English ESP Lab
🔎 EXPLORE DIGITAL TOOLS
A curated collection of free and freemium digital tools for teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
Explore digital resources designed to help teachers create interactive, multimedia, self-paced, and meaningful English-learning activities for technical, professional, and workplace contexts.
Asesoría Inglés
Departamento de Especialidades Técnicas
⭐ RECOMMENDED TOOLS
Icon: 🧩 Interactive activities
Description:
Create interactive videos, quizzes, drag-and-drop activities, fill-in-the-blanks, presentations, branching scenarios and many other digital learning activities.
Best for: Listening • Vocabulary • Grammar • Reading • Assessment
ESP idea: Create an interactive simulation of a workplace situation.
Button: EXPLORE H5P
Icon: 📝 Interactive worksheet
Description:
Transform traditional worksheets into interactive digital exercises with automatic correction, multimedia and speaking activities.
Best for: Listening • Speaking • Grammar • Vocabulary • Assessment
ESP idea: Create an interactive worksheet about customs procedures or occupational safety.
Button: CREATE A WORKSHEET
Icon: 🎧 Headphones
Description:
Access a large collection of free listening lessons featuring conversations, vocabulary, transcripts and comprehension activities.
Best for: Listening • Vocabulary • Comprehension
ESP idea: Use workplace conversations as models for professional communication.
Button: PRACTICE LISTENING
Icon: 🎥 Video
Description:
Create listening and comprehension activities based on online videos.
Best for: Listening • Vocabulary • Video comprehension
ESP idea: Create a video quiz about a technical process or workplace situation.
Button: CREATE A VIDEO ACTIVITY
Icon: 🃏 Flashcards
Description:
Create digital flashcards and vocabulary practice activities for technical and professional terminology.
Best for: Vocabulary • Terminology • Review
ESP idea: Create vocabulary sets for Accounting, Tourism, IT, Customs, Construction or Environmental Management.
Button: BUILD VOCABULARY
Icon: 🎯 Quiz
Description:
Create interactive quizzes, lessons, flashcards and assessment activities that students can complete independently or with the teacher.
Best for: Assessment • Vocabulary • Grammar • Review
ESP idea: Assess students' knowledge of technical terminology.
Button: CREATE A QUIZ
Icon: 🎡 Game wheel
Description:
Create interactive games such as matching, sorting, random wheels, quizzes, word games and sentence activities.
Best for: Vocabulary • Grammar • Review
ESP idea: Practice workplace expressions and technical vocabulary.
Button: CREATE A GAME
Icon: 🎨 Design
Description:
Create presentations, infographics, worksheets, videos, posters, learning materials and visual projects.
Best for: Projects • Writing • Presentations • Multimedia
ESP idea: Students create an infographic explaining a technical process.
Button: DESIGN A PROJECT
Icon: ✨ Interactive presentation
Description:
Create interactive presentations, games, escape rooms, infographics and multimedia learning experiences.
Best for: Interaction • Reading • Vocabulary • Projects
ESP idea: Create an interactive virtual workplace or technical scenario.
Button: CREATE INTERACTIVE CONTENT
Icon: 🗣️ Speech
Description:
Hear words and expressions pronounced by real speakers in authentic video contexts.
Best for: Pronunciation • Listening • Professional expressions
ESP idea: Search for the pronunciation of technical terms and workplace expressions.
Button: HEAR REAL ENGLISH
Icon: 🎙️ Microphone
Description:
A simple online voice recorder that allows students to record and share their spoken English.
Best for: Speaking • Pronunciation • Presentations
ESP idea: Students record a 60-second explanation of a technical process.
Button: RECORD YOUR VOICE
Icon: 🎙️ Audio waveform
Description:
Free audio recording and editing software for creating listening materials and recording student speaking tasks.
Best for: Listening • Speaking • Pronunciation
ESP idea: Create a pronunciation or shadowing activity using technical vocabulary.
Button: CREATE AUDIO
Icon: 🔊 Speaker
Description:
A pronunciation dictionary with recordings from speakers around the world.
Best for: Pronunciation • Vocabulary
ESP idea: Check the pronunciation of specialized terminology and international names.
