Followed By Prepositions #2
Verbs Followed By Prepositions #3
Adjectives Prepositions Combinations - about / at / by / for / from
Adjective Preposition Combinations - of / on / to / with
Noun Prepositions - For / In / Of / To / With / Between
Prepositions Noun - For / In / By / On
Prepositions of Place - in / at / on
Prepositions of Place and Movement - in / at / to / nothing
Prepositions of Time and Date - in / at / on
Preposition Use - for / while / during

[03] Exercises in prepositions from Better English by Pearson Brown (British English)

For or Since
Duration
Prepositions
Prepositions
Prepositions of time
Agreement (prepositions)

[04] Exercises in prepositions from Dave Sperling’s ESL Café

Prepositions 1 Quiz
Prepositions 2 Quiz
Preposition Quiz 3 by Dennis Oliver
Preposition Quiz 4 by Dennis Oliver

[05] Exercises in prepositions from English Corner (Rod Rodgers)

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Exercises with verbs using at and to
At vs. To 1
At vs. To 2
At vs. To 3
At vs. To 4

Expressions of location with in, on, and at
Location Exercise 1 (In, On, At)
Location Exercise 2 (In, On, At)
Location Exercise 3 (In, On, At)

Expressions of time with in, on, and at
Time Exercise 1 (In, On, At)
Time Exercise 2 (In, On, At)
Time Exercise 3 (In, On, At)

Expressions of time with since, for, and in
Since vs. For
In vs. For

Exercises with verbs using prepositions.
Verbs with Prepositions Exercise 1 (about, by, for, with)
Verbs with Prepositions Exercise 2

[06] Exercises in prepositions from English Grammar 101

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Lesson 1-40: Prepositional Phrase Identification
Lesson 1-41: Prepositional Phrase Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-42: Prepositional Phrase Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-43: Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives
Lesson 1-44: Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives (Continued)
Lesson 1-45: Prepositional Phrases as Adverbs
Lesson 1-46: Prepositional Phrases as Adverbs (Continued)
Lesson 1-52: Prepositions Acting Out as Verbs
Lesson 1-53: Prepositions Acting Out as Verbs (Continued)

[07] Exercise in prepositions from English Language Centre Study Zone

Basic Prepositions (Introduction & 1 exercise)

[08] Exercises in prepositions from English Learner

Prepositions 1
Prepositions 2

[9] Exercises in prepositions from English Page

Time Prepositions
Time Prepositions 2
Location Preposition
Location Preposition 2
Direction Prepositions
Direction Prepositions 2
Position Preposition
Position Prepositions 2
Bring + Prepositions
Check + Prepositions
Come + Prepositions
Get + Prepositions (Part 1)
Get + Prepositions (Part 2)
Get + Prepositions (Part 3)
Get + Prepositions (Part 4)
Get + Prepositions (Part 5)
Go + Prepositions

[10] Exercises in prepositions from English The Easy Way

Prepositions of Place Quiz
Time Prepositions
Prepositions –for – during - while

[11] Exercises in prepositions from English Works (Gallaudet University)

Expressions of Time Exercise 1
Expressions of Place Exercise 1
Expressions of Place Exercise 2

[12] Exercises in prepositions from ESL 3-6 Review

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Prepositions
More prepositions
Practice Prepositions

[13] Exercises in prepositions from esl-Lounge

Prepositions Gap Fill
Tom's Terrible Weekend - Preposition Gap Fill
Prepositions of Time

[14] Exercise in prepositions from Interlink Language Centers

Prepositions Pop Quiz 7

[15] Exercise in prepositions from Grammar Central (eaonline)

Flashed ESL lesson in prepositions

[16] Exercise in prepositions from Grammar Monster (British English)

Prepositions Test

[17] Exercises in prepositions from Isabel’s ESL Site

Prepositions of Place
Prepositions Working with dictionaries

[18] Exercises in prepositions from Karin's ESL Partyland

At a Party: Personal Pronouns
Making Dinner: Prepositions of Location
Jerry and Ken Make Travel Plans: Prepositions of Time
Movie Titles: Prepositions
Bruce Springsteen Lyrics: Prepositions
Sue Plans a Wedding: Verbs with Prepositions

[19] Exercises in prepositions from Learn English Feel Good

PREPOSITIONS 1 (Advanced)
PREPOSITIONS 2 (Advanced)Prepositions (On, At, In) 1 (Intermediate)
Prepositions (On, At, In) 2 (Intermediate)
Prepositions (On, At, In) 3 (Beginner)
Prepositions (On, At, In) 4 (Beginner)
Prepositions of time (Beginner)
Choose the right preposition 1 (Intermediate)
Choose the right preposition 2 (Beginner)
PREPOSITION or NO PREPOSITION? (Beginner)

[20] Exercises in prepositions from Learning English Online, www.englisch-hilfen.de (English version)

Gerund and prepositions
Prepositions of place, direction and time
Prepositions in idioms

[21] Exercise in prepositions from Marcus Evans Linguarama (British English)

Prepositions (Business Communication)

[22] Exercise in prepositions from Michael Buckhoff's ESL Website for Students and Teachers

Preposition self-study quizzes

[23] Exercises in prepositions from 5 Minute English

Using Since and For
In, At, On + Time or Date

[24] Exercise in prepositions from My English Grammar

Exercise 8 - Prepositions

[25] Exercises in prepositions from Online English Grammar (Edunet)

Time Prepositions Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Other Prepositions Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A

[26] Exercises in prepositions from OWL English Purdue Grammar and ESL Exercises

Prepositions of Direction: To, On (to), In (to)
Prepositions of Location: At, In, On
Prepositions of Direction: To, On (to), In (to)
Prepositions of Location: At, In, On

[27] Exercises in prepositions from Rong-Chang Li

Prepositions (1)
Prepositions (2)
Prepositions (3)
Prepositions (4)

[28] Exercise in prepositions from Taiwan Teacher

A quiz on the usage of "in", "at" and "on"

[29] Exercises in prepositions from The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuations

Problems with Prepositions Quiz 1
Problems with Prepositions Quiz 2

[30] Exercises in prepositions from The ESL Area

Prepositions of location
Excuse me, where is the park?
Where does this go?
Where is it?
No Place like Home

[31] Exercise in prepositions from University of Calgary - The Basic Elements of English Grammar Guide

Preposition Identification & Object of Preposition

[32] Exercises in prepositions from University of Oregon The Tongue Untied

Preposition Practice Exercise
Preposition Practice Exercise Answers

[33] Exercises in prepositions from Using English

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Beginner English
Good + preposition (10)
Prepositions of Location- At & In (12)
Prepositions of Time- In On At (16)
Prepositions- Time (76)
To & For (10)
Since & For 2 (38)Since or For (10)

Intermediate English
About & Of (10)
Above & Over (10)
At the end, in the end, etc (10)
Beside & Besides (10)
By or Until? (15)
Except & Except For (10)
Front & Back (10)
Prepositions after Adjectives (22)
Prepositions after Nouns (10)
Prepositions Mixed Types (31)
Prepositions with verbs (37)

[34] Exercises in prepositions from World-English (British English)

PREPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES
PREPOSITIONS (on, it, by etc.)
MORE PREPOSITIONS!
PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
PREPOSITION + NOUN
PREPOSITION + ADJECTIVE
PREPOSITION + GERUND

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Verbs: discussions and interactive exercises

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Verbs are words used to indicate action, state or occurrence. For a better understanding of what verbs are, please surf to the websites listed below.

[01] Verbs, from Capital Community College Guide to Good Grammar

[02] Verbs, from Grammar Monster (British English)

[03] Verb Forms;

Verb Forms – 2; Subject and Verb Agreement, from Superteach

[04] Verbs. from English Daily

[05] Grammar: Verb Tenses, from English On The Run

[06] Verbs, from Interlink Language Centers

[07] Finding Subjects and Verbs; Subject and Verb Agreement, from The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuations

[08] Subject-verb agreement, from University of Wisconsin – Madison Writing Center

[09] Index to all articles on verb tenses, from Visual ESL

[10] Verbs, from Using English

[11] Lesson 2 - Verbs, from My English Grammar

[12] Grammar reference: Verbs and tenses, from One Stop English

[13] Index to articles on Verbs; Index of articles on Tenses, from Learning English Online www.englisch-hilfen.de (English version)

[14] Irregular Verbs; Subject / Verb Agreement; Verb Tenses, from The OWL at Purdue

[15] Subject-verb agreement, from The Writing Center, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Listed below are links to interactive quizzes and exercises in verbs from the best ESL and EFL resources on the Internet. Take time to browse these excellent websites; they are consistently good and fast loading. Besides the materials listed below, these great sites generously offer, free of charge, a tremendous range of valuable resources for the ESL and EFL teachers and students.

In answering the interactive exercises, you should follow carefully the prompts and directions. You should read each sentence or part aloud before clicking the answer you think is right. After the correct answer is displayed, think it over as to why it is the correct answer. (Please take note that the correct answer may depend on whether the exercise comes from an American English or a British English website.) After doing so, read the complete sentence again aloud with the correct answer.

To train yourself to think in English, try to recite the sentences with the correct answers from memory and at your full speaking volume. Or you can ask a friend to read out loud the sentences with the correct answers and you repeat them without looking at the computer screen.

