Practising for reading exams

Here you have some cloze tests to work with:

• http://englishlearner.com/intermediate/cloze-1.shtml
• http://englishlearner.com/intermediate/tywyn.shtml

For the exercise of True and False you have this one:

• http://englishlearner.com/intermediate/intermediate-reading-test-1.shtml

To practise with reading tests in general here you have a page with graded exercises:

• http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/marketing/sfesl/practicereading.html : the first levels are quite basic; it has answer key
• http://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/: with on line exercise and 3 levels (beginner, intermediate and advance) with the key

Improving your speaking

To improve the way you speak you should practise as much as possible but we can't count on native speakers to work with so try to do it with your mates, friends and so on. The other way is to practise on your own; in that case use a recorder and speak for at least 3 minutes about the topic. Once you've finished, listen to what you've just done and then correct your performance by yourself: entonation, speed, blanks, vocabuary, structures, richeness and variety and so on.

• http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/discuss.html : different topics with exercises
• https://sites.google.com/site/speakingactivities/intermediate: another webpage to practise speaking

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