The English Corner

Dear 2nd-year students!

We've got just over 2 weeks left till our oral portfolio deadline, which is on December 22nd-24th.

Make sure you've 1) learnt all your words from the wordlist; 2) prepared an oral literary analysis of the book (using the plan, the words from your wordlist and the appropriate timing) and 3) you have the book with you (paper or e-version) to do the translation ready by this time.

Here are some useful links to practise your English

Online Dictionaries & Reference Materials:

• Macmillan Dictionary Online (En-En)
• Cambridge Dictionary (En-En)
• Oxford Dictionaries (En-En)
• Longman Dictionary (En-En)
• Collins Dictionary (En-En)
• SkELL (check your collocations here)
• ABBYY Lingvo Online (all kinds of languages)
• Multitran & Reverso (interpreter's helpers) 

Play & Learn:

• Hangman (play & practise vocabulary)
  
• Free Rice Game (practise vocabulary, or grammar, or other subjects... and help end hunger)
  
• Lettris (just like Tetris but with the words)
• Vocabulary.com (do you know them, words?)
• Language Games, Puzzles & Quizzes (spelling, animals, buzz words...and more)
• Spelling Bee by the Free Dictionary (test your knowledge of spelling)

 Listening & Reading etc:

• BBC Learning English
  
• Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab (listening with exercises for different levels)
• BBC Radio 
• Listen A Minute 
• TubeQuizard
• Word on the Street videos
• Interesting Thing of the Day
• News in Levels
• The Long Read by the Guardian
• New Scientist
• our student's reading list (it contains the books that have been read over the last years)

• YouGlish
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• Guide to Grammar & Writing (all you wanted to know but were afraid to ask )
  
• Grammarly
• Write&Improve

Tests:

• Test your English by Cambridge
• EF Set Test
• English Level Test by Oxford
• Test your vocab

Language learning benchmarks & principles:

• CEFR levels
  
• Learning hours
  
• The forgetting curve