This site provides interactive quizzes, puzzles, exercises and tests for students at all levels of English competency. There are thousands of contributions of mostly interactive activities created by many experienced ESL teachers. The site provides links to bilingual quizzes in 48 languages, including Tagalog, Vietnamese, Farsi, and Swahili, plus useful links to other ESL activity websites.
Dave's ESL Cafe is an excellent resource for ESL students and teachers around the world. The site has many sections, including "Stuff for Students." Here you will find a help center, quizzes, and lessons in grammar, vocabulary, idioms and slang. The quizzes are on topics including geography, grammar, history, idioms, people and reading comprehension. Quizzes are evaluated, so that students can retake them to improve their score.
This website is a favorite of ESL teachers and has recently been redesigned to make it easier to use. According to the website description, it includes many computer-assisted language learning activities such as word games and puzzles, quizzes, slang expressions, anagrams, proverbs and a random-sentence generator. The main focus of the site is ESL, but native English speakers can also find interesting tasks to complete here. It is a useful resource for ESL instructors to recommend to their students.
Pumarosa offers a bilingual, beginning and intermediate ESL course for Spanish-speaking adults. The lessons have a sound component that offers both phonetic and interactive support for the exercises and activities. Teachers use this site as an effective tool for multi-level classes and as a transition to more advanced English-only classes. In additional to grammar, pronunciation, phonics, and vocabulary exercises, the site also has generous samples of history, civics and citizenship quizzes. This website is well-known to ESL teachers and students, and is continually updated and expanded.
This beginning-level website contains links to 200 short readings in large type, complete with an audio player at the top of the page so that students can listen to the text as they read. At the bottom of the text, students can click on a vocabulary list with links to an online dictionary, a cloze activity, a crossword puzzle related to the reading and a mixed-up sentences activity.
This website has fun interactive ESL games primarily for children, but there is plenty here for the adult student. The site has spelling, sequencing, matching and classifying games. The various games cover multiple grammar points which include: verb tenses, conjunctions, passive and active voice, articles, modals, and prepositions.