some links to practice your English
language skills
(the four main skills
- destreses, habilitats - are writing,
speaking, reading and listening)
general
http://www.britishcouncil.org/central.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
http://iteslj.org/links/ the
best collection of links! (on the left)
writing
http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Writing/
speaking
http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Speaking/
reading
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-magazine-themes-links-landing-page.htm
http://www.newspapers.com/ newspapers
listening
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia/index.shtml BBC
LEARNING ENGLISH
http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/ news adapted (read slowly)
for non-English speakers (you can download the audios
and then listen to them from a cd,
ipod or mp3 player) EXCELLENT! - browse the sections on the left. There
is a downloadable 30-minute daily
radio programme.
http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/index.cfm?month=3/1/2006 transcript archive
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-listening-downloads.htm
pronunciation
http://www.manythings.org/e/tt.html (tongue twisters and poems
to listen and repeat. EXCELLENT!)
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/pron_chart/pron_chart.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml (this site is for English
children but you can still use - it's really
good!)
http://www.btinternet.com/~eptotd/vm/vowelmachine/vowelmachine.htm (it can help you
recognize the sounds of English)
http://www.manythings.org/e/pronunciation.html
grammar and vocab
http://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/trouindx.htm
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-grammar-homepage.htm
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/mainindex_wide.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/quizzes/
http://www.nonstopenglish.com/allexercises/#existing
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/voc.htm
test your level at http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-test-test-your-level.htm