If you want to improve your listening (and spelling) skills, try out this site: Listen and Write. They have taken media from a wide range of sources, found transcripts, and made them into dictation activities. This means that you can listen to (or watch, many of the sources are on youtube) a news report, an interview, a song, a film trailer or a TV show and then listen to it in “chapters” so you can focus on 5-10 seconds of text...
Test your vocabulary and donate to the UN World Food Programme
Freerice.com seems like a simple game: you just match the word you see with a synonym. But for every correct answer you get, the game gets harder. When you choose an incorrect answer, the game gets easier. The real challenge is trying to remember if the words are nouns, verbs or adjectives… it’s a lot harder than it seems! This is a good way to practice for Part 4 of the Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE). The game is run by the...
Test your pronunciation in this game
Here’s a silly game for you to try: http://easywaytest.com/ Just pronounce the word on the screen (into your microphone), if you do it correctly you’ll see the next part of the cartoon. The game understands the other things you say too, so be polite!