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Athens
 Walter F. Lockhart

Guía para prácticas de lengua inglesa en Internet

enlaces para aprender inglés


 Click here for a presentation on how languages are learnt and acquired.


nivel 1

level 2 up

  • Here is a short quiz that contrasts past simple and past anterior.
  • This one contrasts past simple and past progressive.
  • Here you will find a collection of fables in English. After reading them, you have four types of exercises to practice with: matching, true or false, completion (fill in the blanks) and discussion (paragraph writing).
  • With this short quiz you can learn something about insects while you increase your entomology vocabulary.
  • These three short quizzes ask you questions about general culture: world culture 1 , world culture 2 , and world history.
  • Si trabajas en restauración, te interesarán especialmente estos ejercicios con menús de verdad de restaurantes de verdad.
  • Have fun playing with these interactive adventure stories that provide a lot of stimulating extensive input!
  • Have fun playing Treasure Hunt at this site maintained by The Internet TESL Journal.
  • This Grammar Safari is maintained by the University of Illinois. It not only teaches you how to learn grammar on Internet, it also teaches you how to learn real grammar, which is not in the grammar books.
  • This site is maintained by the University of Illinois and has seven conversations for you to listen to and practice pronunciation. Some of them have notes about the colloquial expressions and exercises for practicing these expressions.
  • This site has some fun quizzes on different non-language topics. They also invite you to express you opinion on topics such as smoking, music groups, etc.
  • La Trobe University in Australia maintains this site for people that are learning English and want to participate in an international mailing list.  The mailing lists are: Introduction to mailing lists,general discussion (low level), general discussion (high level), business and economics, learning English, current events, cinema, music, sports and science, technology and computers.  But first you must have your tutor sign you up for this site.
  • Ex-Change maintains this site for learners of English all over the world to participate in discussions on different aspects of world cultures.  Every month there is a new topic. Some of the topics that you can discuss are: birthday celebrations, famous people, food and eating habits, festivals and celebrations, the meaning of colours,...  Why don't you visit this site and write something about Catalonia?
  • Chat cafeDave Sperling's ESL café maintains these virtual rooms where you can meet people who are learning English from all over the world. Before connecting, however, you must ask your tutor to get you an account for Dave Sperling's Chat Central.

level 3 up

  • Christine Meloni of George Washington University maintains this study hall, where you can find lots of things to do to improve your English.
  • Practise modals with these two short quizzes: modals 1 and modals 2.
  • This short quiz contrasts past simple and past anterior.
  • Review anterior aspect with this very well designed quiz at John's ESL café.
  • Review verb forms in general with this short quiz.
  • Dave Sperling's ESL Quiz Center offers you this short quiz on idioms that use names of parts of the body.
  • Dave Sperling's ESL Quiz Center offers you this short quiz on idioms that use names of animals.
  • This site offers you a long list of idioms.  Examples supplement the definitions to help you understand them.
  • This site offers you a long list of phrasal verbs.  Examples supplement the definitions to help you understand them.
  • Here you will find a collection of activities for practicing English. We recommend you browse the whole site and discover the different activities you can use.
  • Don't miss these fun interactive stories.  They're great input!
  • International House International House maintains this site for learning English grammar.The explanations are complete and clear and it is easy to navigate from one part to another... easier than with a grammar book. But there are no exercises.
  • Boston University maintains this site for you to practise your English in the real world. For example, you have to plan your ten-day vacation with a budget of $2,000 by choosing real options from real airlines, real hotels, real restaurants, real thematic parks....
  • The University of Illinois mantains this Interactive Listening Practice based on real American radio programs. First you predict the answers to the questions, then you listen, change your answers and then the program corrects your errors.
  • Here is a complete interactive writing course offered by Perdue University.
  • Professor TOEFL answers questions about English that are asked by learners from all over the world. You can ask your question, too!
  • Talk City is a series of virtual rooms where you can meet people of all ages from all over the world. You can talk one-to-one or with up to 50 people at the same time. Before connecting, however, you must make up a nickname for yourself. (Make it funny. LOL)

level 4 up

  • Practise idiomatic expressions with these three short quizzes: expressions 1 and expressions 2 and expressions 3.
  • FrankensteinThis very well presented audio-book of Frankenstein first gives you some background on the book (excellent extensive reading) and then you listen to the whole novel (more than 45 minutes) online while you read the text (if you want) and then you have a series of Internet links to get more information and criticism of the novel and the writer.
  • Isaac NewtonThis biography of Sir Isaac Newton first gives you some background on the man (excellent extensive reading) and then you listen to the whole biography (more than 45 minutes) online while you read the text (if you want) and then you have a series of Internet links to get more information about the scientist.
  • BeethovenThis complete lesson on Beethoven (life, music, importance, etc.) gives you some background on the man and his music (excellent extensive reading) and then you listen to a whole lesson about the famous composer (more than 45 minutes) online while you read the text (if you want) and then you have a series of Internet links to get more information about Ludwig van Beethoven.
  • Click here for activities that will help you improve your writing for business.
  • Universal ChatUniversal Chat is a series of virtual rooms where you can meet people from all over the world. This site is maintained by Universal StudiosUniversal Studios. In some of the rooms, you talk about cinema; in others you just talk about anything. You can even consult the programme and select times to join special chats when Hollywood celebrities will be online! Before connecting, however, you must ask your tutor to get you a Universal Chat account.
  • Visit this site for some funny surrealist compliments.  Get a dictionary, though, before you visit this site, because you won't believe your own translations of these crazy sentences!