Important websites for English skills

Pronunciation materials

• How to improve your pronunciation  
• Pronunciation tips | BBC Learning English  
• Pronunciation advice sheets  
• English pronunciation: common mistakes  
• English pronunciation  
• Phonetics: The sounds of spoken language  
• English pronouncing dictionary  
• Pronunciation guides with instant sound  
• Ship or Sheep: minimal pair ESL pronunciation practice  

Developing critical thinking

• Critical thinking on the web  
• Critical thinking: So what exactly is critical thinking?  
• Thinking about thinking  
• Critical thinking  
• Critical analysis  

Grammar materials

• English Grammar and Writing: English Grammar Online  
• Guide to Grammar and Writing  
• Parallel structure - Grammar Style Guide | Flinders University Humanities Exchange  
• Sentence fragments - Grammar Style Guide | Flinders University Humanities Exchange  
• English grammar: a short guide  
• Punctuation 1: Style Guide | Flinders University Humanities Exchange  
• Punctuation 2: Style Guide | Flinders University Humanities Exchange  
• Quizzes: English Grammar  
• Quizzes: Grammar, Writing, Vocabulary, Spelling | Academic English Cafe  
• Quizzes: Grammar online exercises  

Interesting English

• Spelling rules - English pronunciation 

Academic reading materials

• Reading & Notetaking | The Learning Centre UNSW  
• Reading-Notetaking strategies | The Learning Centre UNSW  
• How to read efficiently  
• Reading Skills for Academic Study  
• A Guide to reading and analysing academic articles  
• Academic reading and writing exercises  
• Critical reading checklist  
• Examples of critical reading  
• Efficient reading of journal articles: making connections between the parts  
• Critical reading exercise  

Academic writing materials

• Essay & assignment writing | UNSW Learning Centre  
• Essay writing  
• Writing | Monash University  
• Academic writing | Bond University  
• The process of essay writing  
• Writing essays  
• Editing checklist  
• Editing your own work  
• Cohesion in academic writing  
• Use connective words effectively  
• Transition signals  
• Expressing opinion: Modality  
• Expressing opinion: Modal verbs and adverbs  

 
Listening materials

• Listening comprehension and notetaking  
• Listening-Notetaking Strategies | The Learning Centre UNSW  
• UNSW on YouTube  
• Macquarie University on YouTube  
• University of Melbourne on YouTube  
• UC Berkeley on YouTube  
• USC on YouTube  
• Stanford University on YouTube  
• ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)  
• Catalyst - ABC TV  
• Documentaries - ABC TV  
• BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)  
• Learning English - General & Business English | BBC TV  
• Panorama - BBC TV  
• PBS (Public Broadcasting Service)  
• Watch video from your favorite PBS programs  
• FRONTLINE | PBS  
• NOVA | PBS  

Presentation materials

• Seminar presentations | The Learning Centre UNSW
• Making the most of oral presentations  
• Giving an oral presentation | University of Canberra
• Oral presentations  

Shakespeare resources

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare  
• Romeo and Juliet  
• Elizabethan England: Shakespeare Resource Center 

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