Getting started
The problem is that there are so many it’s difficult to choose.We have made a selection of web pages to help you quickly locate useful ones.
There is a brief description of each resource – except for those that need no introduction.
Our criteria for selecting exercises :
the objective is learning and understanding (that is, they’re not just tests of knowledge), images, graphs, examples and/or other ways of leading to understanding are included, immediate feedback is given to each question, the context is as realistic as possible, they are interesting and fun to do. The links lead to resources as directly as possible. The links are to pages rather than to sites.
About Search Engines
Use these to find the name of the person or the subject you want to find on the Internet. Type in a name or phrase and the search engine will give you a list of sites. Be as precise as possible or you will get lost in hundreds, and even thousands, of answers. Google is probable the best search engine at the moment.
| Basic Search Tips | |
| English through the Internet | A course created by a teacher in Israel. You learn to use the Internet step-by-step. |
| Free Email Address Directory | You will need to have an e-mail address to use forums, chat rooms and, of course, to write to your friends. |
Pronunciation exercises
| Where is the primary tonic stress? |
| Accent de la phrase |
| Accent tonique de 34 adjectifs ou adverbes |
| Tests phonologie |
| Dictées de symboles |
| Phonemes in the English language |
| Mute Letters |
| Match vowel sounds |
| Verbe ou nom ? Où tombe l’accent tonique |
| Minimal Pair Practice & Quizzes | |
| Audio Concentration Games | Match the pairs of identical words just from listening. |
| Word Final -ED | |
| Word Final -S | |
| Reduction Quiz | |
| Conditionals 1, 2, 3 Quiz | |
| Can or Can’t | With written sentences |
| Can or Can’t | Without written sentences |
| Words and Pictures | |
| Sandcastle Quiz | |
| Drag ‘n’spell | |
| Pounce! | Click on the word that you hear. |
| Phonetics Focus | A large number of pronunciation exercises. Some are more suited to children. |
| Phonetics: The sounds of American English | An illustrated academic course with animated diagrams, Flash movies and sound. |
| Word Stress and Sentence Stress |
Listening
What are Podcasts?
Wikipedia : “A podcast is a series of digital-media files which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers. The term is a portmanteau of the words “iPod” and “broadcast”, the Apple iPod being the brand of portable media player for which the first podcasting scripts were developed. Such scripts allow podcasts to be automatically transferred to a mobile device after they are downloaded.”
At the time of writing – January 2010 – you didn’t have to pay or register for the podcasts below, but you may have to register for transcripts and/or pedagogical notes.
You can listen on your computer, but you will need to have QuickTime installed.
| BBC Learning English | Downloads of last 7 days’ audio, video and text |
| Better at English | Lori — Authentic conversations with transcripts and language notes. |
| Breaking News English | Sean Banville — Lesson plans for teachers and online quizzes for students. |
| Business English Pod | Peter Atkinson — Register for Study Notes |
| Business English Pod – Video | The videos are on YouTubeRegister for Study Notes |
| Business English Study | Register for the PDF lesson. |
| ELLLO | English Language Listening Lab Online — 1,000 listening activites + transcipt and interactive quiz. |
| Mixer | People giving their opinons about pets, ghosts, money, TV, etc… |
| Listening Games | Elementary level |
| Talking Points | Designed to be short talks to help students on standardized tests like TOEFL®, TOEIC® and IELTS® |
| News Center | Can help students learn academic English and develop test taking skills for standardized listening tests such as TOEFL®, TOEIC® and IELTS® |
| English Through Stories | Lucy Tse and Jeff McQuillan — Center for Educational Development, Los Angeles. With transcripts. |
| ESLPodcast | Lucy Tse and Jeff McQuillan — Center for Educational Development, Los Angeles —The podcasts are free but it costs $10 for the Learning Guide (transcripts, definitions, comprehension questions, additional explanations…). |
| ESL mp3 files | Choose a podcast from the list. |
