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This is a great site for all students who need practice in such skills as writing paragraphs, listening skills, word choice, reading strategies for academic texts, and reading for thinking. Almost all of the links include interactive exercises which allow students to work independently, testing themselves as they go. The site includes tutorials, self-quizzes, and more. There are links to podcasts, videos, songs, "Grammar Safaris," and many other English topics

Click on a topic to see the lessons and exercises. Click on the lesson to begin. To see all lessons and exercises in the menu, click on the "Show All" button. To see only the topics, click on the "Hide All" button.

This site provides quizzes, interactives, and extra help for young learners. Students can choose from over 300 grammar quizzes. Though originally meant for ESL/ELL learners, this site is appropriate for all learners. The quizzes provide instant feedback and the correct answer, if an incorrect answer is provided.

Information and pictures of all species known to science.

"The National Gallery of Writing is a virtual space-a website-where people who perhaps have never thought of themselves as writers-mothers, bus drivers, fathers, veterans, nurses, firefighters, sanitation workers, stockbrokers-select and post writing that is important to them. The Gallery accommodates any composition format-from word processing to photography, audio/video recording to text messages-and all types of writing-from letters to lists, memoirs to memos"

Link to all of the great Prezi presentations made by our language assistant, Alessandro Bordoli.

Website by a small organisation dedicated to translating contemporary poetry from Africa, Asia and Latin America. To date, they've translated 343 poems written in 27 different languages by 76 poets from 37 countries. You'll find all these poems both in translation and in their original language, plus photos and videos.

Are you ever confused by British and American spelling? Here's a list with all the differences.

A page with a huge selection of football words, phrases and vocabulary that are organised in alphabetical order - it is like a football dictionary. You can find all kinds of football cliches, expressions and technical terms, as well as a variety of categories about many football-related subjects: transfers, football nicknames, match-day language, managers and much more.

Conversational English via Skype with VOA WANT TO PRACTICE YOUR CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH? VOA has a 45 minute "Talk2Us" via Skype service on Tuesdays and Fridays at 15:00 GMT. All participants need to do is logon to Skype and send a contact request to: VOALearningEnglish Segments from the session are then added to YouTube.

This guide is based on the style book which is given to all journalists at The Economist. The site contains various hints on how to use metaphors, punctuation, figures, hyphens etc. Brief and precise.

Free lessons and exercises on English grammar, verbs and vocabulary for ESL-EFL learners of all levels.

Website for English language learners and football fans all around the world. Lots of FREE language resources for soccer supporters who want to practise their English including a weekly podcast, football phrases, football vocabulary, worksheets, handouts, quizzes, forums and much more.

Grammar Girl has tips and grammar exercises to help you learn and remember all the grammar rules on punctuation, word choice, and more.

Awesome. Enter a website and voilá you can check the definition of any word by just clicking on the word. And in several languages.

The most complete, fun, free phonetics resource on the web.