Tuesday 2 February 2010

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