| Grammar Challenge | BBC — A weekly commentary on grammar point. |
| How to… | BBC — English for everyday situations |
| Listen to English – Learn English | Peter Carter — Two short (3 to 5 minutes) podcasts every week in clearly spoken English.With transcriptions. |
| Living on Earth | Public Radio International — A weekly news and information program from about the world’s changing environment, ecology, and human health. Transcripts. |
| Podcasts in English | Richard Cain and Jackie McAvoy — Free but you have to register for transcripts and worksheets. |
| EFL podcasts | Charles Kelly and others — Direct links to interesting podcasts. |
| VOA Learning English Podcasts | Voice of America — News and feature programs in special English, core vocabulary of 1500 words, short simple sentences (read at about 2/3 of the speed of standard English). |
| Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab | Lots of dialogues at all levels with exercises and transcripts. |
| Welcome to London | BBC Learning English |
| The Web Language Lab | Robert Tuffigo — Recorded texts with transcriptions and exercises. Key vocabulary translated into French. |
| Mixer | People giving their opinons about pets, ghosts, money, TV, etc… |
| Listening Games | Elementary level |
| Talking Points | Designed to be short talks to help students on standardized tests like TOEFL®, TOEIC® and IELTS® |
| News Center | Can help students learn academic English and develop test taking skills for standardized listening tests such as TOEFL®, TOEIC® and IELTS® |
| Songs | A list of selected songs. |
| BBC Learning English | Audio news items + transcripts |
| News English | |
| Business Words in the News | |
| Beyond the Postcard | A series that looks at some not so well known features of some very well known places. |
| The Flatmates | An English language teaching soap. |
| CNN Story Archives | Each module includes the full text of each story and interactive activities to test comprehension. Your can choose to read the text, listen to the text, and view a short video clip of the story. |
| Living on Earth | Public Radio International — Programs on environmental issues + transcripts. |
| The World Today | ABC — Current affairs radio programmes with transcripts from Australia. |
| Listening Comprehension | Michel Barbot |
| G. W. Bush’s address to the nation September 11th, 2001 | |
| I have a dream… Martin Luther King | |
| Takako’s Great Adventure | A story in 10 episodes with transcriptions, vocabulary help and interactive exercises. |
| Listen and Read Along | Charles Kelly — As you listen to the story, the words that are being spoken will be shown. |
| Breaking News English | Ready-to-use EFL / ESL lesson plans based on current affairs. Graded news articles, listenings and communicative activities uploaded daily. |
| The Moonlit Road | Many professionally told stories about the American South. With transcripts and illustrations. |
| The Smithsonian Associates | Radio broadcasts on Current Affairs, History, Literature and the Performing Arts. No transcripts or exercises. |
| Everyday English in Conversation Dialogues | Trancripts and exercises. |
| Interactive Health Tutorials | MedlinePlus — Animated graphics with each tutorial explain a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language. You can also listen to the tutorial. |
| EZSlang | Randal Davis — Reduce your accent, speak more naturally, and understand conversational speech. |
| Repeat After Us | A collection of copyright-free English texts and scripted recordings : poetry, drama, children’s stories, nursery rhymes, fiction, non-fiction. Made by High School students. |
| BBC 4 Audio Interviews | Famous writers, painters, filmmakers, musicians, scientists, sports personalities, etc. from the BBC archives. No transcripts. |
| The Reith Lectures | Listen to the prestigious annual BBC lectures on various aspects of contemporary life by famous speakers. Transcripts but no exercises. |
| Just for fun ! | |
| TTS (Text-to-Speech) Demo | AT&T — Type in a text and hear it spoken aloud in (almost) natural speech. |
| Text-to-Speech | Oddcast — Type in a text and hear it spoken aloud by a “bot”. |
| Artificial Intelligence Robot SPEAKS to you | |
| Other lists of links | |
| Listen to English | E. L. Easton |
| Language Activities : Listening & Speaking | English Study Direct |
Online videos with exercises for students.