Button: CHECK PRONUNCIATION
Icon: 📖 Book
Description:
Provides reading comprehension activities that adapt to students' levels.
Best for: Reading • Comprehension • Assessment
ESP idea: Develop comprehension skills needed for manuals, instructions and workplace texts.
Button: PRACTICE READING
Icon: 📚 Books
Description:
Provides digital reading resources and comprehension activities using a wide range of texts.
Best for: Reading • Vocabulary • Comprehension
ESP idea: Use nonfiction texts related to technology, business, science or sustainability.
Icon: 📰 Newspaper
Description:
Provides news stories at different English proficiency levels.
Best for: Reading • Listening • Vocabulary
ESP idea: Adapt current news to topics such as technology, business, logistics or sustainability.
Button: READ THE NEWS
Icon: 📰 News
Description:
Free news-based English lessons with listening, reading, vocabulary and comprehension activities.
Best for: Reading • Listening • Vocabulary
ESP idea: Use news related to international trade, transportation, technology or environmental issues.
Button: EXPLORE LESSONS
Icon: 🌐 Reading
Description:
Supports reading authentic online content by providing vocabulary and translation assistance.
Best for: Reading • Vocabulary • Independent learning
ESP idea: Students read authentic professional webpages and identify key terminology.
Button: READ AUTHENTIC ENGLISH
Icon: 📄 Document
Description:
Create collaborative documents for reports, emails, descriptions, procedures and workplace writing.
Best for: Writing • Collaboration • Projects
ESP idea: Write a professional email responding to a customer.
Button: START WRITING
Icon: 📊 Presentation
Description:
Create collaborative presentations for technical and professional topics.
Best for: Writing • Speaking • Presentations
ESP idea: Prepare a presentation explaining a technical process.
Button: CREATE A PRESENTATION
Icon: 📌 Collaborative board
Description:
Create collaborative boards where students can share text, images, audio, video and links.
Best for: Writing • Speaking • Collaboration • Projects
ESP idea: Create a digital portfolio of workplace English tasks.
Button: BUILD A COLLABORATIVE BOARD
Icon: 🔗 Digital collection
Description:
Organize websites, videos, documents and learning resources into digital collections.
Best for: Reading • Research • Projects
ESP idea: Create a learning pathway for English for Tourism or International Trade.
Button: CREATE A RESOURCE COLLECTION
Icon: 📕 Digital book
Description:
Create multimedia digital books combining text, images, audio and video.
Best for: Writing • Speaking • Projects • Portfolios
ESP idea: Students create a digital guide for their technical specialty.
Button: CREATE A DIGITAL BOOK
Icon: 🎲 Game
Description:
Create interactive classroom games for vocabulary, grammar and speaking practice.
Best for: Vocabulary • Grammar • Speaking
ESP idea: Create a technical vocabulary challenge for students.
Button: PLAY & PRACTICE
Icon: 🎮 Game controller
Description:
Turn question sets into engaging games that students can play individually or competitively.
Best for: Vocabulary • Grammar • Review
ESP idea: Review terminology before a technical English assessment.
Button: START THE CHALLENGE
Icon: 🔄 Cards
Description:
Create flashcards, matching games, randomizers, quizzes and other learning activities.
Best for: Vocabulary • Grammar • Review
ESP idea: Create flashcards for technical terminology.
Button: CREATE FLASHCARDS
Icon: 🏆 Trophy
Description:
Create Jeopardy-style review games without complicated setup.
Best for: Vocabulary • Grammar • Review
ESP idea: Create categories such as Tools, Equipment, Processes and Workplace Communication.
Button: BUILD A REVIEW GAME
Icon: 🧠 Brain
Description:
Create interactive activities including crosswords, word searches, matching, dictation, quizzes and video activities.
Best for: Vocabulary • Grammar • Listening • Review
ESP idea: Create a crossword using vocabulary from a technical specialty.
Button: CREATE AN ACTIVITY
Icon: ✅ Checkmark
Description:
Provides English grammar, vocabulary, reading and listening practice activities at different proficiency levels.
Best for: Grammar • Vocabulary • Reading • Listening
ESP idea: Reinforce the language structures students need for workplace communication.
