Practice your English vocabulary and grammar on freerice.com. 
Every time you get an answer correct, a small amount of money (equal to about 10 grains of rice) is donated to help end world hunger.
Storybird is a free website to help you practice your creative writing. They have thousands of pictures to go with your writing. The easiest to start with is a Storybird Poem:
You can press the 
button to get more word choices.
If you like your poem, please share it with us by emailing to community@faesl.org
Do you like to read the news? The Times in Plain English is a free website with newspaper articles that are re-written in easier English. You can translate stories if you need help understanding.
There is a website called testyourvocab.com that helps give you an estimate of how many English words you know. This is not exact, and mostly for fun. But if you try it now, and then try it again after you have practiced a lot of English, you should see that your vocabulary has improved.
Suggestions for taking the test:
Try to learn a new English word every day, and you’ll be pleased with how your vocabulary grows!
The website eslyes has a page with 365 very short stories. Each one takes only a few minutes to read. You can also listen to each story (in normal or slower speed). After you read and listen to the story, there are several exercises you can try.
Here’s some more detail:
Duolingo is one of the best ways to teach yourself English – for free. It’s a good place to begin. You can use it on your computer, smartphone, or tablet.
To use Duolingo:
The website DifferenceBetween.net explains the difference between two similar words. It includes explanations of words often confusing to English learners, such as Before vs Ago, or Long vs Short Vowels, and Await vs Wait.
Dictation is listening to someone speaking and then trying to write what you hear.
Practicing dictation can help improve your:
The EnglishClub website has a good collection of dictation exercises, at 3 different levels of difficulty. Here’s an example:
1. Listen to the dictation at normal speed (just listen; don’t try to write it).
2. Listen again at slow speed and try to write/type what your hear (with a smartphone, you need to use paper).
Include capitalization and punctuation.
3. Listen again at slow speed if you need to.
4. Listen at normal speed for a last check.
5. When you’re ready, click/press Show Answer and compare the answer to your writing.
(The mailbox is just behind the big water fountain.)
