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For you, Sasha!

Pathways books – articles about everyday life situations and their particular vocabulary
 
Breaking News English –news articles presented with many exercises including audio
http://breakingnewsenglish.com/
 
Touchstone books –excellent textbooks which emphasize real conversation as spoken today
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lingualeo – an excellent, free resource which helps you review vocabulary
http://lingualeo.com/ru
 
npr –National Public Radio, radio listening for news and commentary
http://www.npr.org/sections/news/
 
Moscow FM  Russian news in English language
http://www.mosfm.com/

RT Channel on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday
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Russian Dictionary
http://ru.thefreedictionary.com/

Merriam Webster's Learner's Dictionary
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/

Merriam Webster's Picture Dictionary
http://www.visualdictionaryonline.com/

Visuwords visual dictionary
http://www.visuwords.com/

Your Dictionary
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
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BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/

Using movie trailers to practice your English
http://www.infosquares.com/eslvideo/index.html

Russiapedia, an informational website for non-Russians created by Russia Today
http://russiapedia.rt.com/

lyrsense.com, an audio library of popular music with English lyrics and Russian translation
http://lyrsense.com/

Voice of America News Special English, video news reports in slow, clear English for students of English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWnORmhTfrk

Voice of America- written and video news reports for students of English
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/section/the-classroom/2345.html
http://www.manythings.org/voa/classroom/

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tedtalks– important technology, education and design talks
https://www.ted.com/talks
http://tedmed.com/videos​ 

foratv – video presentations mostly from business conferences
http://library.fora.tv/_


More for you, Sasha! 

​Tumblebooks - Talking Library books for all ages
http://hamptonlibrary.org/kids-family/tumble-books

Mightybook - Videos of stories, jokes, poems and songs.
http://www.mightybook.com/

StoryPlace - Interactive stories and activites for pre-schoolers
https://www.storyplace.org/activity-library

Storynory - audio stories
http://www.storynory.com/

Storyline Online - Stories narrated by famous people from the Screen Actors' Guild
http://www.storylineonline.net/

Starfall -an excellent website to teach pre-schoolers the alphabet, phonics and reading
http://www.starfall.com/

ReadingBear - a very nice website which emphasizes phonics in great detail
http://www.readingbear.org/

Enchanted Learning - a children's encyclopedia
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html

Nat Inst of Environmental Health Sciences - a U.S. government website which gives the lyrics and music for popular songs
http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/

​First School - preschool worksheets which can be printed as coloring and writing pages
http://www.first-school.ws/

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