Comprehensive guide to sentence analysis, with short online exercises with feedback to practise.

A short guide to clauses in sentence structure.

A writing skills blog with tips and advice with a helpful 'categories' menu

Many general and business English lessons with online activities. A huge range of resources.

An entire an online coursebook on academic essay writing with many annotated examples.

Writing models

Elements of writing

A site covering a number of areas in academic writing (see tags) with online exercises, as well as a little on academic presentations.

Lots of online exercises divided into the categories of grammar, pronunciation, Academic English reading & writing and listening.  Aimed at school level.

A collection of guides, videos and exercise to help improve scientific writing.

A comprehensive A to Z of grammar words from simple ones like 'noun' to more technical like 'anaphora'.

A list of grammar terms from UCL. Click a letter to see words beginning with that letter.

A free grammar app (with paid for features) from the British Council

A brief guide to relative clauses with 2 'grammar tests' with feedback to practise with.

List of free resources for learning general English, including podcasts on listening, speaking, writing and grammar

A collection of downloadable pdf guides including: writing CVs, business emails and letters; and basic grammar guides.

A large and comprehensive site covering many different genre of academic writing.

A short but comprehensive guide to relative clauses with an online practice exercise.

Very useful guides to using certain difficult punctuation marks such as colons with online exercises.

Practise your English using Voice of America news reports with helpful vocabulary lists.

A text explanation of evidence, how to collect and analyse evidence and incorporating evidence into your writing.

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

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

A multimedia beginner German programme based on videos. The online textbook includes recorded vocabulary, phonetics lessons, an online grammar component, online comparative polls and internet writing activities. Developed by University of Texas.

Interactive games for learning the Japanese language. Resources for students of beginner level Japanese, tasks include kanji/hiragana/katakana quizzes, numbers, animals, colours etc.

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

Free English courses online - all levels

Beginners French language programme based on videos. Over 320 videos, vocabulary and phonetics audio, online grammar reference with self-correcting exercises and audio dialogues, verb conjugation and practice tools, internet writing activities and a textbook.

Global Language Online Support System is a database of interactive language lessons from the Defense Language Institute. Lessons contain authentic audio and video texts, activities, glossaries, and links for further information on the topics.