Improving your writing

Here you have some links to improve your writing. The most typical mistakes are connected to spelling, structures and even the lay-out:

• http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/easywriter3e/20errors/: a bit difficult because it's for anglosaxon speakers (American English)
• http://my.ilstu.edu/~jhkahn/writing.html: a list with common mistakes
• http://www.soyouwanna.com/soyouwanna-avoid-common-writing-errors-1591-full.html : a long article but quite interesting
• http://www.westminster.edu/staff/brennie/writerro.htm: this is aimed to help people or students at university to avoid common mistakes when wrting essays or formal papers.
• http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/CommonErrors.html : a bit more the same

A video about pronunciation

In this domestic video you can see a girl who "teaches" tyou haow to sound British. Quite interesting but a bit long but it deals wth the principal differences comparing English accents. Go to this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI2m1CXCwQY&feature=g-vrec

Preparing the certificate exmans

Here you have all the sites you can use to prepare the exams. You should look for the language and your level within the page. I hope this will help you a little:

• Comunidad de Aragón: http://www.educaragon.org/arboles/arbol.asp?sepRuta=Sistema+Educativo%2F%3Ca+href%3D'%2Feducacion_no_uni.asp'%3EEnse%F1anza+no+Universitaria%3C%2Fa%3E%2F&guiaeducativa=&strSeccion=PPI02&titpadre=R%E9gimen+especial&arrpadres=$Ense%F1anzas+de+Idiomas&arrides=$113&arridesvin=$&lngArbol=1786&lngArbolvinculado
• Comunidad de Cantabria:: http://www.educantabria.es/ensenanzas_de_regimen_especial/ensenanzas_de_regimen_especial/ensenanzas-de-idiomas/pruebas-cer-idiomas-09-10

• Comunidad de Murcia:  http://www.educarm.es/admin/webForm.php?ar=637&mode=visualizaAplicacionWeb&aplicacion=ARTISTICAS_IDIOMAS&web=92&zona=PROFESORES&menuSeleccionado=
• Euskadi/País Vasco:  http://www.eoieuskadi.net/es/pcertificacion.php?pag=modelos
• Comunidad Valenciana:  http://www.eoivalencia.es/es/ultima-convocatoria.html  
• Comunidad de Catalunya/Cataluña: http://www20.gencat.cat/portal/site/ensenyament/menuitem.a735c8413184c341c65d3082b0c0e1a0/?vgnextoid=141a850c295c3310VgnVCM2000009b0c1e0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=141a850
• Comunidad de Navarra: http://irati.pnte.cfnavarra.es/einadisw/examenes.php?conte=exmodelosin&ver=2%20(ingl%C3%A9s) 
• Comunbidad de Castilla-La Mancha:  http://www.educa.jccm.es/educa-jccm/cm/educa_jccm/tkContent?idContent=60113&locale=es_ES&textOnly=false 
• Comunidad de Galicia:   http://www.eoidevigo.org/images/stories/certificacion/2011-2012/probas_eeooii.pdf
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Web pages for learning or practising English

The following are some websites that may help you with your process of learning English in a more autonomous manner. I found them at EOI Salamanca and I think they could be useful for you. Let me encourage to check them out in order to see which ones are best for you, althoygh there are many you've already known because we've use them in class or on the blog.
National Public Radio (US) http://www.npr.org
BBC (UK) http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml
CBC (Canada) http://www.cbc.ca
Dave’s ESL Café http://eslcafe.com/
English for Internet  http://www.study.com/
The Internet Public Library http://ipl.org/
Grammar and Writing http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Agenda Web http://www.agendaweb.org
English at Home http://www.english-at-home.com
E.L. Easton’s Page http://eleaston.com
Learn English – British Council http://britishcouncil.org/learnenglish
BBC Skills Wise http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise
Curso inglés http://www.curso-ingles.com
World English  http://www.world-english.org
English learner http://www.englishlearner.com
Auto English http://autoenglish.org
English exercises online http://www.smic.be/smic5022
Vaughan radio station http://www.vaughanradio.com
Online dictionary http://www.wordreference.com
Videos and games http://www.eslvideo.com
Others:
http://www.learning.english.com
http://better-english.com
http://manythings.org
http://mansioningles.com
http://englishclub.com
http://a4esl.org
http://englishaquarium
http://letssingit.com
http://www.stuff.co.uk/english.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com

Revision of prepositions + ---ing form

Here you have some exercises to work with preposition  + -ing form:

• http://www.world-english.org/gerundprep.htm
• http://www.tolearnenglish.com/cgi2/myexam/voir2r.php?id=82507
• http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/gerund3b.html : here you can find two forms which are usual
• by + ---ing (means or method to do something)
• for+ ---ing (a kind of purpose clause)

If you want to revise more prepositions, go to these links which work on adjective + preposition:

• http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/adjectives-and-prepositions-exercise-1.html
• http://www.english-4u.de/adj_prep.html : here you have a list and exercises at the bottom
• http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/adjprep2.htm

Official exams in Asturias

These are the certificate exams of Asturias. Have a look and try to practise with them but remember they could be differente from the ones we've got in Madrid.

• http://www.educastur.es/media/publicaciones/apoyo/innovacion/modelos_pruebas_eoi.pdf : this is the link for the exam paper but all the languages and the levels are here so you should look for your intermediate level (if you feel confident, have a try with the advance)
• http://www.educastur.es/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2708&Itemid=54: this is the previous page of the above one but there, at the end, you can unload the audios.

Relative clauses

It's very important for intermediate students to use relative clauses properly so here you have some links to help you to revise this grammar point. You can go to:

• http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses : a complete explanation with a test at the end to check your knowledge on the topic.
• http://www.slideshare.net/carolinarovira/relative-clauses-2992234: a very clear and short presentation about relative clauses, including examples and some exercises
• http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/who-versus-whom.aspx: this is a listening about the difference between who and whom, but the wxplanation is there as well.
• http://www.agendaweb.org/grammar/relative_pronouns_clauses-exercises.html: here you can find a huge amount of exercises to work with relatives. Have a look but you should pay attention to the level. You'd better try the last ones.

See you in class