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ebrary

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Gale electronic books and databases

Communication Topics

Access 3

Study section1 - Mobile telephones

Study section 2 - The media

Study section 3 - Your town

Study section 4 - Eating out

Study section 5 - Planning a holiday

Study section 6 - Advertising

Study section 7 - Music

Study section 8 - Filling in application forms

General

Teach It - A huge resource consisting of exercises on literature, punctuation, spelling etc for all levels.

English Biz - Extensive information on writing and reading skills. Suitable for Core Skills Int. 1 & 2.

Thesaurus.com - Online thesaurus with links to dictionaries and translation sites.

Dictionary.com - Online dictionary, accessing thousands of dictionaries or thesauri for every search.

ABC News - Read or listen to the news, with questions and exercises.

Core Skills Communication - Develop oral communication skills in discussion and presentation, and learn how to understand, produce and respond effectively to written information.

Reading

BBCi Skillswise - Information on different types of text (identifying purpose).

BBCi Skillswise - Information and exercises on scanning texts.

BBCi Skillswise - Information and exercises on skim reading.

Writing

BBCi Skillswise - Main English page of the BBC Skillswise site. Lots of helpsheets, quizzes, and activities on grammar and sentence building.

BBCi Skillswise - Interactive exercises on sentence building.

BBCi Skillswise - Interactive exercises and tests on using apostrophes.

BBCi Skillswise - Helpnotes, games and quizzes on compound sentences.

Grammar Bytes - Interactive exercises on fused sentences and comma splices, comma use, irregular verbs and pronouns.

Game Zone - Fast-moving games testing spelling and grammar. Includes 10-stage adventure game The Grammar of Doom.

Capital Community College - Exercises in repairing fused and run-on sentences. American but still accurate.

Self-study quizzes - Test yourself on grammar, homonyms and so on.

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation - Tests and exercises on finding subjects and verbs, punctuating sentences etc.

BBC Bitesize - Practice and tests on various forms of writing.

BBC Bitesize - Practice and tests on reading: identifying purpose, following a point of view, etc.

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