The Haggerty English Language Institute faculty and staff have put together a list of useful websites and resources that our international students can easily find and use to practice their English language skills. Click the skill topic below to view a list for each.
For additional English language help, be sure to speak to our faculty. Or talk to the ESL Student Advisor Jason Serrano about available tutoring services: esl@newpaltz.edu.
Business English
Dictionaries
Games
Grammar
Listening - ESL
Listening - General
Multi-Skill
Pronunciation
Reading
Speaking
Spelling
Technology
Test Preparation
Vocabulary
Writing
- The Newbury House OnLine Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary
- Longman Dictionaries Online
- Photo Dictionary Online
- Idiom Dictionary
- The Free Dictionary
- Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
- Lingozone
- ESL Podcasts
- ESL bits – Short stories with audio and reading
- Short movie clips with comprehension exercises
- Lessons on Movies
- Movie Scripts for hundreds of popular movies
- Lyrics Training
- EngVid – Free English Videos
- Short Online Dictations
- Learning Chocolate
- Storyline Online
- Monthly News Digest Online
- ELLLO – English Language Listening Lab Online
- The Daily English Show
- BBC Learning English
- Listening to Academic Lectures
- SoundCloud
- TED
- Hulu
- NPR – National Public Radio
- KFRC
- CNN Student News
- BBC Radio
- ESPN
- ABC News Interactive
- USA Today
- PBS Online
- New York Times
- US State Department games and resources
- English Central
- English for University
- Open Culture
- Activities for ESL Students
- Idiom Connection
- Biblio Mania
- One Stop English
- English Media Lab
- Ron Chang Lee’s “English as Second Language”
- Many Things
- Academic English Cafe
- BBC Skillwise
- English Accent Coach
- American English Pronunciation
- Phonetics Focus
- Voice Thread
- Authentic American Pronunciation Guide
- Understanding word stress in English
- English Media Lab
- Ship or Sheep
- English Pronunciation Pod
- Rachel’s English site
- Spreeder
- ReadWorks
- Free Audio Books
- Biblio Mania
- Open Culture
- ESL Links - Learning English
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
Sign up for a Conversation Partner or the Community Ambassador Program!
- Spelling City
- Spell Check game
- Catch the Spelling
- Spelling Games
- Oxford Dictionary Spelling Challenge
- Glogster - Interactive posters – easily insert photos, videos, and audio from the Internet.
- Prezi - Interactive presentations that allow you to fly and zoom. A neat alternative to PowerPoint.
- Corkboard - A place to keep notes for yourself with easy to add graphics. Access your to-do list from any computer.
- Blabberize - Put a moving mouth on any image and record your own audio to go with it.
- Storybird - Create your own stories with illustrations and text. Share your stories with others.
- Scratch - Sign up for an account and create your own games.
- Doink - Create your own Flash-style animations and post them to YouTube and Facebook.
- New: IELTS Exam Practice
- New: IELTS Test Samples
- TOEFL Prep Vocabulary Practice
- GRE Practice
- Free TOEFL Test Prep Exercises
- EDUers
- Exam English
- TOEFL Official ETS Website
- TOEFL Practice Test
- Free TOEFL Test Preparation Exercises
- Interesting Things for ESL Students
- Knoword
- VocabAhead
- English Vocabulary Exercises
- Free Rice
- Vocabulary Games and Resources
- Learning Chocolate
- University Word List Flash Cards
- Roget's Internet Thesaurus
- The Brigham Young University Corpus
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Learn English - Feel Good
- Dave's ESL Cafe
- Common American Slang
Note: SUNY New Paltz does not work with or endorse any website or company listed above.
