Fun Ways to Better English

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Fun Ways to Better English
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• Useful Websites
• An Interactive Dictionary
• Learning the Academic Words you need

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English on the Web

• Improve your English
• British Council Learn English
  www.learnenglish.org.uk
• English Club www.englishclub.com
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• Test your English
• Chomp Chomp www.chompchomp.com
• English Learner www.englishlearner.com
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• Learn vocabulary
• Wordsurfing www.wordsurfing.co.uk
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• Read a story
• The English Library www.englishlibrary.org
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• Listen to a song
• The Singer and the Song www.bbc.co.uk/worlds
  ervice/learningenglish/music/singersong/
• Find a friend
• Language Exchange Community
  www.mylanguageexchange.com

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An Interactive Dictionary

• Make notes
• Expand your vocabulary
• Search for words
• Find words as you work
• Practise new words
• Practise pronunciation
• Print and copy

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Which dictionary?

• Lower Levels
• The Oxford Students Dictionary
• The Longman Active Study Dictionary
• The Macmillan Essential Dictionary
• The Oxford Wordpower Dictionary
• More advanced levels
• The Longman Contemporary English Dictionary
• The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary
• The Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced
  Learners
• The Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary
• Many dictionaries have study skills pages,
  CD-ROM and on-line resources for students.

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Dictionaries on the Web

• Macmillan
• www.macmillandictionaries.com
• Oxford University Press
• www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/teachersites/oald7/?cct
  r
• Longman
• www.longman.com/dictionaries/international.html
• Cambridge University Press
• http//dictionary.cambridge.org/

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What is the AWL?

• The Academic Word List is a list of 570 word
  families you need to know 
• Created by Avril Coxhead, Victoria University of
  Wellington
• Items selected from The Academic Corpus of
  3,500,000 words
• Four faculty sections Arts, Commerce, Law and
  Science 
• http//www.nottingham.ac.uk/alzsh3/acvocab/index.
  htm

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Four Faculty Areas
Arts Education History Linguistics Philosophy Politics Psychology Sociology Commerce Accounting Economics Finance Industrial Relations Management Marketing Public policy Law Constitutional Law Criminal Law Family Law and Medico-legal International Law Pure Commerce Law Quasi-Commercial Law Rights and Remedies Science Biology Chemistry Computer Science Geography Geology Mathematics Physics
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The AWL on the Web

• Vocabulary exercises for the Academic Word List
• http//www.nottingham.ac.uk/alzsh3/acvocab/index.
  htm
• http//www.uefap.co.uk/vocab/vocfram.htm
• http//web.uvic.ca/gluton/awl/index.htm

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We have shown you

• Some useful Websites
• An Interactive Dictionary
• How to learn the academic words you need

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Have fun!