English Language Learners

Practice your English Language skills at home with these free useful resources. Browse the links below to start learning.

General English Language Learning

USA Learns offers lessons on reading, listening, grammar, vocabulary, and writing for beginner, low intermediate and intermediate level learners.
Manythings has activities in grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, listening, and much more.
engVid contains over 1000 video lessons. You can sort by topic, level, teacher and more.
Learn American English Online has seven levels of language instruction with instructional videos.
ESL Partyland Click on "Learn English" to browse lessons and activities on different topics like food, music, internet, dating and relationships, and more.
TV411 features interactive videos, lessons, and articles on topics like money, parenting, people, and health. The website also focuses on reading, writing, and vocabulary.
We Speak NYC Click on “Learn English” to browse activities paired with videos.
GFC Learn Free Learn and develop the skills needed to advance in work and life.
Google Applied Digital Skills Learn practical digital skills needed for the jobs of today and tomorrow with free video lessons.
Northstar Digital Literacy Test your computer skills, build skills in key areas, and demonstrate your knowledge by earning certificates and badges.

Breaking News English has over 1,700 ESL lessons each with activities in reading, listening, comprehension, fill in the blanks, vocabulary and group work for intermediate to advanced level students.
The Times in Plain English takes articles from newspapers like The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal accessible to language learners. The site is formatted like a newspaper.
News in Levels describes itself as "News for students learning English." Each news article contains three levels of difficulty, beginning at Level 0 for beginners. Levels 1 and 2 have audio so you can listen while you read and level 3 has a video component.
Newsela is another website that takes daily news articles from real newspapers and re-writes them at different levels of difficulty, with quizzes to test your comprehension.

Learning Chocolate uses pictures, sounds and games to make learning vocabulary fun. Students can choose activities on various topics and activities that interest them.
A4esl contains numerous easy, medium and difficult interactive exercises for students in the areas of vocabulary and grammar.
Adult Basic Skills Professional Development Project is for advanced ESOL learners seeking to increase their vocabulary.
- Quizlets accompanies the lessons above.

Adele's Corner is a simple website for beginner level students. This is a good tool for students to practice the grammar, listening and vocabulary they’ve learned in the classroom through quizzes.
A4esl contains many easy, medium and difficult activities and quizzes for students, especially in the areas of vocabulary and grammar.
Capital Community College’s Guide to Grammar and Writing site covers writing from word/sentence level up to essay, with many grammar explanations, and exercises.

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab is ideal for life skills-based listening activities. Lessons are divided into easy, medium, and difficult levels and include pre-listening, grammar, vocabulary and comprehension activities. This is a useful resource for a teacher-led lesson or individual practice.
Daily ESL helps students learn language used in everyday conversation. Choose a topic, listen, read along, answer questions and more.
Lantern Listening has many short conversations for students to listen and read along with. There are dialogues for beginner, intermediate and advanced students.
Elllo is another listening lab website with thousands of exercises focusing on natural conversation with vocabulary and comprehension exercises. Some audio contains English speakers from other countries.
Morning Edition NPR has current news stories. The topics change daily but archived stories are also available.
Listening and Dictation Practice has different listening tasks with quizzes to check your understanding.

English With Jennifer, English with Stacy, English Meeting with Dave Sconda are all helpful YouTube channels.
English Central allows students to watch a video, learn new words, speak the new words in context, and have a one-on-one conversation about the video online.

Games to Learn English has many beginner-level games that let students practice vocabulary, listening, spelling and more.
USA Games is full of games to help students learn about the United States, its geography, state capitals and history.

Pronunciator contains fun, personalized courses, movies, music and more. It is available through Branford Blackstone Library and Guilford Free Library, with a library card. If you are a Branford resident and do not have a library card, they are available here.
Mango offers online language courses through the Henry Carter Hull Library in Clinton. You need a Clinton library card to access Mango.
Duolingo is a free app and website that lets you strengthen your English language skills with just a few minutes a day.