Holidays

Plan your holiday. You will need to:

• choose your destination
• think about the weather
• find a hotel
• decide on a budget
• get a flight

To get this information go here

Lonely Planet

Pronunciation practice

Here is a really cool site for pronunciation practice - English Central. What you do is watch a video and then record yourself saying the same words as the video. If you make a mistake, it will correct you.

English Central

You need good headphones for this to work.

Reading Practice

If you want some excellent reading practice, you can go to this university site where they have reading exercises at your level. They are really good because you get exercises to do before and after you read:

Reading exercises

IELTS speaking

To help you with IELTS speaking, here are some videos of people doing the speaking test. As you watch notice:

1. how the speakers extend their answers and do not give very short answers
2. they answer the questions by using words from the question

IELTS speaking videos

Cool pictures

Time pictures of the year.

Take a look at these pictures from 2009. which is your favourite and why?

Reading practice

If you want to practise your reading here's a great site

ESL Bits

It's particularly good because there are lots of different reading passages that you can read in different ways.

You can then test how well read with this programme: it's really good for your grammar

cloze maker

Crosswords - make your own

Here's the idea, you go to Puzzlemaker. What you are going to do is make your own crossword using the words we have learned in class.

It'sreally quite easy: go to Criss-Cross
Create your own
Name your puzzle
Enter the words
Space
Add the clues

Print off and then test each other.