[01] Exercises in verbs from Activities for ESL Students

Subject-Verb Agreement - Easy (Keith S. Folse)
The Verb "To Be" (Jack Bradshaw)
Gerund or Infinitive (Kaye Mastin Mallory)
Choose the Correct Form of the Verb (Dawn Yonally)
Misuse of the Infinitives (Donna Tatsuki)
Choose the Correct Form of the Verb (Larry Kelly)
Choose the Correct Verb Form (Charles Kelly)
Choose the Correct Verb Form (Sheri Mercado)
Choose the Correct Verb Form (Cheri Macleod)
Choose the Correct Verb Form (Angel Fong)
Present Simple Negative Verbs (Letitia Bradley)
Present Simple Verbs (Letitia Bradley)
Verb Form Quiz - Gerund or Infinitive (Elek Mathe)
The Library (Karen Bordonaro)
Look, See or Watch (Joan M. Diez)
Going To (Shiela Vioti)
Simple Past or Past Continuous - A Dialog (Vera Mello)
Use the Correct Present Tense Verb (Siti Bilal)
BE Verb - Present and Past (Kaye Mastin Mallory)
To Be: Past and Present (Dan Fulmer)
Irregular Verbs Quiz 1 (Charles Kelly)
Irregular Verbs Quiz 2 (Charles Kelly)
Irregular Verbs Quiz 3 (Charles Kelly)
Irregular Verbs Quiz 4 (Charles Kelly)
Common Irregular Verbs - 3 Forms (Charles Kelly)
What's the Correct Verb Form? (Charles Kelly)
Obligation with Subject Agreement (Jack Bradshaw)
Tense Quiz Using "To Clean" (Jack Bradshaw)
Swim, Swims, Swimming, Swam or Swum (Charles Kelly)
What's the Correct Verb Form? (Charles Kelly)
Phrasal Verbs (Charles Kelly)
Correct or Incorrect - Verbs (vera Mello)
Verb Forms (Dennis Oliver)
What's the Correct Verb Form #1 (Charles Kelly)
What's the Correct Verb Form #2 (Charles Kelly)
What's the Correct Verb Form #3 (Charles Kelly)
Tons of Snow (Quiz on Verb Forms) (Eifion Pritchard)
Go, Goes, Going, Went or Gone (Charles Kelly)
Making a Hypothesis (Miroslava Nikolova)
How to See America - A Verb-Form Exercise (Charles Kelly)
John's Life - A Verb-Form Exercise (Vera Mello)
Olympics (Verb Form Quiz 2) Letitia Bradley)
Olympics (Verb Form Quiz 1) (Vera Mello)
Verb Choice (Carlos Gontow)
Verb Forms (Charles Kelly)
Verb Forms (Dennis Oliver)
Verb Tenses (Vera Mello)
An Accident (A Verb-Form Exercise) (Vera Mello)
Hurricane Quiz (Catherin Rifkin)
Participles - Proposition 215 (Colleen Weldele)

[02] Exercises in verbs from Aardvark’s English Forum Interactive (British English)

Phrasal verbs
Irregular Verbs Quiz

[03] Exercises in verbs from About.com ESL

Past Tense Forms Review
Verb Form: Gerund or Infinitive? Quiz 1
Verb Form: Gerund or Infinitive? Quiz 2
Simple Past or Present Perfect
Present Perfect or Past Simple # 1
Present Perfect or Past Simple # 2
Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous #1
Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous #2
Future Forms Quiz

[04] Exercises in verbs from Better English by Pearson Brown (British English)

Present Forms
Present Forms 2
Do / does revision
Do for emphasis
Present forms
Past Simple 1
Past Simple 2
Past Simple 3
Irregular Verbs 1
Present Perfect 1
Present Perfect 2
Present Perfect 3
Past Simple v Present Perfect
Present forms for future
Will or going to?
The -ing form
Passive 1
Passive 2
Passive 3
Imperative 1
Question tags 1
Question tags 2
Passives
Past Passives
make / do (Do or make revisited)
have
Present future (Present forms for the future)
When Future When / if + future
can / could / may
Past 4 (Past Simple)
Past 5 (Past Simple again)
Past 6
remember
Was 2 (was / were)
Won't
Will again

[05] Exercises in verbs from Caroline's ESL Web Site

Simple Past Tense – Quiz 1
Quiz — Present Tense, Present Progressive,
and Simple Past Verbs
Grammar Quiz 1 - Easy
Grammar Quiz 1 - Medium Difficulty

[06] Exercises in verbs from Dave Sperling’s ESL Café

Irregular Verbs 1 Quiz
Modal Quiz 1 by Dennis Oliver
Modal Quiz 2 by Dennis Oliver
Simple Present and Present Progressive
Simple Past and Past Progressive 1, by Dennis Oliver
Simple Past and Present Perfect 1 by Dennis Oliver
Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz 1
Verb Tense Review by Dennis Oliver
Learn / Teach Quiz

[07] Exercises in verbs from EFL.net

Irregular Past Tense
Mixed Past Tense

[08] Exercises in verbs from English Club

Phrasal Verbs Quiz
Conditionals Quiz
Questions Quiz
Tag Questions Quiz
Subjunctive Quiz
Active or Passive Quiz
Continuous Tense Verb Quiz
Used to do or Be used to Quiz
Future Time Quiz
For or Since Quiz
Verb Classification Quiz
Main Verb Forms Quiz
Have to, Must, Must not Quiz
Can, Could, Be able to Quiz
Infinitive or -ing Quiz
Simple Present Tense Quiz
Present Continuous Tense Quiz Present Perfect Tense Quiz
Present Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz
Simple Past Tense Quiz
Past Continuous Tense Quiz

[09] Exercises in verbs from English Corner (Rod Rodgers)

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Present vs. Past Participle - Exercise 1 Multiple-choice exercise using the present and past participles as adjectives.
Present vs. Past Participle - Exercise 2 Multiple-choice exercise.

Exercises with verbs using prepositions.
Verbs with Prepositions Exercise 1 (about, by, for, with)
Verbs with Prepositions Exercise 2
Tag Questions 1 Present tense tag questions.
Tag Questions 2 Past tense tag questions.
Tag Questions 3 Present perfect tag questions.
Regular Verb Spelling Quiz

Fill-in-the-blank (gap-fill) exercises with used to
used to - Exercise 1
used to - Exercise 2

Simple Past
Simple Past of Regular Verbs 1
Simple Past of Regular Verbs 2

Simple Past of Irregular Verbs: Multiple Choice
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 1
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 2
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 3
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 4
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 5
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 6
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 7

Simple Past of Irregular Verbs: Fill in the Blanks
The sentences in this group are the same as in the multiple-choice sentences.
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 1A
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 2A
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 3A
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 4A
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 5A
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 6A
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 7A

Jonathan Harker’s Trip to Dracula's Castle Part 1 Fill in the blanks with the simple past of regular and irregular verbs in this selection from Bram Stoker's horror classic.
The Trip to Dracula's Castle Part 2
The Trip to Dracula's Castle Part 3
The Trip to Dracula's Castle Part 4

Frankenstein Fill in the blanks with the simple past of regular and irregular verbs in this selection from Mary Shelley's horror classic.

Past Progressive vs. Simple Past
Past Progressive 1 [Fill in the Blanks]
Past Progressive 2 [Correct the word inside square brackets]
The Hound of the Baskervilles Practice the past progressive and simple past by filling in the blanks in this excerpt from a famous Sherlock Holmes adventure.

Present Perfect vs. Simple Past
Present Perfect vs. Simple Past 1 Choose the correct time expressions in each sentence.
Present Perfect vs. Simple Past 2 Fill in the blanks with the present perfect or the simple past of the verbs in parentheses. Present Perfect vs. Simple Past 3 Choose ago, for, or since for each sentence.

Dracula Fill in the blanks with the present perfect or simple past in this excerpt from Bram Stoker's horror classic.

Letter, Mina Harker To Lucy Westenra

Passive Voice
Passive Verb Forms 1 Past Tense Passive
Passive Verb Forms 2 Present Perfect Passive
Passive Verb Forms 3 Present Tense Passive
Passive Verb Forms 4 Present Progressive Passive
Passive Verb Forms 5 Past Progressive Passive
Passive Verb Forms 6 Passive with Modals
Passive Verb Forms 7 Passive with Modals 2
Passive Verb Forms 7 Passive Infinitive with need (s) to

[10] Exercises in verbs from English Grammar 101

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Lesson 1-1: Verb Identification
Lesson 1-2: Verb Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-3: Verb Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-4: Verb Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-5: Verb Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-6: Action versus State-of-being Verbs
Lesson 1-7: Verb Identification
Lesson 1-8: Verb Phrase Identification
Lesson 1-9: Verb Phrase Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-10: Verb Phrase Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-11: Verb Phrase Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-12: Verb Phrase Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-13: Verb and Verb Phrase Identification
Lesson 1-14: Verb and Verb Phrase Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-24: Compound Verbs
Lesson 1-25: Compound Verbs (Continued)
Lesson 1-26: Compound Verbs (Continued)
Unit 3: Verb Tenses and Verbal Patterns
Lesson 3-0: Unit 3 Pretest
Lesson 3-1: Present Tense Verbs
Lesson 3-2: Present Tense Verbs (Continued)
Lesson 3-3: Intensifying The Present Tense
Lesson 3-4: The Present Participle as Verbal
Lesson 3-5: The Present Participle as Verb and Verbal
Lesson 3-6: The Present Participle as Verb and Verbal (Continued)
Lesson 3-7: Remembering The Prepositional Phrase
Lesson 3-8: The Present Participial Phrase
Lesson 3-9: The Present Participial Phrase (Continued)
Lesson 3-10: The Gerund as a Verbal
Lesson 3-11: The Gerund versus The Present Participle
Lesson 3-12: The Gerundial Phrase Lesson 3-13: The Gerundial Phrase versus The Participial Phrase
Lesson 3-14: The Gerundial Phrase versus The Participial Phrase (Continued)
Lesson 3-15: Phrases: Verb versus Gerundial versus Participial
Lesson 3-16: Phrases: Verb versus Gerundial versus Participial (Continued)
Lesson 3-17: Cumulative Review
Lesson 3-18: The Present Infinitive as Verbal
Lesson 3-19: The Infinitive Phrase as Verbal
Lesson 3-20: The Infinitive Phrase as Verbal (Continued)
Lesson 3-21: Identification of Verbals
Lesson 3-22: Identification of Verbals (Continued)
Lesson 3-23: Cumulative Review
Lesson 3-24: Splitting the Infinitive
Lesson 3-25: Forming the Future Tense
Lesson 3-26: Past Tense Verbs
Lesson 3-27: Regular and Irregular Verbs
Lesson 3-28: Past Tense versus Past Participle
Lesson 3-29: Present Participle versus Past Participle
Lesson 3-30: Irregular Verbs
Lesson 3-31: Irregular Verbs (Continued)
Lesson 3-32: Irregular Verbs (Continued)
Lesson 3-33: Cumulative Review
Lesson 3-34: The Past Participle as Verbal
Lesson 3-35: The Past Participle as Verbal (Continued)
Lesson 3-36: Past Participle versus Present Participle
Lesson 3-37: Past Participle versus Present Participle (Continued)
Lesson 3-38: The Past Infinitive as Verbal
Lesson 3-39: Past Infinitive versus Present Infinitive
Lesson 3-40: Identification of Verbals
Lesson 3-41: Identification of Verbals (Continued)
Lesson 3-42: Identification of Verbals (Continued)
Lesson 3-43: Wishing For the Future Perfect
Lesson 3-44: Cumulative Review
Lesson 3-45: Unit 3 Self-Test
Lesson 3-46: Unit 3 Posttest

