The English Corner

Attention!

We've got very little time left till oral portfolio deadline:

• group LINb-2002a - 5th June, 12:45-16:00;
• group LINb-2002b - 6th June, 10:15-11:45 + 9th June, 8:30-10:00.
• group LINb-2202a - 9th June, 12:45-16:00;
• group LINb-2102a - 14th June, 8:30-11:45;
• group LINb-2102b - 15th June, 8:30-11:45;

By this date, make sure you:

1. are ready with the oral literary analysis, accoring to the timing, the plan & with the right number of words from your wordlist;
2. have learnt all your words from the wordlist;
3. have your book with you in any form (paper/e-/online version) for translation (2nd & 3rd years).

Here are some useful links to practise your English

Online Dictionaries & Reference Materials:

• Macmillan Dictionary Online (En-En)
• Cambridge Dictionary (En-En)
• Dictionary.com (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 students' 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