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Stories
Do you love stories? Find short easy stories to watch and listen to, and longer stories for you to read. There are stories for your little brother and sister too!
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FAIRY TALES Fairy tales are traditional stories. Read and listen to three fairy tales, and find lots of activities to do. |
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Add comment April 13, 2008
Reading
Reading Test
Check how well you understand written English with this online test.
English Proverbs
Here are some traditional sayings that are well known to English-speakers. Some of them come from other languages, but they are frequently used in English.
News
Read the latest stories in English direct from newspapers and magazines around the world.
Creative Writing Forum
Read what other English learners are writing, or add your own text for others to read.
This English Prepositions List is a list of all English prepositions, showing them in context with example sentences. Multiple question quizzes help you check your understanding, and illustrations clarify meaning.
- 150 English prepositions including
- 94 one-word prepositions
- 56 complex prepositions
- 370 example sentences
- 200 quiz questions and answers
- illustrated
Add comment April 8, 2008
English Reading
Welcome to EnglishClub.com English Reading for ESL learners. This is where you’ll find help to improve your reading skills.
Reading is the 3rd of the four language skills:
- Listening
- Speaking
- Reading
- Writing
Classic English Reading
Here are some short, famous texts to read in English from classic sources like the Bible or Shakespeare. There are word definitions and explanations to help you.
English Short Stories
Including…
The Winepress
Upper-Intermediate
1500 words (British English)
Vocabulary | Vocabulary Quiz | Comprehension Quiz
This short story is set in Madagascar and France. It tells about wine and love – and hate. And about a winepress, the machine used to press the grapes from which wine is made.
The Chapel
Advanced
3000 words (British English)
Vocabulary | Vocabulary Quiz | Comprehension Quiz
The background to this short story is the tropical island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. This is a story of quick lust and long revenge – with an ironical twist at the end.
The Métro
Advanced
7000 words (British English)
Vocabulary | Vocabulary Quiz | Comprehension Quiz
This short story is set in Paris. This is a story of love and murder, and a little voodoo.
Authors
Short biographies of some of the authors who appear on these pages.
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The English Alphabet
How to recognize English letters Aa to Zz.
Add comment April 8, 2008
Reading Aloud
Anthony Sloan, British Council, Warsaw
These activities describe different ways you and your students can read text aloud in order to develop your students’ feeling for the music of the language.
- Not only individual sounds, but the way words connect, intonation and rhythm are all important in coming across as an effective, natural-sounding speaker of English. It can be helpful for students to have practice in stretching speech, in playing with it, in exaggerating to help them overcome shyness. You can help in this regard by playing with the language yourself, by making fun of it, by putting on different accents, etc, and by encouraging your students to do the same.
- Having a small piece of text which students are familiar with gives them a secure footing from which to jump in different directions.
Activities you can try
Begin with any text that you have already been looking at for some other purpose. Choose any of the following ways to play with it:
- Students read the text out in turns, each person reading just 2 words, or 1 word, at a time. The idea is to try to get the passage to flow smoothly and with proper intonation.
- One person reads aloud, and another acts as conductor. Arms up means loud, arms down means soft. Or arms left means slow, arms right means fast. Or, the conductor can conduct a choral reading of the passage.
- You mime an action from the text. Students respond with the corresponding sentence.
- Students sing the text to a well-known melody. They have to try to fit the words to the music.
- You write on the board or clap out the stress pattern of a phrase from the text. Students try to read out the appropriate phrase, or any phrase which fits. For example: Ba BA ba-da BA = ‘a phrase from the text’.
- Students compete to see who can read a passage the fastest – without any mistakes.
- For comprehension, one students reads, another translates into the mother tongue.
- Students read according to an adverb, which other students can suggest, such as ‘nervously’, ’sadly’, ‘angrily’ etc.
Add comment February 28, 2008
Reading activities
Practical activities to help students with reading.
Latest Reading Activity
Newspaper reading activities
Kate Joyce, British Council
Newspapers are a useful tool in the ELT classroom for improving reading skills and enhancing students’ knowledge of current affairs. There is a danger of putting students off reading newspapers if articles are used in the same way as course books, with tedious comprehension activities. If used in a more inspiring way, newspapers can help students to develop not only reading skills but also writing, grammar, vocabulary and speaking skills. Below are some tips and activities which I believe can help.
Other Reading Activities
Add comment February 28, 2008
