English Language Skills

This week's reading is on the economic crisis. The reading is at Key News, and is called The Economic Crisis and Its Causes. I've made an MP3 for it and it's attached below. There is also a PowerPoint for the vocabulary words and the Word document version of the reading.

Here's the PowerPoint for the vocabulary.

Here's the PowerPoint for this week's vocabulary.

Here's a great site for listening. There are diagrams to show motions and recordings to the diagrams.

www.manythings.org is a fun study site for learners of English as a Second Language: Word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and much more

The California Distance Learning Project has stories with activities, sound, and some video on critical areas of adult life, including work.

A4ESL.ORG is a website developed by ESL/EFL teachers and has lots of quizzes, puzzles, and activities. Here's a link to their easy grammar quizzes.

The University of Iowa's Sounds of English lets you pick sounds that you want to hear and see diagrams of how they are pronounced.

Voice of America Special English provides news, culture, and history stories read slowly with accompanying text.

Minimal Pairs Practice gives you the opportunity to choose between two similar sounding words.