Hi if you're looking for websites to practice your grammar so if you're a teacher or a student
you're looking for content to practice your English then you've come to the right video
I'm going to highlight five websites that have got really good grammar exercises to do they're quite
substantial they give you feedback they're not too short so they really do check your understanding
they're easy to use and there is lots of content here so if you watch this video I'm going to show
you exactly where all the grammar exercises are hidden where the explanations are and any bonus
material as well that's on the website that I think is useful finally website number five
which is personally my favorite and is a website that I've done work on myself or certainly work
with the organization that created the website if you watch that video and you probably know
that technology I'm going to show you some real insights uh things that you might not be aware
of that you can do on that particular website so let's get going really hope you like the video
please like it please share it with other teachers and students please comment on it particularly
if you've got any other websites that I should have included in my top five let's get started
so this is the first website I'm going to focus on it's called learn English today one of the things
I like about it is just how easy it is to find the exercises if we go to grammar and exercises
you get this huge great list which is always a nice way if you're looking for a particular
thing that you want to learn and then what we can do is just simply click and do the exercise now
here one thing I've noticed is you get a little explanation which is really nice okay and then if
you scroll down to the bottom you'll find that you get some exercises that you can do sometimes a bit
tricky to spot those exercises but let's have a quick look at them just to see how they are
so you click here first exercise comes up onto the screen now you won't see it unless you scroll down
to the bottom now one good thing about this is the exercise kind of flows so here we've got peter
refused the offer even though or even if it's gonna be even though he needed the money you click
on the on the correct answer gives you immediate feedback okay next question uh even if Mary has
a car she walks to work even though so again click on the button get the feedback okay move on to the
next question it's a really nice website now I'm just going to show you a couple of other things
about the website too to get back home obviously just click on the home button notice if you click
on contents in a row over here you get a whole list of different sections you can also see those
same sections here on the front page I was looking at this one's quite interesting because I like the
way that they've explained the difference between transitive and inter trans intransitive phrasal
verbs and they've given you lists of phrasal verbs if we click for example here then we get examples
uh of phrasal verbs with uh examples of the actual sentence the use in sentence but if I click back
what I do like as well is if you scroll down again sometimes you have to really look for this stuff
is that there are actually at the bottom quite a few exercises so let's say I wanted
to do phrasal verbs with get I can click here remember when you come to an exercise
don't forget the exercises are at the bottom of the page and again you would just click on the
answer and then check your answer so that's quite a nice sight well organized good explanations and
the exercises flow really well which is always useful next one we're going to look at is called
Englishclub.com bear with me with this one because it does take a little bit of effort to find all
the content on here so I'm just here on the first page one way to scroll is through the content here
and let's go straight through to the grammar lessons because again most of you are going to be
interested in the grammar though there are there is a lot of content on this site if we come down
here one thing is we've got here parts of speech nouns adjectives etc I'm going to click on the
verb tenses often people want to practice their verb tenses I'm now going to click on present
simple and we get to a quite detailed explanation which has all been nicely laid out with
tables to make it clearer and what again you've noticed is at the bottom of the page
you finally get to the quiz so once you've gone through the explanation if you want to do the quiz
click here and it will bring you through to the quiz now one nice thing about the quizzes
is that you can kind of you know they're very easy to do on a mobile phone or on your computer you
haven't got actually input anything and one thing i like is that it checks them all at the same time
i don't like it when you have to click check for every single individual exercise once you've done
that click on check answers and it gives you your score and it tells you what the correct
answers were of course you can go back if you want to and start again and do the exercise again but
that's really nice simple got additional content that you can click on to and quite a nice site
I'm going to show you a couple more things about this website now that you might find interesting
now there's one other thing on this website that I want to focus on remember you can click on
Englishclub.com to get back and I just want to show you this because again it's a little bit
tricky to find but very interesting if we come down to listening lessons okay and then scroll
down again and I'm gonna come down here to the English classics and then what I'm gonna do is
just choose one now I've already done a great video about five really useful YouTube channels
with stories in English with the audio and if you want to watch that the link is on the screen now
but if you click here let's just show you an example you've got extracts from books
with the text here and also with the podcast with the audio as well so I really like this disability
to be able to read and listen at the same time and there's quite a variety of material there's also
as well as classics there's the short stories for children so let me just click to show you how this
works little women by louisa may alcott chapter 2 an excerpt joe was the first to wake in the gray
dawn so I really like that and it's something that I've used a lot in my language learning
this website is really worth looking at it's got a lot of content you have to dig it up
it's always the difficulty of getting so much content onto a website and of course because
it's free there's a lot of advertising but there is some really nice material on here
this website was recently shown to me uh by a teacher um and if I I'll do the usual you've got
here obviously lots of uh content you can access but I'll click on verb tenses
and then I'll click on verb tense exercise if I let's just go through the uh topic first so we
get an explanation here of the use of the present simple and we also get it in comparison uh oh no
it's just going through the present simple and then what we get at the bottom here is a series
of exercises and if we click on these exercises what I like about them is that they're quite long
and they're all on one page which is nice and also you fill them all in and then check
so you don't um you know sometimes with these exercises you do one click do one click do one
click and you're just kind of clicking all the time I much prefer it when you complete all the
exercises and then you just check now I'm just going to point out one other thing on this website
