Recent Posts Tagged With 'dictionary'

• Learn About Science in English

  Posted on Friday July 31st, 2009 at 03:24 in reading, vocabulary, pronunciation, dictionary, listening

  Learning English can help to make knowledge available to you in so many fields of study, especially science. So today's task looks at how you can learn more about science and improve your listening, reading and vocabulary at the same time.This is qui...

• Find Idioms in Everyday Language

  Posted on Tuesday June 16th, 2009 at 03:14 in vocabulary, dictionary, idioms

  The English language has a huge number of idioms and this number seems to be constantly growing. You have to be careful how and when you use these idioms, as many are used in very specific contexts.Today's activity will help you discover how and wher...

• Find Words that Express Your Thoughts

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 03:20 in vocabulary, dictionary

  There are times when you know what you want to say, but you just don't know the right word in English. This can be very frustrating, but it is good to practice explaining the words you want so that you can get the word you want.Today's activity will ...

• A New Video Dictionary Definition Each Day

  Posted on Tuesday April 28th, 2009 at 05:02 in video, vocabulary, dictionary

  Improving your knowledge of words and enlarging your vocabulary is a very important part of language learning. It's also very important to understand how words are used and what 'real' people think they mean. Words can have a very personal meaning fo...

• List Your Favourite Words

  Posted on Monday November 3rd, 2008 at 03:43 in vocabulary, dictionary

  Learning and remembering new words is a constant challenge when you are learning a language, so today we are going to look at a site called Wordie which can help.Wordie enables you to create word lists, but it also does much more. You can search for ...

• Expand Your Urban Vocabulary

  Posted on Thursday October 30th, 2008 at 03:46 in vocabulary, dictionary

  The vocabulary of the English language is constantly changing and being developed. New words are being added, some become 'mainstream' (used by everyone) others stay around for a short while and then just stop being used.Now there is an online dictio...