May 16, 2018: Alternative Word‐Search Method for ESL YES = At a new tab, type: site:eslyes.com word OR type: site:eslyes.com "exact words"

WELCOME TO ESL YES!

1,600 FREE Short Stories for English Learners,

with Exercises, Dialogues, Crosswords, Audio, and Grade Level.

A Family‐Friendly Site

E‐Books "English Learner 500 Short Stories for Beginner‐Intermediate" Vols. 1 and 2 only 99¢ each! (iPhone or Android) at Amazon (Volume 1) and at Amazon (Volume 2).

NOTE TO SITE VISITORS: If you appreciate the stories, exercises, dialogues, crosswords, and audio on this free site, eslyes.com, please consider donating to me at … Paypal.me/michaelesl … You must have a paypal.com account to donate. Your donation is NOT tax deductible. You can donate as little or as much as you want. Your donation is not for me. I will donate all of it, in turn, after taxes, to the dearest, bravest, strongest, smartest, and, yes, most stubborn, woman I have ever known. The sooner you can donate, the better. I'm 77, and my site and I are not going to last forever. So that your donation will remain anonymous, you will not receive a thank you note. THANK YOU SO MUCH, Mike, November 25, 2024

Brooklyn, NY:

Hi! I hope you enjoy your FREE use of these original stories and dialogues, using your PC, Mac, or your mobile device. They are for Beginner and Intermediate Level English learners. Many stories have Vocabulary, Cloze, Scrambled Sentences, Crosswords, and Dictation exercises. Most stories have audio. Many stories have two audio speeds—normal speed and slow speed. . . . All Rights Reserved. No commercial use of contents is permitted. You may not put any of this material on the internet or on an intranet. Teachers: Feel free to copy, print, edit, and otherwise reasonably use eslyes.com stories, exercises, etc. for classroom distribution. Nonprofit use of this content by teachers and parents, among others, IS permitted (copying and downloading text and audio, for example). . . . Dec. 21, 2016: ALL audio files are now downloadable, at each story page and elsewhere. Also, to download the audio, you can simply click on the 3 dots on the audio players. The Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (also see FREE Readability Formulas) accompanies EVERY story. And, if you like the New York City stories, follow the links, above and below, to where you can buy my 99¢ e‐books. …

November 26, 2018: For some of my pages, where it says "Bottom of this page" so you can just click to the bottom of that page instantly, the link is broken. I have NO idea what the problem is (the same exact link works on some pages, but not on other pages). I'll fix it eventually, I hope. … MARCH 17, 2019: Slow speed audio is fixed and now works properly on ALL pages. Thank you, Kazunari Yamamoto, for telling me about the audio problem. And thank you, Jos F.M. Lange, for your suggestion to sort the Table of Contents (TOC). And a SUPER thanks to Support at ICD Soft, my web host, for fixing all the recent problems (http to https, slow audio, favicons, Mixed Content, and more). … MARCH 22, 2019: 'Search Images' at top left of each story is working again! APRIL 12, 2019: Thank you, Cindy Juel and students, for pointing out the crossword error in Link 3!

I'm always trying to improve this site. If you have suggestions, I'm all ears! And, if you like this site, please tell others. I'm not teaching now, but I was an ESL instructor for 24 years (Pasadena, CA, and Brooklyn, NY). email me Mike Carlson michaeleslATgmail.com.