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A useful site that follows the format of the ship or sheep book which aims to give practice with minimal pairs. Scroll over minimal pairs to hear the difference.

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Make your own short movie with a text dialogue. The site is useful for practicing a dialogue roleplay.

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Listen to spoken English for different grammar areas such as using contraction (I'm, he's, they're etc), passive forms and question forms.

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As well as the grammar and vocabulary exercises for the whole Headway coursebook series, there is an Everyday English dialogues section. Students can listen to a conversation and see the tapescript at the same time,

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There are interactive and downloadable activities and materials which can be used for student self-study or for teachers to use with lower-intermediate students.

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This site looks at pronunciation, especially intonation, at different levels, from individual tone-units to discourse-level features.

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This site focuses on the English language: English activities, the culture and history of English-speaking countries and english-speaking friends around the world.

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This is the website for a BBC Radio 4 programme which looks back at the development of the English language. There are lots of interesting sections on how English is changing, the future of different English accents, how spoken English spread around the world and the origin of some English words.

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The Vowel Machine is a program designed to help learners to recognise English vowel sounds. Click the SPIN button, three words appear but only one of the words is heard.

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