Building your vocabulary

Reading is one of the best (and easiest) ways to build you vocabulary.   Even if you don´t have time to read a book in English - you must have time now and then to read a newspaper article or two.  There are so many online newspapers to choose from, you really are spoilt for choice!

UK

• BBC
• Cambridge News
• Sporting Life
• The Financial Times
• The Guardian
• The Independent
• The Times

USA

• Chicago Tribune
• Los Angeles Times
• The New York Times
• The Wall Street Journal 
• The Washington Post
• USA Today 

SOUTH AFRICA

• IOL
• Mail & Guardian 
• Pretoria News

AUSTRALIA

• Canberra Times
• Sydney Morning Herald
• The Age
• The Australian

NEW ZEALAND

• The New Zealand Herald
• The Press
  

CANADA

• Daily Herald Tribune
• The Globe & Mail
• The Star
• The Vancouver Sun
• Toronto Sun

Welcome!

Hi everyone!

Welcome to the new, fully updated blog.  It´s my hope that this blog will help you with your studies and make preparing for FCE or CAE just that little bit easier.

I will be posting a blog entry at least once a week, so I suggest you  'Follow by email'  so as not to miss any entries. The 'Follow by email' box is in the top left-hand column. 

Here´s what we have so far:

• Online newspapers: links to online newspapers in the UK, USA, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
• Online books: millions of FREE books at your fingertips!
• Dictionaries: monolingual, bilingual, phrasal verbs, idioms, a thesaurus and more..
• Irregular verbs: a comprehensive list  (more to come)
• Speaking: an interactive phonemic chart and link to pronunciation tips  (more to come)
• Games: vocabulary games (more to come) 

Coming soon...  specific information on each of the following FCE / CAE papers:

• Reading: paper 1
• Writing: paper 2
• Use of English: paper 3
• Listening: paper 4
• Speaking: paper 5 

And last, but not least.....I will post weekly grammar explanations and exercises.

If you have any suggestions or requests - just email me!

PS: I hope you´re all enjoying the long weekend!