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Vocabulary

Lists, games, exercises, crosswords, idioms and more.

Lots of activities to improve your vocabulary.

 

Grammar

Lots of grammar information, games and exercises.

Find out your strengths and weaknesses and use these sites to improve your English.

Reading

Practice your reading skills.

Lots of Comprehension passages, stories, poems, news items, advice and more.

 

Story-book Websites

A Series of Unfortunate Events                          (Don’t read it if you like happy endings)

The Book: Lemony Snicket’s miserable site.

The Movie: The sad movie site.

Harry Potter: A great site for Harry Potter fans.

                            Another Harry Potter Site.

Captain Underpants: Lots of fun with this super-hero.

Holes by Louis Sachar

The Hole Truth. Lots of fun exercises. Do this after you have read the book.

Webquest: Create a Wanted Poster for Kissin’ Kate Barlow

And for those who like comic books: Garfield!

 

Speaking

Phonics To improve your Phonics skills, click on Phonics Fun.

There are games, videos and exercises on all the phonic sounds.

 

Debating? Get some ideas here at Debatabase.

Writing

Advice and Exercises on writing different types of English Texts.

There are also guides to Punctuation.

Talk to a Robot Can you have a conversation with a robot? Try it!

 

Listening

These exercises are from Skillwise, a site which is mainly for adults but you can also learn from it.

 

SONGS

Songs to listen to, sing, and answer questions about.

Movies

 

Meet Petey and Jaydee, and watch other short movies.

 

Jokes and riddles

Are you a lateral thinker?

See if you can solve these Puzzles.

 

 


The History of the English Language

All About the English Language

 

What did English sound like 600 years ago? Chaucer, the father of English poetry wrote this famous passage which begins: Whan that Aprille with his swete brethe... in about 1390.

You can listen to it, but can you tell what it means in modern English?

 

You too can speak in Old English with this Chaucer Translator.

 

Are you angry with your friend? The greatest English poet can help you with his Shakespeare Insults - 'Thou art a stinking pigeon-livered maggot-pie!' Warning - Use with care!

 

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Some Recommended Websites

It's Fun to Read This website has a lot of interesting stories and games. Try it out.

PBS KidsThis is another website with lots of fun activities to help you improve your English.

 

Renata's Corner This website has many exercises to help you with grammar and vocabulary.

If you make good use of it you will definitely improve your English skills.

Ambleside School Website – A website put together by students at a school in the Lake District of England - limerick and haiku generators, a silly story engine, and lots of fun stuff.

World English - Grammar, vocabulary and comprehension practice, quizzes, games, writing guides, lists of the most common words in English, speaking and listening resources.

 

My email address: skssenglish@yahoo.com.au.I would like to hear from you.

 

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