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  • WRITING AND SPEAKING: PRODUCTIVE SKILLS (At a glance on this page)
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      • WRITING (PRACTICE AND ASSESSMENT)
      • TYPES OF WRITTEN TEXTS
    • SPEAKING >
      • ORAL PRACTICE
      • ORAL ASSESSMENT
      • PHONETICS AND PRONUNCIATION (production)
  • LISTENING AND READING: RECEPTIVE SKILLS (At a glance on this page)
    • LISTENING >
      • LISTENING ACTIVITIES
      • LISTENING BY LEVELS
      • PHONETICS AND PRONUNCIATION
      • SONGS
      • VIDEOS
    • READING >
      • READ OR LISTEN AND READ ALONG
      • READERS
  • INTEGRATED SKILLS
    • LIST OF 4 SKILLS WEBLINKS
  • EXAMS (CERTIFICACIÓN)

LITERATURE

Get information on reading and listening literature in English. Find suggestions to read and download  on http://www.povalyaev.com/WorkAudioBook/Where-to-get-audiobooks.aspx?tag=windows or choose from the audiobooks websites below:

HAVE FUN!

7 SITES TO GET FREE BOOKS ONLINE

BY LEARN ENGLISH TEAM
7 SITES TO GET FREE BOOKS ONLINE

10 SITES FOR EXTENSIVE READING

BY ONTHESAMEPAGE.ELT
10 SITES FOR EXTENSIVE READING

DRAMAS FROM BBC LEARNING ENGLISH

BBC LEARNING ENGLISH DRAMAS

Saber Inglés

SABER INGLES

Loyal Books

LOYAL BOOKS

Librivox

Free public domain audiobooks
Project to create audiobooks in many languages.
LIBRIVOX

Free classic ebooks

free classic ebooks

EFL Short Stories

Short stories for EFL learners by Scott Lauder and Walter MacGregor. EFL Short Stories
EFL short stories

Open Culture: 900 Free audiobooks

224 sites for free audiobooks online

gizmo´s freeware
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ESL-Bits

Find audiobooks and more...
ESL BITS

Short stories

Short stories in English and German via WhatsApp. Sing up below
STORY CORNER
KINDLES
You can get lots of free books in your language on Amozon.com and Kindle free books. You will also need an app to make it work with your favourite device. Unfortunately, if you want to get books in English you will need a British address,

TEXT TO SPEECH

YAKiToMe converts text to speech for free. Convert text to speech and listen to
the resulting audio podcast.

READING PRACTICE with QUESTIONS

Find websites to practise you reading skills here.
English for everyone
On this website you will find reading comprehension worksheets for all levels with answers http://englishforeveryone.org/Topics/Reading-Comprehension.htm

Saber Inglés.

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On this website you can practise your reading skills with a variety of texts, some of them with audio:
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/reading/index.html

Get some links from Monica Redondo's wikispace: http://eoienglishcorner.wikispaces.com/Reading
Get more practice by levels on  (A1-B2) British Council. Choose either Reading Skills Practice 1 or 2

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Advanced Reading. Links. Copy and paste on your browser

http://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/advanced.html
http://englishteststore.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=236&Itemid=286
http://www.infosquares.com/readingcomprehension/
By types of exercises: http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/reading-advanced.php

READING EXAM TIPS

Tips and Advice on reading exams by the British Council
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READING FOR PLEASURE

Intercultural Approach

Speaking in Silver and From lost to the River

​ebook: The Xenophobe's Guide to the Spanish by Drew Launey
xenophobe´s guide to the spanish
What you don't have to do in an oral exam. Do not use literal expressions from one language into another. They are fun but not English language.
For some examples on this, you can read on or during summer holidays 2 books by F. Lopez Socasau and Ochoa Speaking in Silver and From lost to the River. Not advisable before an oral exam.
Read some examples of these expressions below:
http://perso.wanadoo.es/jcfs/ingles.htm
From lost to the river: http://www.calameo.com/books/00000574265285d589577
If you want to know how British people see themselves, you should read `How to be an alien' by George Mikes. It is available in our classroom library for pre-intermediate students or you can read it on http://f2.org/humour/howalien.html as well. You'll find out that talking about the weather is their favourite topic, they love tea, queuing, and so on.
But if you want to read a Xenophobe's guide to the Spanish, to know about what  they think Spanish people are, visit http://www.ovalbooks.com/xeno/Spanish.html
To read the first ten pages or for the final part of  the book visit google books: http://books.google.es/books?id=A8FDivKJNK8C&pg=PA49&hl=es&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

English Postcards

You can find a good catalogue of postcards explaining Bristish manners here: http://www.lgpcards.com/cards-1.html.

Read about other topics

BBC FOCUS MAGAZINE

http://sciencefocus.com This magazine could be considered the equivalent to Muy Interesante in Spain. On their website you can find texts, podcasts and videos related to the topics the magazine deals with. The site is very interesting for teachers because it suggests lots of  websites teaching courses on Science, Geography, Photography, Astronomy, Physics, Environmental Management and so on. Courses: http://www.sciencefocus.com/directory?tid_1%5B%5D=1198
You can also suscribe and receive the actual magazine. Subscription: http://sciencefocus.com/subscribe

MOLVANIA ON JETLAGTRAVEL

This is a very interesting website on which you can visit some imaginary places such as Molvania, San Sombrero, or Phaic Tan and learn about their people, customs, music, political structure and so on. Click below
JET LAG TRAVEL
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