[11] Exercises in verbs from English Language Centre Study Zone

Forming the Simple Present Tense (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Negatives and Questions in the Simple Present Tense (Introduction & 3 exercises)
Forming the Present Continuous Tense (Introduction & 1 exercise)
Negatives and Questions in the Present Continuous Tense (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Simple Present or Present Continuous? (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Forming the Simple Past Tense (Regular Verbs) (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Forming the Simple Past Tense (Irregular Verbs) (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Negatives and Questions in the Simple Past Tense (Introduction & 3 exercises)
Forming the and Using the Past Continuous Tense (Introduction & 1 exercise)
Forming the Present Perfect Tense (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Using the Present Perfect Tense (Introduction & 3 exercises)
Present Perfect Tense (Introduction & 3 exercises)
Present Perfect and Simple Past (Introduction & 5 exercises)
The Future with "Will" (Introduction & 2 exercises)
The Future with "Be Going To" (Introduction & 1 exercise)
Four Ways to Talk About the Future (Introduction & 1 exercise)
Past Perfect Tense (Introduction and 2 exercises)
Stative and Dynamic Verbs (Introduction and 2 exercises)
Modals: "Don't have to" and "Mustn't" (Introduction & 2 exercises)

[12] Exercises in verbs from English Learner

Present Simple
Present Simple Mixed-up sentences 1
Present Simple Mixed-up sentences 2
Present Simple Mixed-up sentences 3
Present Simple Mixed-up sentences 4
Present Simple Mixed-up sentences 5
Present Simple Mixed-up sentences 6
Present Simple or Present Continuous?
Present Simple - Questions 1
Present Simple - Questions 1
Present Simple - Present Continuous questions
Past Simple
Past Simple tense Was or Were?
Irregular Past Verbs Crossword 1
Irregular Past Verbs Crossword 2
Irregular Past Verbs Crossword 3
Irregular Past Verbs Crossword 4
Irregular Past Verbs Crossword 5
Past Simple or Past Continuous?
Present Perfect
Verb Forms
Verb Forms
Tenses Test

[13] Exercises in verbs from English On The Run

Grammar Verb: Tenses
The Present Tense of the verb "to be"
The Present Simple Tense: Gap-fill exercise
The Present Progressive Tense: What are they doing? Matching exercise
The Past Simple Tense
The Future Tenses

[14] Exercises in verbs from English Page

Verb Tense Exercise 1 Simple Present and Present Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 2 Simple Present and Present Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 3 Simple Past and Past Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 4 Simple Past and Past Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 5 Simple Past and Present Perfect
Verb Tense Exercise 6 Simple Past and Present Perfect
Verb Tense Exercise 7 Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 8 Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 9 Present Continuous and Present Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 10 Present Continuous and Present Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 11 Simple Past and Past Perfect
Verb Tense Exercise 12 Simple Past, Present Perfect, and Past Perfect
Verb Tense Exercise 13 Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 14 Present Perfect, Past Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous, and Past Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 15 Present Continuous, Simple Past, Present Perfect
Continuous, and Past Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 16 Present and Past Tenses with Non-Continuous Verbs
Verb Tense Exercise 17 Present and Past Tense Review
Verb Tense Exercise 18 Will and Be Going to
Verb Tense Exercise 19 Will and Be Going to
Verb Tense Exercise 20 Will and Be Going to
Verb Tense Exercise 21 Simple Present and Simple Future
Verb Tense Exercise 22 Simple Present and Simple Future
Verb Tense Exercise 23 Simple Future and Future Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 24 Simple Present, Simple Future, Present Continuous, and Future Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 25 Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 26 Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 27 Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 28 Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Practice Test Cumulative Verb Tense Review
Verb Tense Final Test Cumulative Verb Tense Review

Modal Verbs
Modal Exercise 1 Can, Could, Have to, Must, Might and Should
Modal Exercise 2 Have to and Must
Modal Exercise 3 Might, Must and Should. Afterwards, you can repeat the exercise
using Could, Have to and Ought to
Modal Exercise 4 Couldn't and Might not
Modal Exercise 5 Have got to, Had Better, May and Shall
Modal Exercise 6 Could, Might, Should and Would
Modal Exercise 7 Modal Verbs Forms
Modal Final Test Cumulative Modal Test

Irregular Verbs
Irregular Verbs 1
Irregular Verbs 2
High Intermediate Irregular Verb Drill
Advanced Irregular Verb Drill

[15] Exercises in verbs from English Works (Gallaudet University)

Identifying Verbs 1
Identifying Verbs 2
Simple Present and Present Continuous Tenses Exercise 1
Using the Passive Voice in Scientific Writing Exercise
One Word Modals
Helping Verbs
Matching Exercise #1: Verb Tense
Matching Exercise #2: Verb Tense
Matching Exercise #3: Sentence
Matching Exercise #4: Verb Tense
Cloze Exercise #2: Verbs
Cloze Exercise #3: Verbs
Crossword Exercise #1: Subject/Verb Agreement
Crossword Exercise #2: Subject/Verb Agreement
Crossword Exercise #3: Subject/Verb Agreement

[16] Exercises in verbs from ESL 3-6 Review

Note:Frame-based, only one URL for all exercises
The Verb To Be
Past Tense and Past Continuous
More Past Continuous
Present Tense
More Present Tense
Past Tense Verbs
Present Tense Questions
Passive Voice
More Passive Voice
Present Perfect
Singular to Plural
Present Perfect Negative
Past tense irregular verbs
Past tense
More Past tense
Past tense Time Clauses
Past Continuous

[17] Exercises in verbs from esl-Lounge

Elementary
To Be Gap Fill
To Be: Positive or Negative Gap Fill
To Be Question Formation Worksheet
To Be Question Formation 2
To Be and To Have / Easy Error Correction 1
Error Correction: To Be & To Have - Exercise 2
Error Correction: To Be
To Be - Questions & Answers
Present Continuous Dialogue Completion
Present Continuous Positive and Negative
Present Continuous Gap Fill Worksheet
Present Simple or Continuous Worksheet
Present Simple/Continuous, Past Simple: Letter Gap Fill
Verbs Used Only In Present Simple
Present Continuous and Present Simple Matching Exercise

Pre-Intermediate Level
Present Perfect or Past Simple Worksheet
Present Perfect or Past Simple Worksheet 2
Error Correction Worksheet - Present Perfect or Past Simple
Error Correction Worksheet - Present Perfect or Past Simple 2
"Been" and "Gone" Worksheet
For or Since Gap Fill
For or Since Worksheet
Finished and Unfinished Time
The Old Colonel - Present Perfect Practice
Just, Yet, Already
Present Perfect or Past Simple: George Richards, Film Maker
Present Perfect or Past Simple: George Richards, Film Maker - Interview
"Was Going To" For Past Intentions
Present Simple and Continuous for Future
Will and Going To Worksheet
Past Continuous - Sentence Completion
Alibi Jigsaw Reading
Past Continuous Gap Fill
Handsome Rick (Past simple and present simple)
John Carpenter (Present simple, past simple and present continuous)
The Penguin - Story and Verb Tense Practice
John The Stuntman - Gap Fill Exercise (elementary verb tenses and comparative/superlative)
Intermediate Level

Passive Using "Get"Passive Verb Patterns
Active / Passive Exercise
Passive or Active Exercise
The Passive – Past
The Passive – Present
Passive General Knowledge
Present Perfect Continuous - I've Been Crying Because...
Present Perfect Simple or Continuous
Present Perfect Simple or Continuous
Advanced Level
Past Tense Worksheet
Causative "Have"
Say / Tell Error Correction
Reported Speech Worksheet
Used To / Be Used To
Future Continuous or Future Perfect?
Contrasting Ideas (Despite, Although, However, etc)
Linking Words
Modal Verbs
Modal Verbs in English - Find the Mistakes
"Must" and "Have To" Differences
Mustn't - Don't Have To Worksheet
"Should / Shouldn't" Worksheet
Should or Shouldn't Exercise
Can and Be Able To Worksheet
Could I? Could You?
"Needn't Have" or "Didn't Need To" Worksheet
Modal Signs
Modals of Deduction Exercise
Past Modals Exercise

[18] Exercise in verbs from Interlink Language Centers

Verbs Pop Quiz 3

[19] Exercises in verbs from Frankfurt International School

Verb forms
Verb forms quiz A - C
Verb forms quiz D – G
Verb forms quiz H – R
Verb forms quiz S - Z
Present Simple / Present Continuous
Multiple-choice (plus explanations) 1
Multiple-choice (plus explanations) 2
Fill the gap (plus explanations) 1
Fill the gap (plus explanations) 2
Past Simple / Present Perfect
Multiple choice (plus explanations) 1
Multiple choice (plus explanations) 2
Fill the gap (plus explanations)
All tenses
Random multiple-choice (plus explanations)
Random fill the gap (plus explanations)

[20] Exercises in verbs from Grammar Bytes

Using Irregular Verbs
Exercise 1
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6 Using Lay and Lie Correctly
Subject-Verb Agreement -- Exercise 1
Subject-Verb Agreement -- Exercise 2
Subject-Verb Agreement -- Exercise 3
Subject-Verb Agreement -- Exercise 4
Subject-Verb Agreement -- Exercise 5

[21] Exercises in verbs from Grammar Central (eaonline)

Noun or Verbs?
Verb “to be”
Verb (“to be”) Negative
Verb “to have”
Verb (“to have”) Negative
Verb “to be” Question Form
Simple Present Tense
Simple Present Tense Question Form
Simple Future Tense
Simple Past Regular Verbs
Irregular verbs I (A-B)
Irregular verbs II (C-E)
Irregular verbs III (F-H)
Irregular verbs IV (K-M)
Irregular verbs V (P-S)
Irregular verbs VI (S-T)
Irregular verbs VII (T-Z)
Past Form of the Verb (“to be”)
Past Negative of the Verb (“to be”)
Past of the Verb (“to have”)
There is / There are
There is / There are – Negative forms

