COTC: ESL/ELL Resources

Short reading comprehension passages with vocabulary and quizzes

Simplified news stories for intermediate readers

Readings with audio and comprehension quizzes

Practice reading silently or out loud

Intermediate reading comprehension passages

Learn to write emails in English

Punctuation practice

Exercises to improve writing

Activities using videos, music, news vocabulary and more. Listening, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary practice. Includes a special section for Business English. Note: This is a British English site.

Audio and video for learning English

Listening & dictation practice from Seminole State

Listen to everyday English with a variety of voices

Leveled news videos

Videos about improving English skills

Choose the blue square for intermediate videos

Intermediate speaking tasks

Simplified English news stories

Passages for reading and listening

English Language Learning: Listen & Read

Advanced reading comprehension passages

Practice tests for the most common academic words

Search real English sentences

An introduction to writing business letters

Writing practice

Academic paper writing

Resources for a variety of writing tasks

Audio and video for learning English

Listening & dictation practice from Seminole State

Radio news from America and around the world

Listen to everyday English in a variety of voices

Leveled news videos

Choose the black diamond for advanced videos

Business presentations in English

Advanced speaking tasks

Tips for giving an oral presentation

Interview questions and answers

These audio lessons cover basic vocabulary for a variety of everyday situations, including office environments and corporate life.

Collection of recorded books, novellas, short stories, speeches, and songs with read-along text.

ESL teacher Dave Sperling's in-depth site provides numerous lessons about sentence structure, word use, and more. It's one of the best instructor-led websites for learning English.

Simplified news stories

This collection of free English learning resources is designed to help you study whatever aspect of conversational English is most interesting or important to you at the moment. Improving your English a little each day is the most effective way to learn English.

Includes over 1,000 conversations and scripts for beginning, intermediate and advanced English Language Learners.

News stories for beginner, intermediate, and advanced learners

Tips for improving English reading skills

A fun site for ESL and EFL students, featuring quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random sentence generator and other computer assisted languge learning activities. This site is free, non-commercial and has no advertising so it's great to suggest to parents and students.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

A free online collection of stories and poems in audiobook format

A YouTube channel for learning American English pronunciation

400 free videos teaching how Americans really speak

Easily find new words with similar meanings

A video series for learning to speak English

On this site, tutors share their knowledge and experience to help you learn to understand and recognize everything from a preposition to an irregular verb.