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A selection of texts and poems to read, with explanations of some words. JCU Study Skills - Reading quickly A lesson on measuring and improving your reading speed. Aesop's
Fables Read and listen to lots of different stories. Listen to his story and learn!
Spelling BBC Skillswise Plurals (e.g. cat - cats, wife - wives) Silent Letters (e.g. knife) A Way to improve your spelling Syllables (e.g. com - fort - a - ble) Prefixes (e.g. un - comfortable) Suffixes (e.g. comfort - able) Homophones (words that sound the same but have different spelling and meaning) BBC Skillswise factsheets and exercises. Giving and Following Instructions Punctuation: Englishclub An explanation of some common spelling. ESL Blues Correct mistakes in compositions. Quizzes on writing longer sentences. English Zone Lots of exercises, but only a few can be used for free. SPELLING WRITING Purdue University's Online Writing Lab Lots of help with all aspects of writing, from structure to grammar. Goes through the way to write good paragraphs. How to correct mistakes in your writing. Finish the stories. Tell the government what you think about their work and make suggestions.
Pronunciation (you will need a media player and headphones for these) Englishclub.com A lesson on using correct stress on sylables in words. A lesson on using stress correctly in sentences. A brief introduction to words that sound the same but have different spelling and meaning (e.g. bear and bare). Step by step guide to making presentations. The
Evil Landlady Action Maze
Englishclub.com A selection of English poems to listen to. Randalls ESL Cyber Listening Lab Choose your level and select from hundreds of recordings with questions to answer. Fairly easy listening texts with questions. Selection of videos to watch. Lots of texts about community service, education, sport, customs and travel (American). This is a site where you can watch RealMedia movies made and edited by people around Wales telling stories. Listen to popular songs and read the words. Watch RealAudio streaming video, read the text, see words defined.
Englishclub Saying goodbye, formal and informal 1 Saying goodbye, formal and informal 2 Making Adjectives using suffixes English Zone Lots of exercises, but only a few can be used for free. Easy, Intermediate +, Advanced, Games DICTIONARIES
English PageGeneral Vocabulary* Unique Personalities - Adjectives for unique personalities* Higher Education - Vocabulary related to American education * Internet 101 - Internet vocabulary * Ordering in a Restaurant - Restaurant vocabulary * Changing Jobs - Vocabulary related to changing jobs * Getting an Apartment - Vocabulary related to getting an apartment * States and Territories - Vocabulary related to states and territories * A Unique Circus - Vocabulary related to circuses * Grocery Store Choices - Vocabulary used in grocery stores * Entertaining Films - Vocabulary used to describe films * Returns and Refunds - Vocabulary related to returning a purchase * Santa Fe, New Mexico - Vocabulary related to Santa Fe, New Mexico * Aerospace Industry - Vocabulary related to the aerospace industry * Humor - Vocabulary related to humor * Telecommunications - Vocabulary related to phone companies * Hiking / Trekking - Vocabulary related to hiking * Coffee Houses - Vocabulary related to coffee houses * E-commerce - Vocabulary related to e-commerce * Presidential Elections - Vocabulary related to presidential elections * Turn off the TV - Vocabulary related to TV programs Holiday VocabularyHalloween | Printable - Vocabulary related to Halloween and scary things.Thanksgiving | Printable - Vocabulary related to Thanksgiving and recipes. Christmas | Printable - Vocabulary related to Christmas.
eflnet Lots of grammar
exercises, including Englishclub English Zone Lots of exercises, but only a few can be used for free. Adjectives and Adverbs, Articles, Comparatives, Clauses, Conditionals, Confusing Words, Nouns, Numbers, Prepositions and Conjunctions, Pronouns, Questions BE verb, Irregular Verbs, Modals & Auxiliaries, Gerunds & Infinitives, Passive Voice, Phrasal Verbs, Verb Tenses, Subject-Verb Agreement, Preposition Combinations Dave's ESL Cafe English Page Explanations and exercises to practise a wide range of modals. Explanations and exercises to practise all the conditional structures. List of common irregualr verbs with practice exercises. Wide range of exercises to practise all tenses. Exercises looking at verb + preposition patterns and phrasal verbs. Better English Grammar Lots of practice exercises including: Present Forms, Present Forms 2, Always + -ing, Do/does revision, Do for emphasis, Present forms, Past Simple 1, Past Simple 2, Past Simple 3, Irregular Verbs 1, Past Simple Pronunciation, Present Perfect 1, Present Perfect 2, Present Perfect 3, Past Simple v Present Perfect, For or Since, Duration, Going to 1, Going to 2, Going to 3, Going to 4, Going to 5, Going to 6, Present forms for future, Will 1, Will 2, Will 3, Will 4, Will 5, Will or going to?, Futures, Decisions, Future Arrangements, First Conditional1, First Conditional 2, Second Conditional 1, Second Conditional 2, Second Conditional 3, Second Conditional 4, Third Conditional 1, Wish, Wish 2, Wish 3, Mixed Conditionals, Mixed 2, Can 1, Can 2, Can 3, Could 1, Could 2, Should 1, Should 2, Needn' t have, Musn't, Needn't, The -ing form, Prepositions, Word order, Word order 2, Passive 1, Passive 2, Passive 3, Imperative 1, Question tags 1, Question tags 2, Have something done, Non-defining clauses, The, A/The, The again, Apostrophe s, Conjunctions, Conjunction 2, Prepositions, Prepositions of time, Fewer/Less, Few 2, Passives, Past Passives, Adjectives and adverbs, Adjectives with -ed or -ing, The + adjective, Some/A/An, Few / A little, Fewest/Least, Me Myself, Myself, Noun + noun, Noun + noun 2, Of + determiner, One, Possessives, Singular or plural?, They, Too much, Adjective order, Adjective order 2, Only/even, As/like, Comparatives of adjectives/adverbs, More comparatives, still/yet/already, Than or that?, very/very much, as as, make/do, have, Present future, Suppose, Used To, When Future, have done, have got, agree, can/could, Certainly, Future Arrangements, Holiday Jokes, managed to, Past 4, Past 5, Past 6, remember, So Do I, So That, The 2, Was 2, Whatever, Won't, Will again, Bye
Free and simple site to make homepages. BBC Webwise Ask Bruce the spider questions about the Internet. A basic Internet course online. Very basic course about using the mouse, keyboard and windows. Microsoft Word The basics of Word. A more detailed tutorial of Word 97. Typing Tests how fast you can type. A free online typing course. You will need to register.
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