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A huge site full of use­ful ma­te­ri­als to learn and prac­tise gen­eral Eng­lish

Listen to and practise your vowel sounds.

Listen to what*s on now or click on *programmes* to see an A-Z list of all the programmes available. I recommend *From our Own Correspondent* as a particularly interesting programme.

Listening, grammar, vocab, games, IELTS and business. There is a charge for the courses.

For news on various topics including: business, technology, law, scince and space, travel, education and politics.

Writing skills blog

This dictionary uses American spellings. It also has a thesaurus which is an excellent way to find synonyms.

Fun exercises for guests, try the storyboard.

Videos with transcripts and quizzes - listening comprehension

Many short video lessons with ex­er­cises graded by level to help you im­prove your gen­eral Eng­lish. Re­quires reg­is­tra­tion.

Learning English exercises and resources

Free English courses online - all levels

A guide to help you judge the quality of sites you visit.

Practice tests for various English exams (TOEFL, IELTS, CAE, FCE etc.)

Learn how vocabulary is used. Do the concordancer exercises and consider what they teach you about how words are used.

Special interest

Downloadable tool that allows you to find subtitles online for your videos, both in English and your native language. Pause your video at any time to show dual subtitles, and get instant translation. Click words to get definitions and more. Use the arrow keys to jump forward and backwards, from line to line. Fleex has all you need to grasp all of that English goodness in your videos.

Pronunciation in various languages

A blog post from a UCL History lecturer explaining how to write a good History essay. Much of the advice applies to other subjects too.

A website for learning idioms in English

A library of almost 3000 short videos arithmetic to physics, finance, and history with practice exercises. A very useful resource to practice your listening and note-taking skills while learning something new.

Vocab for English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese

LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening - you can download the files or listen to them online

Listening and writing exercises (using dictation)

by Andy Gillet from the University of Hertfordshire

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.

A small collection of novels, poems and other literature as listenings. You can also read along.

Learn Languages with music videos

Recent news videos with transcripts