Grammar monster.com

You are going to love this site. Everything you always wanted to know about punctuation, parts of speech, daily grammar tips, easily confused words, common grammatical errors, weekly grammar tips and online tests with answers. Also if you have a grammar question you can type it in and get an answer.

Literacy Net learning resources

This site contains useful reading materials pitched at around intermediate level. Each module includes the full text of each story and interactive activities to test comprehension. The learner can choose to read the text, listen to the text, and view a short video clip of the story. Each module is designed for ease of use so the learner can use it independently. The instructor can also incorporate any story into class activities and lesson plans.

Study Zone-reading site

Study Zone, is a graded reading site that allows you to practice reading, answer comprehension questions and also do a number of other post reading activities. Please use this site daily to improve your reading skills.

CDLP California distance Learning Project

This site has many stories contained within eleven different topic areas to help you develop your listening skills.
You can read the story, listen to the story with or without the text and some stories have accompanying video clips. After listening try the activities. You can:- learn new words and hear the correct pronunciation for these words, practice spelling the words from hearing as you hear them, play a matching game (matching the word to a definition), and answer multi choice questions. When you have finished all of the exercises you can mail your results to your teacher. Have fun with this site. :-)

Idioms using the word heart

Hi everyone. We have been using some idiomatic language in class recently using the word heart.. Here is a site with many of these idioms. You may like to have a look at these and see if you can work out from the context what they mean. Have fun exploring! :-)

Why not try a quiz now by clicking this link to test your knowledge of idioms concerning the heart.

Join a fun club, meet new friends and improve your English.

Hi everyone. On Wednesday we (level 2-4) will go to the Clubs and Societies open day to find out the sorts of services that they provide. Click here for more informaton on Clubs and Societies.
There are all sorts of groups you can join
Activities include:- kickboxing, boxing for fun, kendo, Ceroc, yoga, Pilates, tai chi, Squash, vipassana meditation, managing your own stress, women’s self defence, ballroom dancing, belly dancing, ukulele, singing for beginners, first aid, salsa, burlesque dance, Indian dance, rock n roll, Mandarin, Italian, German and Spanish languages; Indian cooking, Italian cooking, car basics, wine tasting, life drawing, café coffee-making, African drumming, Doumbek drumming, Capoeira, knitting, fibre craft demo night; chess, snooker, pool and table tennis tournaments and heaps more. A brochure containing our first semester course programme is available from Clubs and Societies reception..
FACILITIES you can use. These include a sauna, cricket nets, a pool table, a snooker table, a vehicle workshop, a dance studio, fantastic newly refurbished men’s and women’s showers, craft rooms, pianos, sewing machines, guitars, squash courts with racquets for hire, and lots of meeting rooms of varying sizes. You can also check out the excellent value $3 vegetarian lunches provided by the Hare Krishna Society and Community Support, Monday to Friday, during the semester.
Have fun!! :-)

ELLO

ELLLO (English listening lesson library online), has a vast resource of easily understood listening materials for listening practice for English language learners.
News Center is an animated newscast with six stories. Newscenter can help students learn academic English and develop test taking skills for standardized listening tests such as TOEFL®, TOEIC® and IELTS®. Stories can be played with or without text and have accompanying questions and answers. The news is delivered at a medium speed from a reader with a clear voice. This site should prove to be most useful. Have fun with your listening.