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Spelling: discussions and interactive exercises Computers and word processing programs with their automatic spelling checkers have made writing and spelling a lot easier. There are times however when you cannot rely on these automatic spelling checkers, like when you are writing letters by hand, or when you are teaching or reporting and you have to write on a blackboard or white board. The differences between speliing of words in American and British English also make the study of spelling rules necessary. Listed below are links to discussions and interactive exercises in spelling from the best ESL and EFL resources on the Internet. Clicking the blue links will take you to the specific pages where the discussions and activities are, while clicking the website name will take you to the home page. Take time to browse these excellent websites; they are consistently good and fast loading. Besides the activities and exercises listed below, these sites generously offer, free of charge, a tremendous range of valuable resources for ESL and EFL teachers and students. In answering the interactive exercises, you should follow carefully the prompts and directions. You should read each sentence or part aloud before clicking the answer you think is right. After the correct answer is displayed, think it over as to why it is the correct answer. (Please take note that the correct answer may depend on whether the exercise comes from an American English or a British English website.) After doing so, read the complete sentence again aloud with the correct answer. To train yourself to think in English, try to recite the sentences with the correct answers from memory and at your full speaking volume. Or you can ask a friend to read out loud the sentences with the correct answers and you repeat them without looking at the computer screen. [01] Spelling and Word Choice, from East Tennessee State University [02] Spelling Rules, from English Club
[03] The Spelling Zone, from English-Zone.Com
[04] Spell Check (with Easy and Hard categories), from Funbrain [05] Complete List of Spelling Rules for Nouns and Verbs by Susan Jones (Georgia State University) [06] Spelling, from HyperGrammar (University of Ottawa) [07] Spelling Practice, Levels 1 to 5 (about one hundred interactive spelling exercises), from Interlink Language Center [08] Spelling, from Interesting Things for ESL Students
[11] 50 commonly misspelled words, from Spelling test by Mindy McAdams [12] Spelling rules and exercises, from OWL English Purdue Grammar and ESL Exercises [13]
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Vocabulary Guides, from LanguageGuide.org [14] Free online spell checker (up to 20,000 characters), from SpellCheck.net [15] Spelling It Right - Learn To Spell Confidently, by Roger Smith (British English)
[16] Often Misspelled Words in English, from www.yourdictionary.com [17] Word Cup (an international, online vocabulary competition for all ages, students and adults, sponsored among others by Oxford University Press), from eSpindle
[17] SpellCheckPlus, from Dr. Terry Nadasdi (University of Alberta, Canada) and Dr. Stefan Sinclair
Notes: A Word A Day, from Wordsmith: Explore the world of words, share, and delight in the joy of words with a community of more than 600,000 linguaphiles in at least 200 countries, from Australia to Zimbabwe Spoken English Learned Quickly offers free downloads of lessons and books (Learning Spoken English, a 450-page Student Workbook and an Instructor’s Guide) to your computer, iPod, Blackberry, MP3 player or PDA; Lessons in vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and verb tenses using spoken English exercises; Complete lessons contain enough recorded audio lesson material for two hours of study a day, five days a week for nine months. englishforjapanese.com offers fee-based language learning study solutions for Japanese students of English for speech, pronunciation, listening, pronunciation, social and business conversation skills; with free but non-interactive exercises and tests in English usage, vocabulary and grammar; some lessons in downloadable PDF format; related blog Two-Minute English offers free daily, non-interactive exercise and activities. Bilingual
Vocabulary Quizzes from The Internet TESL Journal's Activities
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Online resurces for reading and listening The Reading Room - English Comprehension, from English The International Language Practice your reading skills and improve your vocabulary through selected Articles and Stories, with instant feedback in the True/False questions With over 1,000 free listening activities
(with images, interactive quizzes, audio transcripts
and downloadable MP3s) designed for ESL and EFL
students and teachers, and divided into categories
like Weekly Updates, Interviews, Mixer, Games, Songs,
News Center, Talking Points
8 to 13-year
old authors read their own stories and poems as
you follow along. Selections are chosen from over
ten thousand entries a year from children all over
the world
Wired for Books, from WOUB Center for Public Media, Scripps College of Communication, Ohio University Hundreds of hours of spoken audio in English of a tremendous range of poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for children and adults Online dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, translators OneLook®
Dictionaries Visual Dictionary and Encyclopedia The Internet Picture Dictionary Encyclopedia Britannica On-line Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Online bilingual dictionaries from www.freedict.com Online
English to African / African to English Dictionary Information
Please English-Chinese
Dictionary Webster's Online Dictionary. With Multilingual Thesaurus Translation YourDictionary
RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus AskOxford.com
(UK) Online newspapers and magazines
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Today Magazine SOON
Online Magazine Men Today Online (A high adventure magazine for men) Power To Change (English); for other languages, click Arabic; French; German; Italian; Japanese; Malay; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Thai; and Czech The
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Edge Online libraries Project
Gutenberg Official Home Site: Free, easy to access
literary works Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations English
Online Resources Electronic Text Center, University Of
Virginia Humanities
Text Initiative Project
Bartleby Archive The Internet Classics Archive Complete texts of hundreds of works of English literature. The On-Line Books Page Complete texts of more than 7,000 works of English literature Miscellaneous links Internet Anagram Server (Advanced programming, Topical Anagrams, Anagram Hall of Fame, Odds and Ends) Free vocabulary test for TOEFL, GMT, SAT, GRE and VOA Special English, from Vocaboly British to American / American to British - Vocabulary Converter
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