Interesting Things for ESL students

Many Things: One of the first things I noticed about this website was that it has no advertisements! While this makes it less colorful and more like a text book to look at, it also means that the learners and teachers can focus on the content without any distractions, or the inconvenience of random pop up windows opening up accidentally.

As the name suggests, the site has a range of interesting activities to match the needs and interests of different levels of English language learners.  It appears to be a comprehensive website that covers important skills from reading, listening, spelling to pronunciation. The site gives you the choice of what you want to practice and how you want to practice it. Like, you can either study the vocabulary word lists first and then play the related games or jump straight to the games and try and guess the words on the lists.  You can also play different games using the same vocabulary list.

The range of different word games they offer all at one portal particularly impresses me.  Under the Vocabulary section, one can find interactive activities like the matching quizzes, word ordering, anagrams, hangman etc. These activities can help students add variety to their vocabulary learning.  I find these activities very useful for my context because the level of vocabulary covered is very diverse and even includes sections like Business English and Job application.  I also like their separate section on Proverbs, Slang and Idioms.  The database contains a good amount of proverbs that are commonly used in American English and can be helpful for college level students.