Button: PRACTICE ENGLISH
Icon: 🚀 Game
Description:
Create interactive quizzes and review games for vocabulary, grammar and comprehension.
Best for: Review • Assessment • Vocabulary
ESP idea: Start or finish an ESP lesson with a technical vocabulary challenge.
Button: PLAY A KAHOOT
Icon: 📝 Quick check
Description:
Allows teachers to conduct quick formative assessments using printed response cards.
Best for: Assessment • Review
ESP idea: Check technical vocabulary when students have limited access to devices.
Button: QUICK ASSESSMENT
Icon: 📊 Assessment
Description:
Create quizzes, quick questions and formative assessments with immediate feedback.
Best for: Assessment • Grammar • Vocabulary • Comprehension
ESP idea: Check understanding after a listening or reading activity.
Button: CHECK LEARNING
Icon: 💬 Poll
Description:
Create interactive presentations, polls, questions and word clouds.
Best for: Speaking • Interaction • Vocabulary
ESP idea: Ask students to identify the most important skills for their future workplace.
Button: INTERACT & RESPOND
Icon: 🎡 Random wheel
Description:
Create random wheels for speaking prompts, vocabulary, questions and role-play situations.
Best for: Speaking • Vocabulary • Interaction
ESP idea: Randomly assign workplace role-play situations.
Button: SPIN & SPEAK
Icon: 🛠️ Tools
Description:
A collection of generators for quizzes, games, diagrams, timelines and interactive classroom activities.
Best for: Vocabulary • Grammar • Projects
ESP idea: Create an interactive timeline of an international trade process.
Button: EXPLORE TOOLS
Icon: ▶️ Video
Description:
Use authentic videos to develop listening, speaking, vocabulary and professional communication.
Best for: Listening • Speaking • Vocabulary • Authentic English
ESP idea: Use videos showing real workplace processes and professional interactions.
Button: EXPLORE VIDEOS
Icon: 🖥️ Interactive lesson
Description:
Create interactive lessons combining presentations, questions, videos, polls and activities.
Best for: Multimedia • Listening • Assessment
ESP idea: Build a complete self-paced lesson around a workplace scenario.
Button: CREATE A LESSON
Icon: 🖼️ Interactive image
Description:
Turn images into interactive learning environments using clickable hotspots.
Best for: Vocabulary • Reading • Multimedia
ESP idea: Create an interactive image of a warehouse, laboratory, hotel or construction site.
Button: MAKE AN IMAGE INTERACTIVE
Icon: QR
Description:
Create QR codes that connect students to audio, video, activities, documents or websites.
Best for: Multimedia • Independent learning • Learning stations
ESP idea: Place QR codes around the language lab to create interactive learning stations.
Button: CREATE A QR CODE
Icon: 📊 Infographic
Description:
Create infographics, visual reports and presentations.
Best for: Writing • Reading • Technical communication
ESP idea: Students create an infographic explaining a technical process.
Button: CREATE AN INFOGRAPHIC
Icon: 📈 Visual content
Description:
Create presentations, infographics, reports and visual learning materials.
Best for: Projects • Presentations • Technical communication
ESP idea: Present data related to logistics, business or environmental management.
Button: CREATE VISUAL CONTENT
Icon: 🧑💻 Collaborative board
Description:
Create collaborative visual activities, brainstorming tasks, diagrams and problem-solving activities.
Best for: Collaboration • Vocabulary • Speaking • Projects
ESP idea: Map the steps of a workplace process using English.
Button: COLLABORATE
Icon: 🌐 Website
Description:
Create digital resource pages, student portfolios, learning hubs and ESP project websites.
Best for: Projects • Portfolios • Resource organization
ESP idea: Students create a website presenting their technical specialty.
Button: BUILD A WEBSITE
Icon: 📋 Form
Description:
Create quizzes, surveys, diagnostic assessments and self-check activities.
Best for: Assessment • Grammar • Vocabulary • Reading
ESP idea: Create a diagnostic English assessment for a technical specialty.
Button: CREATE AN ASSESSMENT
Icon: 📋 Microsoft Forms
Description:
Create quizzes, surveys and assessments with automatic response collection and analysis.
Best for: Assessment • Feedback • Progress checks
ESP idea: Create an end-of-module assessment for workplace English.
