Week 6 - Communicating with Health Professionals

Practice this week's vocabulary words with a matching game.

Click here to listen to and practice spelling our new words.

Week 5 - Unexpected Adventure

Practice matching the meanings to this week's new words.

Click here to listen to and practice the spelling for this week's words. 

Grammar - ADJECTIVES with -ed or -ing   Read the rules first....   then try this short quiz.    If you want more, there's More practice here. 

Week 4 - Obesity

Practice our week 4 vocabulary with a few games.

Listen to and spell this week's words. 

Noun? Verb? Adjective? Adverb?

Here's a good introduction to parts of speech in English.  Read the page and then click on Continue with first exercise to find a few short quizzes to test yourself.

Next, try this test about parts of speech.  You have to read sentences and decide if a word is a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb.

Week 3 - Navajo Code Talkers

Spelling: Follow the link to hear pronunciation and sample sentences for this week's spelling words.

Vocabulary:  You can practice the new words and meanings here.

Week 2 - Native American Lands

Indian Reservations in the USA

Spelling - Listen to and spell this week's words.

Vocabulary - See the full list of words and practice using games.

Listen & Read - There are hundreds of Native American reservations in the U.S.   Learn more about Native American history and how the reservations began.

Past Tense Questions

A short exercise with WAS/WERE/DID 

Here's a good page that explains the past negatives and questions.  After you read it, click on Continue with the exercises to test yourself. 

Martin Luther King Jr - listening

You can listen to this story about Martin Luther King, Jr. on VOA Special English.  You'll see and hear a lot of the words we studied this week.

Here's a similar story about Rosa Parks, whose actions started the bus boycotts in Montgomery.

To listen, look on the upper right side and click on LISTEN MP3.  It should start automatically.

Week 1 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Vocabulary practice - see a list of this week's words and practice with games.

Spelling - Listen and spell the words for this week.

Listen to Martin Luther King's most famous speech.  It's not easy to understand the vocabulary, but you can see what a powerful speaker he was.

Spring semester begins!

Hi everyone!
Welcome to Intermediate ESL.  I'm so glad you're here!

I want to let you know about two great websites for learning English.  I'll show them both in class today and you can also try them at home.

Listening:  Try http://www.esl-lab.com/  It has 3 levels of conversations in English.  Each conversation has comprehension questions and other practice exercises.  In addition, you can also read the text if you want.  Start with this one from the EASY level Family Activities .

Grammar Practice:  Try Study Zone  This site has grammar explanations and exercises from beginning level to advanced.  You'll probably find that the lower or upper intermediate (level 330 or 410) is good for you.  But if you want to start from the beginning, try level 200.  Each level has many different topics.  Not sure where to begin?  Try this one - Present or Present Continuous