Listen and Write is a site which offers spoken texts at various levels, many of them from VOA Special English, so they are very clear and don’t use much difficult vocabulary. You select a text and listen to it. At any time, you can start typing what you hear in the box. The program checks [...]
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Keeping a double-entry reading journal is a great way to improve your reading skills while increasing fluency and accuracy in your writing. When I have my students keep these journals, I collect and respond to their entries, correcting their grammar and spelling and answering their questions; but even if you don’t have anyone respond [...]
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“Absolutely Intercultural!” is a wonderful ESL podcast created by Anne Fox and Laurent Borgmann. Winner of Edublogs’ 2006 Award for Best Audio and/or Video Blog, “Absolutely Intercultural!” has been on the web since March 2006. Topics include things like how holidays are celebrated in various countries, how music can connect people of different cultures, cultural [...]
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ESL Blues‘ main page has lots of quizzes and exercises for low-to-high intermediate level students. Most of them concern grammar, but there are some links to reading and vocabulary exercises and quizzes as well. There is also a section called “Common Errors Explained” which focuses on topics like do vs. make and adjectives [...]
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