Welcome to the San Jose City College ESL100Lab

Online Lab for ESL 330L

The links in the table below are for students at a low-intermediate stage of English proficiency. These links lead to many web sites that will help you improve your language skills. Your teachers may ask you to use certain links. You can also choose links that help you improve a skill you need to practice or links that you simply enjoy. You can practice in the lab or anywhere you have access to the Internet. All of the listening programs use Real Player. It is downloaded on the lab computers. You can download the free version at home by going to www.realplayer.com.

Learn to type: www.typing.com

Listening

http://www.languageguide.org/english/ Learn vocabulary here with this excellent audio pictionary.

Try these Clip art collections to help you learn vocabulary

http://www.cdlponline.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=stories&topicID=9 Click the name of a story you want to read. Click the LISTEN button to hear the story as you read. Click the NEXT button to work throught he ACTIVITIES for each reading.

http://www.real-english.com/ Great site for listening to videos and responding to questions about them. Register for access to FREE Real English videos and lessons. Use Beginning and Pre-Intermediate. NEW
Listen to these short interviews and do the activities: http://199.0.73.248/Birgit/where_do_you_live.htm
http://199.0.73.248/Birgit/moving.htm
http://199.0.73.248/Birgit/alejandra.htm

http://www.netgrammar.le.ucr.ac.cr/Units/menu.html Select a unit and click on LISTENING. After listening to the recording, answer the questions.

http://international.ouc.bc.ca/takako/ Read and play each episode using the frame on the left. Then do the activities.

http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/ads/addsindex.htm Click on an ad. Click on the play button to watch the commercial. Click on words in the transcript to find the differences. Once you have found the differences, print the ad and record it, using the computer's sound recorder (on desktop in the lab). Listen carefully to your pronunciation and get help on difficult phrases. NEW

http://www.esl-lab.com
Do the General Listening Quizzes that are marked easy and Short Listening Exercises (at bottom) marked medium. Pre-listening, Listening, and post-listening exercises give hours of listening practice.

http://www.englishlistening.com/flmenu.phtml?level=2
Under Guest Area Menus, click New or regular listeners. Then select a topic and click the listen button. Scroll down to the questions below Study Aids. You can click all three links for questions, answers, and transcript.

http://www.myefa.org
This English for All site is free. To save your work, click Sign In and fill out the information. A lab assistant can help you. Borrow the CD-ROM to watch the videos..

http://www.heinle.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=1413006493&discipline_number=301
Grammar in Context, Book 2: Click here for the listening activities for this grammar book. Select the chapter you need at the top of the page.

http://www.longman.com/ae/northstar2e/books/ls_basic/index.html This site accompanies NorthStar Basic Listening/Speaking text. Choose an activity under Student Resources. NEW

http://www.rong-chang.com/ Phrases for Conversation. Start with Low-Intermediate level and work your way through Advanced.

Grammar

http://www.doug-j.org/ Interactive English Practice: Grammar, Vocabulary, Reading, Internet Sites, Dictionaires, Basic Computer Skills. NEW

http://www.netgrammar.le.ucr.ac.cr/Units/menu.html

http://www.ac-orleans-tours.fr/anglais-lp/exercices/gramenligneabc.htm Select a point of grammar you wish to study. When the page opens, click the column at the right acces a la page to complete the exercise

http://efcafe.com/ Try this link for a variety of grammar exercises. Be sure to click On Your Own to start and then click the individual buttons for activities. NEW

http://www.davidappleyard.com/english/grammar.htm#Syntax The Grammar Glossary gives useful terminology and examples of correct use of English grammar. NEW

http://www.collegeem.qc.ca/cemdept/anglais/trouindx.htm
Practice lessons marked 2. Flash and Shockwave are downloaded on lab computers.

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/index.htm Work your way through the exercises listed.

http://www.quia.com/pages/332basicwriting2.html Quia Activities for Donna Bernabei's ESL 332 site

http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz
Scroll down to grammar. Take quizzes on grammar structures you need to review.

http://grammar.englishclub.com/index.html
Scroll down to “The 8 Parts of Speech" and then click on the ones you need to practice. For access to the home page and numerous links on a variety of skills, click this link: http://www.englishclub.com/

http://english-zone.com/grammar/1adjectives.html
Practice finding adjectives.

http://english-zone.com/grammar/1article.html
Review use of the article A vs. A

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslcount2.html
Study count and noncount nouns with articles and quantifiers.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslsubverb.html
Review Subject-Verb Agreement with simple present tense verbs. Scroll to Exercises and practice.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/esltensverb.html
Study the verb form and meaning of the verb tenses. Read the example sentences.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslirrverb.html
Review irregular verbs with this link.

http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/pronouns/pronountable.htm
Study the usage of There vs. It and other exercises on using English indefinite pronouns.

http://www.englishclub.net/grammar/
Scroll to 8 parts of speech. Click open and learn each one. Use the Quick Links on the right side to learn more grammar and don't miss the Grammar Quizzes below the parts of speech list.

http://a4esl.org/
This site offers grammar quizzes at different levels as well as numerous vocabulary exercises.

