Welcome to the English Skills page! Here are several links to exercises on the web that can help you improve your English skills. Visit us often!

Listening & Speaking Practice
Online Typing/Keyboarding Practice
Skyline College Writing Links
Reading & Vocabulary Practice
Free Internet Grammar Exercises
(by Topic)
Free Internet Quiz Sites (general)

​Listening & Speaking Practice

• Practice Easy, Medium, and Difficult conversations at Randall's ESL Listening Lab
• Practice listening (New, Regular, or Advanced) at the English Listening Lounge
• Listen and learn vocabulary at Language Guide
• Listen to songs and read lyrics at ello.org
• Sing Karaoke to famous English songs at City College Manchester
• Listen to songs and take quizzes at eflclub
• Listen to internet and radio broadcasts at the English Page Listening Lounge
• Watch and listen with the BBC
• Follow the audio series Flatmates with the BBC

​Online Typing/Keyboarding Practice

• Dance Mat from BBC Typing Game
• Sense Language Touch Typing
• Qwerty keyboard at Power Typing

​Skyline College Writing Links

• The Learning Center Writing Links

​Reading and Vocabulary Practice

• Free Rice (For every word you get correct, a donation of rice is made to hungry people!)
• Answers.com (online dictionary with pronunciation)
• Dave's ESL Café Idioms Page
• 5 minute English Reading exercises
• Gallaudet Reading Practice
• eslUS Interlink Reading and Speed Reading exercises

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​Free Internet Grammar Exercises (Organized by Grammar Topic)

• Active & Passive Verbs
  • Explanation at English Zone of Passive and Active Verbs
  • esl.about.com Passive to Active and Active to Passive
• Adjectives and Adverbs
  • a4esl.com adverbs and adjectives I
  • a4esl.com adverbs and adjectives II
  • Gallaudet -ed or -ing exercise I
  • Gallaudet -ed or -ing exercise II
  • Using English -ed vs. -ing
• Articles
  • esl.about.com articles quiz
  • a4esl articles I
  • a4esl articles II
• Clauses
  • Adjective clauses
    • Grammar Check - Adjectives
    • University of Victoria - Adjective clauses
    • esl.about.com - Subordination with Adjective Clauses
  • Adverb Clauses
    • esl.about.com adverb clauses
    • a4esl.com adverb clauses
    • Learn 4 Good - Adjective Clauses
  • Regular and Reduced Adverb Clauses
    • Learn 4 Good - Adverb Clauses
    • Grammar Lessons Reduced Adverbs
    • a4esl Reduced Adverb Clauses
  • Noun Clauses
    • Grammar Check - Noun Clauses
    • Buckhoff's - Noun Clauses with Infinitives
    • Buckhoff's - Noun Clause Connectors "What" and "That"
    • Buckhoff's - Noun Clauses Using "Ever"
  • Independent/Dependent Clauses
    • OWL - Independent/Dependent Clauses
    • Commnet - Identifying Independent Clauses
    • Tongue Untied - Identifying various clauses and phrases
    • Virginia Tech - Identifying clauses and phrases
• Conditionals
  • Grammar Check - Conditionals
  • a4esl - If Clauses
• Continuous Tenses
  • esl.about.com - Continuous Tenses
  • English Club - Continuous Tenses
• Nouns and determiners
  • Count/Non-count
    • Georgia State University - nouns
    • eflnet - count/noncount
  • Singulars, Plurals & Possessives
    • a4esl's - nouns page
    • ESL Instructor.net - determiners
  • This/That/These/Those
    • Gallaudet's determiners quizzes #1, #2, #3, #4 and #5
• Gerunds & Infinitives
  • Explanation at EduFind for Gerunds and Infinitives
  • English Club quiz on Gerunds
  • English Club quiz on Infinitives
  • eslgold List of Verbs that Take Gerunds
  • eslgold List of Verbs that Take Infinitives
  • esl.about.com Gerund or Infinitive 1?
  • esl.about.com Gerund or Infinitive 2?
• Irregular Verbs
  • chompchomp.com Irregular Verbs
  • English Page Irregular Verbs
• Modal Auxiliary Verbs
  • English Page Modals
  • ESLus.com Modals
  • Verb and Preposition Collocations at ESL Gold
• Negatives
  • a4esl.com negatives
  • Pritchard negatives
• Prepositions
  • esl.about.com Prepositions Quizzes #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7
  • English page prepositions
• Parts of Speech
  • ESL.com's Parts of Speech
  • Gallaudet's Parts of Speech page
• Phrasal Verbs
  • ESL US.com Phrasal Verbs
  • Phrasal Verb Dictionary
• Pronouns
  • Using English - Pronouns
  • Using English - Possessive/Reflexive
  • Using English - Subject/Object pronouns
  • Using English - They / Them / Their / Theirs
• Question Forms
  • Hilfen.de questions I
  • Hilfen.de questions II
  • Using English - Question Words
• Reported Speech
  • esl.about.com's reported speech
  • esl partyland's reported speech
• Relative Clauses
  • Using English - Relative Pronouns I
  • Using English - Relative Pronouns II
  • Using English - Omitting Relative Pronouns
  • Using English - Which and Where
  • Gallaudet - Relative Clauses
  • Georgia State University instructor's recorded lesson on Relative Clauses
• Sentence Combining
  • eslus.com's sentence combining I
  • eslus.com's sentence combining II
  • grammar.ccc.commnet's sentence types
  • chompchomp.com's Comma Splices & Fused Sentences
  • chompchomp.com's Fragments
  • Virginia Tech's runons and fragments
  • Newton.uor.edu's Coordinating Conjunctions(sentence joining)
• Sentence Parts
  • Gallaudet's Subject Identification exercise #1, #2, and #3
  • actden.com's sentence parts
  • OWL Sentence Parts
  • grammar.ccc.commnet's sentence parts and quizzes
• Verb Tenses
  • English Club's Verbs
  • English Page's Verb Tenses (Many, many quizzes!!!!)
  • Present Tenses
    • Grammar Check - All Present Tenses
    • English Club - Present Tense
    • English Club - Present Continuous Tense
  • Past Tenses
    • Grammar Check - Past Tenses
    • esl.about.com - Past Tenses
  • Perfect Tenses
    • Grammar Check - Perfect Tenses
    • English Club - Present Perfect
• Writing Research Papers
  • Skyline College Library (research, citation of sources, and good info)
  • The Learning Center list of Writing Topics

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Free Internet Grammar Quiz Sites (Many are the same as above, but not organized here by grammar topic)

• esl.about.com at http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrammarquiz.htm
• The English Club at http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/index.htm
• The English Page at http://www.englishpage.com/grammar/
• a4esl at http://a4esl.org/
• Karin's ESL Partyland at http://www.eslpartyland.com/quiz%20center/quiz.htm
• Englisch Hilfen at http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/alle_grammar.htm
• CSM's Grammar Check at http://www.gocsm.net/sevas/esl/gramcheck/index.html
• esl US at http://www.eslus.com/LESSONS/GRAMMAR/Gram.htm
• chompchomp at http://www.chompchomp.com/
• Gallaudet's English Works page at http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/
• Learn 4 Good at http://www.learn4good.com/languages/evr_english.htm
• Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/