Button: BUILD A QUIZ
Icon: 🤖 Adapt
Description:
Adapt texts and learning materials to different proficiency levels and create supporting questions and activities.
Best for: Reading • Differentiation • Vocabulary
ESP idea: Adapt a complex technical text for A2, B1.1 or B1.2 learners.
Button: ADAPT A TEXT
Icon: 🎧 Listening
Description:
Provides a large collection of listening activities at different levels with comprehension questions.
Best for: Listening • Comprehension • Independent learning
ESP idea: Use listening practice as preparation for workplace communication.
Button: PRACTICE LISTENING
Icon: 📚 Resource library
Description:
Provides a large collection of ESL worksheets, presentations and video-based materials that teachers can adapt.
Best for: Reading • Grammar • Vocabulary • Listening
ESP idea: Adapt existing resources to the technical specialty of your students.
Button: FIND TEACHING RESOURCES
Icon: 🎵 Music
Description:
Develop listening discrimination and vocabulary by completing missing words while listening to songs.
Best for: Listening • Vocabulary • Pronunciation
ESP idea: Use as supplementary listening practice to strengthen general English skills.
Button: PRACTICE LISTENING
Icon: 🇬🇧 English Learning
Description:
Provides free listening, speaking, grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation resources organized by level.
Best for: Listening • Speaking • Grammar • Vocabulary
ESP idea: Use workplace-related materials as models for professional communication.
Button: EXPLORE LEARNENGLISH
Icon: 📺 BBC
Description:
Offers free videos, audio lessons, vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar activities.
Best for: Listening • Vocabulary • Pronunciation
ESP idea: Use short authentic-style videos to introduce professional vocabulary and expressions.
Button: PRACTICE ENGLISH
Icon: 🌎 World
Description:
Provides news and educational content using clear, learner-friendly English and audio.
Best for: Listening • Reading • Vocabulary
ESP idea: Use technology, business, science and environmental news for ESP reading and listening tasks.
Button: LISTEN TO ENGLISH
Icon: 🎙️ Voice
Description:
Allows users to record voice messages directly in a browser.
Best for: Speaking • Pronunciation • Oral Practice
ESP idea: Students record a professional introduction or explain a technical procedure.
Button: RECORD YOUR VOICE
Icon: 🗣️ Speech
Description:
Provides pronunciation and speaking practice with audio examples and language-learning activities.
Best for: Pronunciation • Speaking • Listening
ESP idea: Practice pronunciation of technical terms and workplace expressions.
Button: PRACTICE PRONUNCIATION
Icon: ⏱️ Listening
Description:
Provides short listening texts and activities organized around different topics.
Best for: Listening • Vocabulary • Comprehension
ESP idea: Use one-minute recordings as warm-up activities related to technical specialties.
Button: LISTEN & PRACTICE
Icon: 💬 Conversation
Description:
Provides short conversations and stories with audio and transcripts.
Best for: Listening • Speaking • Reading
ESP idea: Adapt conversations into workplace role-plays for customer service, tourism or business.
Button: EXPLORE CONVERSATIONS
Icon: 🔤 Words
Description:
Helps teachers identify and visualize vocabulary from texts and explore word meanings.
Best for: Vocabulary • Reading • Academic English
ESP idea: Paste a technical text and identify the most important vocabulary students need to learn.
Button: EXPLORE VOCABULARY
Icon: 🔄 Interactive Text
Description:
Turns texts into a variety of interactive vocabulary and language-learning activities.
Best for: Vocabulary • Reading • Grammar
ESP idea: Convert a technical procedure into interactive vocabulary exercises.
Button: CREATE TEXT ACTIVITIES
Icon: 🧩 Crossword
Description:
Create online crossword puzzles using your own vocabulary.
Best for: Vocabulary • Terminology • Review
ESP idea: Create crosswords using technical terms from Automotive Technology, IT or Tourism.
Button: CREATE A CROSSWORD
Icon: 🔤 Word Games
Description:
Create word searches, crosswords, bingo cards and other vocabulary activities.
Best for: Vocabulary • Review • Games
ESP idea: Create a technical vocabulary word search for a specific CTP specialty.
