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

• www.macmillandictionary.com
  Good online dictionary with British English audio files
• www.merriam-webster.com
  American dictionary, again with 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.learn-english-today.com/idioms
  Huge collection of idiomatic expressions arranged in categories
• www.etymonline.com
  If you’re interested in the origin of words
• www.itests.com
  A test to see which Cambridge exam you could do, plus some free practice tests

ENGLISH FILE 3RD EDITION TUTORIAL

• www.brainshark.com/oup/vu?pi=zGjz7h8UdzIJOgz0
  If you’re having difficulties with your English File Scuolabook materials, you might find this online tutorial useful.

EXAMS

• www.cambridgeesol.org/exams
  A guide to the Cambridge suite of exams
• www.toefl.org
  All the information you need on the TOEFL exam, your passport to studying/working in the States.

LANGUAGE PRACTICE

• www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish
  A wonderful site with lots of information, exercises, games, tests, etc. for young learners, adults and professionals. The tabs at the top will take you to the dedicated LearnEnglish, LearnEnglish Teens and LearnEnglish Kids sites.
• www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish
  Everything for the language learner
• www.englishclub.com
  A wide range of activities for learners
• elt.oup.com
  Lots of exercises link to Oxford University Press’s many courses
• www.better-english.com
  Caroline and Pearson Brown’s excellent collection of useful exercises (and access to free email lessons) grammar, phrasal verbs, Business English, listening, etc.

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.betteratenglish.com
  Natural conversations with free transcripts
• www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-podcasts.htm
  Large selection of regularly updated podcasts, including material for elementary learners
• www.listen-and-write.com
  Improve your listening with dictations of news stories (American)
• 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
• www.videojug.com
  An amazing collection of “How to…” videos in different categories like ‘creative and culture’, ‘food and drink’, ‘health and wellbeing’, ‘technology and cars’. Accents are British and many of the videos also have English subtitles.

SPECIALLY FOR CHILDREN

• learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org
  Games, videos, stories and writing activities for younger learners, with or without their parents. Children can also become a member, create a character and make comments, enter competitions and write to other children on the site itself or on Facebook.

LISTENING FOR TEENS

• www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/genre/childrens
  A variety of frequently updated short news stories for English children aged 7 – 14 – learn what’s happening in the world through English.
• www.storynory.com
  Free audio stories for children: fairy stories, classics, Greek fables, original stories and loads more. The test is also available so children can listen and read at the same time.
• kids.nationalgeographic.com
  Narrated videos (Amercian accents) about wild animals, pets, history, science & space, explorers, the forces of nature, etc.
• www.okey-dokey.co.uk
  An impressive selection of links to useful exercises for adults and teenagers at all levels. It includes a lot of audio/video files and material to help you improve your speaking and listening. It includes a good exam section with plenty of practice materials for the Cambridge exams

NEWS

• www.bbc.co.uk
  One of the world’s great websites and not only for news
• www.ft.com
  The Financial Times site, political and financial news and much more besides
• www.economist.com
  A great weekly news magazine, and not only economics. Pay a subscription and you can get their audio version too
• 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
• www.thesun.co.uk
  The tabloid angle!
• www.newscientist.com
  What’s going on in the world of science
• www.thelocal.it
  A new online publication which 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.co.uk
  For safe, easy general book orders
• www.bebc.co.uk
  For ordering books for efl students

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.iate.europa.eu
  Access the vast European Union multilingual database – good for specific terminology and translations of single words
• www.wordreference.com
  English-Italian, Italian-English dictionary based on the Collins Italian Dictionary and last but not least…

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST …

• www.chelseafc.com
  Obviously.