The aardvark
Learn 4 good
The Grammar Aquarium
Preposition exercises at Grammar Aquarium
Vocabulary (word) exercises
Online Grammar Exercises
Nonstop English
Englishclub.com
Selingua Online
Online exercises
sp spelling
w word (you have used the wrong word, or a word which means something else or can confuse in this context.)
wo word order (the words are in the wrong sequence)
t tense (the verb is incorrectly conjugated, or you have mixed tenses in the sentence)
id idiomatic expression (what you have written may not necessarily be grammatically incorrect, it's just not the way the phrase is used.)
You were also asked to analyse how many of each type of mistake you have made, so that you know which areas you need to prioritise when improving your writing.
If you have a more t errors than anything else, you need to practice your verbs, if you have more wo errors you need to improve your word order, etc, etc....
Listed above you wil find one entry per link to an online resource. Many of them are very similar, but they should all be able to help you in different ways. Try the ones which seem to be relevant to your issues and then please comment back here on the relevant entry in the blog so that your classmates will know what you recommend. Remeber that I will delete any silly comments or any which contain inappropriate language.
What will you find here?
Good question!
My hope is that we will be able to use this blog to give you material and links to material which will help you develop your skills in English. I will be putting a lot of links here which may be relevant to work you are doing, for example to newspapers, radio stations, television channels, other people's web-sites etc. The idea is that you can find sources of information and media here which might be of use to you, which we can't always access in the classroom.
I admit that I am very new to blogs, so I hope that I will be able to learn and develop the uses for this blog quick enough to keep up with you all. I hope to be able to place links to pod-casts and other audio/visual files here soon, if any of you are better than me at this, I'll gladly accept help and advice!
Please remember that this blog is open to anyone who finds it and anyone at school who chooses to access it, therefore I expect all of us to respect each other equally as much here as we do face to face, and whilst I welcome any comments you have about the contents of this blog, I do not expect anyone to comment any individuals here. I also expect everyone to be honest about who has written a comment.
New teacher!
Hi!
I'm Jesper and I'm going to be teaching some of you English this term and perhaps longer. I'm 30+, I live in town and I have lived in England, in Newcastle to be more precise. I moved there when I was four and came back to Sweden when I was 25, having completed my entire school education, as well as a university degree in England. The degree was in Scandinavian Studies and German which I studied for four years at the University of Hull . I also spent a final fifth year there during which time I studied post-graduate courses in Applied Languages and New Technologies, although I chose not to complete the MA course dissertation.
Now, after having taught English and German at Nyhemsskolan for five years, I am at university again, Mälardalens Högskola completing my degree in teaching. As part of my course I have the pleasure of having Ellwynska skolan as my contact-school.
