Mobile Phones

Engrossing advanced reading comprehension activity on Mobile Phones by TheGuardianWeekly-OneStopEnglish. Keys at the end of the activity.

ESL LISTENING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES: Movie Clips

On learnenglishfeelgood you can do short listening activities and check them at the moment. Another good site to visit suggested by Murcia EOI English teacher Elena García.

Listening Activity

On Elllo, you can listen to hundreds of activities. Try this on Household Chores (rings a bell?)... and if you want some more... here it is (answers at the end).

Verbs followed by prepositions

Do this verb + preposition activity by filling in the blanks with prepositions to review the activity on p. 71. Key soon.

You can find an on-line dictionary about it on englishpage website.

Magazines and Songs

You can find here a web to read magazines in English on line: you Kioske.com

Lyrics Training is an easy and fun method to learning and improve your foreign languages skills like English through the music and lyrics of the songs.

Say thanks to EOI MU English teacher Lola Ros, who sent both links.

New Blog: Talking Points

Have a look at: Talking Points. If you want to know a bit more about Australia (via a song), click here.

Language and Words in the News

Compelling read on Macmillan dictionary blog with absorbing links.

More interesting practice...

Good material from AulaFacil.com. You can review reading and listening skills and with answers.

English Vocabulary for IT and Computing

Though a bit too long, extremely interesting ...

BBC Odd Box

Have a look at these 10 odd pieces of news from BBC. It's fun!

News English Extra (BBC)

Interesting stuff from BBC Learning English.

Tips for the Oral Exam

Try to practise these tips from Splendid Speaking.

Get

Get is another "forbidden" word in formal writing: use other verbs instead. Find them in this document from Oxford Thesaurus

Weather

You can find a useful and engrossing reading comprehension activity from the guardianweekly & onestopenglish. Key on last page.

An On-line English Test

David sent this link to practise tests. If you feel like trying, go to test-my-english.com and take it. They send you the results if you give your e-mail at the end of the test. Good practice, though mainly business English.

Where to play sports?

Choose where to play sports among the different places.

More Sport related vocabulary

You can find an interesting vocabulary activity dealing with Sports Vocabulary by OneStopEnglish here.

CNN Student News

You can watch January 5th news here.

It's good practice because the news are more or less known to you and it is extremely easy to follow.

Activity and Key to Unit 4 Vocabulary Review.

The activity is here. Once finished, you can check your answers here.

Gradable Adjectives

Javi is happy to share with us his presentation on Gradable Adjectives

Some help for Article Writing

To improve your descriptive skills have a look at these handouts from Total English Advanced: Adjectives and Adverbs, Dramatic Verbs and Ways of Comparing, Impersonal Report Structures, Presenting Information and Connecting Words... I'm sure you'll find all of them extremely useful.

Murphy's Law

Read the text on pp. 46 & 47, do the activities and, on a different day, review the vocabulary of the text with this Maite's presentation.
Next year in January before the fist class (Mon. 11th), I'll be blogging the keys to the textbook activities on pp. 46, 47, 50, 51 and the final review. You might need this for Voc 3.2 on p.50.

How do you feel today?

I'm sure you'll feel like one (or more) of the following. Find five which can be applied to you today... and try different days. How do you feel today?

Only for Dictionary Lovers

“The first time I read the dictionary,” said the American comic Steve Wright, “I thought it was a poem about everything.”
Chambers ends a chapter in Edinburgh TIMES-ONLINE
...And more about lexicographers related to the before-mentioned article in a Macmillandictionaryblog post.

Improve English Fluency with CHUNKS

What are chunks and how can they help improve my fluency in English?
Read the following article by Splendid Speaking and learn more about chunks

How to Write Complaint Letters

This website will help you to learn how to write and practise Complaint Letters. Thanks to HKPU (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and CILL (Centre for Independent Language Learning).
You can watch the slideshow and do the Exercise later.

MACMILLAN DICTIONARY

Macmillan Dictionary
You can try these two activities: Whole Page and Prepositions to see how you manage to work with the dictionary
Keys soon.

ESL listening practice for upper-intermediate to advanced self-study students

You can find examples of podcasts on a great variety of topics below. SPLENDID SPEAKING
ESL listening practice for upper-intermediate to advanced self-study students

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My sister likes this song

James Morrison & Nelly Furtado's "Broken Strings" and so do I.

Amy Walker's different accents