Terry the Terrible Teacher
Subject-Verb Agreement
Simple Past
Flashed ESL
Simple Present
Simple Past
Noun – Verb Agreement
There is / There are
Irregular Verbs (Past Tense)
Past “To Be”
Present Continuous
Negative “To Be”
Do Not / Does Not

[22] Exercise in verbs from Grammar Monster

Verbs Test

23] Exercises in verbs from Grammar Workout (Empre State College)

Exercise 1: Noun-Verb Agreement
Basic Noun-Verb Agreement
Advanced Noun-Verb Agreement

Exercise 2: Agreement with Trick Singular Nouns and Pronouns
Agreement with Trick Singulars - Basic
Agreement with Trick Singulars - Advanced
Exercise 3: Agreement When Words Come between the Noun and Verb

Exercise 8: Verb Agreement with Other Verbs - Tense
Verb Tense Agreement with Other Verbs – Basic
Verb Tense Agreement with Other Verbs – Advanced
Problems with Verb Tense Agreement & Noun-Verb Agreement

[24] Exercises in verbs from Interactive Quizzes, John Wong (British English)

Irregular Verbs
Subject / Verb Agreement
Transitivity of Verbs
Gerund / Infinitive

[25] Exercises in verbs from Interesting Things for ESL Students

"Doing" or "To Do" [Flash]
Swim, Swims, Swimming, Swam or Swum #2 [Flash]

[26] Exercises in verbs from Isabel’s ESL Site

The Present Simple Girl (use, form & exercises)
Form
Exercise 1 Present Simple Form
Exercise 2 Present Simple Sentences - Affirmative
Exercise 3 Present Simple Form Sentences - Negative
Exercise 4 Present Simple – Questions 1 / 6
Use
Exercise 1 Habits & Routines
Exercise 2 Present Simple Use
Contrast
Exercise 1 Present Simple or Present Continuous
Exercise 2 Rosie’s Family
The Present Continuous Guy (use, form & exercises)
Form
Exercise 1 Present Continuous – Affirmative
Exercise 2 Present Continuous- Mistakes
Exercise 3 Present Continuous - Questions 1 / 6
Use
Exercise 1 Present Continuous Use
Future Tense Going To
Form
Exercise 1 Going To
Exercise 2 The "Going to" boy and his girlfriend Carmela are going to get married.
Use
Exercise Future: Going to - Use
Contrast
Exercise 1 Going and Will
Exercise 2 Going to or Will
Future tense: Will
Form
Exercise 1 Future:Will
Exercise 2 What will you do to be a better student?
Use
Exercise 1 Future: Will - Use
Contrast
Exercise 1 Going to and Will
Exercise 2 Going to or Will
Past Simple Tense
Exercise 1 Past Simple - Form Mistakes
Exercise 2 Past Simple Ending Pronunciation
Exercise 3 Past Simple- Questions 1 / 6
Past Continuous Tense
Exercise 1 Pictures from some dream holidays
Exercise 2 Past Continuous - Negative
Use
Past Continuous: Use
Contrast
Exercise 1 Past Simple & Past Continuous: The others
Exercise 2 Past Simple & Past Continuous

[27] Exercises in verbs from ITB's Language Centre

Subject Verb Agreement Quiz 1
Subject Verb Agreement Quiz 2
Subject Verb Agreement Quiz 3
Subject Verb Agreement Quiz 4
Subject Verb Agreement Quiz 5
Subject Verb Agreement Quiz 6
Subject Verb Agreement Quiz 7

[28] Exercises in verbs from John’s ESL Community English Interactive

Simple Past Tense Quiz
Subject + To Be
Sight Verbs / See, Look at, and Watch
The Simple Past or the Past Progressive
Simple Present vs. Present Progressive

[29] Exercises in verbs from Karin's ESL Partyland

Jobs: Simple Present "Be"
Going to a Party: Say vs. Tell
Housework: Make vs. Do
Simple Past and Past Progressive
Tense Review: Karin's Knee Surgery
Tense Review: At a Restaurant
Tense Review: the Verb "Have"
Sue Plans a Wedding: Verbs with Prepositions
Business Expressions with the Verb "Sign:" Part One
Business Expressions with the Verb "Sign:" Part Two

[30] Exercises in verbs from 1-Language.com

Passive participles
Noun and Verb Matching / Subjects and Verbs - 1
Noun and Verb Matching / Subjects and Verbs - 2
Subjects and Verbs 1
Subjects and Verbs 2

[31] Exercises in verbs from Language and Learning Online (Monash University)

Why use passive verbs
Active vs. passive
Changing active to passive
Passive review
Present continuous exercise
Present simple exercise
Present perfect exercise 1
Present perfect exercise 2
Past perfect exercise
Tense review

[32] Exercise in verbs from Lauri's ESL Website

Am, Is or Are?
Going to San Jose (Simple Present/Present continuous)
Robert Usually Gets Up Early (Simple Present)
Peter's Lucky Day (Verb Choice)
The Present Continuous and the Simple Present
Practice with Simple Past

[33] Exercises in verbs from Learn English Feel Good

VERB TENSES
Mixed Verbs 1 (Intermediate)
Mixed Verbs 2 (Intermediate)
Mixed Verbs 3 (Beginner)
Mixed Verbs 4 (Beginner)
Mixed Verbs 5 (Intermediate)
Simple Past Tense 1 (Beginner)
Simple Past Tense 2 (Beginner)
SIMPLE PAST or PAST CONTINUOUS? (Advanced)
SIMPLE PRESENT or PRESENT CONTINUOUS? (Advanced)
SIMPLE PAST or PRESENT PERFECT? (Intermediate)
CONDITIONAL TENSES 1 (Intermediate)
CONDITIONAL TENSES 2 (Advanced)
Irregular Verbs 1 (Beginner)
Irregular Verbs 2 (Intermediate)
Mixed modals 1 (should, can, must) (Intermediate)
Mixed modals 2 (should, can, must) (Intermediate)
MODALS (Couldn't/Might Not) Quiz (Intermediate)
MODALS with the INFINITIVE 1
MODALS with the INFINITIVE 2
CONDITIONAL or FUTURE? (Intermediate)
CONDITIONAL, FUTURE, or PRESENT? (Intermediate)
FUTURE TENSES 1 (Advanced)
FUTURE TENSES 2 (Advanced)
CAUSATIVE FORM 1 (Intermediate)
CAUSATIVE FORM 2 (Advanced)
Reported Speech - Online Test 1 (Intermediate)
Reported Speech - Online Test 2 (Intermediate)
Phrasal Verbs 1 (Advanced)
Phrasal Verbs 2 (Advanced)
Phrasal Verbs 3 (Intermediate)
Phrasal Verbs 4 (Intermediate)
Phrasal Verbs 5 (Beginner)
Phrasal Verbs 6 (Beginner)
Which word: CHANGE or EXCHANGE? (Intermediate)
Which word?: DO or DOES? (Beginner)
Which word?: DO or MAKE? (Beginner)
Which word?: DO or MAKE? 2 (Beginner)

[34] Exercises in verbs from Learning English Online, www.englisch-hilfen.de (English version)

Modal Auxiliaries
can and to be able to
Questions with do or does - Exercise 1
Questions with do or does - Exercise 2
's - is or has - short forms/contracted forms
The verb to be - Exercise 1
The verb to be - Exercise 2
The verb to do - Exercise 1
The verb to do - Exercise 2
was or were
was not or were not
Passive – Statements
Passive - Statements (more objects)
Passive - Statements (various tenses)
Active or Passive? - Exercise 1
Active or Passive? - Exercise 2
Phrasal verbs
Irregular Verbs - Crossword 1
Irregular Verbs - Crossword 2
Irregular Verbs - 1
Irregular Verbs - 2
Irregular Verbs - 3
Irregular Verbs - 4
Irregular Verbs - 5
Irregular Verbs - 6
Irregular Verbs - Mix 1
Irregular Verbs - Mix 2
Irregular Verbs - Mix 3
Irregular Verbs - Mix 4
Irregular Verbs - Form
Irregular verbs - randomly selected
Irregular Verbs - 1
Irregular Verbs - 2
Irregular Verbs - 3
Irregular Verbs - 4
Irregular Verbs - 5

Regular or Irregular verbs - Odd Man Out - 1
Regular or Irregular verbs - Odd Man Out - 2
Regular verbs - Infinitive, Simple Past, Past Participle
Regular verbs - Phrases

[35] Exercise in verbs from Marcus Evans Linguarama (British English)

Simple past / present perfect (Personnell)
Present continuous (Business Communication)
Must or Have to? (Legal English)
To do or Doing? (Technology)
Phrasal verbs (Retailing)

[36] Exercises in verbs from Michael Buckhoff's ESL Website for Students and Teachers

Irregular Verb Form self-study quizzes
Quiz One
Quiz Two
Quiz Three
Quiz Four
Quiz Five
Quiz Six
Quiz Seven
Passive Verb self-study quizzes
Verb Form self-study quizzes

[37] Exercises in verbs from 5 Minute English

Using the Past Continuous with the Simple Past Tense
Have you ever...?
Using have to, supposed to, and ought to
Reported Speech (Part 1)
Reported Speech (Part 2)
Using Parallel Verbs
Using wish to talk about the past
Past Participles
Using must as a conclusion
Using wish in the present tense
The Present Perfect Progressive Tense
Using the Present Perfect Tense
Use to / Used to
Simple Past vs. Past Progressive Tense
Simple Present vs. Present Continuous
Hear and Listen to
See, Look at, and Watch
Irregular Past Tense Verbs
Go + noun

[38] Exercises in verbs from My English Grammar

Exercise 2 - Verbs (Auxiliary)
Exercise 13 - USED TO

[39] Exercises in verbs from Online English Grammar (Edunet)

Active - Passive Distinction Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q&A
Confusing Verbs Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q&A
Main Verb Requirement Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q&A
Non-finite Verb Forms Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q&A
Passive Voice Form Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q&A
Past Tense and Past Participle Forms Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q&A
Past Verb Forms Intermediate Game : crossword
Past, Present or Future? Basic - Intermediate Flash Q&A
Subject-Verb Agreement Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q&A
Subject-Verb Inversion Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q&A
Tense Usage Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q&A
Verb Search - Irregular Verbs Basic-Intermediate Game : word search

