Email Writer is a new app for iPhone, iPad and Android which will allow you to select from thousands of sentence combinations so you can write your business emails quickly and easily. Sometimes you don’t want to look for the right preposition or expression when you’re in a hurry and this app will be a huge help in those situations. Watch the video to see how it works! The maker of the app also runs The Business English Blog with...
Ask a teacher
You’ve checked your dictionary and your grammar books and you still don’t know the best way to say something. Or maybe you know the “right” way to say something, but you want to know why it’s the “right” way. You might have problems with an idiom, slang or phrasal verbs; or you just want someone to check some sentences you’ve written. Here are two great forums where English teachers and native...
Elllo.org: short interviews with people from around the world
Elllo.org has a searchable database of hundreds of interviews with native and non-native English speakers from around the world with a short comprehension quiz at the end. Use the search box to find something that’s interesting to you! Some of the interviews have transcripts and some don’t.
Advanced reading activities from the Guardian
The Guardian is an excellent newspaper which is written at a high level. They also publish classroom material with reading and vocabulary activites for beginning and advanced students. Perfect if you want to do some practice exercises after reading, and they have an extremely wide range of topics to choose from.
Chat with other learners at English Club
English Club has lots of information, quizzes and guides to help you understand and practice English better. Their forums are a great place to chat with other learners about things that interest you.
Learn and laugh with the news
The English Blog is a great place to browse lots of news stories and videos with notes from an English teacher. He updates the site daily with relevant stories and interesting cartoons and videos that show real English in context. There really is a huge amount of material here (search the categories) as well as a lot of links to webistes for English Language Learners (ELL) and podcasts.