Interesting links

Here are some interesting links to practice specific things:

• Tenses: http://esl.about.com/od/englishgrammar/a/tense_resource.htm

• Collocations with verbs like 'take', 'bring', etc: http://esl.about.com/b/2003/10/29/collocations.htm

• Phrasal verbs: http://esl.about.com/od/engilshvocabulary/p/phrasalverbs.htm

Improve your English with songs

Lyrics Training is an easy and fun method to learn and improve your English through the music and lyrics of songs.

There are different levels, but I would try 'Intermediate' to start with. Here is the link:

http://www.lyricstraining.com/

Pronunciation Link

Here is a BBC link which will be very useful to improve your pronunciation in English. It's got videos, quizzes, exercises...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/

Why don't you get started by trying a quiz?

Free audio books

Another way to improve your English is to listen to books while you are driving or doing sport. There are different websites where you can get audio books, but these two are quite good:

http://www.blogger.com/booksshouldbefree.com or http://www.audioowl.com/

They are free, you just have to download them to you ipod and you are ready to go!

We all know how tricky prepositions are in English... for example, do we say 'log in' or 'log on'? Here is a page from Kenneth Beare's wonderful website to help you with prepositions. There are quizzes and lots of useful stuff.

Information about final exam

Here is a webpage where you'll find information about the different parts of the final exam together with practical examples and exercises that you can use to get more familiar with the exam:

http://webs2002.uab.es/suab244w/ex-intro.html

Listening Practice

Here are some webpages to practice your listening skills for the final exam. These are mainly news pages with very short news items:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/video_and_audio/news_summary/8070822.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/

Some American English, might come in handy, as well; Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab has lots of stuff:

http://www.esl-lab.com/

And for some practice with advertisements, check out this webpage:

http://www.advertisementave.com/

How To Make The Most Of Dual

Summer is here too and with nobody to practice, chances are that your English is getting more and more rusty. What can you do to keep it up outside the class? Apart from chatting up 'guiris' on the beach of course!

Watch TV... yes, that´s right. Sit down on your sofa, preferably with a very cold 'horchata', and set about exploring the wonderful world of 'dual' broadcast now available in most digital TV channels. Watch this presentation and find out all about it and, above all, have fun!

How To Make The Most Of Dual

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