A comprehensive guide to academic presentations with videos and pdf downloads. There is a charge to download pdfs.

A list of links of various resources on the Academic Word List.

"""Most international students need to write essays and reports for exams and coursework, but writing good academic English is one of the most demanding tasks students face. This new, fourth edition of has been completely revised to help students reach this goal.

Exercises which test that you know every word in the Academic Word List.

A useful tool - paste in a text and words from the Academic Word List are highlighted.

Links to 9 units about writing emails - each unit has a guide to an aspect of writing emails with online exercises and a pdf downloadable version.

A fun app (also website) to help you learn a new language through structured courses. The free version is limited but still useful.

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.

The writing process

Writing academic prose in English is especially difficult for non-native speakers, largely because the standard vocabulary used in this genre can be quite different from colloquial English. Expand Your English: A Guide to Improving Your Academic Vocabulary is a unique and invaluable guide that will enable the reader to overcome this hurdle. It will become the favourite go-to reference book for both beginners and for intermediate learners struggling with the complexities of English-language academic writing. Steve Hart covers 1,000 vocabulary items that are essential for good academic writing. The first section describes 200 key terms in detail, grouping them into logical sets of 10. Through careful repetition, the reader will find it easy to retain, retrieve, and reuse these essential phrases. The second section explains a further 800 terms, grouping them according to function, meaning, and the areas of an essay where they are likely to be used. The expansive scope of Expand Your English gives non-native speakers all the vocabulary tools they need to master this difficult style of writing.

A large list of videos with exercises and other activities to help you expand your vocabulary and develop your skills.

Makes every word on webpage clickable and linked to dictionary - enter the webpage you want to read in Box 1 and select whether you want English explanation or translation of the words into other languages.

With over 80,000 entries, this dictionary covers most words that you will find on the Internet.

A list of phrases for use in academic writing organised by function. There is e-book available, but it is not free.

A fun app (also website) to help you learn a new language through structured courses. There is a pay version, but the free version still has a lot of content.

A simple alphabetical list of all the words on the the Academic Word list with links to a few other useful vocabulary lists (scroll to the bottom).

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

Type in a word and get back a list of meanings of the word with collocations for each meaning and example sentences. An invaluable tool.

A list containing 2,469 of the most frequent and useful collocations which occur in written academic English.

Several web pages on the Academic Word List including some downloadable exercises from the School of Linguistics at the University of Wellington in New Zealand.

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 tool which searches a database of English to find sentences with a given word in and find common collocations.

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.

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

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

Free English courses online - all levels

A website for learning idioms in English