Foundations English Courses
Use the following links to practice your English. Websites have been organized by skill area (listening/speaking, writing, and reading) and level
Foundations 2/3:
Randall's ESL Cyber listening lab Scrambled Sentences Super Easy Reading
Easy Conversations Beginners' dictation Beginning English texts
Basic English Listening Lessons Activities for ESL students The Westcoast Reader
Foundations English 4/5
Randall's ESL Cyber listening lab Activities for ESL students American short stories
Speak English Fast Grammar quizzes Canadian readings
English conversations Road to Grammar Interactive English
Foundations English 6/7
Real English Videos Sentence types practice Welcome to BC
Podcasts in English Interactive Paragraph writing tool British Council
YouGlish-Speaking/Pronunciation Interactive writing and grammar practice Canadian readings
Useful applications |
Online voice recorders |
General Reading resources |
General Writing resources |
Dictionaries/vocabulary development |
Grammarly-free writing and correction tool |
Vocaroo-record your voice and save an audio file |
VOA Learning English-a great site with beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels |
English Club online dictation-a great dictation resource |
Dictionary/Thesaurus-great websites for vocabulary |
Google Translate-translate words and phrases from any language! |
Speakpipe-record your voice and save an audio file |
CBC News-adapted website for English language learners |
Listen and Write-great dictation and writing website! |
Collocations-learn about words that go together |
Memrise-great application with many different activities |
Online Voice Recorder-Completely free online recorder |
Storybooks Canada-multilingual stories at various levels |
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant-a great writing reference |
Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary-clear and simple definitions as well as pronunciation |