I'd like to start writing the first post of the academic year, recommending you some websites you can try and visit to keep your English up to date.
For all of those who want to practice their reading skills here are links to some newspapers and magazines you may find interesting:
And, more related to business:
The Economist: the premier online source for the analysis of world business and current affairs, providing authoritative insight and opinion on international news, world politics, business, finance, science and technology, as well as overviews of cultural trends and regular industry, business and country special reports.
Fortune: a global business magazine published by Time's Inc. Fortune/Money Group.
Some reading comprehension practice:
Business Reading Comprehension Exercises: Business reading comprehension exercises for business English classes and students. Each reading comprehension includes follow up.
As for
listening practice , here's a list of websites to help you improve your listening skills:
La mansión del inglés: Listening practise in three levels (basic, intermediate and advance). Your level is probably intermediate, although some of the easy level could also be suitable.
About.com: English listening skills for intermediate learners It includes English online exercises with dialogues and quizzes.
EFL.Net: Here you will find a growing number of interesting articles on all kinds of subjects, all of them with audio support.
Regarding listening resources related to business, you can use:
Business listening and dictations: Listening exercises and dictations for various business English purposes including marketing, health care, wholesale and retail financial services.
Or:
Regarding
writing skills , a good website with all level exercises and examples is:
You can also visit the following blog on 'writing':
And apart from checking those websites, you could also start a journal in English or even a blog yourself! (Try
blogger). If you write on a regular basis, you'll need to use a dictionary and thus will learn new things everyday.
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As to speaking practice , here's a list of useful website:
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Speaking Practice Online for English Learners: This resource includes practice speaking dialogues. Each dialogue includes a number of questions and appropriate pauses between each question giving you time to answer. The purpose of these exercises is to help students practice speaking English through the internet. Each dialogue includes questions in a number of tenses, so listen carefully to the tense and answer using an appropriate sentence.
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Tong twisters: Tongue Twisters are lots of fun (and difficult). They often don't make much sense, but they certainly exercise your pronunciation muscles.
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BBC Learning English: The BBC has videos to practise individual sounds, similar sounds, podcasts, etc.
Finally, you can get interesting websites and exercises on language in Business English:
Additionally, you can try karaoke. Why don't you try singing your favourite songs (if you don't know its lyrics you can look for them in the Internet?)
I think that covers a great deal of aspects for keeping your English 'kick and alive'. I hope you enjoy these resources.
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