[40] Exercises in verbs from OWL English Purdue Grammar and ESL Exercises

Accept and Except Practice
Affect and Effect Practice
Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
Tense Consistency

[41] Exercises in verbs from Rong-Chang Li

ESL Exercises (1)
ESL Exercises (3)
ESL Exercises (5)
ESL Exercises (6)
ESL Exercises (7)
ESL Exercises (8)
ESL Exercises (10)
Subject - Verb Agreement (1)
Subject - Verb Agreement (2)
Subject - Verb Agreement (3)
Modals & Helping Verbs (1)
Modals & Helping Verbs (2)
Verbs Tenses (1)
Verbs Tenses (2)
Verbs Tenses (3)
Verbs Tenses (4)
Verbs Tenses (5)
Verbs Tenses (6)
Verbs Tenses (7) Mixed Tenses
Verbs Tenses (8) Mixed Tenses
Verbs Tenses (9) Mixed Tenses
Verbs Tenses (10) Mixed Tenses
Verbs Tenses (11) Mixed Tenses
Verbs Tenses (12) Mixed Tenses
Subjunctive Mood (1)
Subjunctive Mood (2)
Irregular Verbs (1)
Irregular Verbs (2)
Irregular Verbs (3)
Irregular Verbs (4)
Irregular Verbs (5)
Irregular Verbs (6)
Phrasal Verbs (1)
Phrasal Verbs (2)
Phrasal Verbs (3)
Phrasal Verbs (4)
Phrasal Verbs (5)
Phrasal Verbs (6)
Phrasal Verbs (7)
Phrasal Verbs (8)
Phrasal Verbs (9)
Phrasal Verbs (10)

[42] Exercises in verbs from Superteach (Your English Grammar Tutor On-line)

About Verbs Part 1
About Verbs Part 2
Fixing Common Mistakes: Wrong Verb Form
Subject - Verb Agreement Tests: The Saga of Boyde Bridges
Exercise One
Exercise Two
Exercise Three
Subjec t -Verb Agreement Test - The difficult one
The Saga of Boyde Bridges
Exercise One
Exercise Two
Exercise Three

[43] Exercises in verbs from Taiwan Teacher

Simple Perfect Verb Forms
Simple Progressive Verb Forms

[44] Exercises in verbs from The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuations

Finding Subjects and Verbs Quiz 1
Finding Subjects and Verbs Quiz 2
Subject and Verb Agreement Quiz 1
Subject and Verb Agreement Quiz 2
Effect vs. Affect Quiz 1
Effect vs. Affect Quiz 2
Effect vs. Affect Quiz 3
Lie vs. Lay Quiz 1
Lie vs. Lay Quiz 2
Advice vs. Advise Quiz 1
Advice vs. Advise Quiz 2

[45] Exercises in verbs from The ESL Area

Simple Past
Cause and Effect: Ben Franklin
The Big Dinner
Christopher Columbus
Inventors and Inventions
"Bouki's Glasses"
Civil rights questionnaire (Making Connections 2)
Tell me what happened.
What did you do last weekend?
Past continuous
I Was Enjoying Myself at Myrtle Beach
Present perfect
Have you ever...?
Future What's going to happen?
Modals
A Bird Can Fly
Would you like to...?
Phrasal verbs
John Goddard's goals

[46] Exercises in verbs from University of Calgary - The Basic Elements of English Grammar Guide

Verb Identification
Transitive, Intransitive, & Linking Verbs
Verb Tenses and Forms
Auxiliary (Helping) Verbs
Verbs and Mood
Verbs and Voice
Verbals

[47] Exercises in verbs from University of Oregon The Tongue Untied

Verb Practice Exercise
Verb Practice Exercise Answers
Interactive Verb Quiz #1
Interactive Verb Quiz #2
Verbals: Gerunds, Participles and Infinitives
Verbal Practice Exercise
Answers for Verb Practice Exercise
Interactive Verbal Quiz #1
Interactive Verbal Quiz #2
Subject / verb agreement
Agreement Practice Exercise
Agreement Practice Exercise Answers
Interactive Clause Quiz 1
Interactive Agreement Quiz 2

[48] Exercises in verbs from Using English

Note: Join the Members' Area and you can gain access to 185 additional free ESL quizzes for beginner, intermediate and advanced level English students. These exercises may also be viewed as printable handouts.

Beginner English
Modals
Must & Can (10)
Present Simple
Present Simple (16)
Present Simple & Progressive- 2 (19)
Present Simple or Progressive (16)
Verbs and Tenses
Am, Are & Is (15)
Auxiliary Verbs (15)
Don't & Doesn't (10)
Have or Has (18)
Imperatives (10)
Need & Needn't (10)
She's = is or has? (11)
Simple or Progressive? (10)
There is or There are (15)
Was or Were (16)
Will or Would (10)
Intermediate English
Future Forms
Futures (11)
Will & Going to (10)
Modals
May or Might (10)
Mixed Modals (10)
Modals- Permission and Requests (10)
Passive
Passive (15)
Passive (2) (14)
Past Simple
Past Simple & Present Perfect (52)
Past simple or past perfect? (10)
Past Simple, Progressive Perfect (13)
Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal Verbs - Bring (11)
Phrasal Verbs - Check (10)
Phrasal Verbs - Come (11)
Phrasal Verbs - Cut (11)
Phrasal Verbs - Do (11)
Phrasal Verbs - Draw (10)
Phrasal Verbs - Fall (11)
Phrasal Verbs - Find (10)
Phrasal Verbs - Get (23)
Phrasal Verbs - Give (11)
Phrasal Verbs - Go (18)
Phrasal Verbs - Hand (12)
Phrasal Verbs - Let (14)
Phrasal Verbs - Listen (11)
Phrasal Verbs - Look (20)
Phrasal Verbs - Make (18)
Phrasal Verbs - Pay (13)
Phrasal Verbs - Put (13)
Phrasal Verbs - Run (13)
Phrasal Verbs - See (14)
Phrasal Verbs - Set (15)
Phrasal Verbs - Sign (10)
Phrasal Verbs - Sit (10)
Phrasal Verbs - Speak (13)
Phrasal Verbs - Stand (14)
Phrasal Verbs - Take (22)
Phrasal Verbs - Talk (12)
Phrasal Verbs - Try (11)
Phrasal Verbs - Wait (10)
Phrasal Verbs - Work (13)
Phrasal Verbs - Write (12)
Present Perfect
Present Perfect (11)
Present Perfect Simple & Progressive (21)
Present Perfect- Word Order (10)
Verbs and Tenses
Causative (21)
Needn't & Don't Need (8(

[49] Exercise in verbs from Visual ESL / English Tenses With Cartoons

Present Simple Exercises
Present Simple 1 (forming; all)
Present Simple 2 (forming; positive and negative sentences)
Present Simple or Present Continuous 2
Present Simple 3 (forming; all)
Present Simple or Present Continuous 3
Present Simple vs Present Continuous 4
Present Simple vs Present Continuous 5 Present Simple - conjugation of the verb "to be"
Present Continuous Exercises
Present Continuous 1 (forming; negative sentences)
Present Simple vs Present Continuous 1
Present Continuous and Present Simple gap-fill.
Present Continuous and Present Simple gap-fill.
Present Perfect Exercises
Present Perfect 1 (forming; all)
Present Perfect 2 (forming; negative sentences)
Present Perfect 3 (forming; positive sentences)
Present Perfect and Past Simple 1
Past Perfect Continuous
Past Perfect Continuous 1 (forming; positive sentences)
Past Perfect Continuous 2 (forming; negative)
Others
Past Simple (forming; positive sentences)
Past Perfect (forming; positive sentences)
Future Simple (forming; positive sentences)
Future Perfect (forming; positive sentences)
Future Continuous (forming; postive sentences)
Present Perfect Continuous (forming; positive sentences)
Lay Lie and Lie
Past Continuous (formingl positive sentences)
Irregular Verbs
Irregular Verbs 1 (test) Gap-fill exercise
Irregular Verbs 2 (test) Gap-fill exercise
Irregular Verbs 3 (test) Gap-fill exercise
Irregular Verbs 4 (test) Gap-fill exercise

[50] Exercises in verbs from World-English (British English)

FUTURE FORMS IN ENGLISH
MODAL VERBS
REPORTED SPEECH
MAKE or DO
FOR or SINCE
BORROW or LEND
SAY or TELL
SIMPLE PRESENT OR PRESENT CONTINUOUS
PASSIVE TEST
THE PASSIVE VOICE
ENGLISH TENSES AND MORE

Vocabulary: discussions and interactive exercises

2008-06-09T18:14:00.000-07:00

Words are the building blocks of any language. The more words you have in your written or spoken vocabulary, the greater are the possibilities of your success in academics, business or career.

Listed below are links to discussions and interactive exercises in vocabulary from the best ESL and EFL resources on the Internet. Take time to browse these excellent websites; they are consistently good and fast loading. Besides the materials listed below, these great sites generously offer, free of charge, a tremendous range of valuable resources for the ESL and EFL teachers and students.

In answering the interactive exercises, you should follow carefully the prompts and directions. You should read each sentence or part aloud before clicking the answer you think is right. After the correct answer is displayed, think it over as to why it is the correct answer. (Please take note that the correct answer may depend on whether the exercise comes from an American English or a British English website.) After doing so, read the complete sentence again aloud with the correct answer.

To train yourself to think in English, try to recite the sentences with the correct answers from memory and at your full speaking volume. Or you can ask a friend to read out loud the sentences with the correct answers and you repeat them without looking at the computer screen.

