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Have a look at my favourite English links
Updated 15 June 2003
Feedback: anne.lindholm@tkukoulu.fi
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Dictionaries
Finnish-English,
English-Finnish 1800 basic words
English-English
audio dictionary, you can listen to the pronunciation!
Finnish-Englishi-Finnish
Finnish-Englishi-Finnishi
basic vocabulary, no examples
Cambridge International
Dictionaries online dictionary
English idioms
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary
& Thesaurus
Oxford English Dictionary - monthly fee
Roget’s Thesaurus
Slang dictionary
ESP (English for Special Purposes)
dictionaries (law, business, medicine...)
ESP terminology dictionary
Etymological dictionary
Basic business
vocabulary
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Web-sites for English studies
(contain grammar, listening
comprehension, reading comprehension, vocabulary exercises and discussion
forums)
Aardvark's English
Forum - Interactive grammar and vocabulary exercises
Abitreenit - intermediate and advanced English fpr Finnish schools
BBC
Worldservice - English pages - listening, reading and news
California Distance
Learning Project - eg. reading comprehension and exercises based on easy
news stories
Dave's ESL Cafe
eLibs.com -
Create funny stories
English as 2nd
Language - various levels
EnglishClub - various levels and types
of exercises
English
Learner - interactive exercises on various topics
English Zone - Beginners - Intermediate
Upper secondary school
English for distance studies Finnish instructions
Karin's
ESL Partyland - all levels, tests and interactive exercises
Vocabulary and grammar exercises
for upper-intermediate students
Yleisradion
Opinportti - English pages of Finnish Broadcasting Company
Wild World of
Words Challenges - vocabulary exercises
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Grammar, exercises and test
About
ESL - grammar exercises for all levels
Better English - easy
grammar exercises for beginners
Better English -
Intermediate, business situations
Edufind -
Online grammar
Englishtown - grammar
tests
The Internet Tesl Journal grammar
tests
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Writing skills
Blue Mountain -
electronic postcards
English
for Professional Communication - writing business letters
English Club
Business English - business correspondence
English
Club Business English - job applications
Test
your vocabulary of business letters
How
good are your business letters? - test
Instructions for better writing skills: compositions and essays
Owl Writing Lab
– writing links
Punctuation made simple
Electronic
postcards
Talkingtoons - electronic postcards
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Listening comprehension (In order
to listen you need a sound card, loudspeakers and a media player, eg. RealPlayer
or Windows Media Player)
The English listening Lounge
Free
English
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
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Travelling
Currencies
in English
Guide to Britain - teaching material produced by the Finnish broadcasting
company Yle
Amadeus - flight
schedules
Lonely Planet - tips for travellers
Visit Britain
Virtual
London
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Food, recipes and restaurants
Cooking
light
Cuisinenet
Epicurious - recipes
Food channel
Weight Watchers
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Finland in English
The
Parliament and the Government
Newspaper Helsingin sanomat - English edition
Finnish Tourist Board
National Board of Education - education in Finland
Statistics in English
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Business English
Anne
Lindholm's self study pages
At
your service - English for service industry
BBC's
Business English
Better English -
vocabulary of business
E.L Easton Business English
online
BizWeb - online guide of business English
Telephone English
Rong Chang Li - Business English links
The Language
of Company Presentations
Annual reports
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News and newspapers: texts and listening
BBC
Daily
Express
Guardian
Independent
Daily Mirror
News of the World
The Sun
Daily Telegraph
The Times
CNN
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Other interesting web-sites
British
Council - Studies in Britain
The British Monarchy -
official website
Santa's net - Christmas
site
Halloween
St Valentine's Day
Cartoons
Urban legends
Jokes
Enchanted
learning - How to teach children
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