ONLINE RESOURCES

Study Tip – Beginner English Online Resources

by MELANIE on DECEMBER 10, 2012

(Photo by Paojus)

If you are a beginner, if you know someone who is a beginner, or if you teach beginners, here are some free resources that may be useful to you. All of these resources are in English.

 Videos

Hungry for English [American]
“We want you to learn to speak English in the same way that we all learned to speak our native languages as babies – by hearing it instead of reading it.”

JenniferESL [American]
“English for Beginners! No scripts. No actors. Real lessons. Real learning.”
Jennifer is an English teacher who is teaching her friend Natasha to speak English. This is an ongoing series of lessons, so check the list often for new lessons!

Mister Duncan [British]
This list of video lessons is more for elementary & intermediate students, but they are a great way to learn new vocabulary. All his videos include subtitles (text).

Vocabulary & Grammar

ESOL Courses – Online course for beginners [British]
ESOL Courses – Online English lessons, exercises, games and quizzes for beginners [British]
Helping You Learn English – English course for beginners [American]
Learn English Online – Online course for beginners [British]

The Most Common English Words
100 most common words in English (video)
1000 most common words in English: [Esl.about.com] 1-250, 251-500, 501-750, 751-1000
1000 most common words in English (in alphabetical order)

Verb Forms
Perfect English Grammar – Memorize the past simple & past participle forms of irregular verbs
Macmillan Dictionary – Test your knowledge of irregular verb forms with the ‘Irregular Verb Wheel Game’

 Reading

Read Theory – Read, listen, & answer questions
Super Easy Reading – Read, listen, & do activities
Simple English Wikipedia – 90,000 articles written in simple English!

 From http://www.englishteachermelanie.com/study-tips/

George and Winifred Seymour

Read the text and complete the chart below with a word from the list you have after the text. Every word can only be used ONCE. There are some words that you do not need to use. Question 0 has been answered as an example.  Key at the bottom!!!

George and Winifred Seymour

George and Winifred Seymour (0) _have__  just won the prize for being the couple with the (1) ______ marriage in Britain. The couple have been married for more (2) ______ 80 years. They (3) ______ when they were teenagers and married in 1920 when George (4) ______ 16 and his girlfriend, Winifred, 17.
The couple have four children, nine grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. They have lived in the same village for all of their married life and have never travelled (5) ______. Mr Seymour said, ‘We've (6) ______ to London three times and we went to Birmingham to see my sister once.' His wife added, 'I've never liked trips, I like (7) ______ at home with my family around me. I've never wanted to go very (8) ______.'
Their oldest son, Bertie, 79, said, ‘It's great to see them still alive and so happy together after all (9) ______ years. They have enjoyed good health all their lives: my father worked on a farm all his life and my mother has always worked (10) ______ in the home. They have never smoked and they haven't had (11) ______ wine or beer in their lives. (12) ______ Sunday we are going to give them a great party! A lot of people (13) ______ coming for this celebration. First we are going to church and (14) ______ we are going to have a meal at a hotel.’
Our reporter asked Mrs Seymour what she liked about her marriage and she said, 'I've been very lucky. I saw George was (15) ______ unique man. He was my (16) ______ boyfriend and we've had a very happy marriage.’


A      ARE     HAVE      MET      THAT         ABROAD         BE         HARD         ON         THE       AFTER           BEEN          IS         ONLY        THEN          AN           BEING          KNEW       OLDEST       THESE          ANY       FAR         LONGEST         THAN         WAS






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1. LONGEST
2. THAN
3. MET
4. WAS
5. ABROAD
6. BEEN
7. BEING
8. FAR
9. THESE
10. HARD
11. ANY
12. ON
13. ARE
14. THEN
15. A
16. ONLY

CHRISTMAS VOCABULARY

Christmas is an interactive book by Mrs Haquet that shows us everything we need to know about Christmas:

• Christmas vocabulary
• Christmas traditions in several countries
• Christmas-related listening activities
• Christmas-related reading activities
• A carol
  
  

If you want to find out about Christmas, drop by Mrs Haquet's interactive book and you won't be disappointed.

SPANISH NEWS IN ENGLISH

 http://www.typicallyspanish.com/

SPELLING PRACTICE

Spin and spell is a wonderful online vocabulary game which can help lower level students revise (and learn) vocabulary around five major topic areas: The house, food, clothes, animals and transport.


How to play:
Click on the picture of an object and you will hear the pronunciation of the word you have selected. Then choose the letters that form that word. You will be able to hear the way the letters you choose are spelt, so the game also helps us consolidate the pronunciation of the letters of the alphabet.

When you have finished choosing the letters of the word, click on 'submit' and the game will tell you whether the word is correctly or incorrectly written.

PLAY

KARAOKE!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello!


This website will help you to prepare for this holiday season. 
Choose a song and learn it karaoke style!!!


Click HERE and start singing!

AN AWESOME WEBSITE

Hello again guys!


Here I send you another link with tons of interesting things to do.


I hope you like it!!


http://www.isabelperez.com/grammar.htm