Welcome to the BHCC ESL Resource Page!

Follow the links below to surf through web-sites that will help you practice your listening, grammar, writing, and reading.

To begin, drop by Dave's ESL Cafe. Visit Today in History, Chat Central or Hint of the Day. Learn new idioms and slang. Take a quiz or stop by the Help Center for answers to your writing and grammar questions.

Listed below are some other web-sites we suggest.

Here is a new group of sites particularly useful for tutoring:

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/s/ - self-study quizzes for ESL students

http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.cfm - an online English grammar

http://www.vocabulary.com/ - vocabulary puzzles to enhance vocabulary mastery

http://www.comenius.com/ - links to reading materials, idioms, writing and more

LISTENING

Randall's ESL Listening Lab has dozens of exercises to help you with your listening comprehension. The listening activities are arranged at four different levels and range in level of difficulty from easy to very difficult. You can print a transcript of the passages you listen to and take quizzes. The exercises are interesting and often quite funny. There's even a section with Real Video to follow along with the dialogue.

We especially recommend the Short Listening Exercises!

Beginners should try: Numbers, R/L, Telling Time, Greetings, and Prices.

The intermediate level: Bus schedules, Directions, Ordering at Restaurants, More numbers, Pronunciation, Telephone conversations, G/V, F/V, and S/Sh.

The advanced level: US slang, Requests and Replies, Directions, Personality types, and Para-language.

At Englishlistening.com you can listen to many different short passages, print a transcript, and take quizzes on what you just heard.

Check out this great site for Reading and Listening exercises. Just click on the Listening and Speaking menu for a list of great activities. Our favorites are Listen Training on the Web, Weekly Idioms, Talk Radio, and the Listening Quizzes.

GRAMMAR and WRITING

The Guide to Grammar and Writing is a wonderful site for students in advanced ESL through English 095. There is a comprehensive grammar index with explanations on everything from sentence and verb agreement to punctuation to run-ons and fragments. The quizzes on sentence structure are very helpful, particularly the "notorious confusables", which focus on words like (there/their/they're or who/whom)

Students in entry level and intermediate ESL should try Focus On Grammar for quizzes and grammar help. You can find it on the computers in the Learning Center and the Multi- Assistance Center!

The Purdue University On-line Writing Lab is a great writing resource for advanced level students. It offers help on your writing assignments and also has a grammar index with worksheets you can print out.

The English Institute's Elementary Grammar is a great grammar guide for all levels with simple explanations of basic grammar points.

The Phrasal Verb Page at Dave's ESL Cafe is a fun page with a huge list of verbs, complete with explanations and examples of usage.

READING

Read a newspaper from any state in the US or any country in the world .

Catch up on current events in the US by visiting the ABC news web-site.

Read a book from the list of suggested reading for ESL students.

Read and discuss a new book every month by joining our Book of the Month Club , an interactive reading experience!

MISCELLANEOUS SITES

Stop by the Bunker Hill Community College web-page to find out everything you need to know about BHCC.

Head to the BHCC Library web-site.

Visit the TOEFL web-site for all the information you'll need to know about the TOEFL exam!

Finally, tour Boston for the latest news, weather reports, entertainment and sporting events in this area!

Web Site questions or comments? Send E-mail to bhc@noblenet.org

Updated September 17, 1999