that I quite like if we click back here this is really for advanced learners but I kind of
like this if you come down to the reading room I have this section here where you can sort of
jump off the different content and I've been this is quite useful so if we come here we've got for
example newspapers in America in the UK Canada Australia and I think there's even New Zealand
south Africa etc really interesting um I'll jump off to the guardian and it brings me straight in
to a page where I can read the latest articles
now really nice uh the way that that works and what I really like about that if we just click
back again just come back here what I really like about that as well is that it's so easy you can
just kind of choose something let's say we want to look at money online magazines click on that
and we are brought straight over to a relevant website that might be useful to us so that could
be quite nice in terms of just sharing links from different internet sites around the world
there are actually some great websites with activities to do around news in English and if
you are interested I'm going to put a link on the screen now I'll also include it in the description
of a great video that shows you five websites for learning English that focus on the news
let's move on now with the next video just a really quick break from the video
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for lots of grammar exercises this is not a bad website and what I like about it is that
the exercises are actually very thorough so let's sort of go to the grammar quizzes
okay there are other sections we'll have a quick look afterwards but just to sort of show you
and let's scroll down and say we'll do this one here on comparatives and superlatives and
we get there for various exercises so we'll choose the first one here and notice okay that the you
can print it out as a worksheet by the way which is quite handy for teachers but also you can do
the activity unlike the other activities I've just showed you you choose the correct answer so it's
multiple choice but you're not given just three or four you're given quite a lot of questions
and once you've kind of put your answers in you can get your grade as well and find out what
score you've got okay um so this is pretty nice uh simply in terms of how thorough the activities are
and there's quite a selection of them there's language grammar quizzes and language tests
and there's also some other interesting sections and let's just have a look at a couple of them
so for example I quite like this here because it's very clear reading comprehension they've
got various sections I like the way that it's been sectioned off there there's quite a lot
of content as well let's just quickly jump over to one so we'll click on this first one airbus crisis
and what I like is you've got a reading and then underneath the reading you've got the questions
that you need to answer again quite thorough and you can be graded as well I noticed also there's a
couple of little kind of tips here on the right hand side but it's a what I like really is just
the way that the content is organized very easy to find so if we come back to the home page all I
did there was jump over to reading comprehension and you've got a number of different topics and
readings to do so that's a really useful site again with lots of activities that you can
complete and do okay the fifth website is breaking news English I know many of you will know this
website sometimes I think there's too much content on this website but there really are some gems
and because I've actually done some work with this organization I know where those gyms are
and often when I show the gems on this website to teachers they're not aware of these uh different
activities that you can do so let's go through breaking news English but I'm not going to show
you the typical stuff I'm going to highlight a few features that I really like so I'm still a
fan of this website I think it's a great website I used it many times in my own teaching and learning
uh it sometimes there's a bit too much content on it and it can be a little bit difficult to find it
the best thing to do is to click on the main links these links here are kind of reduced versions of
the main content so if we click here on tick tock videos I'm going to highlight a couple of things
that I really like on this website now there's all the usual stuff lesson plans for teachers loads
of listening material I might focus on a couple of things but the first one I want to focus on
is this it's called no spaces in fact it's not it's called text jam we'll get the right one
so click on text jumble and what you get here and you can do this after you've read the article is
to try to remake the article bit by bit so let me just click back if you've already read the
story and the story is here if you just want to read it or you can actually listen to it as well
so it is possible just to listen to the story in fact if you listen to it you've got different
speeds and different accents but once you've listened or read the story or done both click on
that exercise text jumble and what text jumble does is you have to re-build the text so it's
great for kind of recalling the text it's also great for syntax it's great for reading so it's a
really good exercise and lots of teachers are not aware of it so for example tick tock users will
soon be able to upload 10 minute long videos etc now if you get a word wrong like the videos
it will tell you that then you have to kind of choose which ones you think it is the videos
or the video platform okay so then I'm only on 90 and as I'm doing it it's rebuilding the text for
me so I really like that text jumble but it's a good accident to do after you have read the text
or listen to the text now another activity if I just click on the back button another activity I
really like on this website is this one called no letters and again it's great for students to do on
their own they can listen to the audio and then they've got to try to rebuild the whole text now
they can start with really easy words like and and the is definitely going to be in the text
yes you're trying to rebuild the text and remember everything you've heard but also if you wrote the
word for example video that's definitely going to be in there and long is going to be in there
and you just try to build up obviously the word tick tock it's also going to be in there okay
in fact we might have to get the spelling right so it's tick
get that right tick tock it's actually the way that it's uh okay so then you're trying to rebuild
the text as much as possible now you can obviously cheat and replay it or play a bit more but it's a
great way of trying to build up your vocabulary and to remember the story and it kind of gets
you to focus on words around a particular genre so in this case it's going to be words connected with
video technology etc so it's a really nice website and great for students to work on
their own of course they get a score and it gives you a record also of all the words that you've got
incorrect I love that activity I fell in love with it when I first came across a website where you
could do the same thing in French and I realized how useful that was now there is loads more that
you can do with breaking news English and what I'm going to do is I'm going to share a link on the
screen I'll also put it in the description below where you can click on and find out in much more
detail all the things that you can do in breaking news English really hope you like that video
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