MEET THE KT TEACHERS

Watch these short videos and learn a bit about our teachers. And then subscribe to our YouTube channel “Keep Talking Udine”!

Alan

Emma

Kip 

Tom

DICTIONARIES / VOCABULARY

• dictionary.cambridge.org
  Great online monolingual/bilingual dictionary with British and American English audio files
• dictionary.reverso.net/italian-english
  The famous Collins English-Italian/Italian-English dictionary
• www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms
  Comprehensive list of English idioms and much else beside
• www.etymonline.com
  If you’re interested in the origin of words

EXAMS

• www.cambridgeenglish.org
  A guide to the Cambridge suite of exams
• www.ielts.org
  All the information you need on the IELTS exam.

LANGUAGE PRACTICE

• www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish
  A wonderful site with lots of information, exercises, games, tests, etc. for young learners, adults and professionals.
• www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish
  Everything for the language learner

LISTENING/RADIO

• www.bbc.co.uk/radio
  For plenty of authentic listening, live or in daily podcast form
• www.guardian.co.uk/audio
  Several daily podcasts on a variety of topics in the news
• www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-podcasts.htm
  Large selection of regularly updated podcasts, including material for elementary learners
• www.lyricstraining.com
  Great site where you can practise listening to songs and completing the lyrics.
• www.ted.com
  Wonderful site where you can watch some fascinating talks from excellent speakers on a wide variety of topics, from technology to design, from entertainment to medicine, and from business to global issues

NEWS

• www.bbc.co.uk
  One of the world’s great websites and not only for news
• www.economist.com
  A great weekly news magazine, and not only economics. The free version gives you access to a limited number of articles (+ audio) per month.
• www.guardian.co.uk
  A really intelligent and beautifully designed newspaper site
• www.iht.com
  The American angle – the international version of the famous US daily Herald Tribune. It’s behind a paywall but doesn’t cost much.
• www.newscientist.com
  What’s going on in the world of science
• www.thelocal.it
  The Local gives the latest news on Italy and the Italians in English. There are also editions for several other European countries.

SHOPPING FOR BOOKS

• www.amazon.it
  Amazon? What a surprise! They also have lots of English language books for your Kindle.

TOURISM

• www.visitbritain.com
  Britain’s official travel and tourism guide
• www.visitlondon.com
  A complete introduction to this wonderful city
• www.timeout.com/london
  The guide to what’s on in London and many other capitals

TRANSLATION

• www.deepl.com
  Not perfect but the best (free) machine translations around.

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST …

• www.chelseafc.com
  Obviously.