These online videos and films present in English in natural contexts and exercises require students to interpret what they see and hear through exercises which appeal to their intelligence and intuition.
| Elllo Videos | Short videos of intermediate level. Click on the CC (closed caption) button to practice “shadowing” : that is, reading “karaoke style” with the speaker. |
| Living English | Australian elementary level course. |
| Lingualnet | Learn English through media. A variety of types of films and clips, with and without subtitles. There are also quizzes and “reviews” where you can give feedback on the films. |
| Michel Barbot : Listening 2 - Movie Sounds and Clips | |
| Starwars | |
| In America | |
| The Luzhin Defence | |
| “Wanna” Watch Some Movies? – My Cousin Vinny | Buth Al Othman |
| Real English® | A very attractive website with exercises and authentic videos. You have to register but a lot are free. (We also have Real English videos and a CD-Rom in the CLA media centre.) |
| Real English® video exercises | Josef Schiele – With and without the sound. |
| LearnEnglishFeelGood.com | Short clips from YouTube with comprehension questions. |
| Beyond the Postcard, BBC Learning English – Watch the videos and answer the questions | |
| Bristol – Wine Trade | |
| Winchester – King Alfred | |
| Oxford – Carfax Tower | |
| Windsor – Herne the Hunter | |
| Greenwich – The Queen’s House | |
| Brooklands – Aviation | |
| Edinburgh – Greyfriars Kirk | |
| Video Nation, BBC Learning English – Listen to the video diaries and do the exercises | |
| Denise Lester- Spain | |
| Perry Lee- Liverpool | |
| Jayne Davis – Cardiff | |
| Mark McClean – Belfast | |
| English Bites | Australian news clips with transcripts, vocabulary help and multiple choice quizzes. |
| Story Archives | CNN and CBS news stories Full and short versions + exercises + video + transcripts |
| thedailyenglishshow | Sarah – a New Zealander based in Japan. |
| ESLvideo.com | A large number of quizzes based on videos and popular song clips from YouTube and similar sites (organised by level, with transcripts). |
| Online videos - but no exercises | |
| Videojug | Life explained on film – Short “how-to” films on many subjects with transcripts. Very clear and easy to understand. |
| Teacher Tube | Lessons on different subjects of variable quality but many of them are clear and easy to understand for learners of English. Downloadable. |
| Euronews | With transcriptions and podcasts. |
| Moving Image Archive | An American free collection. Can be downloaded and used for academic purposes. |
| Free Movies Entertainment Magazine | Over 200 public domain movies and videos, music videos, classic TV shows and movie trailers. |
| The National Archives | UK public information films - Can also be downloaded and used for academic purposes. With transcriptions. Often amusing. |
| Top 100 speeches | American Rhetoric. Audio and video with transcriptions. |
| Movie speeches | Other American rhetoric |
| For fun ! | |
| German Coast Guard Video | |
| For teachers | |
| Video: Active listening & watching techniques for children | Pamela Albert, Glenys Hanson, Donna L’Hôte. Many are also appropriate for adults. |
| Movie sounds & clips | Michel Barbot |
| English Dictations | Kico4U – Nicola Dökel — You don’t need to understand the German instructions to do the dictations. |
| English Dictation Tests | Lynne Hand — Traditional dictations on various subjects. Elementary & Intermediate. |
| In-House Listening Quizzes | 11 sentences. |
| Short online dictations | English Club — Very brief recordings for beginners. |
| Medium online dictations | English Club — Mid-length recordings for intermediate learners. |
| Long online dictations | English Club — Long recordings of a full paragraph or more for high-intermediate or advanced learners. |
| Graded Dictations | Tim Bowyer — Mainly taken from classical literature. |
| Learn a Song Podcast | Learn to sing folk songs, campfire songs and group-singing songs that native English speakers sing. |
