ACV's Top Ten EFL On-line Resources

To compliment other top ten sections on the site, we recommend these ten links to practise your EFL skills using some of the outstanding online resources available for teachers and students.

• this site helps students check or clarify common errors and includes easily confused words such as affect/effect with examples of punctuation - http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors 

• a website for academic writing with a variety of useful sections for learners - http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm

• as well as writing there are also useful reading and vocabulary tips to be found here - http://www.uefap.com 

• for those working professionals a useful review with model examples of business correspondence -  

     http://esl.about.com/cs/onthejobenglish/a/a_basbletter.htm 

• for building business lexis and listening to current affairs or general English the BBC has an excellent learning zone -

           http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/

• if your working in IT or just enjoy using a computer this site has some great language and activities for you -

      http://wordwizard.com/indexresources.htm

• with a big Australian presence here in Vientiane, and the ABC network available through cable, it is worth checking out their excellent EFL support online  - http://australianetwork.com/learningenglish/

• of course for those engineers and staff working with Aussies it sometimes helps to be aware of “strine”, Australian slang -      http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html

• ever struggle with phrasal verbs? - this site has lots of useful guidelines to work through before you try its online exercises - http://english-zone.com/index.php?ID=52

   

• this site will help you read the IPA script used in monolingual dictionaries, and here on ACVientiane.com, while improving your awareness of speaking and listening skills - http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc.htm