English Department EOI de Santiago - Links for learners

A free online Talking English Pronunciation Dictionary - simply mouse over your entry to hear it pronounced. American and British spellings, with alternative pronunciations. Sounds are fast, clear and completely natural, pre-recorded by native speakers. Fantastic resource!

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.

"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"

"The MIT Video website - developed and maintained by the MIT News Office - aggregates and curates video produced by the Institute's offices, laboratories, centers and administration. This includes feature and editorial videos, event recordings, academic content and more. Each day, the editorial team at MIT Video selects one or more videos to "spotlight" based on the videos' content, production value and timeliness"

Short, one-minute listenings with questions for intermediate and pre-intermediate students.

Want to play? Try the Oxford Dictionaries Spelling Challenge.

Free vocabulary games to practice idioms, phonics, parts of speech.

Free English textbook from Wikibooks with practice activities for B2 level students.

Vocabulary organized according to topics. You can also listen to the pronunciation of the words.

Bob Wilson's tips to prepare for oral exams. He gives a lot of tips and vocab that might be useful for the second part (interaction) of the Advanced 2 oral exam. 

Information and pictures of all species known to science.

It's like a dictionary but it also gives you the option of checking the meaning of expressions and idioms. Another positive thing is that they provide tons of corpus sentences where you can see the word/expression in context (right-hand side of the website).

Videos, vocabulary, podcasts... everything focused on Business English.

A premium online Irish Gaelic dictionary providing quick word searches, definitions and usage.

Definition, idioms, examples and more.

A regular English dictionary, a video dict., a medical dict. and a thesaurus.

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.

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.

Advanced audio English lessons. Lots of slang and everyday vocabulary. Canadian English.