Pronunciation

http://www.soundsofenglish.org/
Open this link and practice basic English pronunciation.

http://www.paddocks64.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm Work your way through the alphabet. Click a letter and then the arrow on the recorder under the speaker.

http://www.quia.com/pages/337.html Sue Wilson's page for ESL 337.

http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-soundsipa.htm
Scroll to the list of sounds for the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) with word examples. Click Amer to hear American pronunciation for the words.

http://pbskids.org/lions/songs/index.html
Play the audio clips and focus on pronunciation while learning these children's songs.

Reading

http://www.heinle.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=0838426077&discipline_number=301

Online Activities for Active Skills for Reading Book 2 - Select a chapter and click Online Activities. New

http://www.cdlponline.org Click this link for 11 different topics. Many reading links are under each topic. You can also listen to the readings. Some stories have video. NEW

http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/countryprofiles.html The National Geographic Map Machine for information on countries around the world. NEW

http://www.penguinreaders.com/pr/resources/level_1.html Read the summary of the story you select. You can also do the activity sheet without reading the book. Keep a list of new vocabulary words you learn from each story. NEW

http://www.penguinreaders.com/pr/resources/level_2.html Try the next level.

http://www.english-zone.com/reading/tell-tale.html Read the popular horror story The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe. NEW

http://www.eslstation.net/theREALWF/Folktale%20Links.htm Folktales from around the world.

http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/ Read folktales from many countries around the world.

http://www.biography.com/index.html
Read short biographies of well-known people.

http://www.penguindossiers.com/thismonth-frameset.html
Click Archive and select All Topics (culture, film, modern life, music, news, pop stars, sports). Click Audio to both read and listen to a topic. Factsheet is for instructors' classroom activities.

http://college.hmco.com/esl/mahnke/grammar_links2/1e/students/links/ Here you will find web links for readings that go with the themes in the textbook Grammar Links 2.

http://www.longman.com/ae/skills/whatalife/index.html
Read more about the famous people in the What A Life series. Click the text that is the same as your ESL class level.

http://www.englishclub.net/vocabulary/prefixes.htm
Review commonly used prefixes, their meaning and use in example words.

http://reading.englishclub.com/news_headlines.htm
Read headline news stories at fairly simple to intermediate proficiency levels.

Vocabulary

http://a4esl.org/a/v.html Hundreds of vocabulary exercises. Follow directions carefully for each one as they are all very different. The ones with Java script will have a start button at the bottom of the page.

http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/index.htm The many links on this page will help you with vocabulary usage (Phrasal verbs, Say or Tell? Do or Make?) prepositions, irregular verbs, prefixes and much more. Check out all the links for a very good vocabulary review.

http://a4esl.org/a/v3.html English vocabulary quizzes from easy to intermediate

http://www.english-test.net/ Take the quizzes marked Elementary.

http://college.hmco.com/esl/mahnke/grammar_links2/1e/students/flashcards/index.html Here you will find many good flashcard activities that go with the textbook, Grammar Links 2.

http://eslcafe.com/idioms/
The idioms are arranged in three ways. Scroll down and select the alphabetical list of meanings and examples.

http://vocabulary.englishclub.com/prefixes.htm
This link gives common prefixes and their meaning.

http://vocabulary.englishclub.com/
Learn a wealth of vocabulary at this site.

http://www.comenius.com/
Excellent for listening and idiomatic usage. Click idioms. They are alphabetized, so choose a letter, select an idiom and play the audio to hear the dialogue.

http://www.smic.be/smic5022/deathdeadc.htm
Learn how to use the adjective "dead" and the noun "death."

http://www.englishclub.net/vocabulary/domake.htm
Learn common uses of the verbs Do and Make. Click the links provided.

http://www.englishclub.net/vocabulary/
Categories of study include grammar topics, practical vocabulary, computer vocabulary, and the top twenty words in many occupational fields. Scroll to the bottom of this site for an online dictionary.

Writing

http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/sentence/index.htm
Review sentence elements and commonly confused words.

http://writing.englishclub.com/punctuation0.htm
Review and master punctuation marks and their use in writing.

http://writing.englishclub.com/caps.htm
Review the rules for using capital letters.

http://writing.englishclub.com/spelling.htm
Review spelling rules for adding various word endings.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_spelie.html
Review spelling rules for words with ie and ei.

http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/punctuation1.html

http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/punctuation2.html
Basic punctuation quizzes

http://www.longman.com/ae/northstar2e/books/rw_basic/index.html
This site goes with NorthStar Basic Reading and Writing Text. Click Student Resources at the left of the page.

http://www.longman.com/ae/fogbasic/index.html
This site goes with Focus On Grammar Basic. Click Student Resources on the left side of the page and choose one of the topics to write about. See a lab instructor for feedback on your writing.