Chris Fry's EFL ESL chat links

since 7th September 2006

since 23rd April 2011

Activities for Pre-Intermediate Learners of English
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Activities for Intermediate Learners of English
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Activities for Advanced Learners of English
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Learn Pre-Intermediate English as a Foreign Language (EFL ESL) on Facebook

Intermediate English as a Foreign Language (EFL ESL) on Facebook

Advanced learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL/ESL) on Facebook

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Irregular Verbs for your PDA

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Exercises

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Study the most common verbs that are followed by
Infinitives and Gerunds

Study the 31 most common prepositions in English

'In the News' at three levels with dictionary help & exercises

Elementary:
Irregular Verbs
Prepositions

Pre-Intermediate:
Error correction 1
Error correction 2
Error correction 3
Irregular Verbs
Prepositions

Intermediate:
Pre-First Certificate problems
Error correction 1
Error correction 2
Error correction 3
Crossword 1 or Crossword 1
Crossword 2 or Crossword 2
Crossword 3
Crossword 4
Irregular Verbs
Prepositions
Vocabulary from English File Intermediate - English with Spanish translations

Intermediate+:
First Certificate problems
Errors in Compositions 1
Transactional letter p 127 New First Certificate Masterclass
- two exercises
Irregular Verbs
Crossword 'like' for FC Gold Unit 4
First Certificate Composition Problems - corrected phrases with comments FC Gold Units 1-3
First Certificate Gold | Unit 10 | Vocabulary: money - check the meaning in a dictionary
Reporting verbs, like 'say', 'ask', 'suggest'
- study them and do a crossword
First Certificate Gold | Unit 14 | Vocabulary: crime - check the meaning in a dictionary
First Certificate Gold | Unit 14 | Vocabulary: more interesting words - check the meaning in a dictionary
Vocabulary English with Spanish translations

Advanced:
Reference sheet on prepositions:
in, on, at
Irregular Verbs
Suggestions about books to read
Some simple grammar exercises
Flour bomb news from the BBC version1 version2 - listen and fill in the gaps

Games with texts:
Find out about some of the people who visit these pages
And then write about yourself and send us your text

Read 'I am a smoker' - a confession by Maite Bedós

Read a holiday postcard (pre-intermediate or intermediate) and a letter about a holiday
And then write a postcard or a letter to us

Listen to 'Food for thought'
about a Swiss couple in Hong Kong and then reconstruct a similar text

Pere Cals: Why I'm studying English
- Putting phrases in order and reconstructing the whole text [Intermediate+]

Games with words:
How many words for 'fruit' do you know in English?

How many words for 'animals' do you know in English?

Guess the 'jobs' on this list for First Certificate students
What are the 21 most frequently used pronouns in English?
What are the 31 most frequently used prepositions?
What are the 45 most frequently used adjectives?
What are the 50 most frequently used adverbs?
What are the 50 most frequently used nouns?
What are the 50 most frequently used verbs?
What are the 100 most frequently used words in English?

Chat on one of the popular chats below for learners of English. See the average number of people who go to each chat in green (after three visits) - EnglishClub are top at the moment.

From

- EnglishClub Chat 58 (maybe too many!)
You don't need to register or install anything!From

Study.com
- and Text chat and click on 1
Voice 8
You don't need to register but you need to install something!

From
- Chat Central - there always seem to be people there, but you have to register first 6

Install PalTalk and try Voice Chat:

Then go to Groups, Distance Learning 21

Find a partner and practice English with a native speaker who is learning your language. Use text, voice or video chat
- Text Chat 7

From

- Voice chat on Yahoo - sign up for free and find a native speaker who wants to learn your language

European Language exchange:
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Finnish and Swedish

Language Learning in Tandem - Autonomous learning with a native-speaker partner

Is Artificial Intelligence possible? Would you know if you were talking to a person or a machine?

Or chat with a chat bot?
1

Thanks Nik!

Or chat with A.L.I.C.E? 1

Another bot to chat to is: 1

George, from jabberwacky, won the 2005 Loebner prize for the most human chat bot. Chat to George here