Free Chat Links and Exercises

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IELTS Links

British Council Websites

Words, words, words

Two new concordancers; one from the University of Quebec and the other, WebCorp, from the University of Liverpool

WordReference offers instant translation of words on web pages into four European langauges

Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus
is a new way to see words and how they are related

The Academic Word List
570 important words in English for upper-intermediate and advanced students who want to read academic texts in English. Very good practice for IELTS candidates.
Work through the sublists 1- 10 looking words up in one of the concordancers and in one of the dictionaries and try the Visual Thesaurus, too.

Simple search of the British National Corpus
to find up to 50 examples of the use of a word or phrase.
Now there are three different ways to find example sentences containing words you are interested in.
If you want to see a a word that interests you in 40 different sentences, try the Cobuid Concordancer and the VLC Web concordancer gives you the original context as well.

Voycabulary is amazing! You won't believe it until you try it and see that it is true.
Université du Québec à Montréal
Online Concordancer with different corpora		 WordReference.com
Translate any word in any Web page with a few quick clicks, using the Collins translating dictionaries from HarperCollins Publishing. English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
WebCorp is a suite of tools which allows access to the World Wide Web as a corpus - a large collection of texts from which facts about the language can be extracted
The Visual Thesaurus - An engaging experience in language and interface, the Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus is an artistic exploration that is also a learning tool. Through its dynamic interface, the Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus alters our relationship with language, creating poetry through user action, dynamic typography, and design. The experience is rewarding from both a linguistic and an aesthetic perspective.
You can use it a few times for free, but then you have to pay ....

This page creates concordances of publically accessible web pages... spaceless.com Click here New ! ?
This system has been available as a free 'service' to the web since the 10th of April 1998.

Simple search of the British National Corpus
to find up to 50 examples of the use of a word or phrase
Cobuild Concordance and Collocations Sampler - The Collins WordbanksOnline English corpus is composed of 56 million words of contemporary written and spoken text. To get a flavour of the type of linguistic data that a corpus like this can provide, you can type in some simple queries here and get a display of concordance lines from the corpus.
Cobuild Concordance and Collocations Sampler BACK AT LAST! 		The Virtual Language Centre brings together and integrates on a single platform several strategies for language learning and study. Our objective is to make learning as easy, fast and enjoyable as possible for learners, and also to provide a useful source of teaching and reference materials for teachers.
Web Concordancer

A great way to study new words and even grammar. Try looking up 'therefore', 'but' / 'and' or words ending in 'ing'

 VoyCabulary(tm) makes the words on any webpage into links so you can look them up with just a click!
With this site you can double click on any word you don't understand on any site and get a translation or explanation - click here or on logo


Look up words and phrases


Dictionary lookup:
Enter the word you wish to find
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News Reader which features articles on people and events that have recently been in the news. You can look up unfamiliar words as you read by double-clicking on them.
Cambridge Dictionaries Online


in the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary here
get a Free copy of Vocabulary Master

Word Games from the British Council's LearnEnglish
Vocabulary Games

 Food preparation vocabulary exercise - a really great example of a Shockwave exerciseFood preparation vocabulary exercise - a really great example of a Shockwave exercise (Pity you can't print it when you've finished!)
61 English as a foreign Language activities

Crosswords and quizzes

 206 English language activities
Word Surfing aims to help you to expand your word power by creating an organised vocabulary notebook. The method shows you how to get to know your new words by actually using them as soon as possible. We hope that you enjoy the idea - and find it a lot more helpful than learning lists of translations.Expand your word power with Word Surfing
The Academic Word List was developed at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Click on the Academic Word List link below
570 important words in English for upper-intermediate and advanced students who want to read academic texts in English. Very good practice for IELTS candidates

English Vocabulary Quizzes Using Images
English Vocabulary Quizzes Using Images

The Internet Picture Dictionary

www.pdictionary.com

From The BBC World Service
Quizzes, questions and messageboards for everyone , English in the News, English for Work, English with Music, English through Sport
- Learning English

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