1. Websites

HERE ARE SOME WEBSITES THAT CAN GIVE YOU MORE PRACTICE.

I want you to have the chance to study your English skills as much as possible at home. In addition to the work that I have given you to do in your textbook, I am sending you web links to some websites that can give you more practice:

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1) This first one is a website that you can can use to read, listen to, and, I hope, watch on video. I will give you a handout in class to show you how to use this website, developed by the California Distant Learning Project:

http://www.cdlponline.org/

2) This second one, developed by the University of Victoria English Language Centre, is a website that has many grammar exercises that support what we’re studying in class:

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/index.htm

3) The third one is a kind of listening game, like a television quiz show. You get to listen to several little informational clips, and then you are tested on what you heard:

http://lingual.net/game/listening-master/

4) The fourth one is called Story Corps. This is a large collection of interesting stories about American people and their lives. The stories are all short, and they true. There is no written transcript of what the people are saying, but they are short, so you can easily play them again and again.

http://storycorps.org/listen/

5) The fifth one presents animated versions of some of the Story Corps Stories.

http://storycorps.org/animation/

6) The sixth website is supposed to help children learn to read in English, so you can sit and practice these exercises with your children, but they are fun and interesting enough that you can enjoy them and learn from them, too.

http://www.starfall.com/

You should be able to just click on the weblinks above to get into the websites.

Good luck! Let me know how helpful these websites are.