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Welcome to the ESOL Hours by Arrangement Page!  Here are several links to exercises that can help you improve your English skills. 
Your teacher may ask you to use these activities to satisfy your Hours by Arrangement assignment, or you may simply use them for extra practice.

Listening & Speaking Practice

• Practice Easy, Medium, and Difficult conversations at Randall's ESL Listening Lab
• Practice listening (New, Regular, or Advanced) at the English Listening Lounge
• Listen and learn vocabulary atLanguage Guide
• Listen to songs and read lyrics atello.org
• Sing Karaoke to famous English songs at City College Manchester
• Listen to songs and take quizzes at eflclub
• Listen to internet and radio broadcasts at the English Page Listening Lounge
• Watch and Listen with the BBC
• Follow the audio series Flatmates with the BBC

Online Typing/Keyboarding Practice

• Dance Mat from BBC Typing Game
• Sense Language Touch Typing
• Qwerty keyboard at Power Typing

Skyline College Writing Links

• The Learning Center Writing Links

Reading and Vocabulary Practice

• Free Rice (For every word you get correct, a donation of rice is made to hungry people!)
• Answers.com (online dictionary with pronunciation)
• Dave’s ESL Café Idioms Page
• 5 minute English Reading exercises
• Gallaudet Reading Practice
• eslUS Interlink Reading and Speed Reading exercises

Free Internet Grammar Exercises (Organized by Grammar Topic)

• Active & Passive Verbs
• Explanation at English Zone of Passive and Active Verbs  
• esl.about.com Passive to Active and Active to Passive
• Adjectives and Adverbs
• a4esl.com adverbs and adjectives I
• a4esl.com adverbs and adjectives II  
• Galludet -ed or -ing exercise I
• Galludet -ed or -ing exercise II
• Using English  -ed vs. -ing
• Articles
• esl.about.com articles quiz
• a4esl articles I 
• a4esl articles II 
• Clauses
• Adjective clauses 
• Grammar Check – Adjectives
• University of Victoria – Adjective clauses
• esl.about.com – Subordination with Adjective Clauses
• Adverb Clauses 
• esl.about.com adverb clauses
• a4esl.com adverb clauses
• Learn 4 Good – Adjective Clauses
• Regular and Reduced Adverb Clauses
• Learn 4 Good – Adverb Clauses
• Grammar Lessons Reduced Adverbs
• a4esl Reduced Adverb Clauses
• Noun Clauses
• Grammar Check – Noun Clauses
• Buckhoff’s – Noun Clauses with Infinitives
• Buckhoff’s – Noun Clause Connectors “What” and “That”
• Buckhoff’s – Noun Clauses Using “Ever”
• Independent/Dependent Clauses
• OWL – Independent/Dependent Clauses
• Commnet – Identifying Independent Clauses
• Tongue Untied – Identifying various clauses and phrases
• Virginia Tech – Identifying clauses and phrases
• Conditionals
• Grammar Check – Conditionals
• a4esl If Clauses
• Continuous Tenses
• esl.about.com Continuous Tenses
• English Club  Continuous Tenses
• Nouns and determiners
• Count/Non-count 
• Georgia State University nouns
• eflnet count/noncount
• Singulars, Plurals & Possessives
• a4esl’s nouns page
• ESL Instructor.net determiners
• This/That/These/Those
• Galludet’s determiners quizzes #1, #2,  #3, #4, and #5
• Gerunds & Infinitives
• Explanation at EduFind for Gerunds and Infinitives
• English Club quiz on Gerunds
• English Club quiz on Infinitives
• eslgold List of Verbs that Take Gerunds
• eslgold List of Verbs that Take Infinitives
• esl.about.com Gerund or Infinitive 1?
• esl.about.com Gerund or Infinitive 2?
• Irregular Verbs:
• chompchomp.com Irregular Verbs
• English Page Irregular Verbs
• Modal Auxiliary Verbs :
• English Page Modals
• ESLus.com Modals    
• Verb and Preposition Collocations at ESL Gold
• Negatives
• a4esl.com negatives
• Pritchard negatives
• Prepositions:
• esl.about.com Prepositions Quizzes #1, #2, #3 , #4, #5, #6, #7
• English page prepositions
• Parts of Speech
• ESL.com’s Parts of Speech
• Galludet’s Parts of Speech page

• Phrasal Verbs
• ESL US.com Phrasal Verbs
• Phrasal Verb Dictionary  
• Pronouns
• Using English - Pronouns
• Using English - Possessive/Reflexive
• Using English - Subject/Object pronouns
• Using English - They / Them / Their / Theirs
• Question Forms
• Hilfen.de questions I
• Hilfen.de questions II
• Using English – Question Words
• Reported Speech
• esl.about.com’s reported speech
• esl partyland’s reported speech
• Relative Clauses
• Using English – Relative Pronouns I
• Using English – Relative Pronouns II
• Using English – Omitting Relative Pronouns
• Using English – Which and Where
• Gallaudet – Relative Clauses
• Georgia State University instructor’s recorded lesson on Relative Clauses
• Sentence Combining
• eslus.com’s sentence combining I
• eslus.com’s sentence combining II
• grammar.ccc.commnet’s sentence types
• chompchomp.com’s Comma Splices & Fused Sentences
• chompchomp.com’s Fragments
• Virginia Tech’s runons and fragments
• Newton.uor.edu’s Coordinating Conjunctions (sentence joining)
• Sentence Parts:
• Gallaudet’s Subject Identification exercise #1, #2, and #3
• actden.com’s sentence parts
• OWL Sentence Parts
• grammar.ccc.commnet’s sentence parts and quizzes
• Verb Tenses
• English Club’s Verbs
• English Page’s Verb Tenses  (Many, many quizzes!!!!)
• Present Tenses
• Grammar Check – All Present Tenses
• English Club – Present Tense
• English Club – Present Continuous Tense
• Past Tenses
• Grammar Check – Past Tenses
• esl.about.com – Past Tenses
• Perfect Tenses
• Grammar Check – Perfect Tenses
• English Club – Present Perfect
• Writing Research Papers
• Skyline College Library (research, citation of sources, and good info)
• The Learning Center list of Writing Topics

Free Internet Grammar Quiz Sites (Many are the same as above, but not organized here by grammar topic)

• esl.about.com at http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrammarquiz.htm
• The English Club at http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/index.htm
• The English Page at http://www.englishpage.com/grammar/
• a4esl at http://a4esl.org/
• Karin’s ESL Partyland at http://www.eslpartyland.com/quiz%20center/quiz.htm
• Englisch Hilfen at http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/alle_grammar.htm
• CSM’s Grammar Check at http://www.gocsm.net/sevas/esl/gramcheck/index.html
• esl US at http://www.eslus.com/LESSONS/GRAMMAR/Gram.htm
• chompchomp at http://www.chompchomp.com/
• Gallaudet’s English Works page at http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/
• Learn 4 Good at http://www.learn4good.com/languages/evr_english.htm  
• Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/