Button: CREATE A WORD GAME
Icon: 📖 Dictionary
Description:
Provides vocabulary learning activities, definitions and practice based on contextual use.
Best for: Vocabulary • Reading • Word Usage
ESP idea: Use contextual examples to teach professional and technical terminology.
Button: BUILD VOCABULARY
Icon: 📚 Dictionary
Description:
Provides learner-friendly definitions, pronunciation, examples and vocabulary information.
Best for: Vocabulary • Pronunciation • Reading
ESP idea: Students research technical terms and create vocabulary cards.
Button: LOOK UP A WORD
Icon: 📘 Dictionary
Description:
Provides definitions, pronunciation, examples and learner-friendly vocabulary resources.
Best for: Vocabulary • Pronunciation • Reading
ESP idea: Students verify technical vocabulary and pronunciation before completing a professional task.
Button: CHECK THE WORD
Icon: 🦛 Words
Description:
Provides synonyms, antonyms, definitions, translations and word-related information.
Best for: Vocabulary • Writing • Word Choice
ESP idea: Help students select appropriate vocabulary for professional emails and reports.
Button: FIND THE RIGHT WORD
Icon: 📋 Activities
Description:
Offers a large collection of free English grammar, vocabulary, listening and reading exercises.
Best for: Grammar • Vocabulary • Listening
ESP idea: Assign targeted grammar practice related to an ESP task.
Button: PRACTICE ENGLISH
Icon: 🔎 Search
Description:
A dictionary and word-search tool that helps learners explore meanings, related words and expressions.
Best for: Vocabulary • Word relationships • Writing
ESP idea: Explore synonyms and related terminology when writing technical reports.
Button: EXPLORE WORDS
Icon: ✍️ Writing
Description:
Provides free resources for grammar, academic writing, professional writing, citations and style.
Best for: Writing • Grammar • Professional English
ESP idea: Teach students how to write professional emails, reports and technical documents.
Button: IMPROVE YOUR WRITING
Icon: ✍️ Writing
Description:
A Cambridge English writing practice platform that provides automated feedback on students' writing.
Best for: Writing • Grammar • Independent Learning
ESP idea: Students write professional emails, descriptions or short technical reports.
Button: WRITE & IMPROVE
Icon: ✏️ Editing
Description:
Helps students identify difficult sentences and improve clarity and readability.
Best for: Writing • Editing • Professional Communication
ESP idea: Students revise technical instructions to make them clearer and easier to understand.
Button: IMPROVE YOUR WRITING
Icon: 🔍 Proofreading
Description:
Provides grammar, spelling and writing suggestions in multiple languages.
Best for: Writing • Grammar • Editing
ESP idea: Students proofread professional emails, reports and technical documents.
Button: CHECK YOUR WRITING
Icon: 📋 Live Assessment
Description:
Allows teachers to create interactive assignments and receive student responses in real time.
Best for: Assessment • Writing • Reading • Grammar
ESP idea: Give students a technical text and monitor their comprehension responses.
Button: CREATE A FORMATIVE ACTIVITY
Icon: 📝 Worksheet
Description:
Allows teachers to create interactive digital worksheets with different question types.
Best for: Reading • Grammar • Vocabulary • Assessment
ESP idea: Create an interactive worksheet about workplace safety procedures.
Button: CREATE A WORKSHEET
Icon: 💡 Writing
Description:
Helps learners explore how words and phrases are used in authentic English contexts.
Best for: Writing • Vocabulary • Word Choice
ESP idea: Check whether technical phrases sound natural in professional English.
Button: CHECK WORD USAGE
Icon: 🎮 Games
Description:
Provides interactive English games for vocabulary, grammar, spelling and language practice.
Best for: Vocabulary • Grammar • Review
ESP idea: Use games as supplementary practice before introducing technical terminology.
Button: PLAY & LEARN
Icon: 🎯 Games
Description:
Provides browser-based games for vocabulary, grammar and basic English practice.
Best for: Vocabulary • Grammar • Review
ESP idea: Use for reinforcement with students who need additional general-English support.
Button: PLAY ENGLISH GAMES
Icon: 🌎 Games
Description:
Provides interactive games and classroom resources for English teachers.
