This post offers you a selection of recommended free online exercises, games, videos and resources so that you can improve your English language skills while having fun! ENJOY!
πREADING PICKS – Articles, blog posts, quizzes and more:
Article from BBC news: How it feels to have many personalities
Severe trauma can cause a unique kind of mental breakdown - dissociative identity disorder (DID), which creates multiple personalities. What is it like trying to live with this condition? (Continue reading)
Severe trauma can cause a unique kind of mental breakdown - dissociative identity disorder (DID), which creates multiple personalities. What is it like trying to live with this condition? (Continue reading)
Article from Mind Tools: Active Listening: Hear What People are Really Saying
Listening is one of the most important skills you can have. How well you listen has a major impact on the quality of your relationships with others.
Listening is one of the most important skills you can have. How well you listen has a major impact on the quality of your relationships with others.
π¬ VIDEO PICKS – Short and fun videos:
LESS-THAN-5-MINUTE VIDEOS
- Active Listening (1:46 minutes)
- Improve Your Listening Skills with Active Listening (2:39 minutes)
- 6 Tips for Active Listening #LittleThings (2:13 minutes)
- Learn English Grammar: EACH OTHER & ONE ANOTHER (4:59 minutes) ⇒ Then, you can take a free quiz HERE
- WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson (4:06 minutes)
- BrenΓ© Brown on Empathy (2:53 minutes)
- BrenΓ© Brown on Blame (3:25 minutes)
- The Reframing Matrix: Put Your Problem Into Perspective (2:41 minutes. This may be applied not only to professional but also to personal problems. Link to the article)
- Matthew Taylor on The Power to Create (4:15 minutes)
- The Future of Learning (7:49 minutes)
- RSA ANIMATE: Re-Imagining Work (9:05 minutes)
- Grammar: How to use IF & WHETHER properly (6:57 minutes) ⇒ Then, take a free quiz HERE
- Learn 6 Body Idioms in English: get cold feet, play by ear... (6:26 minutes) ⇒ Then, take a free quiz HERE
- Learn English Grammar: How to use SO and SO THAT (11:50 minutes) ⇒ Then, take a free quiz HERE
π¬ VOCABULARY PICKS – Confusing words:
- big, great, high, large or tall – Exercise
- Confusing Pairs of Words Exercise (You can play this game several times, and you’ll get different sentences)
- Compounds in English – Exercise
- card, map, menu or ticket – Exercise
- country or land – Exercise
- do, have, make or take – Exercise
- Make or do?
- Clothing Idioms Quiz
- Gerund after prepositions – Exercise 1
- Gerund after prepositions – Exercise 2
- Gerund after prepositions – Exercise 3
- Gerund after prepositions – Exercise 4
- Verbs + prepositions exercise 1
- Verbs + prepositions exercise 2
- Adjectives + prepositions exercise 1
- Mixed Conditionals
- Conditional sentences type (Mixed)
MORE PICKS NEXT WEEK!