Links - English Proficiency - A Collection of TESL resources

4. Links about improving English Proficiency

Improve Your Vocabulary

60 online resources for developing your vocabulary - here.

English Cafe

English Cafe is a site with lessons at all levels and opportunities to 'meet' and chat with teachers and students.

English Club

English Club has listening opportunities, and grammar help, and reading and writing advice. Great for learning and teaching.

ESOL Courses

ESOL Courses offers free online English lessons at different levels- certainly worth a look for improving your proficiency, and even to get some teaching iedeas.

77 ways to learn faster, deeper, and better

On the Hacking Knowledge site read this extensive list of ways to improve teaching and learning.

BBC News Learn English

BBC News has some special pages for learning English, really useful up-to-date material.

Learn Real English

The Learn Real English website offers free 'real conversation lessons', and a promise to improve your English quickly. (I haven't checked it out, but it's probably worth a visit.)

Random Idea English "is aimed mainly at advanced students of English as a foreign / second language, although it will hopefully also be of some interest to teachers. I intend it to be a mishmash of lessons, exercises and the occasional opinionated rant about the English language."

English Online

This is the British Council website, in China. There is a Learners' page, and a teachers' page.

LingoFeeds

"Lingofeeds provides a unique guide to professional English. Instead of providing general examples of grammar and usage, Lingofeeds materials employ key phrases taken from specific industries. In this way, you will improve your English using the English you need to improve your career."

Do Lectures

Another website with videos of excellent talks to watch, listen to, and get your students to watch. Talks that inspire. Well worth a visit.

Word Steps

A place to practise and improve your English Vocabulary.

English Grammar Reference and Exercises

Ego4u is a nice site with clear explanations and interactive exercises (they will mark and correct for you). Good place to find grammar rules, and somewhere to send your students for practise.

It's a German site, so make sure you link to the right section.

English Grammar

Want to improve your English Grammar? Try English Grammar . Org.

Simple English News

News stories in simple English to read and/or listen to.

ESL Partyland

This site is partly for teachers, and partly for learners of English.

ESL Videos

Watching these videos and answering the quizzes will help to improve your proficiency in English language. You will also see this website referred to on our Videos page on this site.

Dictionary.Com

This is so much more than an English-to-English dictionary (which, by the way, is better for you to use when improving your English rather than English-to-BM!). Dictionary.Com has all sorts of interesting items that can improve you proficiency in a fun way.