| Karaoke English | Here’s some karaoke English on a site where you can pick your song and sing along! |
| Esol.com | Another site with pop music you can learn to sing. |
| EFL Club songs room | |
| Charles Kelly | |
| Arkansas Traveler | |
| Buffalo Gals | |
| Cindy | |
| Little Bo Peep | |
| Little Liza Jane | |
| Swanee River | |
| Weeping Willow | |
| EFL Club songs room | Chris Elvin |
| Help!- The Beatles | |
| In My Life – The Beatles | |
| Yesterday – The Beatles | |
| Let It Be – The Beatles | |
| I’m a Believer – The Monkeys | |
| What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong | |
| Streets of Laredo – Roger McGuinn | Darren Rigby |
| Elllo : Songs | Listen and read the lyrics phrase by phrase |
| Mouseovermusic.com | Just mouse over the words to hear the music. |
| The evolution of man | by Johnny Berliner |
| Glucose, Glucose | by Greg Crowther |
| LyricsMode.com | Archive of song lyrics |
| Interactive telephoning exercices | |
| Phone Numbers-1 | Lauri’s ESL Website — Listen and click on the right number. |
| Phone Numbers-2 | |
| Following Directions on the Telephone | |
| Listening: Telephone Conversations | Lauri’s ESL Website — Click on “Play” to listen. Then answer the questions. |
| Business Communications | ESL-Lab — Listen to a business telephone conversation and answer questions |
| Telephone Conversations: Taking and Leaving Messges | |
| Answering Machine | ESL-Lab — Listen to a phone message and answer questions. |
| Phone Message | |
| Telephoning | OUP — I’ll call back conversation |
| Can I help you? | Australian network — Video + transcript + quiz |
| Effective Telephone Techniques -Training video | |
| Information but no audio recordings | |
| Telephone English – Important Phrases | About.com — No audio recording |
| Telephone English – Leaving Messages | |
| Tips for Getting People to Slow Down!! | |
| Telephoning | Michel Barbot — Crossward quiz for French speakers |
Grammar
| Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check | A simple but effective technique BBC |
| ESL Desk Quizzes | |
| Common Errors in English Exercise | |
| Spelling quiz – numbers, length, weight, time… | Easy |
| Pronouns spelling quiz | |
| 1000 Most Used English Words | |
| English Irregular Verbs | |
| Irregular Plurals of Nouns | |
| Commonly Misspelled words | |
| Advanced English words spelling test | |
| Spelling | INTERLINK Language Centers — 5 Levels each with 20 exercises |
| Manythings.org | Charles Kelly- our favourites |
| Choose the Correct Spelling | |
| Every Other Letter Game | |
| Vocabulary Word Lists | Choose a word list and then choose from over 20 different games to play. |
| Capital Community College Foundation | Spelling Quizzes |
| Number One | |
| Number Two | |
| Number Three | (Endings) |
| Number Four | (with sound) |
| Number Five | (with sound) |
| Number Six | (with sound) |
| Number Seven | (with sound) |
| UsingEnglish.com | |
| Homophones | |
| Plurals of nouns ending -f | |
| Spelling | |
| Spelling- -ance or -ence? | |
| Test your Spelling | |
| American & British Spelling | |
| Apostrophes | |
| Capital Letter & Lower Case | |
| Days of the Week | |
| Its & It’s | |
| Months of the Year | |
| Punctuation | |
| Spelling- ‘ie’ or ‘ei’? | |
| Spelling- ‘n’ or ‘nn’? | |
| Spelling- -or or -er? | |
| Spelling- Plural Nouns | |
| Spelling- Silent Letters | |
| Test your Spelling | |
| There, Their & They’re | |
| Spelling it Right | A useful and complet site of spelling tips and exercises |
Exercises to help you understand English grammar.
Grammar doesn’t mean learning rules by heart, it means understanding and feeling how the language is structured. Small children learn the grammar of the language(s) spoken around them because it is contextualised by what they see and hear. The grammar exercises selected here aim to make meaning clear in a similar way through the use of images and concrete examples.