Best for: Vocabulary • Grammar • Speaking
ESP idea: Adapt games to workplace expressions and technical vocabulary.
Button: EXPLORE GAMES
Icon: 📱 Interactive Learning
Description:
Allows teachers to create interactive learning activities and games.
Best for: Vocabulary • Reading • Games • Multimedia
ESP idea: Create interactive vocabulary activities for technical specialties.
Button: CREATE AN ACTIVITY
Icon: 📊 Assessment
Description:
Allows teachers to create interactive questions and monitor student responses.
Best for: Assessment • Vocabulary • Grammar
ESP idea: Create formative assessments for each ESP unit.
Button: CREATE AN ASSESSMENT
Icon: 🖥️ Interactive Presentation
Description:
Adds interactive questions and activities to presentations.
Best for: Speaking • Assessment • Interaction
ESP idea: Turn an ESP presentation into an interactive lesson with questions and student responses.
Button: MAKE A LESSON INTERACTIVE
Icon: 👩🏫 Classroom
Description:
Allows teachers to distribute digital activities and monitor student work.
Best for: Writing • Assessment • Independent Practice
ESP idea: Students complete technical writing tasks while the teacher provides feedback.
Button: CREATE AN ACTIVITY
Icon: 💬🤖 AI Conversation
Description:
An AI language-learning platform that allows learners to practise conversations and speaking with an AI tutor.
Best for: Speaking • Conversation • Vocabulary • Fluency
ESP idea: Students simulate job interviews, customer-service conversations, workplace meetings or technical consultations.
Button: PRACTICE CONVERSATION
Website: VISIT TALKPAL
Icon: ✨ AI
Description:
Provides AI-powered tools designed to help teachers create lesson materials, questions and learning resources.
Best for: Lesson Planning • Assessment • Differentiation
ESP idea: Generate differentiated activities around a technical topic such as cybersecurity or automotive maintenance.
Button: CREATE TEACHING MATERIALS
Icon: ❓ Questions
Description:
Helps teachers generate questions and assessments from instructional content.
Best for: Assessment • Reading • Vocabulary • Comprehension
ESP idea: Generate comprehension questions from an authentic technical text or video transcript.
Button: CREATE QUESTIONS
Icon: ⚡ Teaching
Description:
Provides AI-assisted tools for adapting texts, creating activities and supporting differentiated instruction.
Best for: Lesson Planning • Reading • Writing • Differentiation
ESP idea: Adapt authentic workplace documents to students' CEFR levels and create accompanying activities.
Button: CREATE & ADAPT
Icon: 🤖 AI English Teaching
Description:
AI-powered tools specifically designed for English teachers. It can generate CEFR-aligned texts, dialogues, vocabulary activities, questions, listening tasks and writing prompts.
Best for: Lesson Planning • CEFR • Reading • Listening • Vocabulary • Grammar
ESP idea: Enter a technical topic such as Automotive Technology – Vehicle Maintenance – B1.1 and generate a reading, vocabulary exercise, comprehension questions and speaking task.
Button: CREATE ESP ACTIVITIES
Icon: ✍️✅ AI Writing Assistant
Description:
AI-powered writing assistant that checks grammar, spelling, punctuation, clarity and style.
Best for: Writing • Grammar • Editing • Professional Communication
ESP idea: Students write professional emails, CVs, reports and technical descriptions and use Grammarly to identify and correct language problems.
Button: IMPROVE YOUR WRITING
Icon: 🔄✍️ AI Writing
Description:
AI writing tool that helps learners paraphrase, summarize, correct and improve written English.
Best for: Writing • Paraphrasing • Vocabulary • Grammar
ESP idea: Students paraphrase technical information from manuals or articles while maintaining the original meaning.
Button: IMPROVE & PARAPHRASE
Icon: 🗣️🤖 AI Pronunciation
Description:
AI-powered English speaking and pronunciation platform that analyzes learners' speech and provides pronunciation feedback.
Best for: Speaking • Pronunciation • Listening • Fluency
ESP idea: Students practise technical vocabulary and workplace expressions and receive pronunciation feedback before an interview or professional presentation.
Button: PRACTICE SPEAKING