Vocabulary Resources
Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Dayhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/
Read online, subscribe to daily e-mails, or listen/subscribe to podcasts. Word of the Day includes the definition, a discussion about how the word relates to similar words (and how to use them), and a real-world example of the word in context.
Academic Word List
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/
Core vocabulary for academic discourse.
AWL Exercises
http://www.englishvocabularyexercises.com/AWL/
Pre-made exercises and study plans for the Academic Word List.
AWL Highlighter
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/alzsh3/acvocab/awlhighlighter.htm
An interactive tool for helping you work with the Academic Word List.
Prepositions & Phrasal Verbs
http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/prepositions.html
Online tutorials with dictionaries and self-quizzes for using the right preposition with various verbs. Includes a dictionary of phrasal verbs that explains variations in meaning as well as possible variations in word order.
Merriam-Webster Quizzes & Games
http://www.merriam-webster.com/game/index.htm
Because not all vocab-building has to be boring! There are a number of games on the website to choose from.
7 Steps to Learn English
https://7esl.com/phrasal-verbs/
This site has an amazing collection of resources for vocabulary, grammar, and expressions. The phrasal verb collection is a great place to start, they are organized by topic, base verb, or alphabetically.
Various Idioms
http://www.englishdaily626.com/
It has a variety of idiom lists e.g. Business Idioms, Slang, Proverbs, Conversations, Native-speaker sentences, etc. It also has examples of use and synonyms.
Other Idioms
http://www.idiomconnection.com
Very nice site with idioms organized alphabetically as well as by topics such as Animal, Fish, Heart. There are also quizzes.
Phrasebank
http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/
This resource is originally set up for English writing but can be adapted for presentations and academic speech as well.
Youglish
https://youglish.com/
This resource mines youtube for the use of words and phrases. You can hear them used in context. This resource can also be used for pronunciation.
COCA
https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
This resource can be used to for a variety of language learning activities. Use the KWIC function to see how collocations are used.
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