| English grammar exercises | All with graphics, mainly low level. |
| Cloze test creator | Lucy Georges - CRELENS-UHP Nancy 1 — Make your own blank-filling exercise. Paste in your text and the application will make an interactive exercise for you. |
| UVic’s 200 Grammar Topics | (Elementary level) |
| UVic’s 330 Grammar Topics | (Elementary/Intermediate level) |
| UVic’s 410 Grammar Topics | (Intermediate/Advanced level) |
| Verb Tenses and Quizzes Reviewing All Verb Tenses | Advanced reading; includes a link words module. |
| UVic’s Pulp Friction | Erlyn Baack |
| Beginner’s page | Michel Barbot — A lot of varied grammar exercises, some for French speakers only. |
| Building questions | |
| Grammar | Magda Kalinowska — A very useful list organised by grammatical themes. |
| Verb Tense Tutorial | Englishpage.com — Grammar exercises contrasting the uses of different tenses + explanations of the tenses with diagrams. |
| Grammar Quizzes | Julie Sevastopoulos - College of San Mateo |
| Essential English Grammar | Linguapress – Andrew Rossiter — Grammar explanations with many examples |
There are lots of grammar quizzes and exercises on the Internet. You’ll also find grammar explanations but they are often over simplified, don’t take into account modern usage, and sometimes are just plain wrong.
Here are some other ways of investigating how English is really used :
| Grammar Safari | University of Illinois — Using the Internet to find examples of specific words. The article is quite old. |
| British National Corpus – 1980s-1993 | The concordancer will give you examples of how is a word is used in context. Based on several large corpora of modern spoken and written British English. Gives complete sentences. |
| Corpus of Contemporary American English – 1990-2007 | Similar to the British one, but with a larger corpus. |
| Voice of America’s special English Programs | Charles Kelly — Complete sentences given. The examples are easier than the other concordancers. |
| The Compleat Lexical Tutor | Tom Cobb – Université du Québec — A very original site with a lot of different ways of working on words. For some of them you have to down load a plug-in. |
| Online Corpora |
Quizzes and games for practicing your English
| A funny house ! | Renée Maufroid — Interactive exercise with animations. |
| Tanbur Music Education Links | David French — An amazing selection of music quizzes. |
| English Quizzes | Tereza Neves — A very attractive site with a lot of nice graphics; all levels including a lot of easy ones. |
| ESL Blues | Eifion Pritchard — A variety of quizzes plus some animated grammar lessons. |
| Activities for ESL Students | a4esl.org — The Internet TESL Journl |
| Phrasal Verbs Quiz | Discovery English — Logical, mathematical, reasoning, etc. puzzles. |
| Brain Boosters | The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company |
| Longevity Game | General knowledge quizzes |
| History Games | BBC |
| Zero Wing | Correct the aliens’ English |
| Dvolver Moviemaker | On this site you can create a silent movie cartoon with your own dialogue and send it by e-mail to your friends. |
| Jack the Pirate | |
| Help Roger decorate his room | Follow his instructions and select the furniture he wants. |
| Destination Impossible | Read and follow the instructions on a map. |
A multi-source dictionary search service.
| Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary | You can add it to your browser. |
| Longman English Dictionary Online | You can hear the pronunciation of some of the words. |
| Merriam-Webster Dictionary | You can hear the pronunciation of words. |
| howjsay.com | An English pronouncing dictionary of words and phrases with instant sound. Human voices. Translations available. |
| Forvo | Words in many languages pronounced by human voices. |
| The Free Dictionary | English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library. You can hear the pronunciation of words. |
| Language Tools | |
| Your dictionary.com | More than 1500 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages. |
| IATE | Inter-Active Terminology for Europe — The EU inter-institutional terminology database |
| Wikipedia | The most popular free open-content encyclopedia in many languages. |
| Translator | Google Translate | Machine translations of texts. |
| Formal or Informal : Rank the texts | UniLearning |
| Pulp Friction | UVic English Language Centre, Canada — A complete module including: Pre-reading, skimming, scanning, reordering, scavenger hunt (unfortunately many dead links), essay writing. A particularly useful exercise : Review of Cause and Effect Linking Words |
