SITES FOR IMPROVING YOUR ENGLISH

Sites for Reading Comprehension

Aesop4s Fables: gopher://spinaltap.micro.umn.edu/11/Ebooks/By%Title/aesop

BookWeb : http://www.ambook.org/

Children s Web Literature Guide: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html#books

Educational Tours: http://www.lacns.ac.uk/staff/kitao/et.htm

Fluency Through Fables: http://www.comenius.com/fable/index.html

Scottish Folktales: gopher://leapfrog.almac.co.uk/11/scotland/dalriadamyths/scottish

Tales of Wonder: http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~darsie/tales.html

Sites for Listening Comprehension

ABC Radio News Broadcast: http://www.realaudio.com/contentp/abc.htm

ESL Listening Training on the Web: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EdPsy-387/Rongchang-li/eslproject/eslbeg.html

Interactive Listening Comprehension Practice with RealAudio: http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/LCRA/

Internet Talk Radio: http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/radio/radio.html

Talk Radio: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/radio/radio.html

Voice of America: http://gopher://gopher.VOA.GOV:70/11/audio

World Radio Network: http://www.wrn.org/audio.html

Weekly Idioms: http://www.comenius.com/idiom/index.html

Sites for Speaking (conversations)

Conversations for ESL Students: http://www.lang.uiuc.edu/r-li5/book/

Sites for Writing

Cultural Topics-Advanced Reading and Writing: http://darkwing.woregon.edu/~leslieob/RW5projects.culture.html

Online Writing Centers: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/net-writing.html

Purdue University Online Writing Lab: http://owl.trc.purdue.edu/

Writing OWLs: http://www.umass.edu/english/resource.html/OWLS

 Tests on the Web

ALTE(The Association of Language Testers in Europe): http://www.edunet.com/alte/

ILTA(International Language Testing Association): http://www.surrey.ac.uk/ELl/ilta/ilta.html

University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate: http://vanlang.com/vli/vli/ucles.html

 Sites for Grammar Teaching and Learning

Cutting Edge Grammar: http://www.chorus.cycor.ca/Duber/m004d.html

Dave s ESL Quiz Page: http://www.pacific.net~sperling/quiz#grammar

HyperGrammar: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar

On-line English Grammar: http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/toc.html

SECC- Simplified English Grammar: http://www.ccl.kukeuven.ac.be/cgi-bin/seccdemo.cgi

Sites for Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias

Acronym Dictionary: http://curia.ucc.ie/info/net/acron/acro.html

Dictionary of Technical and Natural English: http://crnvmc.cer/FIND/DICTIONARY

Roget s Thesaurus: gopher://gopher.dlu.dr/7waissrc%25a/wais-Linguistic/roget-thesaurus

The Oxford English Dictionary Online: http://www.oed.com/

Encyclopaedia Britannica: http://www.-pf.eb.com:189/

Sites for Newspapers

BBC: http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/index.html/

CNN: http://www.cnn.com/

Financial Times, The: http://www.ft.com/

New York Times, The: http://www.nytimes.com/

Times, The(U.K.): http://www.the-times.co.uk/

Weekend Independent, The (Brisbane, Australia): http://www.uq.oz.au/ern/twi/twi.html