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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

Have you ever wondered how reading different genres could improve different aspects of your writing? 

A free site for helping adults improve their skills.

This site is an excellent way to help ESL students improve reading and comprehension skills using short passages of different kinds of reading. The site includes signs, multiple choice, true-false for details, questions on getting the "gist" of a reading, matching questions, and gap (fill-in) questions.

You may be in Basic 1 or Advanced 2, but what is your real level of English in the different skills? Use this tool to get an idea.

To practise different skills.

Find a language exchange partner online to practice your speaking and writing skills.

This site contains 26 short articles with writing tips about ampersands, punctuation, character spacing, apostrophes, semicolons and commas, difference between i.e. and e.g. etc.

Various articles that aim to teach students how to write better.

An older, yet very useful site that will help you to improve your writing on word & sentence level, paragraph level and also essay & research paper level.

A podcast website for people learning English. The podcasts on this site will help you to improve your English vocabulary and pronunciation and your listening skills. They are quite short (5 or 6 minutes) and delivered in clearly spoken English.

Practise your English language listening skills with Elementary Podcasts. Listen to them on your computer, or download them to your mp3 player or smartphone. This website is a little difficult to navigate but don't give up! Se eres alumno de Básico, lévao con paciencia, os podcasts son un pouco longos (20 minutos). Fai o que poidas.

Writer's Digest offers information on writing better and getting published. The site also includes community forums, blogs and huge lists of resources for writers 

Watch instructional lessons and short clips that will help you learn how to use apostrophes, irregular verbs, possessive adjectives, simple present tense, capital letters, words with similar meanings and much more. Learn online and have fun improving your English language skills.

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.

A quick and useful crash course in English punctuation.