[01] Vocabulary activities, from About.com

Action Idioms Quiz (Understanding through context of selected action verbs)
Key Words List (850 word-list developed by Charles K. Ogden in 1930, a great starting point for building up a vocabulary which allows you to converse fluently in English)
Financial Terminology Quiz
British to American / American to British - Vocabulary Converter
Building Phrasal Verb Vocabulary
Collocations
Useful Business English Phrases

[02] Vocabulary Quizzes, from Activities for ESL Students

Vocabulary – Easy
Vocabulary - Easy with Pictures
Vocabulary – Medium
Vocabulary - Difficult

[03] Antagonyms

Extensive list of English words with meanings which contradict each other

[04] Grammar and Vocabulary, from BBC Learning English

News vocabulary, Science vocabulary, Football vocabulary, and Tennis vocabulary

[05] The University Word List, from John Bauman

[06] Business English Vocabulary Lessons, from Business English Grammar Lessons (Pearson Brown)

[07] Building a Better Vocabulary, from Capital Community College Guide to Good Grammar

Numerous college-level work quizzes, including words that have appeared on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests and Graduate Record Exams, and with a downloadable Pop-up Lexicon (93Kb) containing 365 SAT- and GRE- level vocabulary words, definitions, and sample sentences

[08] Full Dolch Word List (220 Words and 95 Nouns), from Dolch-words

The Dolch words are the 220 most frequently found words in books thatchildren read, and are usually learned in first and second grade. Students who learn these words have a good base for beginning reading. Many of these words cannot be sounded out because they do not follow decoding rules, so they must be learned as sight words.

[09] The Academic Word List, from English as Second Language

[10] Vocabulary, from English at Home

Numerous activities and resources include English Phonetic Spelling, Say or Tell? Say or Tell Quiz; Do or Make? Do or Make Quiz; Irregular Adjectives (good, better, the best); Prefixes (non-, inter-, post-); Contractions (I'm, aren't, here's); Informal Contractions (gimme, gonna, wanna); Figures of Speech (like a bat outta hell); Illustrated Vocabulary ; Computer Vocabulary (backup, cache, DOS); Football Vocabulary (foul, goal, pass); Practical Vocabulary

Test Yourself

[11] Vocabulary, from English Corner (Rod Rodgers)

Activities include Collocations; Crosswords; Definitions; False Cognates; Games; Picture Quizzes; Vocabulary Links; Word Formation; Word Lists; Word Studies

[12] Vocabulary exercises to practice phrases used in business, from English Exercises Online

[13] TOEFL Vocabulary, from English Daily

Over a thousand real multiple-choice questions for TOEFL test preparation

[14] English Vocabulary, from E L Easton Materials for Teaching and Learning

Vocabulary A -Z
Quizzes

[15] Index to topics, from English Learner

Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Vocabulary categories, including Colours crossword, Idioms with colors, Fruit quiz and Eponyms (words from names)

[16] Advanced Vocabulary and Holiday Vocabulary Lessons, from English Page

[17] Actvities in vocabulary, from Esl-lounge

Elementary
Pre-Intermediate
Intermediate
Advanced

[18] ESL Vocabulary, from English Works! (Gallaudet)

Ideas for Improving Your Vocabulary
Suffixes to Know
Vocabulary Exercises

[19] Vocabulary for learners of English, from Frankfurt International School

Categories of activities include Easier, Harder, Random, and with lessons in Geography/History, Science, Math, and Mainstream English

[20] 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions, by Free Vocabulary (Steve Baba, Ph.D)

Words from from abase to zodiac, with PDF version

[21] Vocabulary and Idioms, from Interlink Language Resources

[22] Vocabulary activities, from Interesting Things for ESL Students

Numerous activities and resources including Easy Vocabulary Quizzes, English Vocabulary Games with Pictures, English Vocabulary Word Lists with Games, Puzzles and Quizzes, Anagrams, Flashcards

[23] Vocabulary Exercises, from Isabel's ESL site

[24] Vocabulary Quizzes, from John’s ESL

Activities and resources include Vocabulary Lists, 1000 Commonly Used Words, specialized vocabulary (Geography, Aviation and Medical), and Picture Vocabulary

[25] Vocabulary activities, from Karin’s ESL Partyland

Easy, Medium and Difficult categories; multiple choice, fill-in, cloze

[26] ESL Online Wordsearches, from 1-language.com

Fun and easy way to learn vocabulary through 100 different puzzles; Note: Java-enabled browser required

[27] Vocabulary activities, from LanguageGuide.org

Practice the 100 most common words in the English
Pictorial Vocabulary Guides
Learn the pronunciation and spelling of thousands of words using an image based interface, with supported languages as English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Italian, Greek, Chinese, Chinese (traditional characters), Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian

[28] Vocabulary Activities, from Lauri’s ESL Website

[29] Free Online Vocabulary Exercises, from Learn English Feel Good

Each exercise centers around one theme or topic, using only common and useful English words and expressions; Business English Vocabulary; and American and British English: Differences in Vocabulary

[30] English vocabulary – Index, from englisch hilfen

[31] The Most Important Vocabulary for Students of English, from Teacher Joe

Topics include Business English and Basic English Vocabulary

[32] ESL Vocabulary Lessons, from 5 Minute English

[33] Vocabulary activities and resources, from Michael Buckhoff

Topics include Picture Vocabulary, Professions and Tools

[34] 50 commonly misspelled words, from A Spelling Test by Mindy McAdams

[35] Ogden's Basic Word List

[36] Free Online Spelling Tutor and game, from OZspeller

Categories from Kinder to Frequent and Advanced; words spoken by your computer, with hints, definitions and sentences, repeatable audio clips, and three versions: Oz Speller with Australian Spelling; Oz speller with US Spelling; Oz speller with British Words

[37] Vocabulary for English Language Learners, from Ohio ESL

[38] Vocabulary lessons, from One Stop English

Theme-based lesson plans for American and British English, including phrasal verbs, and metaphors

[39] Professional Word Web

Business and financial texts, engineering reports, legal documents, and social work papers; meaning, pronunciation, sample passages and exercises

[40] Puzzles, Games, etc. from The Puzzle Depot

[41] 100 Most Common SAT Words, from Quia Web

[42] SAT Preparation

[43] Vocabulary Level Test, from The Compleat Lexical Tutor

Use these tests to find the growth-edge of your vocabulary: Version A and B, 1000 level up to University Word List and 10,000 level

[44] The Heteronym Homepage

Extensive list of English words which have different meanings when pronounced differently

[45] Free vocabulary test for TOEFL, GMT, SAT, GRE and VOA Special English, from Vocaboly

[46] Vocabulary University

Free interactive vocabulary puzzle and activity sessions use Latin and Greek "roots and cells" to help unlock word meanings;

Vocabulary from texts: 111 Recommended High School/Junior High Reading, among others, 1984; All Quiet on the Western Front; Animal Farm; A Raisin in the Sun; A Tale of Two Cities; Call of the Wild Jane Eyre; Julius Caesar; Johnny Got His Gun; The Joy Luck Club; Lonesome Dove, etc

[47] Vocabulary Builder, from Vocabulix

Improve your vocabulary in various foreign languages (English, German and Spanish), online and free

[48] Vocabulary Training Exercises In English, German, French and Spanish

[49] Focusing On Words, from wordfocus.com

Vocabulary builder based on learning the Latin and Greek roots from which half the words in English come from

[50] A Word A Day, from Wordsmith

Explore the world of words, share, and delight in the joy of words with a community of more than 600,000 linguaphiles in at least 200 countries, from Australia to Zimbabwe

Today’s Word
Internet Anagram Server (Advanced programming, Topical Anagrams, Anagram Hall of Fame, Odds and Ends)

[51] Vocabulary activities and tests, from World English

Activities and topics include English First Names and Meanings, Difficult English Words, Vocabulary test from A to Z, and specialized vocabulary (Banking, Medical and Financial)

[52] Interactive games and exercises, from Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun

CrossWords; HangMouse; Match Game; UnScramble; Letter Blocks; Clueless Crossword

[53] Online vocabulary topics for intermediate and advanced ESL learners, from English Gateway

[54] Free online, interactive vocabulary exercises, from Language Project (approved by the British Council; also includes hundreds of free grammar and discourse exercises)

Elementary Vocabulary Questions
At Home; Basic Adjectives; Clothes; Common Verbs; Confusing Words; Days and Dates; Driving Words and Phrases; Family Members; Groups Of Things; More Word Building; Possessions; Sports; The Natural World; The Weather; Things On The Street; Work: People and Places

Intermediate Vocabulary Questions
Accommodation; At Work; Body Movement; Verbs; Cinema Film Reviews; Flying; General Nouns; Health; Problems; Health Word Building; Opposite Adjectives; Personality Adjectives; Personality Word Building; Prefixes: Re-Roads and Trains; Science; Shopping; Shopping Word Building; Speech Verbs; Strong Adjectives; Television; The Environment; Verbs With Up; Word Building

Advanced Vocabulary Questions
-ate Verbs; -en Verbs; -ify Verbs; Animal Noises; Body Idioms; Body Parts; Cars And Driving; Colour Idioms; Comparatives with 'as'; Containers and Quantifiers; Eating Out; Expressions with "as"; Expressions with "for"; Expressions with "no"; Expressions With "with"; Food; Food Idioms; Health; Key Moments; Law And Order; Money; More "no" Expressions; Newspapers; On The Road; Parks; Problem Adjectives; Proverbs; Quantity Expressions; Reflexive Expressions; Relationships; Slang; Sounds; Sports Equipment; Telephones; The Environment; Types of writing; Verbs With "Off"; Water Words; Ways Of Walking; Weather Adjectives; Words Ending "-less"

[55] Word Cup (an international, online vocabulary competition for all ages, students and adults, sponsored among others by Oxford University Press), from eSpindle

eSpindle is a non-profit organization offering customized vocabulary tutoring online. It is supported through memberships, and memberships are matched with free licenses for disadvantaged students. Other services and resources offered by eSpindle:

Practice quiz for the Word Cup (Choose between easy, average and hard words; quiz updated twice a month)
Free, moderated online spelling bee and Word Cup forum (exchange ideas, make friends, find encouragement)
Root word directory (prefixes, root words and suffixes)
Fun trivia about the English language and learning
Facts and statistics about literacy in the US

[56] Dolch word lists, phrases, worksheets and activities, from Mrs. Perkins' Dolch Words

Vocabulary word lists, flashcards and Powerpoint presentations; variety of lists with the Dolch words ordered alphabetically, by frequency or by grade; lesson plan templates, counting charts, blank calendars, cut-out dominoes, and forms for testing and assessment; for teachers and parents who want to teach Dolch sight words to their children

Dolch Word Lists
Dolch Phrases
Dolch Worksheets
Classroom Forms and Testing

Spelling: discussions and interactive exercises

2008-05-30T23:46:00.000-07:00

Computers and word processing programs with their automatic spelling checkers have made writing and spelling a lot easier. There are times however when you cannot rely on these automatic spelling checkers, like when you are writing letters by hand, or when you are teaching or reporting and you have to write on a blackboard or white board.

