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Fun Ways to Better English

Fun Ways to Better English. Useful Websites An Interactive Dictionary Learning the Academic Words you need. Improve your English British Council Learn English www.learnenglish.org.uk English Club www.englishclub.com Test your English Chomp Chomp www.chompchomp.com

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Fun Ways to Better English

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  1. Fun Ways to Better English Teacher Development Unit

  2. Useful Websites • An Interactive Dictionary • Learning the Academic Words you need Teacher Development Unit

  3. Improve your English British Council Learn English www.learnenglish.org.uk English Club www.englishclub.com Test your English Chomp Chompwww.chompchomp.com English Learner www.englishlearner.com Learn vocabulary Wordsurfing www.wordsurfing.co.uk Read a story The English Library www.englishlibrary.org Listen to a song The Singer and the Song www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/music/singersong/ Find a friend Language Exchange Community www.mylanguageexchange.com English on the Web Teacher Development Unit

  4. An Interactive Dictionary • Make notes • Expand your vocabulary • Search for words • Find words as you work • Practise new words • Practise pronunciation • Print and copy Teacher Development Unit

  5. Which dictionary? Lower Levels • The Oxford Student’s Dictionary • The Longman Active Study Dictionary • The Macmillan Essential Dictionary • The Oxford Wordpower Dictionary More advanced levels • The Longman Contemporary English Dictionary • The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary • The Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners • The Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary Many dictionaries have study skills pages, CD-ROMand on-line resources for students. Teacher Development Unit

  6. Dictionaries on the Web Macmillan • www.macmillandictionaries.com Oxford University Press • www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/teachersites/oald7/?cc=tr Longman • www.longman.com/dictionaries/international.html Cambridge University Press • http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Teacher Development Unit

  7. What is the AWL? • The Academic Word List is a list of 570 word families you need to know • Created by Avril Coxhead, Victoria University of Wellington • Items selected from The Academic Corpus of 3,500,000 words • Four faculty sections: Arts, Commerce, Law and Science  • http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm Teacher Development Unit

  8. Four Faculty Areas Teacher Development Unit

  9. The AWL on the Web Vocabulary exercises for the Academic Word List • http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm • http://www.uefap.co.uk/vocab/vocfram.htm • http://web.uvic.ca/~gluton/awl/index.htm Teacher Development Unit

  10. We have shown you • Some useful Websites • An Interactive Dictionary • How to learn the academic words you need Teacher Development Unit

  11. Have fun! Teacher Development Unit

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