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Sally Teacher

Each week at Languagelab we will review one good English practice website that may complement your English studies with us. Each review will focus on two questions.

What are the key features of the site?
How can Languagelab students benefit from this site?

This week’s English practice website is www.englishpage.com

What are the key features of this site?

The weekly lesson – just as the name suggests this link will take you to a mini tutorial with exercises on a grammar topic that changes every week.
The grammar book – an interactive grammar book. Click on this link for an alphabetically ordered index of grammar topics. Choose a grammar topic and you will find links to tutorials and practice exercises.
Vocabulary – follow this link to find vocabulary lists grouped by topic. Each topic contains a list of words and their definitions as well as some exercises you can do to help you use the vocabulary.
The English reading room – this page offers a comprehensive selection of English reading materials. You can choose from a selection of newspapers, magazines, books and reference books.
The Listening Lounge – a collection of online English listening resources. It includes radio stations as well as links to the latest stories about your favourite topics.
Irregular verbs – an index of the most commonly used irregular verbs. Click on a word to get links to dictionaries which describe its meaning.

How can Languagelab students benefit from this site?

The weekly lesson – make a commitment to check this link once a week. Read the tutorials and try the practice exercises. Bring any of your doubts or questions to the Grammar House.
The grammar book – go to the page and look at the topics. Do you see something that you have always wanted to know? This is your opportunity to learn more. Do the tutorials and practice questions and as always, bring your doubts and questions to the Grammar House for supplementary live explanations.
Vocabulary – Choose a topic and study the words. Do the practice exercises immediately. Come back the next day and try doing the practice exercises without studying the word list. How many did you remember? Keep coming back every few days until you can complete the exercises with ease. When you are confident that you know all the words try to expand your vocabulary even further by creating lists of synonyms and antonyms.
The English reading room – find a newspaper that you like and read a little everyday. Select stories that interest you to bring into Languagelab and discuss with our very own journalist Lane Jarman. Or find a short story from one of the many free online novels and ask Millie Eames to use it for one of her book club discussions.
The listening lounge – find a radio station that you like and have it on in the background while you are at home. Listening to English everyday will help you to expand your vocabulary and maybe even improve your pronunciation. Warning! Listening to online radio can use up a lot of bandwidth. Make sure that you check your download allowances before listening to internet radio.
Irregular verbs – choose seven verbs per week from the list (one for each day) and memorize both their simple past and past participle forms. Or pick one of the five irregular verb sets of flashcards and spend five minutes a day practicing the set until you know it off by heart.