Resources
Would you like to practice and improve your English? Learn more about American culture and area resources? Check out these useful and interesting sites.
- Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab: listening practice and quizzes organized by levels
- Rachel’s English: videos explaining pronunciation
- Lyric Gaps: use music to practice your English
- Podcasts in English: collection of podcasts, some on business related topics
- TED Talks
- Grammar Quizzes: grammar topics with practice quizzes and explanations
- Self-Study Grammar Quizzes: self-study grammar quizzes for multiple levels
- Dave’s ESL Café: phrasal verbs
- Grammar Bytes:grammar exercises
- The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
- Excelsior OWL: Excelsior College Online Writing Lab
- Plagiarism.org: clear explanation of plagiarism
- Grammarly: this site will check your grammar (a sentence or a whole paragraph) or check for plagiarism. It should only be used as a tool – it’s not perfect!
- GrammarBook.com: punctuation rules
- The Punctuation Guide
- Newsela: articles for different levels followed by comprehension practice (free site registration required)
- UsingEnglish.com: reading comprehension exercises organized by topics, divided into levels
- TOPICS Online Magazine: for English language learners
- Bibliomania: classic literature you can read online
- HowStuffWorks
- Self-Pacing Methods: speed reading
- Magatopia.com: free online magazines
- Building a Better Vocabulary
- Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab: vocabulary, listening, and discussion divided by topic
- Vocabulary Games: fun way to increase your vocabulary – choose your topic
- Freerice: fun way to learn/practice vocabulary and feed people
- Dave’s ESL Café: idioms
- Library of Congress
- IMDb: Internet movie database
- ThoughtCo.: Differences between American and British English
- American Museum of Natural History
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- Museum of the City of New York
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Museum of the Moving Image
- New York Botanical Garden