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Reading / Speaking Comprehension Dialogues

These reading comprehension / dialogues provide an opportunity for both reading and speaking practice. Each dialogue is also followed by a multiple choice quiz for comprehension practice.

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Instead of / from / than?

Friday July 10, 2009
Prepositional phrases can drive any student crazy! Test and improve your knowledge of common prepositional phrases with these online quizzes.

Collocations with "Equipment"

Tuesday July 7, 2009
An important step to improving your vocabulary is to not only learn the appropriate terms, but to learn the words that commonly go together with those terms. This collocation practice sheet is dedicated to collocations with equipment. Each word pair includes an example sentence.

Here are some other collocation practice materials:

Emphatic Expressions
Common Adjective Combinations
Banking Collocations

Study Skills - Make English Learning a Habit

Friday July 3, 2009
Learning any language takes practice - lots of practice! Often, it's difficult to know what you should practice.
  • Should you watch a video?
  • Perhaps, it would be a good idea to do a few quizzes.
  • Of course, you should try to speak English with your friends.
All of these are great ideas, but it's also important to build a routine. A routine will help you make studying English a habit. That's the best way to improve your English! Beginning Level Study Skills Intermediate Level Study Skills

Tense Review Charts

Thursday July 2, 2009
This overview chart shows the positive, negative and interrogative (question) forms of all the principal tenses in English with a brief description of the principal usage. The timeline tenses chart provides a handy visual reference sheet to English tenses and their relationship to the past, present and future. Included you will find active, passive, simple and continuous forms positioned according to their occurrence in time. Once your feel comfortable with your tenses, try these tense review quizzes: Past Forms Future Forms Past or Perfect?

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