| An Academic Writing Module : Paragraphs | Victoria University, NZ — Including exercises on :
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| Efficient reading skills | Including :
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| Reading strategies for academic texts | Advice followed by lots of short articles for practice |
| MOTS LIENS | Institut de langues vivantes at the Université catholique de Louvain — Many other grammar exercises, too. |
| Academic Vocabulary | University of Nottingham — Gives some suggestions about using the Academic Word List. The AWL Highlighter and the AWL Gapmaker to help you expand your academic vocabulary. |
| The AWL Highlighter |
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| The AWL Gapmaker | Copy and paste your text into the Gapmaker. It will automatically gap the academic words that were highlighted in the previous exercise and produce a gapfilling exercise for you to do. |
| VocabProfile English | Paste a piece of text into the box and it will tell you how many words the text contains from the following four frequency levels :
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| Parapal | |
| Essay Fundamentals | Multiple choice exercise about topic sentences, thesis statements, etc. |
| Advanced Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English | Erlyn Baack — Advice on how to organise ideas and write the 5 paragraph essay + interactive quizzes. |
| Proofreading Practice | Practice correcting passages for spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and usage. Writer’s Choice |
| TESL-EJ APA Style Guide | A brief guide to the rules for academic citations |
| Style tips | APA Online |
| Programs for creating automatic references and citations | |
| Reference Machine for Journal Articles | Hong Kong Polytechnic University — The English Language Centre |
| Reference Machine for Journal Articles | |
| Reference machine : Internet pages | |
| Harvard Bibliography Reference Generator | Neil’s Toolbox |
Professionnal English
| Business English | A variety of articles, audio programs |
| Ten Days in Manchester | An interactive intermediate business English course with audio and video. |
| Business Meetings | |
| Travel and Tourism | A site with useful vocabulary for those in the tourist trade. |
| Business English | Michael E. Riccioli, Université Paris IX-Dauphine — Revision Exercises |
| Business English Exercises | Pearson Brown |
| Business Studies Course – Investment company | Related to buying and selling shares |
| Business English Pod | Video Vocab | |
| Negociating a Commission | Negociate in English |
| Simulations | |
| Break-Even Analysis Simulation | |
| Investopedia Stock Simulator | |
| Trading Around the World | IMF |
| Lemonade Stand | |
| The Complete US Federal Budget | With quizzes. |
| Business Netiquette International | Not very easy to read but some useful information. |
| Quizzes and Tests | |
| Money Trivia Quiz | |
| Do you know your money basics? | A 10 question quiz. |
| Negotiating word matching | |
| Advice | |
| How to Write a Business Email | Kenneth Beare - About.com |
| Linguarama | Lots of articles with vocabulary exercises |
| Other lists of links | |
| Business English | E. L. Easton‘s very comprehensive list. |
| Anglais Post-Baccalauréat – BTS | Darren Rigby and Yvan Baptiste‘s list of buisiness orientated links. For most of them, knowledge of French is not necessary. |
| Media | |
| Business Week online | |
| Financial Times | |
| Wall Street Journal | |
| The Economist |
| Pearson Brown | |
| Effective Public Speaking Skills | Complete course with numerous quizzes |
| How to Beat Panic When You Present | Effective Presentation Skills (single page) |
| Joseph Essberger | |
| 20 Presentation Tips for Your ESL Students | TEFL.net (single page) |
| Public Speaking in English: Presentations | EnglishClub.com — 7 essential points on one page |
| Business Presentations & Public Speaking in English | EnglishClub.com — A complete tutorial in 8 parts. |
| The Art of Communicating Effectively | Art Feierman — Useful tips all on one, long, page |
| Kenneth Beare | |
| Key Phrases for Making a Business Presentation | About.com — Includes advice as well as useful phrases (in 8 parts). |
| How To Make a Speech | About.com — About.comUseful expressions for interrupting, asking for information, etc. |
| Signposting | David Block — One page of tips on delivery, pacing, body language, etc. |
| Simple Presentations | ESLgold — A list of expressions with audio |
| Ways of agreeing | EnglishTest.net — Interactive quiz |
| Ways of disagreeing |
| Working Abroad | This is an international networking service for volunteers, workers and travellers on volunteer projects in over 150 countries worldwide. |
