ORAL PRACTICE
PRODUCTION
13 sites to practise your English online
SPEAKING
Find somebody to speak to, at all levels and in some cases for free: https://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/english-speaking-online/
Find somebody to speak to, at all levels and in some cases for free: https://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/english-speaking-online/
Elblogdelingles.com
Find topics for the monologue in the oral exam and a lot more of stuff below. Specially oriented to OSLs (EOIs)
Hi utandem
Try Hi utamden if you want to connect with people near your city / town.
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Cueprompter. Copy and paste the text you want on this page, use Cueprompter to read it as fast as you can. To use texts that you can listen to and check if you are reading properly, visit http://www.manythings.org/listen/
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ENGLISH CENTRAL
An amazing free website in which you can learn English watching videos, recording your voice and getting feedback of your pronunciation. All you need is a microphone. By English Central
Speechyard You can learn English from videos and books on this website. It is powered by Google Translator, meaning that you can get the translation of a word instantly.
To improve your pronunciation and fluency repeat sentences and phrases. By Speechyard 
Find conversation/study groups on the internet:
- The Mixxer language exchange community for everybody - Babbel - English, baby! - Speaking 24 |
YouEnglishThis video search engine gives you the possibility to get many videoclips containing precisely the word you were wondering how to pronounce. Pronouncing some sentences from different videos will improve your intonation and fluency. By YouEnglish
Playphrase.meOn this website you will be able to write down a phrase and get a good number of videoclips from films where the phrase is pronounced. Really good to improve your pronunciation and fluency repeating phrases. By Playphrase
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INTERACTION
These are some of the sites to practise English and get language exchange. Using a webcam, LANGUAGE EXCHANGE. If you prefer to share real life events and language exchange on POLYGLOTCLUB and also MIXXER, the latter uses skype. All the mentioned sites require free registration.
There is also a virtual environment / game called Second Life in which you can use an avatar in a kind of role play world to practise English. Be careful because it might be addictive.
There is also a virtual environment / game called Second Life in which you can use an avatar in a kind of role play world to practise English. Be careful because it might be addictive.
ONLINE COMMUNITIES
FixoodleAn online community to learn languages, not only speaking but writing as well. By Fixoodle
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Busuu.com
Busuu.com is a website where you can learn lots of languages online using social networks. |
TIPS TO SPEAK BETTER in speaking activities or in oral exams
CardsSpeaking Topics / Cards
Cue Cards about people, places, objects, habits and likes (or present tense questions), plans (or future aspect questions), experiences (or past tense/present perfect questions) and many more on DC IELTS Get also a summary on how to organise your monologue Find hundreds of questions by topic on Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom on ESL Gold or a Project of The Internet TESL Journal Get more stuff related to OSL on Monica Redondo's wikispace EOI English Corner For an overview not only of the Speaking tests but also on the other 3 skills you should visit this website and follow the links you will find there:
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Conversational FillersWatch the Youtube video on English fillers by Niharika or go to IELTS Speaking fillers.
Apart from that, On English Pond you can learn about Conversational Fillers and listen to them. Also about Taking Turns: listen and learn how to take turns in interaction activities. There are more expressions to improve your speaking skill. Please surf their website to find out more about agreeing/disagreeing, apologizing, interrupting someone and so on. You can also go to downloads/upper-intermediate and get the discussion phrase pdf file with useful language for the classroom which include conversational fillers. Learn more about |
False Friends / Cognates
You also have to be careful with false friends. What's a false friend or cognate? Find a good explanation and a table of them on El Blog de Englishcom