The differences between speliing of words in American and British English also make the study of spelling rules necessary.

Listed below are links to discussions and interactive exercises in spelling from the best ESL and EFL resources on the Internet. Take time to browse these excellent websites; they are consistently good and fast loading. Besides the materials listed below, these great sites generously offer, free of charge, a tremendous range of valuable resources for the ESL and EFL teachers and students.

In answering the interactive exercises, you should follow carefully the prompts and directions. You should read each sentence or part aloud before clicking the answer you think is right. After the correct answer is displayed, think it over as to why it is the correct answer. (Please take note that the correct answer may depend on whether the exercise comes from an American English or a British English website.) After doing so, read the complete sentence again aloud with the correct answer.

To train yourself to think in English, try to recite the sentences with the correct answers from memory and at your full speaking volume. Or you can ask a friend to read out loud the sentences with the correct answers and you repeat them without looking at the computer screen.

[01] Spelling and Word Choice, from East Tennessee State University

[02] Spelling Rules, from English Club

Adding -er / -est (quick, quicker, quickest, happy, happier, happiest, hot, hotter, hottest...)
Adding -ing / -ed (work, working, worked, stop, stopping, stopped...)
Adding -ly (loud, loudly, happy, happily, terrible, terribly...)
Adding -s
-ible or -able (accessible, visible, dependable, networkable...)
-ie- or -ei- (friend, fiend, feint, freight...)
English and American English (colour, color, practise, practice, tyre, tire...)

[03] The Spelling Zone, from English-Zone.Com

Note: Listed below are the publicly-accessed exercises and activities. You have to join in order to avail of all the resources in this website.

Adding Word Endings
ADDING -ED and -ING (index to all exercises)
Adding -ED to Verbs 01
Adding -ING to Verbs 01
ADDING -S and -ES (index page to all exercises)
Spelling Plural Nouns 06 - Chart (Irregular Plurals List)
Spelling Plural Nouns 01 (Plural Nouns I)
ADDING OTHER ENDINGS (index to all exercises)
Spelling Adverbs With -LY 01

(Index page to all exercises )
Capital Letters Lesson: NAMES
Capital Letters Quiz: NAMES
Comparatives & Superlatives: BIG-BIGGER-BIGGEST, AS...AS (Index to all exercises)
Comparatives 01 Comparatives - one syllable words
Contractions: I + am = I'm, There + is = There's, etc. (Index to all exercises)
Contractions: Negative Modals (Contractions Practice #2)
Your or You're? 01 Confusing Words - Your / You're
Contractions: Subject + Be Verb Contractions Practice #1 - to BE Verb

(Index page to all exercises)
Possessive Nouns with Apostrophe S General Rules for Making POSSESSIVE NOUNS
Spelling Practice, Take some practice spelling quizzes (index to all exercises)
THE ENGLISH ALPHABET
Beginning Spelling Lesson + Quiz BEGINNING SPELLING 1
Advanced Spelling Quiz 01 ADVANCED SPELLING Quiz 1

[04] Spell Check (with Easy and Hard categories), from Funbrain

[05] Complete List of Spelling Rules for Nouns and Verbs by Susan Jones (Georgia State University)

Rules for Irregular Plural Formation of Nouns
List of Irregular Nouns
Rules for Irregular Spelling of Verb Inflections

[06] Spelling, from HyperGrammar (University of Ottawa)

Spelling words with "ei" and "ie"
Review: "ei" and "ie"
Spelling final "y" before a suffix
Review: final "y" before a suffix
Final Silent "e"
Review: Final Silent "e"
Spelling Words with Double Consonants
Review: Double Consonants

[07] Spelling Practice, Levels 1 to 5 (about one hundred interactive spelling exercises), from Interlink Language Center

[08] Spelling, from Interesting Things for ESL Students

Note: This excellent website by Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly has the most number of activities and exercises in spelling among the sites we have checked out. Listed below are just some representative examples. Visit this website to avail of the other spelling activities and exercises.

Spelling and Typing Games: Type the word before you run out of time.
Catch the Spelling: Catch the letters in the correct order.
Word Based Games for ESL Students (Flash Player version 5 or newer)
Spelling / Vocabulary Quizzes: 151 quizzes covering over 1,500 words
WordWeb
Crossword Puzzles: Doing crossword puzzles may help your spelling
English Vocabulary: Some of the activities listed on this page are good for spelling practice

[09] Spelling (Misspelled words in English), from Learning English Online, www.englisch-hilfen.de (English version)

Spelling - Fill-in Exercise 1
Spelling - Fill-in Exercise 2
Spelling - Fill-in Exercise 3
Spelling - Fill-in Exercise 4

[10] Spelling Practice (347 Spelling/word form errors), from Michael Buckhoff's ESL Website for Students and Teachers

Spelling List One
Spelling List Two
Spelling List Three
Spelling List Four
Spelling List Five
Spelling List Six
Spelling List Seven
Spelling List Eight
Spelling List Nine
Spelling List Ten
Spelling List Eleven
Spelling List Twelve
Spelling List Thirteen
Spelling List Fourteen
Spelling List Fifteen
Spelling List Sixteen
Spelling List Seventeen
Spelling List Eighteen
Spelling List Nineteen

[11] 50 commonly misspelled words, from Spelling test by Mindy McAdams

[12] Spelling rules and exercises, from OWL English Purdue Grammar and ESL Exercises

I / E Spelling Rules: Exercise 1
I / E Spelling Rules: Exercise 2
I / E Spelling Rules: Exercise 3
I / E Spelling Rules: Exercise 4

[13] Free online spell checker (up to 20,000 characters), from SpellCheck.net

[14] Spelling It Right - Learn To Spell Confidently, by Roger Smith (British English)

Note: This great website offers lessons and activities in spelling including Syllables, Consonant Blends, Prefixes, Suffixes, Word endings, Vowels, Words in Science, Maths, English, Geography, Plurals, Memorizing Strategies, Word games, Wordsearches. Listed below are the Interactive Hangman games from this site.
Hangman: suffixes -able and -ible practice
Hangman: the i before e rule
Hangman: words starting bl, br, cr, cl, dr
Hangman: words starting fl, fr, gr, gl
Hangman: words starting ch, k, ph and g
Hangman: words starting wh, c or sc
Hangman: words starting pl and pr
Hangman: words which have the "magic" e
Hangman: words ending -er, -or and –ar
Hangman: words starting sc, sh, sl, sm, sn, sp, squ, st, and sw
Hangman: plurals of words ending –y

[15] Often Misspelled Words in English, from http://www.yourdictionary.com/

100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English
150 More Often Misspelled Words In English

[16] Word Cup (an international, online vocabulary competition for all ages, students and adults, sponsored among others by Oxford University Press), from eSpindle

eSpindle is a non-profit organization offering customized vocabulary tutoring online. It is supported through memberships, and memberships are matched with free licenses for disadvantaged students. Other services and resources offered by eSpindle:

Practice quiz for the Word Cup (Choose between easy, average and hard words; quiz updated twice a month)
Free, moderated online spelling bee and Word Cup forum (exchange ideas, make friends, find encouragement)
Root word directory (prefixes, root words and suffixes)
Fun trivia about the English language and learning
Facts and statistics about literacy in the US

[17] SpellCheckPlus, from Dr. Terry Nadasdi (University of Alberta, Canada) and Dr. Stefan Sinclair

A tool for writing in English that identifies spelling errors and common grammatical problems. It is able to detect problems with words that sound the same (e.g.: there versus their, its versus it's, etc.), incorrect use of correct words (e.g.: never mined instead of never mind), punctuation / spacing (e.g.: with out instead of without), capitalization (e.g.: saturday instead of Saturday) and hundreds of grammatical errors, e.g.: I have went instead of I have gone. The site is particularly adept at catching commonly confused words and "slips of the pen", e.g.: pier pressure instead of the correct peer pressure, road to hoe instead of the correct row to hoe, etc

Note:

Typical English mistakes by speakers of other languages, by Language Project, (approved by the British Council; more examples available upon registration): Arabic speakers; Chinese speakers; Japanese speakers; Korean speakers; Portuguese speakers; Spanish speakers; Czech speakers; French speakers; German speakers; Greek speakers; Italian speakers; Polish speakers; Russian speakers; Swedish speakers; Turkish speakers.

Adjectives: discussions and interactive exercises

2008-05-29T17:15:00.000-07:00

Adjectives are words or phrases that modify or describe a noun. For a better understanding of what adjectives are, please surf to the websites listed below.

[01] Adjectives, from Capital Community College Guide to Good Grammar

[02] Adjectives, from Grammar Monster (British English)

[03] Adjectives 1: Adjectives and noun modifiers in English, from One Stop English

[04] Adjectives, from English Daily

[05] Adjectives, from ESL Resource Center

[06] Adjectives and adverbs, from The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuations

[07] Adjectives, from Using English

[08] Adjectives and Adverbs, from English Language Centre Study Zone

[09] Lesson 3- Adjectives, from My English Grammar

[10] Comparison of Adjectives, from Learning English Online www.englisch-hilfen.de (English version)

[11] Adjective or Adverb; How to Use Adjectives and Adverbs, from The OWL at Purdue

Listed below are links to interactive quizzes and exercises in adjectives from the best ESL and EFL resources on the Internet. Take time to browse these excellent websites; they are consistently good and fast loading. Besides the materials listed below, these great sites generously offer, free of charge, a tremendous range of valuable resources for the ESL and EFL teachers and students.

In answering the interactive exercises, you should follow carefully the prompts and directions. You should read each sentence or part aloud before clicking the answer you think is right. After the correct answer is displayed, think it over as to why it is the correct answer. (Please take note that the correct answer may depend on whether the exercise comes from an American English or a British English website.) After doing so, read the complete sentence again aloud with the correct answer.

