Intermediate - Level E


Level E

Listening

  • Today's Audio ProgramPulse of the Planet
    http://www.pulseplanet.com
    A short audio segment, transcript available
  • Special English on Radio
    Voice of America
    http://www.voanews.com
    A Daily radio broadcasts read slowly in simple English. Scripts given.
  • English Listening Online
    English Listening Lounge
    http://www.englishlistening.com
    You must join, but membership is free. Listening exercises and quizzes.
  • Dictations Online
    fonetiks.org
    http://www.fonetiks.org
    Listen and write and then see the script.
  • Learning English Through Movies 
    LingualNet
    http://www.lingual.net
    An interesting website with a wide variety of videos and quizzes.
  • ELLO Listening Practice 
    English Language Listening Lab Online
    http://www.elllo.org
    A wide variety of topics with games, slide shows, quizzes.

Reading


Vocabulary

  • Academic Word Power 2 
    Heinle
    http://elt.heinle.com/namerica/en_us/index.html
    Self-tests with fill-in-the-blank questions for each vocabulary word for each unit. Score report. Flash cards to study the words
  • 23 Everyday Wordsby Charles I. Kelly
    The Internet TESL Journal
    http://iteslj.org
    Crossword puzzle
  • Medical Terms 
    by Vera Mello
    The Internet TESL Journal
    http://iteslj.org
    Crossword puzzle
  • Daily Page for Students of ESL 
    by Charles I. Kelly & Lawrence E. Kelly
    Interesting Things for ESL Students
    http://www.manythings.org
    Daily activity page with daily slang and daily quiz of the day. Link to VOA Special English site. Drop down menu for other exercises
  • Online English Dictionary 
    Merriam-Webster Online
    http://www.m-w.com
    Dictionary and Thesaurus. Definitions and pronunciation for each word in the dictionary mode
  • The Word of the Day
    Merriam-Webster Online
    http://www.m-w.com
    A new word for each day. Definition and a sample sentence given for each word. Links to word games for each day. Links for a listening activity: Word for the Wise with script given

Grammar

  • Present Perfect or Past Tense 
    by Charles I. Kelly
    Activities for ESL Students
    http://a4esl.org
    Present perfect vs. past tense quiz. 8 items. No instruction about the tenses. Complete the sentence with the correct verb or choose the correct multiple choice answer. Score report. Quiz
  • What Did the Teacher Say?(Reported Speech) 
    by Lucimara Mello
    Activities for ESL Students
    http://a4esl.org
    Students write answers on their own paper and then check them. No score report
  • Countable or Non-Countable Nouns 
    by Charles I. Kelly
    Activities for ESL Students
    http://a4esl.org
    Select countable or non-count. 107 nouns. Score report
  • Punctuation 
    This quiz was prepared by Maria Lorusso, a student in Professor Karyn Hollis's Tutor Training course at Villanova University.
    Capital Community College
    http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
    Use of commas with coordinating conjunctions - levels 4+ (complex sentences) Student punctuates sentence and then checks it against the correct sentence. No score report
  • Online English Courses 1-Language.com
    http://www.1-language.com
    Grammar explanations, dialogues
  • What's He Doing? (powerpoint) by Tamara Taylor
    Noun clauses and reported speech explanation and practice powerpoint

Grammar Practice by Week - Week 2

  • Present Perfect 1-Language.com
    http://www.1-language.com
    Select Units 51-55. Scroll to bottom to find link to exercise.
  • Present Perfect Summary grammar-quizzes.com
    http://www.grammar-quizzes.com
    Read examples of all the uses of the Present Perfect. Click on the letter of the example for more details and more exercises.
  • Present Perfect Editing grammar-quizzes.com
    http://www.grammar-quizzes.com
    Read the article, and decide if the tense is correct.
  • Present Perfect Time Expressions grammar-quizzes.com
    http://www.grammar-quizzes.com
    Review the common past perfect time expressions and do an exercise.
  • Prepositions "in, on, at" grammar-quizzes.com
    http://www.grammar-quizzes.com
  • Punctuation Review grammar-quizzes.com
    http://www.grammar-quizzes.com
    Chose P-1 for using commas for a series of items; P3 for commas with extra information; punctuation; 8-3 for commas with FANBOYS.
  • Fragments Purdue English
    http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
    A fragment is an incomplete sentence and is probably the result of poor punctuation. See this site, which has exercises at the bottom of the page, to learn how to correct fragments in your writing.

Grammar Practice by Week - Week 3

Grammar Practice by Week - Week 4

Grammar Practice by Week - Week 5

  • Comma Review Purdue English
    http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
    Review all the uses of commas. Go to the bottom of the page to do 5 exercises.

Grammar Practice by Week - Week 6

Grammar Practice by Week - Week 7

  • "so" vs. "so that" grammar-quizzes.com
    http://www.grammar-quizzes.com
    Choose 8-9 to practice "so" vs. "so that."
  • Sentence Connectors 
    grammar-quizzes.com
    http://www.grammar-quizzes.com
    Practice sentence connectors from Azar ch. 17 & 19.

Writing

  • Checklist for Essay Writing 
    by John Wong
    http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/~eljohn
    Use this list of 7 common sentence structure problems to use in editing writing.
  • The Five-Paragraph Essay
    Capital Community College
    http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
    Reading about writing. This site offers information about the parts of a 5 paragraph essay and makes suggestions about introductions and conclusions
  • Writer's block - Creating ideas to write about a topic
    Capital Community College
    http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
    Go to the bottom of the page to the link that gives you an area to "free write" online for 10, 8 or 5 minutes.
  • Clustering 
    Capital Community College
    http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
    See an example of "clustering" to create ideas for a composition
  • Outlining 
    Capital Community College
    http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
    The ideas used in the clustering activity are put into a formal cause and effect outline
  • Parallelism
    Capital Community College
    http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
    Good examples of corrected parallel structure
  • Parallelism Quiz 1 
    Capital Community College
    http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
    A 9 item quiz on parallelism. Student selects the correct sentence. Score report
  • Parallelism Quiz 2 
    Capital Community College
    http://www.ccc.commnet.edu
    A 9 sentence quiz on parallelism. Student re-types faulty sentences and checks answers against the correct sentence
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