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Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) Test Prep exercises. The TOEFL is a standardized test of English language ability for those wishing to enroll in American universities.

Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) Test Prep exercises

The test is accepted by many English-speaking academic and professional institutions. TOEFL is one of the two major English-language tests in the world, the other being the IELTS. The following quizzes and exercises are to help you prepare for the TOEFL examination. Grammar Being a high level exam, grammar knowledge for those taking the TOEFL exam will also necessarily be advanced, with knowledge required of grammatical structures such as: active/passive, parallelism, inversion, noun phrases, gerund/infinitive, etc. The grammar section for TOEFL gives practice of all of these and more. Teaching Kids News - Readable, teachable news.

Understand what you read. Untitled. Oakland Literacy Council — Making Reading Accessible For Everyone. Lit2Go ETC. Non-Fiction Readings with Skills Development. Readworks. k12reader. Read Works. Home. Reading Comprehension Exercises - Testing. A growing collection of English reading comprehension exercises. Test your understanding by reading through short passages of text and then answering a number of multiple-choice and cloze / gap fill questions.

Select from the subjects below, or browse by level: beginner, intermediate or advanced. Business English Education & Learning Entertainment Environment & Nature Health & Medicine Politics. Online Reading Tests. Are you looking for online reading activities?

Online Reading Tests

How about interactive practice activities targeting specific reading skills? At ereadingworksheets.com you can complete ereading worksheets: online reading skill quizzes about such subjects as identifying figurative language, recognizing patterns of organization or text structure, comprehending texts, determining the author’s purpose, and more. Valuable practice with reading skills will help prepare students to succeed on standardized tests and make students more well-rounded readers. These activities are 100% free. Please share them with your students or others on your blog, web page, or web site. Free Speed Reading Test by AceReader. Short Stories for Low Intermediate Learners (2)A. Graded reader for beginners in English language learning.

This is the story of two Spanish students, Arturo from the Asturias and Rosa from Madrid, who meet for the first time at The English Language College in London.

Graded reader for beginners in English language learning

They fall in love under the night lights of The Royal Pavilion in Brighton, just before Arturo has to return to Spain. Happily, they plan to meet again. No part of this story is true! -----© Ted Power Top of Page. Smithsonian Magazine. The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers. English news and easy articles for students of English. Home. Fiction.

Level 410 Reading Topics. Short Stories at East of the Web. A game of Scrabble has serious consequences. - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG - Genre: Crime, Humor A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.

Short Stories at East of the Web

English e-books. ESL Online Literature Library. Aesop's Fables Aesop, 1882, Fables.

ESL Online Literature Library

Three Hundred and Fifty Aesop's Fables, literally translated from the Greek by the Rev. George Fyler Townsend. Shakespeare, Selected Works. Plays: All's Well that Ends Well Antony And Cleopatra Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Julius Caesar Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of. Advanced level English - C1 and C2 resources for students & teachers. Advanced English reading texts - level C1 May 2020 : CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN ?

Advanced level English - C1 and C2 resources for students & teachers

Discover Linguapress online learning resources. Intermediate English - B1 and B2 reading resources for teachers and students. Intermediate English resources Free Intermediate English texts with worksheets All Linguapress.com online resources are open access and completely free to use at home or in class. There is nothing to pay, and no need to register or sign up before you use them. Audio: A number of texts are now accompanied by audio recordings. See below. English Articles for Upper-Intermediate and Advanced reading practice - interesting reading material. This is a collection of articles written by Fullspate and intended to be interesting to read and equally interesting to discuss.

English Articles for Upper-Intermediate and Advanced reading practice - interesting reading material

Newer articles or revised articles are listed in the first section below. Older articles (presented with the older website styling) are listed in the archive section further down this page. Use your browser's back button to navigate back to this page. English Online - Articles in Easy Understandable English for Learners. Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies - 6 series to download. Goodreads — Share book recommendations with your friends, join book clubs, answer trivia. The go-to place for all our Extensive Reading needs. Authentic Texts and the Efficient Method of Teaching. English E-Books- a Site to Read and Download Adapted Books with Audio. Ebook Readers or traditional books?

English E-Books- a Site to Read and Download Adapted Books with Audio

What’s your choice? I am a bookworm. I love reading though it has not always been like that. There used to be a time when I only had time, and this unwillingly, to read the compulsory books my Literature teachers thought were essential to my upbringing, if I may use this word. And believe me, each of these unforgettable teachers had a long list in mind! Improving your Pronunciation by Reading Along. I am one of those teachers who thinks pronunciation can be easily improved if you are really determined to work on it.

Improving your Pronunciation by Reading Along

Contrary to what most people think, improving your pronunciation takes little time and little effort although it needs some motivation. If you really want to improve, there are some sites that can help you if you just dedicate a little time and effort to this task. And the good news is that you can do it at home, without a teacher guiding you. Two Superb Sites to Practise Pronunciation by Reading Along. In this post, I want to share with you two superb sites that can help you improve pronunciation by reading along.

Two Superb Sites to Practise Pronunciation by Reading Along

Aim: By asking students to repeatedly read a selected text or story while simultaneously listening to a text or a story, you can help them improve reading fluencyimprove pronunciationimprove automatic word recognition 1. The first site Listen A Minute.com is one I have been using for years. 2. Teaching Kids News - Readable, teachable news. Learning Resources. Graded reading. Home. 6 Excellent Free Sites to Practise Reading Comprehension. It’s been too long since I’ve written about improving reading skills.

Last time I posted about sites to help you practise reading comprehension was in May last year. Way too long. The truth is that doing reading comprehension activities in class takes time, especially if we are talking about long texts with an amount of difficulty, and very often this is one of the tasks we give students as homework. On the other hand, I am one of those teachers who think reading aloud in class is a good exercise. In my opinion,