To train yourself to think in English, try to recite the sentences with the correct answers from memory and at your full speaking volume. Or you can ask a friend to read out loud the sentences with the correct answers and you repeat them without looking at the computer screen.

[01] Exercises in adjectives from Activities for ESL Students

Possessive Adjectives (Dan Fulmer)
Articles - Health Clubs (Colleen Weldele)

[02] Exercises in adjectives from Better English by Pearson Brown (British English)

The / A
The again
Adjectives and adverbs
Adjectives with -ed or -ing
The + adjective (Adjectives with no nouns)
Adjective order
Adjective order 2
Comparatives of adjectives/adverbs
More comparatives (Comparatives 2)
The 2

[03] Exercises in adjectives from Capital Community College Guide to Good Grammar

Recognizing Adjectives Quiz on Adjectives

04] Exercise in adjectives from Caroline's ESL Web Site

Comparatives and Superlatives Big – Bigger - Biggest

[05] Exercise in adjectives from English Corner (Rod Rodgers)

Order of Adjectives - Quiz 1 (Javascript required)

[06] Exercises in adjectives from English Grammar 101

Note: Frame based; You can reach the specific topics listed below by clicking "Unit I Word and Phrase Patterns" on the left hand frame.
Lesson 1-29: Adjective Identification
Lesson 1-30: Adjective Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-31: Adjective Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-32: Adjective Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-33: Comparing With Adjectives
Lesson 1-34: Comparing With Adjectives (Continued)
Lesson 1-47: Adjective and Adverbial Phrases
Lesson 1-48: Adjective and Adverbial Phrases (Continued)
Lesson 1-49: Adjective and Adverbial Phrases (Continued)
Unit 2: Clause Patterns
Lesson 2-0: Unit 2 Pretest
Lesson 2-28: Adjective Clauses versus Adverbial Clauses
Lesson 2-29: Adjective Clauses versus Adverbial Clauses (Continued)
Lesson 2-30: Adjective Clauses versus Adverbial Clauses (Continued)

[07] Exercises in adjectives from English Language Centre Study Zone

Regular Comparatives and Superlatives (Introduction & 6 exercises)
Adjective Order (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Adjective Clauses (Introduction & 3 exercises)
Adjective Clauses (Review) (Introduction & 4 puzzles)
Articles/Determiners
Choosing the Correct Article (Decision Tree)
Some and Any (Introduction and 1 exercise)

[08] Exercises in adjectives from English Learner

Adjective or adverb?
The definite article "the"
Such or so?
Since or for?
Already or yet?

[09] Exercises in adjectives from English Works (Gallaudet University)

Cloze Exercise #1: Nouns and Adjectives
This/That/These/Those Exercise 1
This/That/These/Those Exercise 2
This/That/These/Those Exercise 3
This/That/These/Those Exercise 4
This/That/These/Those Exercise 5
Adjectives #1: -ED or -ING
Adjectives #2: -ED or –ING
Articles 1
Articles: At the Party (A, AN, THE)
Articles: Laptops
Articles: The Coffin Door
Articles: Eggs and Pancakes
Articles: Jane Met Boys
Articles: Joe's Day at Gallaudet
Articles: Laptop Cloze
Articles: Student Responsibilities
Articles: Snow??

[10] Exercises in adjectives from ESL 3-6 Review

Note: Frame based, only one URL for all exercises
Adjectives and Adverbs
Comparatives

[11] Exercises in adjectives from esl-Lounge

Article Gap Fill
Article Error Correction
Indefinite Article

[12] Exercise in adjectives from Interlink Language Centers

Adjectives Pop Quiz 4
Articles Pop Quiz 9

[13] Exercises in adjectives from Grammar Central (eaonline)

Articles 1 – Indefinite
Possessive Adjectives
Flashed ESL
Indefinite Article
Good and Well
Possessive Adjectives
Adjective or Adverb

[14] Exercise in adjectives from Grammar Monster (British English)

Adjectives Test
Comparatives Test
An or A test

[15] Exercise in adjectives from Grammar Workout (Empre State College)

Exercise 7: Adverbs and Adjectives

[16] Exercises in adjectives from Interactive Quizzes, John Wong(British English)

Adjective / Adverb
Adjectives Quiz

[17] Exercise in adjectives from Interesting Things for ESL Students

A, An, The or Nothing [Flash]
Quiz Show - A, An or Nothing [Java]

[18] Exercises in adjectives from Isabel’s ESL Site

Scrambled Words - 1/10
Comparative Forms
Superlative Forms
Opposite Adjectives
Adjectives (Crossword)
Adjective Endings

[19] Exercises in adjectives from John’s ESL Community English Interactive

Adjectives
Possessive Adjectives
Guidelines for using the indefinite article
Adjective Word Order 1
Adjective Word Order 2
Adjective Word Order 3
Adjective Word Order 4
Adjective Word Order 5
Adjective Word Order 6
Adjective Word Order 7
Adjective Word Order 8
Adjective Word Order 9
Making Comparisons
Comparatives

[20] Exercises in adjectives from 1-Language.com

Modifying Adjectives
Comparatives

[21] Exercises in adjectives from Language and Learning Online (Monash University)

Exercise 1 indefinite articles
Exercise 2 indefinite articles
Review indefinite articles
Exercise 1 definite articles
Exercise 2 definite articles
Exercise 3 definite articles
Exercise 4 definite articles
Review the definite article

[22] Exercise in adjectives from Lauri's ESL Website

Participial Adjectives
Comparative Adjective Forms (Flash)
Adjective Clauses
Using a, some, or the (Flash)

[23] Exercises in adjectives from Learn English Feel Good

Mixed Articles 1 (Beginner / Intermediate)
Mixed Articles 2 (Beginner / Intermediate)
Mixed Articles 3 (Beginner / Intermediate)
Mixed Articles 4 (Beginner / Intermediate)
Mixed Articles 5 (Beginner / Intermediate)
Articles: The / A / An (Intermediate)
Articles: The / A / An 2 (Beginner)
Articles: The / A / An 3 (Advanced)
ARTICLE or NO ARTICLE? (Advanced)
ARTICLE or NO ARTICLE? 2 (Intermediate)
Articles: A or AN? 1 (Beginner)
Articles: A or AN? 2 (Beginner)
Articles: A or THE? (Beginner)
ADVERB or ADJECTIVE? 1 (Beginner)
ADVERB or ADJECTIVE? 2 (Intermediate)
ADVERB or ADJECTIVE? 3 (Beginner)
ADVERB or ADJECTIVE? 4 (Beginner)
Change Adjectives to Adverbs (Intermediate)

[24] Exercises in adjectives from Learning English Online, www.englisch-hilfen.de (English version)

Adjective or adverb?
Adjectives - Comparison - Exercise - 1
Adjectives - Comparison - Exercise - 2
Adjectives - Comparison - Exercise - 3
Adjectives - Comparison - Test 1
Adjectives - Comparison - Test 2
Adjectives - Comparison - Test 3
The definite article - the
The indefinite article - Exercise 1
The indefinite article - Exercise 2
Articles - The indefinite article - a, an

[25] Exercises in adverbs from Marcus Evans Linguarama

Adjectives and adverbs (Marketing)

[26] Exercises in adjectives from Michael Buckhoff's ESL Website for Students and Teachers

Adjective / Adverb Clause Quizzes
Adjective, Reduced Adjective Clause Quizzes
Adjective clauses: Quiz 1
Adjective clauses: Quiz 2
Reduced adjective clauses: Quiz 3
Reduced adjective clauses: Quiz 4
Article self-study quizzes

[27] Exercises in adjectives from 5 Minute English

Very vs. Too
Use to / Used to

[28] Exercises in adjectives from My English Grammar

Exercise 3 - Adjectives (Comparison of Adjectives)
Exercise 6 - Articles

[29] Exercises in adjectives from Online English Grammar (Edunet)

Adjectives and Adverbs Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Adjectives and Nouns Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Articles Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Comparisons Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Comparisons (Form of Adjective or Adverb) Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Compound Adjectives (and Adjectives as Nouns) Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Confusing Adjectives and Nouns Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A

[30] Exercises in adjectives from OWL English Purdue Grammar and ESL Exercises

Adjective or Adverb: Exercise 1
Adjective or Adverb: Exercise 2
A or An?
Adjective or Adverb?
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Articles (A / An / The):
Exercise 1
Exercise 2

[31] Exercises in adjectives from Rong-Chang Li

Adjectives & Adverbs (1)
Adjectives & Adverbs (2)
Adjectives & Adverbs (3)
The Article a / an; the (1)
The Article a / an; the (2)
The Article a / an; the (3)
Articles A / an; the (4)
a / an; the (5)
Adjectives & Adverbs (1)
Adjectives & Adverbs (2)
Adjectives & Adverbs (3)
ESL Exercises (9) (Comparative)

[32] Exercises in adjectives from Taiwan Teacher

_ed _ing adjectives 1
_ed _ing adjectives 2
_ed _ing adjectives 3
An articles exercise ( the, a / an and -) featuring Taiwan

[33] Exercises in adjectives from The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuations

Adjectives and Adverbs Quiz 1
Adjectives and Adverbs Quiz 2

[34] Exercises in adjectives from University of Calgary - The Basic Elements of English Grammar Guide

Adjectives
Comparative & Superlative
Practice Distinguishing Adjectives & Adverbs

[35] Exercises in adjectives from University of Oregon The Tongue Untied

Adjective Practice Exercise
Adjective Practice Exercise Answers

[36] Exercises in adjectives from Using English

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Beginner English
Adjective or Adverb? (17)
Adjectives- positive & negative (13)
Order of Adjectives (14)
Articles
A & An (25)
A, An or The (12)
Articles (60)
Definite Article or Zero Article? (20)
Zero article or The? (57)
Intermediate English
Adjective or Present Participle? (10)
Adjectives and Adverbs with the same form (14)
Adjectives ending -ful and -less (20)
Adjectives ending -ible and -able (20)
Adjectives- Order (12)
Articles
Articles with geographical names (29)
Articles with uncountable nouns (10)
Definite Article or Zero Article- Geography (16)

[37] Exercises in adjectives from World-English (British English)

ENGLISH ARTICLES (a, an, the)
COMPARATIVES/SUPERLATIVES
ADJECTIVE PLACEMENT