Charles Kelly
チャールズ • ケリー

Contact me via kelly.reachby.com
I have written textbooks and maintain websites related to studying English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL).

For AIT Students

Quick Tour

Listen to an episode of my Learn a Song Podcast while taking a quick tour of 70 of my web pages.

Charles Kelly One Man Band

This is a demo I made to show the Akai Duo Buddy.

Charles Kelly One Man Band

Bluegrass Banjo-style Ukulele


Hear more at www.manythings.org/ukulele.

Clawhammer Banjo Tabs

Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo

These are 217 tablatures I've put online from a book I pubished in 1980.

One of My Pronunciation Videos

114 Words with the /st/ Consonant Cluster

See more at youtube.com/InterestingThingsESL

A Couple of Things in Japanese

Websites for Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages

A Few of My Web Projects

Daily Pronunciation Practice

New material is uploaded every day at about 15:00 GMT.
English-Japanese Sentences

11,000 以上
Crossword Puzzles for Studying English Vocabulary

Over 200 puzzles, 25 with images as hints
Crossword Puzzles with Japanese Hints

300 puzzles covering about 4,800 words.
Anagrams

An anagram is a word made by using letters of another word in a different order.
Every Other Letter Games

See letters 1, 3, 5, ... You guess the letters 2, 4, 6, ... Type in the word.
WordMeister

This is a hangman-like game. (19 games)
Catch the Spelling

Practice your spelling and review vocabulary while having fun
English Vocabulary Games with Pictures

There are 7 games on each of the 22 sets of 9 words.
English Vocabulary Word Lists with Games, Puzzles and Quizzes

This is a collection of English vocabulary word lists with online activities that use these word lists.
Hangman Games

Guess the letters in the mystery words. (About 60 games)
Word Drop Game

Click any two letters to exchange their places.
Matching Quizzes for ESL Students

Drag and drop the matches.
Click the Letters in the Correct Order

See the word, then find the letters.
Word Find Puzzles / Word Search Puzzles

See the word, then find the letters.
Crazy Sentence Singer

Make sentences by clicking buttons and listen to them being sung.
Scrambled Word Puzzles for Studying English Vocabulary

Drag and drop the letters into the correct order. [See earlier ones.]
Scrambled Words

See a scrambled word and try to guess what it is, then click to see the word. [See earlier ones.]
Computer Assisted Writing

Enter some words and the computer does the rest.
Quizzes Based On VOA's Special English Programs

Some of the questions are on grammar and some are on vocabulary.
Matching Quizzes Using VOA Special English Nouns

70 Rounds of 6 Matches
Matching Quizzes Using VOA Special English Verbs

69 Rounds of 6 Matches
Slider Puzzle

Put the sentence into its correct word order by clicking words to move them.
Spelling and Typing Games

Type the word before you run out of time.
SpeedWord

Click the letters in the right order to spell the English word before you run out of time.
Reading English Signs

700+ Photos of Signs
Texts of VOA's Special English Broadcasts

These are locally hosted and have been reformatted so that they are faster to download, easier to read on the screen and print well on any size paper.
Minimal Pair Practice & Quizzes

13-30, ferry-very, lake-rake, thick-sick, etc.
English Listening Room

Listening cloze quizzes.
Common American Slang

More Than 280 Common American Slang Expressions
Learn a Song

Learn to sing songs that native speakers know.
Listen and Repeat

Learn or review the irregular verbs the easy way.
Jokes in English

You can listen to and read the jokes.
VOA's Special English Programs in a Podcast RSS Feed

Direct links to MP3 files and text.
Audio Concentration / Memory Game

While playing this game, improve your ability to distinguish vowel sounds.
Selected MP3 Files for EFL/ESL Students

These \"English-only\" MP3 files were selected for students at our university in Japan.
Spelling/Vocabulary Quizzes

151 quizzes covering over 1,500 words
Search for Sentences Used by VOA's Special English Programs

Find sentences that contain words or phrases that you search for.
WordWeb Using VOA Special English Words

24 Games Including Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs.
Listen and Read Along

As you listen, you can read the text. These are from VOA broadcasts.
VOA Words - Browser & Flashcards

Learn the words on the Voice of America's Special English Word List.
Tongue Twister

She Sells Seashells by the Seashore
Learn a Limerick

There Was a Young Lady from Niger
Daily Page for Students of English

New Every Day
Travel Survival

Learn useful setences for travel.
Sentence Machine

Mad-lib / Random Sentence Generator
Scrambled Sentences

Put the words in the correct order.
Fun with Randomly-Generated Sentences

The computer makes sentences for you.
Super Quiz Machine for ESL Students

Each time you load the quiz, 20 questions are chosen from a database of more than 3,000 questions.
A Flashcard-like Activity

Study advanced vocabulary using online dictionaries. We made a list of high-frequency words, then eliminated all the words on the junior high school and high school word lists.
Proverb Matching Quizzes

Quiz #1 of 7 Quizzes with a total of 160 matches.
Proverb Quizzes

More than 230 common proverbs