Enllaços d'interès

TOURISM

Travel

• Lonely Planet. One of the best-known travel guides. Click on Worldwide to find out information about a country. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
• Rough Guides. Click on destinations. http://www.roughguides.com/
• London Town. A good site to find out what to do in London. http://www.londontown.com/
• Mapquest. Maps from anywhere in the world. http://www.mapquest.com/
• About My Travel. A collection of travel stories from different parts of the world. http://www.aboutmytravel.com/
• Visit Britain. Official website of British Tourism Office. www.visitlondon.com

Chats

• Chat in English at Dave Sperling's ESL Café Chat Central  (You have to register to participate but membership is free)

E-pals

• Find someone to write to in English at Dave's E-mail Connection. (You have to register to participate, but membership is free)

CULTURE AND FREE TIME

Cinema

• Internet Movie Database is a site that lists over a hundred and eighty thousand movies.
• Movie Review Query Engine is a database for finding film reviews for over twenty-five thousand films.
• http://www.hollywood.com/
• http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/

Humor

• http://www.comedy-zone.net/links/British_Comedy/

Music

• Song lyrics.
• Watch the latest music videos in Youtube.com.
• Rolling stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/
• New Musical Express: http://www.nme.com/

Cultural Institutions

• British Council.  http://www.britishcouncil.org/
• Institute of American Studies:
  http://www.eoibd.cat/links/pages/center.asp?cat1=1&cat2=2&cat3=0&cat4=0#top

PRESS AND MEDIA

Newspapers

• The Guardian
• The Independent
• The Sunday Times
• International Herald Tribune
• Newspapers from around the World
• Online Newspapers.  http://www.onlinenewspapers.com

Magazines

• Time
• Newsweek
• Metropolitan. Barcelona's Magazine in English.
• Vogue
• Marie Claire
• National Geographic. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
• Barcelona-metropolitan.   Barcelona’s magazine in English

Radio and TV

• BBC National Radio Stations.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio
• BBC. http://www.bbcworld.com/
• BBC World Service.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice
• Radio Locator.  All on-line radio stations around the world
• CNN International.  Sometimes it gives the transcripts of some of the CNN programmes

DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Dictionaries

• Little Explorer's Picture Dictionary.Click the letters at the top of the page, see words, pictures and definitions.
• All Words Dot Com. Search words, hear pronunciation, see English, meanings and translations.
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online. Free Search for words, idioms and phrases.
• Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

Encyclopedias

• Encarta
• Encyclopedia Britannica

LANGUAGE LEARNING

The TEFL Journal offers one of the most comprehensive lists of teaching resources on the web.

• Dictionaries All sort of dictionaries, from picture dictionaries, synonyms, monolingual, bilingual, quotations and reference.
• Grammar Grammar reference and interactive exercises and quizzes.
• Listening Listening comprehension exercises, pronunciation and news.
• Reading Reading comprehension exercises, news and news stories.
• Vocabulary Vocabulary building exercises, preffixes, suffixes and games.
• Writing Academic writing, puctuation and help with essay writing, CVs, and covering letters.

LEVEL ONE

Listening

• About.com Ideal for studients who have never studied English before or for those of you who are "false" beginners.
• Learn to understand English by watching videos with situational English on the Real English website. You can watch the videos with subtitles, do exercises and record your voice.
• Listen to the English sounds on the pronunciation section of the New English File webste

Grammar

• Headway Beginner. Interactive grammar and vocabulary exercises for beginners.
• Headway Elementary. Extra grammar and vocabulary exercises that supplement the book or any other coursebook at Elementary level.
• Practise your English on the New English File website.You can do grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation exercises, and play some games.

Reading

• Elementary Reading Exercises with multiple choice comprehension questions.
• Easy conversations. Hundreds of easy conversations for beginners to read and listen.

Vocabulary

• Tick is a five-level vocabulary programme with multiple choice and odd-one out exercises.
• ESL Games and Quiz Corner. Have fun and improve your vocabulary by playing matching games online.

Writing

• Computer Assisted Sentence Production. A fun way to study writing. Answer a few questions, then let the JavaScript code write the sentences for you.

LEVEL TWO

Listening

• Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab. Listening materials with multiple choice questions.
• Learn to understand English by watching videos with situational English on the Real English website. You can watch the videos with subtitles, do exercises and record your voice.
• English Language Listening Online. Listenings with transcripts and quizzes.You have the option of hiding the transcript

Grammar

• Headway Pre-Intermediate. Interactive grammar and vocabulary activities that supplement the book or any other coursebook at pre-intermediate level.
• Practise your English on the New English File website.You can do grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation exercises, and play some games.
• If you want to test your grammar, try some of Better English.com's interactive grammar exercises.

Reading

• The university of Victoria English Language Centre Study Zone has a variety of reading and grammar exercises. Click on a number to begin.

Vocabulary

• The internet TESL Journal has vocabulary exercises for students on three levels: easy, medium and difficult. Try the easy or easy to medium level.
• Tick is a five-level vocabulary programme with multiple choice and odd-one out exercises

Writing

• Swim is a course designed to help students improve their writing tasks.

LEVEL THREE

Certificat Intermedi. Common for all EOIS.

Listening

Listening comprehension

• Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab. Listening materials with multiple choice questions.
• Intermediate Listening Pages. Listening comprehensions focusing on understanding the most important ideas.

News

• Improve your English and learn about England on the Watch and Listen section of the BBC.
• Read and listen to the news on the BBC.

Pronunciation

• Practise the sounds of English, and play stress games on the New English File Intermediate website.

