ESL Classroom Resource Links: Vocabulary 2

Commonly Confused Adjectives [Infographic] | ESL Blog

Verbs and their prepositions 101 – Verb phrases (infographic)

English rhyming dictionary - Type in the word and the number of rhyming syllables required to find suitable rhyming words.

Vidtionary: A Video Dictionary

ESL and ESOL Flash Cards  - Printable colourful flash cards on a variety of topics.

Resources on prepositions of place: Prepositions of Place: at, in, on - English for all and Prepositions - Hey Bogota

English Flash Games for Learning Vocabulary – Various types of interactive games each on a given theme (colours, numbers, family, food, parts of a face…).

OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept.

The LanguagePoint - Resources for vocabulary building

100 Mostly Small but Expressive Interjections

Video Boosters - Les Video Boosters sont des exercices vidéo interactifs conçus pour améliorer votre anglais en renforçant votre vocabulaire, votre compréhension orale et écrite et l'utilisation de formes grammaticales, le tout en moins de 15 minutes.

Emotion faces handout with emotions vocabulary

Kids Open Dictionary Builder - The purpose of this project is to create a free, open simple dictionary for students to use.

Learn English - is a free, on-line, educational resource that incorporates 40 topics, along with over 1,500 English words and phrases. Click on a word or phrase to hear it spoken.
Talking Dictionary: Do You Enjoy Playing with Words? – A variety of interactive activities with videos and animations focusing on vocabulary, expressions, idioms, proverbs…

Word Stash – An online dictionary that provides definitions, contextual examples, and pronunciation of the words.  In addition, users can create and save lists of words for study.

Knoword – In this interactive game, a randomly generated dictionary definition is given along with the first letter of its corresponding word. You must fill in the rest of the word.

Fun Language Games for Children - Three fun interactive language games for young learners.

Vocabahead: Short vocabulary videos explaining the meaning of words.

WordTwist - Wordtwist.org offers an online variant of traditional Boggle, with different rules of game play and board distribution.

Super Text Twist is a simple word game similar to Word Twist which asks plays to identify words from a set of jumbled letters.

ESL PDF – This site offers a collection of free worksheets and handouts covering different aspects of English grammar and vocabulary.

Recipe Key – Find Recipes Based on Ingredients in Your Pantry. All ingredients are illustrated and labelled.

ESL Podcast – Everyday English: idioms, slang and useful vocabulary.

English for Kids  – This Web site for younger children offers games and songs to learn vocabulary, expressions and grammar rules.

Colours and Shapes - Flash game designed to help children learn their colours and shapes. The game includes audio.

Our House – Choose a room to visit, click on an object in the room to learn what it is called and listen to how the word is pronounced.

Ninjawords – This dictionary allows you to find the definitions of several words at once and maintains a history of the words and definitions you have looked up.

French-English Cognates - Vrais Amis
French English False Cognates - Faux amis

French/English Cognates - There are many words common to both English and French. The 1000+ words here are spelled (although not pronounced) identically in French and English and are true or semi-true cognates.

Chronos - A prototype puzzle game designed to improve the player's vocabulary and literacy. Similar to traditional word search games, Chronos challenges players to find words on a game board to earn points.

Interactica – is a beautifully illustrated and fun Web site in Macromedia Flash for young children. Some sections are useful for learners of basic English vocabulary. See especially the section called School of English (blue dot).

The Body - Travail de vocabulaire anglais. Découpage et collage sur le thème "the body".

Talking About and Word Power-  thematic lists of commonly used words and examples of how they are used in various situations, phrases, and idioms.  Definitions and pronunciation of some of the expressions are provided as well as exercises.

L1ittle Explorer Picture Dictionary - a pictorial dictionary, with printouts to be used as coloring pages and posters. Many illustrations are labelled.

Visual Dictionary Online - "The Visual Dictionary is designed to help you find the right word at a glance. Filled with stunning illustrations labeled with accurate terminology in up to six languages, it is the ideal language-learning and vocabulary dictionary for use at school, at home or at work."

The Internet Picture Dictionary - is an online multilingual picture dictionary. Various interactive activities are provided online: Flashcards; Picture Match; Fill-in-the-blanks; Word Scramble; Stinky Spelling; Straight Recall. Words can be accessed either from an alphabetical listing or by categories:  Animals - Appliances - Body Parts - Clothing & Apparels - Colors - Fruits - Garden & Yard - Kitchen - Musical Instruments - Numbers - School - Sports - Tools - Transportation - Vegetables

ESL Tower - ESLTower.com is an ESL, EFL & ELT site that offers printable and interactive English grammar and vocabulary exercises for teachers and students. There are grammar & vocabulary quizzes, crosswords, word search puzzles and several other types of puzzles.

WordTwist - Wordtwist.org offers an online variant of traditional Boggle, with different rules of game play and board distribution.

Super Text Twist is a simple word game similar to Word Twist which asks plays to identify words from a set of jumbled letters.

Vocabulary 1