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http://www.vokabel.com
This is a good address to test your vocabulary via internet. English, German, French and Spanish is provided in each combination.
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Take the Pimp Your Vocab quiz to find out how in touch you are with the word on the street.
It is highly amazing that teenagers have their own jargon that is difficult to demystify.
What is your favorite teenglish word? Mine is chilax (chill out + relax).
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http://www.short-stories.co.uk/
Here you can read short online stories for free. You can have several choices; From crime stories to hyperfiction.
http://www.stashtea.com/stories.htm
Is tea your favorite drink? Do you like to read poems and stories about tea? If yes click on the link given above. Enjoy drinking tea! Oh no, enjoy reading it!
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It’s well documented that people with better vocabularies are more intelligent. So, why not give yourself a chance to expand your vocabulary. Here are the links to some fantastic online places that can help you integrate more words into your English:
Dictionary.com: A leading online dictionary, this site gets top spots for not only its word, but the audio pronunciation, quotes, and more.
SAT Tutor’s Blog: Click on “Word of the Day” to get advanced words for SAT test takers. There are also a ton of other vocabulary and language tools.
Word of the Day Website: Get a word of the day with a more personal touch here. There are also quizzes, weekly review, and more.
Today’s WORD on Journalism: A journalist takes words from publications and analyzes them in his posts.
What Does It Mean?: Infoplease gives several definitions on their word of the day. There are also tons of other tools including dictionary, thesaurus, Fact Monster, and more.
Learning English can be intensive, costly, and time-consuming. With the advent of educational technology-based resources (CD-ROMs, the Internet, Web pages, etc.), millions of language learners are getting interested in flexible and creative learning methodologies.
In multimedia systems several media of communication such as animation, music, text, and image combine in conjunction with computer technology and give the users as ‘interactive players’ the opportunity to control the flow and direction of the text by navigating through it.
The use of language-learning multimedia technologies must be supported because they are necessary for keeping English-learning relevant to the information age. Self-study English-learning multimedia resources, actually, have become more affordable and ubiquitous than before.
Considering all these things, I have put here the links to three web sites that are based on teaching English through different modes of communication. You can resort to such materials with the ease of the mind for both teaching and learning English, surely.
Multimedia English Classroom
Bell English Online
ESL Galaxy
Eponyms are words derived from proper names and are another of the many creative ways that the vocabulary of a language expands and extends.
I have found an electronic version of a good book on Eponyms, lately. The ebook, indubitably, is a must have ebook. You can download A New Dictionary of Eponyms by clicking here.
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