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You will find here different websites on the Internet to help you improve your English skills.
I will recommend you those which I find most interesting and useful, but I’d appreciate your comments on them or any suggestions you might have.

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GENERAL

If you want to get fun and learn real, authentic English, look through this website. It’s worth doing. The author, a teacher of English, describes his MULTIMEDIA ENGLISH CLASSROOM as “a free online classroom to learn English, designed for students from all around the world. It uses authentic material and is targeted at students of English who already have a basic knowledge of the language (though there is also a section for absolute beginners)”

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These resources will help you build your vocabulary and practice your English with reading, listening comprehension and practice speaking dialogues.

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La Mansión del Inglés offers you different activities: grammar, vocabulary, listenings classified in 3 levels of difficulty, reading…

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LISTENING

Daily updated news videos prepared for students, including quick guides and transcripts, questions and newsquiz and other learning activities.

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Lots of different activities to improve your English: from audio news, videos, vocabulary, grammar and quizzes to business English, with free materials which can be downloaded.

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A wide range of listenings, graded according to level: easy, medium or difficult.

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In ELLO you can find over 1,000 listening activities. Most listening activities include images, an interactive quiz, transcript of the audio and downloadable MP3.

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Online ESL site that uses authentic and natural videos of people speaking real English in streets across the world.

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READING

Lots of different reading resources on this site, which also provide you with other materials to improve other English grammar, vocabulary or listening skills.

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Different reading activities graded according to level: from beginner to advanced.

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PRONUNCIATION

This site provides you with a guide to the symbols of the sounds of English, videos to show their pronunciation, activities to practise differences between sounds, informationa bout different elements of English pronunciation, interactive and downloadable exercises, quizzes…

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SPEAKING

Livemocha blends self-paced lessons, a vibrant community, and interactive tools to help you talk to the world.

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Simple but useful speaking lessons on several communication situations.

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WRITING

  • owleye200b

Many different materials, which include resource pages, handouts and exercises.

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Get advice from a writing expert as well as vocabulary and grammar exercises to help you develop your writing skills.


1 Comment »

  1. I would also suggest Purdue University’s outstanding OWL – online writing lab for ESL students. The site contains a rich variety of academic, business, and practical writing materials. My university students – both ESL and native English speakers – find the material quite helpful.

    http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/

    Comment by Eric | October 28, 2008 | Reply


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