Websites for At Home Practice
Randall's Listening Lab
This site has listening activities for learning English at different levels. They are a little easier than the other sites.
Daily ESL
This site is from the creator of Randall's ESL Lab.
Lanternfish Listening Activities
You can listen to and read short conversations about daily life. There are 3 levels of listening practice.
EngVid
Free English Video Lessons
Elllo
This site has conversations about a variety of topics that you can listen to with a transcript.
High Level Listening
This site has advanced listening practice for a variety of daily life situations.
Elemental English
You can watch excellent videos with pronunciation lessons on this website.
Train Your Accent
This is also a site created by Randall. It focuses on helping students recognize reduced forms of words in speech. Yay!
Reading Practice
Breaking News English
Easy English News
EL Civics
Read about US holidays and government
Phonics Stories
This website has stories that focus on a specific vowel or consonant sound. You can read and listen at the same time.
REEP World
This website also has stories that you can read and listen to at the same time.
ABC Fast phonics
Learning Chocolate
Great for beginning level vocabulary practice.
Grammar
Learn American English Online
Adele's ESL Corner
Advanced Listening Practice
TED.com
TED has interesting lectures on a variety of topics for advanced level students. Make sure you check out the interactive transcript. Advance level but can be translated into many languages.
This I Believe
This I Believe has stories people recorded about their personal beliefs. Advanced level.
Morning Edition
Morning Edition is radio show on NPR (90.5 or 89.9 FM). You can listen to current news stories.
VOA News Learning English
Lots of students like using VOA news for listening to news stories in English that is spoken more slowly.
Computer Skills
Typing practice by Typing Club
Peter's Online Typing Course
Online Dictionaries
Longman Online Dictionary
Cambridge Online Dictionary
On this site, you can listen to the words too. Just make sure you click on American English.
Academic Word List (AWL)
What is the Academic Word List and why should I learn it? Find out the answers.
You can find all of the words from the Academic Word List and some activities on this site.
You can use the Academic Word List Highlighter to copy and paste text into the box and it will identify the words from the AWL.
Job Interview Practice
Listen to an interview for a teaching position on Randall's
Watch a video about someone applying at a pizza restaurant.
Watch another video about a job interview and another one.
Resumes and Job Searching
Read about resumes on the Connecticut Department of Labor site
Career One Stop
O Net You can search by job family to learn about different careers