| International Voluntary Service | The International Voluntary Service is the British branch of Service Civil International (SCI), a peace movement which was founded in the aftermath of the first world war. SCI works with a world wide network of like-minded voluntary organisations promoting peace and justice through voluntary work. |
| Workplace Writers | OWL at Purdue University |
| Cover Letters | Jobsite UK |
| CV Library | UK’s leading independent job board |
| The Commandments of Cover Letter Creation | Science Magazine |
| Applying for Jobs | Graduate Prospects, Ltd. |
| Cover Letter Tips and Samples | Arizona State University |
| What is the Right Resume for Me ? | JobStar |
| Resume & Cover Letter Writing Help | Before and after examples in several fields |
| Business English | E. L. Easton — Lots of links |
| Brain Pop | Animated science movies for kids, some of the films are free, to see the others you have to suscribe to the site. |
| Windows to the Universe | A user-friendly learning system covering the Earth and Space sciences for use by the general public. The site is written in three reading levels approximating elementary, middle school and high school reading levels. These levels may be chosen by using the upper button bar of each page of the main site. |
| Science in the News | Voice of America, Special English |
| How Stuff Works | Adult Learning Activities — California Distance Learning Project. |
| How Stuff Works | This is an entertaining and fascinating place for people to learn about the world we live in. |
| The Why Files | University of Wisconsin — The science behind the news. |
| PLoS | Public Library of Science. Open access scientific articles. Biology and Medecine. |
| SciVee | Online video lectures. Mainly biology and medecine. Can be downloaded as podcasts. |
| MIT OpenCourseWare | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides free access to virtually all MIT course materials for educators and learners around the world – including videos. |
| The Naked Scientists | Science radio and podcasts. |
| Science and Development Network | News, views and information about science, technology and the developing world Creative CommonsThe Naked Scientists Online Radio programs about science. |
| CELLS alive! | Video clips of living cells and computer animation. |
| Domestic animals | Vocabulary exercise |
| Cover crops | Text reordering exercise |
| How to start a garden | Exercises based on a Videojug film |
| Agriculture | Intermediate level radio articles |
| Cherries | Charles Kelly — Read and listen |
| Agricultural Market Development | English-Test.net — MCQ |
| ESL News New Zealand | |
| Carbon Emissions | |
| Biosecurity | |
| Meat Industry | |
| World Food Conference | |
| Vocabulary exercises – ‘The Plant World’ | Nonstop English |
| Agriculture Quiz | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada |
| Learn More About Biodiversity Using Multimedia | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada |
| Worm Watch is getting the dirt on earthworms | |
| Glossary of flowers |
| Campaign maps | Varied maps which can be download and used for oral tasks. (Intended to be used with the Campaign textbook). |
| War and the Media | Constitutional Rights Foundation lesson followed by a role play. |
| Military quizzes | |
| War words quiz | |
| Military.com: Today in the Military | |
| The French Foreign Legion | Useful advice for those thinking of joining. |
| NATO FAQ | |
| Commonwealth Institute Project on Defense Alternatives | |
| Soldier | Magazine of the British Army |
| Some articles | |
| Afghanistan — Bagram Airbase | GlobalSecurity.org |
| The Worldwide Network of US Military Bases | Global Policy Forum |
| Civil-Military Co-operation | Wikipedia |
| Vocabulary | |
| Military ranks | |
| Military definitions | |
| US Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms |
For professional or university objectives you may need to prove your level in English.
The following certifications and diplomas are nationally and internationally recognised.
Click on the links to find more information about each one. For most of them you will also find online practice tests.
| DCL | Diplôme de compétence en langue |
| TOEIC | Test of English for International Communication |
| TOEFL | Test Of English as a Foreign Language |
| IELTS | International English Language Testing System |
| Passer le TOEIC au CLA | |
| Préparer le TOEIC au CLA | |
| Passer le DCL d’anglais au CLA | |
| Préparer le DCL d’anglais au CLA |
You can also find on line the “annales” of the Baccalauréat d’anglais.