The following links will help you find activities to practice listening, reading, grammar and pronunciation or check out the latest news.
If you are currently enrolled in a course at Sacred Heart, follow this link to our Blackboard online grammar program.
General Links
Dave's ESL Cafe - Dave Sperling
Mark's ESL World - Mark McDowell
Activities for ESL Students - a project of The Internet TESL Journal including contributions from many teachers
Learn English Feel Good - resource that includes video clips for exercises
Grammar Links
Guide to Grammar and Writing - lots of great activities and on-line quizzes by Charles Darling
Index of Previous Grammar Exercises - CNN activities by Brigham Young University in Hawaii
Verb Tenses Exercises - from Englishpage.com
Super Quiz Machine for ESL Students - quizzes by Charles Kelly
More grammar quizzes - more by Charles Kelly
Free-English.com - grammar, spelling, sentence-structure, vocabulary, and a free test
Free-TOEFL.com - practice the structure part of TOEFL exam
Free-TOEIC.com - practice the TOEIC exam
Reading Links
Links to reading texts (books, magazines, newspapers) - Lingua Center, University of Illinois
Things to read and research by topic - Ohio University CALL Lab
Vocabulary Exercises - by better-english.com
More Vocabulary Exercises - by better-english.com
Listening Links
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab - a great resource of listening activities
Real English Online - like Randall's, only with video. It's free, but you'll need to set up a user account
The English Listening Lounge - lots of conversations with activities (requires RealPlayer)
Takako's Great Adventure - a fun story with many episodes (requires Shockwave)
Global Views
Focus on the Family with Dr. James Dobson
Pronunciation Links
English Pronunciation - Okanagan University College
Word stress - by EnglishClub.net
American Accent - by American Accent Training
News Links (to read, watch or listen to)
The Online News Hour – PBS
World News Tonight
Nightline
Nightly News