Grammar

Interactive exercises

• Practise your grammar on the New English File Intermediate website. There are exercises for each file.
• Headway Intermediate. Good interactive grammar and vocabulary activities that supplement the Headway Intermediate book or any other coursebook at intermediate level.
• Practise your grammar on the New English File Intermediate website.
• If you want to test your grammar, try some of Better English.com's interactive grammar exercises.
• The internet TESL Journal's interactive grammar and vocabulary quizzes for students.Try the medium level.
• University of Victoria English Language Centre Study Zone has a variety of grammar and reading exercises. Click on a number to begin.
• In English Exercises Online you can find many grammar and vocabulary exercises.

On-line grammars

• The English Language Centre Study Zone (University of Victoria) has on-line study materials with an introduction to each topic and some exercises.

Self-study quizzes

• The Internet TESL Journal's self-study grammar quizzes.

Reading

Reading comprehension exercises

• The university of Victoria English Language Centre Study Zone has a variety of reading and grammar activities. Click on a number to begin.

News

• Read the news on the BBC Learning English pages.
• Newspapers and Magazines.

WebQuests

• Learn about Halloween doing this Webquest.

Vocabulary

Interactive vocabulary exercises

• Visit the New File Intermediate website and practise your vocabulary with exercises for each file.
• Improve your vocabulary on the Headway Intermediate website.
• The internet TESL Journal has vocabulary exercises for students on three levels: easy, medium and difficult. Try the medium level.
• Tick is a five-level vocabulary programme with multiple choice and odd-one out exercises.

Idioms and phrasal verbs

• Try the TESL Journal's self-study quizzes to learn idioms and phrasal verbs.
• Better English.com's interactive multi-word verb pages.

Vocabulary games

• Interesting Things for ESL Students. A fun study site that includes quizzes on slang, proverbs, anagrams and a variety of word games.

Writing

• Swim is course designed to help students improve their writing tasks.

LEVEL FOUR

Listening

• Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab. Listening materials with multiple choice questions.
• Watch and listen to news stories on the BBC.
• Watch videos about the latest news on the CNN.
• Upper-Intermediate Pages. Listening exercises that focus on understanding specific points and concepts of difficult conversations.
• Check your pronounciation of English sounds on the Upper-Intermediate English File website..
• Learn how English is pronounced with the pronounciation tips on the BBC Learning English section.

Grammar

• Headway Upper-Intermediate. Interactive grammar and vocabulary activities that supplement the book or any other coursebook at upper-intermediate level.
• If you want to test your grammar, try some of Better English.com's interactive grammar exercises.

Reading

• The university of Victoria English Language Centre Study Zone has a variety of reading exercises.Click on Level 490-Upper Intermediate

Vocabulary

• Tick is a five-level vocabulary programme with multiple choice and odd-one out exercises.
• The internet TESL Journal has vocabulary exercises for students on three levels: easy, medium and difficult. Try the medium to difficult level.
• Practise your phrasal verbs with Better English.com's interactive multi-word verb pages.
• Interesting things for ESL Students. A fun study site that includes quizzes on slang, proverbs, anagrams and a variety of word games.

Writing

• Swim is a course designed to help students improve their writing tasks.

LEVEL FIVE

Certificat Avançat. Common for all EOIS

Listening

Listening comprehension

• Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab Listening materials with a listening task.
• Advanced Listening Pages. Listening comprehension exercises that include challenging "Accent Gallery" pages focussing on US accents.

News

• Watch and listen to the news on the BBC
• Watch videos about the latest news on the CNN.
• Visit the Academy of American Poets to listen to poems read by their authors.

Videos

• Learn about England watching videos in the Beyond the Postcard section of the BBC.
• Watch videos and learn about American festivities and traditions in the Video Gallery of the History Channel website.

Pronounciation

• Check your pronounciation of English sounds on the Upper-Intermediate English File website.
• Pronounciation tips on the the BBC Learning English website.

Grammar

Grammar exercises

• Headway Advanced. Interactive grammar and vocabulary exercises that supplement the book or any other coursebook at advanced level.
• The internet TESL Journal's interactive grammar and vocabulary quizzes for students.Try the difficult level.
• The university of Victoria English Language Centre Study Zone has a variety of grammar and reading exercises. Click on a number to begin.
• In English Exercises Online you can find many grammar and vocabulary exercises.

On-line grammars

• The English Language Centre Study Zone (University of Victoria) has on-line study materials with an introduction to each topic and some exercises

Reading

Reading compreshension

• The ESL Quiz Zone has some interactive quizzes with focus on reading comprehension.
• Timed Advanced Reading Exercises with multiple choice comprehension questions.
• The university of Victoria English Language Centre Study Zone has a variety of grammar and reading exercises. Click on a number to begin.

News

• Read the news on the BBC Learning English pages.
• Newspapers and Magazines.

Vocabulary

Interactive vocabulary exercises

• The internet TESL Journal has vocabulary exercises for students on three levels: easy, medium and difficult. Try the difficult level.
• Tick is a five-level vocabulary programme with multiple choice and odd-one out exercises.

Idioms, phrasal verbs and slang

• Dave Sterling's Phrasal Verb Page with definitions and examples.
• The TESL Journal's self-study quizzes.
• Better English.com's interactive multi-word verb pages.

Vocabulary games

• Interesting things for ESL Students. A fun study site that includes quizzes on slang, proverbs, anagrams and a variety of word games.

Writing

• Swim is a course designed to help students improve their writing tasks.
• In Writing Tips-Sentence Builder you can learn how to write correct sentences.
• Writing Tips- Paragraph Builder Learn how to write paragraphs.
• Writing Tips-Essay Builder Learn how to organise your essays.
• 11 Rules of Writing illustrated with examples.