English as an Additional Language

British Council
For younger learners

• Website:  http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/
• Lots of free online games, songs, stories and activities for children to support learning of English Includes:
• Website:  https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/games
• Games to play to practice English

For older learners

• Website:  https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar/beginner-grammar
• Suitable for beginner learners of English. Practice and improve English grammar with fun videos. Also online exercises and worksheets.
• Website:  https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/games
• Games to improve English vocabulary

Also:

• Website:  https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/apps
• Learn/improve English with apps – games, podcasts, videos and quizzes to help learn English at home

EAL Hwb

• Website:  https://www.ealhub.co.uk/home-learning-area/
• Many resources suitable for EAL learners at different stages. They also support general literacy needs. There are 3 Tiers: Tier 1 is for EAL learners at the beginning of their learning. Tier 2 focusses mainly on vocabulary development and Tier 3 looks at developing language to a further stage. There are free resources in each section, but others can only be accessed through a paying subscription.

Anglomaniacy

• Website:  https://anglomaniacy.pl/
• This is a site for children who are learning English as a second/additional language. Lots of online lessons, activities, games, songs and hundreds of printable worksheets that can help with learning English.

Breaking News English

• Website:  https://breakingnewsenglish.com/
• Free, ready-to-use ESL lesson plans based on the latest breaking news.  7 different levels available across different activities. Therefore suited to different pupils at different levels of EAL acquisition. Activities are designed to be teacher led but tasks included could be undertaken by individuals. New lessons uploaded every 2 days. Each lesson includes a 26-page PDF containing all-skills activities, 5-speed listening, multi-speed scrolled reading, interactive dictation, 30+ online quizzes… and more.

Many things

• Website:  www.manythings.org
• This web site is for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities.

English

• Website:  www.english-online.org.uk
• English Language Courses for: young learners, beginners, elementary, intermediate,    advanced. Includes games, video tutorials, grammar exercises etc
• Suitable for use on smartphones or tablets.

English Banana

• www.englishbanana.com
• This site offers more than 4,000 pages of free printable resources for teaching and learning English and ESL. Suitable for all ages.

Games to learn English

• Website:  https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/ 
• A website with games to learn English. It is not focussed on curriculum content but rather focussed on English language learning. It can help to provide primary learners with exposure to listening whilst also allowing them to play games to practice vocabulary and grammar.

ABCYa

• Website: https://www.abcy a.com/
• This is an American site which provides online, interactive games. It provides exposure to subject content through an English medium with access to lots of written and spoken English language models in the games. This is especially good for narrated stories that highlight the text as its being read aloud.

Children’s Library
Website: http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
Online books for children in many languages. The website aims to enable families to have access to the books of their culture and language regardless of where they live.

World Stories
Website: https://worldstories.org.uk/
World Stories is a growing collection of stories from around the world. The collection includes retold traditional tales and new short stories in the languages most spoken by UK children – over 30 languages available.

 

Mantra Lingua
Website: https://uk.mantralingua.com/kitabu

Currently, there are over 550 books and 38 languages in this library. Each book is read aloud in English and your home language. There are folk tales, myths, stories of multi-cultural life here in the UK and reference books. Each book has a video and a set of activities to help build children’s English language skills. The library covers reading ages from 3 to 15 years. This library is free of charge until 31 August 2020.

Story Books Canada
Website: https://www.storybookscanada.ca/
Storybooks Canada is a free open educational resource that promotes literacy and language learning in homes, schools, and communities. There are 40 African stories available with text and audio in 29 different languages, at varying levels of language competency. Click on the Global Story Portal

 

 

Audible
Website:  https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

Free audio books, available in six languages (Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and Japanese).

 

Global Stories
https://globalstorybooks.net/ Global Storybooks is a free multilingual literacy resource for children and youth worldwide.

Shaun Tann’s books
This site uses picture books at different proficiency levels to give more agency to both primary and secondary learners to respond and engage at their current level and to give them opportunities to develop their higher-order thinking skills by thinking about interpretations of pictures and the story.
Website:  http://shauntan.net/books.html

Oxford university Press: English Language Teaching
Website: https://elt.oup.com/teachersclub/subjects/gradedreading/?cc=gb&selLanguage=en
This site uses Graded Readers, a series of simplified books written for different levels of proficiency in English which include questions to help learners explore language.