Homophone matching game

Homophones are words that have the same sound (pronunciation) but different meanings and (usually) different spelling. Some simple examples are: •to/two •see/sea •made/maid In these homophones matching games you have to find the homophones that match each other, and drag them side-by-side. This is a really fun way to improve your English pronunciation and your spelling at the same time.

What to do when there is an earthquake

What to do when there is an earthquake. We should all know what to do in an earthquake, and that's DROP COVER HOLD. Watch this video as Peter Elliot explains what to do when an earthquake happens. It could save your life.

Try "Listen a minute .com" for Easy listening texts

This site Listen a minute .com" has  Easy listening texts for independent study.  Why don't you give them a try. 

One minute a day is all you need to improve your listening skills. Focus on new words, grammar and pronunciation in these short texts. Doing the online activities, discussion, survey and writing will help. Listen many times - enough for you to you understand everything. Listen A Minute.

See "News English Lessons.com" for Easier news stories

This site  News English Lessons .com has easier news stories that will be a valuable study aid for listening.  Please try our some of these stories in your independent study time.

"Howjsay." How to pronounce any word

A free online talking dictionary of English pronunciation.  This site "Howjsay" allows you to type in a word and hear how it sounds.  You can also browse through an index of words click on  a word and it will give that word and some similar words that you can click on to hear them pronounced.

My English lessons-combination skills

This site "My English lessons" is good for getting a grounding of the basics of English and covers sentence work, grammar, parts of speech, spelling, writing and vocabulary. It gives rules for language use, lessons and quizzes to check what you have learned.  Note that some of the links do not open and I have not, as yet, found out why; but there is plenty of other useful material here to explore. Why not check it out.  :-).

English club .com

This free site English club .com looks to be most promising with lots of practice materials for:- listening (with news), idiomatic language, this week in history, language tools and much more. Why don't you check it out for your independent study time.  Have fun. :-)