Grammar
- A British Perspective On Further Or Farther
The question of further vs farther is a popular topic on grammar websites and has been discussed often enough on sites like GrammarGirl, so why should it need anything more said about it? Because firstly, nearly all these websites are American,...
- Random Quiz - Articles
Practise your articles with these short texts. Even advanced students can have problems with English articles, especially if their own language, like Polish for example, doesn't have them. When you press Start quiz, the program will show...
- Political Vocabulary On Youtube From The Uk Parliament's User Channel
The UK parliament has its own YouTube channel. Perhaps of most interest to advanced learners is this series of short educational videos. These are, I imagine, aimed at young people in Britain, but they have subtitles and are quite light-hearted, so...
- Merriam-webster On Youtube
For queries about British English usage, my first port of call is usually Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, but I'm increasingly becoming a fan of the American Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. I especially like their Top Ten Words features...
- Some Random August Ramblings
In Britain, August is known in the media world as the silly season. Politicians and business people etc are away on holiday, but journalists still have to find something to write about. The result is that newspapers are full of silly stories which wouldn't...
Grammar
More goodies from Merriam-Webster
As well as being a dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online has several resources that could be useful to advanced learners,
including a new Top Ten Words
Easily confused words
These are the subject of Merriam-Webster's latest Top Ten Words, which you can find here, with pairings such as desert and dessert. And remember this is a dictionary aimed at native speakers, some of whom are probably more confused than you are.
Random quiz - Confusing words
This gives me the opportunity to plug my own quiz of
confusing words - which includes most of those from the M-W list, and much, much more. At the moment there are 40 questions which you can do in random batches of ten. It's my aim to build this up to about a hundred questions.
Other goodies at Merriam-Webster
While poking around on Merriam-Webster I also found these resources:
Most popular words
This page lists the 25 most looked-up words of the past 24 hours, the past week, and the past four months. Most of them seem to be medium difficult to difficult, without being impossible. I think this could be an excellent vocabulary source for advanced students.
Popular words
Trend watch
This features words that have been used a lot recently in the media, and tends to reflect current affairs and events in the United States - again a good vocabulary resource.
Trend watch
Videos
And don't forget their videos, which I blogged about quite recently here.
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- A British Perspective On Further Or Farther
The question of further vs farther is a popular topic on grammar websites and has been discussed often enough on sites like GrammarGirl, so why should it need anything more said about it? Because firstly, nearly all these websites are American,...
- Random Quiz - Articles
Practise your articles with these short texts. Even advanced students can have problems with English articles, especially if their own language, like Polish for example, doesn't have them. When you press Start quiz, the program will show...
- Political Vocabulary On Youtube From The Uk Parliament's User Channel
The UK parliament has its own YouTube channel. Perhaps of most interest to advanced learners is this series of short educational videos. These are, I imagine, aimed at young people in Britain, but they have subtitles and are quite light-hearted, so...
- Merriam-webster On Youtube
For queries about British English usage, my first port of call is usually Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, but I'm increasingly becoming a fan of the American Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. I especially like their Top Ten Words features...
- Some Random August Ramblings
In Britain, August is known in the media world as the silly season. Politicians and business people etc are away on holiday, but journalists still have to find something to write about. The result is that newspapers are full of silly stories which wouldn't...