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There are some wonderful resources
online for learning (and teaching) English.
Everything!
- The BBC
also has a special site for
learners of English. It is full of different areas such as grammar, listening quizzes in music, sport and business topics, discussion boards,
countdown quizzes. What does "She's a
pain
in the neck!" mean? Start at the
YouMeUs
page!
- The Voice of America
has audio files in
Special English which you can listen to live or download for later. Special English is slow and slightly simplified. The files have transcripts so you can read as you listen. You can choose from topics on science, technology, culture, history medicine, and geography, among other subjects. They also have the current
news.
- A fun site to visit is English
Daily 626 at
http://www.englishdaily626.com/ It has a very wide and unusual range of
material. It's impossible to visit the site without learning something -
an idiom or a proverb! Good conversation models.
- www.esl-lab.com great for listening
- www.englishbaby.com
more advanced listening
- Great stuff from Canada - ESL
Blue(s) by Eifion Pritchard
- www.yahoo.com your email program
- Longman's
webdictionary easier than Dictionary.com
- Here are some
dictionary links, courtesy of Cambridge University Press and Merriam-Webster.
For Teachers
Reading and Readability
- The site
www.readability.info has a great online tool to calculate readability
- Flesch Kincaid, Smog index, Coleman-Liau and more. You can enter a
URL or you can upload a Word document. There is a good description of each
of the indexes.
- Another readability resource is available at
www.cba.nau.edu/becker-a/Accessibility/ReadMe.html.
You can check the readability of any web URL.
My name is
Enda Tuomey. I teach English in Abu Dhabi Men's College (ADMC),
part of the Higher Colleges of Technology in the United Arab Emirates. Click
for more information about ADMC or the
HCT.
Here is my address -
send your suggestions!
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