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NOTE: You can also access Randall’s YouTube videos HERE
General Listening Quizzes:
Activities at Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab focus on everyday English comprehension skills at three levels based on content, voices, vocabulary, and natural speed. A combination of adult, teenage, and children’s voices are included.
~Randall
Listening For Academic Purposes
Listen to Everyday Conversations with Adult and Children’s Voices
English Culture Videos
The English Culture Videos, listed in alphabetical order, are designed to provide additional learning content related to other listening activities on my site. To learn more about this project, read the Frequently Asked Questions below the video titles.
~Randall
Vocabulary
Idiom Lessons with Video
Understanding and using expressions for daily communication.
Punctuation Lessons on Grammar Monster: The Grammar Monster site is intended for everyone seeking to improve their grammar, and where there are differences between the US and UK writing conventions, they are highlighted in the lessons.
~ Grammar Monster
The DailyDictation.com website contains hundreds of dictation exercises to help English learners practice easily and improve quickly.
A collection of audio articles introducing culture, people, places, historical events and daily life in English-speaking countries, especially Canada and America.
Short and fun English conversations in common situations you may experience in daily life.
Let’s improve your ability to understand English numbers when they are spoken quickly by an American.
Let’s learn and practice the English alphabet by spelling some common English names.
Listening to IELTS recordings will help you learn a lot of vocabulary and expressions about everyday conversations & academic talks.
Free English Grammar Lessons and Tests: The Grammar Monster site is intended for everyone seeking to improve their grammar, and where there are differences between the US and UK writing conventions, they are highlighted in the lessons.
~ Grammar Monster
Vocabulary Lessons on Grammar Monster: The Grammar Monster site is intended for everyone seeking to improve their grammar, and where there are differences between the US and UK writing conventions, they are highlighted in the lessons.
~ Grammar Monster
Basic
Food
Vocabulary by Word Type
Nature
| animals | animal body parts | animals and babies |
| birds | body | disasters |
| farm | flowers | geography |
| illness | insects | months and seasons |
| organs | plants and trees | sea life |
| senses | space | survival |
| weather |
Work and Hobbies
Tools and Technology
Travel
English for Speakers of Other Languages: Free digital resources for teaching and learning English.
~ ESOLCourses
Capitalization is the writing of a word with its first letter in uppercase and the remaining letters in lowercase. There are rules for when to use capitalization:
Punctuation Rules in English
- the period (or full stop in British English)
- the comma
- the exclamation mark
- the question mark
- the colon
- the semicolon
- the quotation mark
- the apostrophe
- the hyphen and the dash
- parentheses and brackets
Free English Lessons in 7 Levels
Current event and interest stories for adult learners and ESL students: 3,253 Free English News Lessons in 7 Levels
~ Breaking News English
