Jellyfish

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Refugee trends: Lost in limbo | The Economist

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Refugee trends: Lost in limbo | The Economist

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Global Crisis by 2030

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Speed Reading

To be an efficient university student, you must be able to read quickly. This will give you more time to do other things.

Try this exercise to practice your speed reading.
Press Start and read the passage.
Press Stop to find out your reading speed.
Then press Yes to take a short quiz on the text.
You can find out the answers by clicking Submit at the bottom of the page.

How long did it take you to read this?

Modal Quiz

This is a good reference guide to modal verbs.

Here is a quick quiz to test your choice of modal verbs.

1. Choose the best answer then click on the grey boxes to check your anwer.
2. Go back and decide which sentences are denifinte and which ones are not.

Mixed Conditionals Quiz

Here is an online quiz about mixed conditonals. The meaning behind a mixed conditional can be a little hard to get, so test yourself.

Grammar Revision IV

Here are some grammar points you should practice.

Word Order
Modal Verbs
Passive Voice

Type 2 Conditionals
Type 2 Conditionals

Active & Passive Voice Practice

Active and Passive Voice is difficult to understand but this website explains it very clearly. The passive voice is important to use when writing an academic essay. You can also do a quiz here. Good luck. 

How old are you? : Take the test

This test is really interesting. It compares your actual age to your virtual age. First, it asks you many questions about your health and lifestyle. It uses this information to calculate your virtual age and life expectancy.

So I will ask again...How old are you???

Relative Clause Quizzes That Will Help You

This one is a good one to start with.

This one is a bit more challenging.

Simple or Compound?

Here is a quiz to test yourself on simple and compound sentences.

Paragraphs: Bringing Order to your Writing

Here is a quick quiz about the order of sentences in a paragraph.

Academic Vocabulary: Is it useful for you?

Many of you have studued the AWL. It is such a long list of words. Will you ever be able to remember them all? Maybe. Will you ever have to use them all? Probably not.

It would be better for you to study words that will be useful for you. This website has a great list of exercises that are categorised by university subject. Choose the subject that is closest to what you will study and start learning.

Good Luck!

Grammar Revision II

Here are a few quizzes on Subject Verb Agreement (1) (2) and Relative Clauses.

I need/needs to practice...

Subject verb agreement looks easy. However, a lot of students have trouble in this area when they are writing something. Doing some extra practice on this will help you to remember to be careful about this when you are writing.

Here are some quizzes on subject verb agreement.

Easy

Medium

Difficult

How did you go?

Changing the world one word at a time

Here is a very interesting website to help you learn vocabulary. It is called Free Rice. Here is how it works; you take a quiz on vocabulary, if you get the answer correct the United Nations Food Program and Havard University donate rice to fight world hunger. You can learn and help people at the same time!

You can change the level of difficulty the quiz once you start. I would recommend you to try somewhere between Level 20 and Level 30. You can also change subjects to English Grammar.

Good Luck!

An old blog of interest...

Grammar Revision

Bringing order to your sentences

Here is a quiz on coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS). Type in your answers, use the hint button if you need to, then check your answers.

Sentence Elements

Sentence elements (or SVOCA) can be hard to understand. This website explains it very clearly. Read through the website ,then look at the old Trylingual entries below to test yourself.

Here is an old Trlingual entry with a quiz on SVOCA.

This one has some quizzes too.

A Greener World

Here is a great website with a lecture on how to live in a "Greener" way.