Beginner

Do you feel unprepared for everyday life in an English-speaking world? Then Real Listening & Speaking could be just what you need. Cambridge English Skills is a four-level skills series specially designed for adults and young adults wanting to communicate confidently in English wherever they are – at home, at work, travelling, studying or socialising with English-speaking friends.

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Great vocab practice with pictures. You can also hear the pronunciation of the word. Then there are practice exercises.

From Animals to Vegetables.

http://www.eflnet.com/vocab/index.php

Also check out some of the grammar exercises. Make sure it says beginner.

http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/adjadv_index.php

http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/noun_index.php

http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/verbtense_index.php

ESL go.com’s free online English classes help you study English grammar or vocabulary. It is very important that after you finish the grammar or vocabulary part of an ESL lesson, you practice using that grammar or vocabulary. That means you should talk to a friend in English or find a pen pal on the English practice message boards.

Have fun!

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

Try these fun vocabulary quizzes for ESL learners to test your understanding of vocabulary. All quizzes have answers available.

http://www.englishclub.com/esl-quizzes/vocabulary-quizzes.htm

This book will be of special value to middle school students and high school students growing up in families where English is not the first language. Like other titles in Barron’s Painless series, the approach to learning is informal and user-friendly. The authors take students step by step through all parts of speech—nouns, pronouns, verbs, modifiers, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Next they offer advice for improving vocabulary, spelling, and American English pronunciation, emphasizing the importance of active listening, and learning vowel sounds and R sounds, and recognizing silent letters and homophones. The book’s final three chapters concentrate on written English, advancing from correct punctuation and sentence structure to writing essays and stories. The book’s gradual, step-by-step approach makes the mastery of English a truly painless process for students whose first language is other than English.

A Conversation Book 1: English in Everyday Life, by Tina Kasloff Carver and Sandra D. Fotinos-Riggs, helps beginning level students to develop conversation fluency. The student-centered text and audio teach the vocabulary and life skills necessary for natural communication. Each of the ten units focuses on an essential aspect of daily life such as food, shopping, and work. Activities ranging from role plays to group surveys promise a lively class and help students achieve the language competencies needed to succeed at school and work. With chants by Carolyn Graham.

New to this edition: *Easy-to-follow unit structure includes a Preview page, six 2-page lessons, Listening Practice, Review, and Assessment wrap-up.*Picture Dictionary openers introduce and contextualize the vocabulary of each lesson.*Model Conversations and Partner Interviews offer students opportunities to talk about their own lives.*Conversation Chants help students acquire the sounds, rhythms, and intonation of conversational English.*The Scope and Sequence highlights correlations to CASAS and state curricula.

It is the perfect book for young adult students with minimal literacy skills in English.

Each of the sixteen stories, told through a sequence of ten pictures, deals with a particular cultural topic such as using the telephone, on-the-job responsibilities, household safety, male/female relationships, and shopping etiquette. The humour in the stories makes them fun to “read” and encourages discussion.

Students will:

• Talk about the pictures
• Number the pictures in sequencial order
• Match the pictures with the printed word
• Complete fill-in-the-blank activities
• Write the story

Sequences: Picture Stories for ESL is a reproducible book for beginner ESL students. It includes 60 units. Each unit contains a drawings page. On each drawings page there is a sequence of six drawings, mostly without words or captions. The drawings show the sequence of events that go with a particular activity, such as going grocery shopping or visiting a doctor. Your students, with your input when necessary, identify the items and actions in the drawings. Each drawings page is complimented by a page of vocabulary building exercises.

Here you will find student quizzes in Very Easy & Easy. You can also try the Medium difficulty exercises.

http://www.eslpartyland.com/quiz-center/quiz.htm

Living Language experts introduce Easy English, a course that teaches basic English for speakers of all languages, and combines a book and audio for a comprehensive introduction to English. It provides everything you need to get started learning English today. Key features of the language course include:

• 400 Illustrations — learn English easily by association
• 1 Book
• 3 Compact Discs — learn English at home or anywhere you can play a CD!