Useful links

Here is a list of links that you may find useful for further English studies


A. GENERAL PORTALS WITH ALL KINDS OF CONTENT

News based
BBC Learning English http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

General
British Council LearnEnglish http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org

Learning English through football
British Council Premier Skills http://premierskills.britishcouncil.org/

Learning English through Olympic Games
British Council English for the games http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-for-the-games

Weekly links and thoughts on English from (my) Estonian perspective :)
Estonian English Learners FB page https://www.facebook.com/estonian.english.learners


B. VIDEOS

All kinds of topics through presentations on stage
TED http://www.ted.com/

All kinds of topics through animations + audio
RSA Animate http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/videos/


C. DICTIONARIES (AND MORE!)

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/

3,000 most frequent words http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/oxford3000/ (you can download the full list at http://englishforme.weebly.com/uploads/5/0/8/8/5088721/the_oxford_3000.pdf for example)

There is also a good list of "academic“ words, which are also useful to know http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/academic/

Macmillan Dictionary http://www.macmillandictionary.com/
See also other content they produce – there are lots of interesting things!

A decent Estonian-English-Estonian dictionary online
Nastik http://www.tps.edu.ee/nastik/

Confusing words http://www.confusingwords.com/

Rhyming words http://www.rhymer.com/index.html

Synonyms http://www.synonyms.net/

Slang dictionary http://onlineslangdictionary.com/

History of words http://www.etymonline.com/


D. PLAYING WITH WORDS

Free Rice http://www.freerice.com/

Knoword http://www.knoword.org/

Test the size of your vocabulary http://www.testyourvocab.com/

Make your own word flashcards and play games based on them
Quizlet http://quizlet.com/


E. GRAMMAR THEORY AND EXERCISES

Articles on different topics related to English grammar
English Grammar http://www.englishgrammar.org/

English grammar (not only!) video lessons http://www.engvid.com/topic/grammar/

The following two may look somewhat messy, but can give you lots of answers and exercises:

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