Best websites to pratice your English (EFL)

Best websites to pratice your English (EFL)

Hello!

I would like to share some websites that you will find useful to study or practice your English.

• Dictionary: https://www.wordreference.com/
• Games, videos and books: https://www.funbrain.com/
• Different resources and fun activities: https://www.highlightskids.com/
• Literacy activities: http://literactive.com/Home/index.asp
• Literacy computer activities in different languages (Kindergarten level): http://www.literacycenter.net/
• Online library with free books: http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

Hope you like all or some of them and have fun with them.
Do you use other websites? Which are your favourite? 

Phrasal Verbs - Prezi

Wake me up - Gap-fill exercise

Wake me up

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

1. Fill in the gaps with the words or expressions in the box.
Some are used more than once.
older / young / chance / fine / lost / weight / darkness / caught / journey / forever / wiser / prize / close



Feeling my way through the
Guided by a beating heart
I can’t tell where the will end
But I know where to start

They tell me I’m too to understand
They say I’m up in a dream
Well life will pass me by if I don’t open up my eyes
Well, that’s by me

[2x]
So wake me up when it’s all over
When I’m and I’m
All this time I was finding myself
And I didn’t know I was

I tried carrying the of the world
But I only have two hands
Hope I get the to travel the world
But I don’t have any plans

Wish that I could stay this young
Not afraid to my eyes
Life’s a game made for everyone
And love is the

[2x]
So wake me up when it’s all over
When I’m and I’m
All this time I was finding myself
And I didn’t know I was

I didn't Know I was lost
I didn't Know I was lost
I didn't Know I was lost
I didn't Know I was lost

Listening

Não perceber tudo o que se ouve nas músicas e nos filmes é perfeitamente compreensível. 

Tal pode se dever à velocidade a que falam e ao próprio som dos instrumentos em segundo plano. 

Para além disso é muito difícil dominarmos todas as particularidades do Inglês nas diferentes partes do mundo. 

Por exemplo, entre um filme americano e um britânico podes encontrar diferentes sotaques e diferentes palavras para a mesma coisa. 

Podes ver neste vídeo algumas dessas diferenças:

Poderemos também encontrar linguagem específica de um determinado grupo profissional ou sócio-cultural e alguma linguagem informal e até grosseira.
Nesta playlist encontras uma colecção de exemplos desse tipo de linguagem:
PLAYLIST

Para treinares o listening podes:

- fazer os exercícios dessa categoria online (Wake me up - Avicii)
- ouvir as tuas músicas e os filmes e tirar as tuas dúvidas com as letras e recorrendo a dicionários quando necessário.
- para além das músicas e filmes poderás também ouvir a podcasts e vídeos no youtube em inglês sobre temas que te interessem. Podes accionar as legendas no youtube em inglês para acompanhar o que dizem e existem também podcasts que fazem a transcrição de tudo o que foi dito.

Practice makes perfect! 

Por isso continua o teu interesse e trabalho e verás que aos poucos irás obter resultados.

Bom trabalho.

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English is the world’s most widely spoken language but is unusual in the fact that the vast majority of speakers are not ‘native’.

Of the approximately 1.5 billion people who speak English, less than 400 million use it as a first language. That means over 1 billion speak it as a secondary language.

Innovation and wealth

Better English in a country correlates with higher income, higher levels of innovation and a better quality of life

In nearly all countries surveyed, women had stronger English skills than men.




Originally published at www.weforum.org.