Student Resources for Writing, Grammar, Pronunciation, Listening and Speaking

Grammar and Writing Activities

• City University of New York - Write Site
• English Lessons Online
• ESL Quiz Center - Advanced Grammar Quizzes
• Guide to Grammar and Writing - Provides an extensive list of links to simple and clear grammar explanations of sentence level errors, paragraph level problems and essay development tips.
• Internet TESL Journal Activities for ESL Students
• Practice Editing Exercises - Common errors to edit in sentences and paragraphs
• Purdue Online Writing Lab
• Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute Writing Center - Provides advanced writers with handouts on topics concerning prose style and mechanics (parallelism, varying sentence length, word choice, thesis statements, citing sources, etc.)
• UCI Correction Symbols and QUIA Quizzes

Pronunciation and Speaking

• American Vowels and IPA - Hear American English vowel sounds
• Business English - Tips on writing business letters, making presentations, and interacting in meetings
• Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom - A list of conversation topics with links to questions about the topic; good for quick response practice
• Dave's ESL Cafe - Grammar Lessons and Quizzes, Pronunciation, Idioms, Slang, etc.
• Mouth Manglers - A fun site with audio tongue twisters to practice pronunciation   -   Adam Rado's English Learning Fun Site
• Phonetics, the Sounds of Spoken Language - The University of Iowa site which shows the interior of the mouth making each individual sound
• Public Speaking - Tips from Patricia Fripp on making successful business presentations
• The Sounds of English
• Video Downloads for Accent Reduction

Listening Comprehension

• Listening Quizzes - Listening quizzes from easy to difficult; recordings are performed, not authentic speech; Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
• National Public Radio - Archives of radio programs to listen to for comprehension and vocabulary development
• Science Today - Audio files of short Science Today news briefs with transcripts (check topics each month); listen and record a summary for practice
• The Loh Down on Science - Sandra Tsing Loh's 2-minute "musings on science and technology" from California Institute of Technology Tech and KPCC -  a good program for popular science issues and strong intonation styles
• UC Multimedia Links - A long list of links to audio and video clips from all of the UC campus resources