QUICK RESOURCE SHEET #14

Free online English courses

People who want to learn English or improve English skills need not be bound by course schedules, inaccessible locations, high fees, or bad weather. There are some excellent and easy-to-use sites, for both the beginner and the advanced student. Some of these online courses offer special threads for English for computing or business.

http://www.english-online.org.uk/course.htm

This site, which divides the course into four levels, offers students an opportunity to test themselves. The home page has links to reading practice exercises and a message board where students can post grammar questions.

http://www.eslgo.com/classes.html

“Each free English class helps you learn English. These free ESL classes show you how to use English grammar or vocabulary. After you study an online English class, go to the English practice message boards where you can practice using the English grammar and vocabulary by communicating with English students around the world.”

http://www.learn-english-online.org/

This thorough 40-lesson course is aimed at the beginner. It is a multi-media course, which includes listening practice. You can start with Unit 1 and go through each English lesson one by one. Each unit contains 5 English lessons. Or, you can pick and choose the lessons you think you need. The choice is yours.

http://www.englishspace.ort.org/launchpad/about_whatis.asp

“EnglishSpace is a free Internet resource for students and teachers of English as a Foreign, Second or Additional language. In EnglishSpace, students can learn English with the computer, with their friends and with their teachers. It costs nothing to join EnglishSpace and all the lessons are free!” This is one of the most attractively designed of the websites targeting English language learners.