Language Skills
There are many good sites for the ambitious English pupil on the net. Check out these sites to work on your English on-line.
Grammar and Words:
www.funbrain.com - Take your teacher's quiz or make your own selection.
www.englishclub.net - Wide variety of language exercises. Can be difficult to navigate, but well worth the trouble.
www.eslpartyland.com/students/inter.htm - Same as above.
Listening:
www.esl-lab.com - On-line listening tests.
www.broadcast-live.com - Listen to the news around the globe.
Word Power
Writing a paper or a review? Can't find the right words or are you bored with using the same word over and over again? Use the dictionaries and thesauruses (look it up in the dictionary, lazybones!) you can find on the net.
www.dictionary.com - Find the meaning of a word.
www.thesaurus.com - Find the synonym to a word.
www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm - The Merriam-Webster Dictionary on-line.
www.write101.com/rhyme.htm - Make your paper rhyme!
Besserwisser
Researching for a paper or only wanting to get better at Trivial Pursuit? A famous man once called the net "The information super highway", and rightly so. Everything you need to know about anything is waiting for you out there.
One word of caution: Do not believe everything you read and do not waste your teacher's time by plagiarising other people's works. Only losers cheat.
Encyclopædias:
www.britannica.com - Encyclopædia Britannica.
dictionary.msn.com - Encarta. With audio.
Newspapers and Magazines:
www.guardian.co.uk - The Guardian.
www.nytimes.com/ - The New York Times.
www.sunday-times.co.uk/ - The Sunday Times.
www.salon.com - Salon. On-line magazine focused on pop-culture, mainly.
www.thelocal.se - All the Swedish news in English
Literature:
http://www.bardweb.net - Get All the Facts on Shakespeare!
www.bibliomania.com - The Classics and More. On-line
www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/indexauthors.html - Great Poetry Site.
Country guides:
www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm - The statistics on the member states of the UN.
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/ - National Geographic Map Machine.
www.virtualireland.com - Visit Ireland.
www.gov.za - Check out South Africa.
www.toxiccustard.com/australia/ - The Rough Guide to Australia.
English around the Globe:
www.slanguage.com - American slang explained.
www.rapdict.org/ - Done with it? Understand what the MC:s are rapping.
http://homepage.eircom.net/~nobyrne/slang.html - Irish Slang is Great craic!
www.toxiccustard.com/australia/lingo.html -Slang from Down Under.
Real life
Let's face it. School can't teach as much as real life can. Get a job abroad and empower your English.
http://www.arbetsformedlingen.se/go.aspx?c=150046 - Arbetsförmedlingens site for jobs abroad.
www.englishclub.net/CV/index.htm - Learn how to write a cutting edge covering letter.
Fun!
You know what? You can have fun and learn English at the same time. Here's a list of internet fun:
Quizzes and personality tests
www.thespark.com - Not very politically correct quizzes.
www.keirsey.com - Keirsey's personality test.
www.cmi-lmi.com/kingdomality.html - Who would you have been in the Middle Ages?
Comedy:
www.comics.com - Read comics on-line.
www.izzard.com - Eddie Izzard: The world's funniest man in high-heels.
www.comedyradio.net - Listen to great comedians such as Woody Allen and Chris Rock.
Internet Bric-a-brac:
www.travlang.com/languages/ - Language guide for travellers.
www.allmusic.com/ - Find information on your idols of the music world.