General
Dear User,
This Internet page provides some activities to help you learn English at home.
Please use them as you wish.
Kind regards,Nicholas Sowels <nicholas.sowels@univ-paris1.fr>
Topic outline
S1: Daily life with Covid-19... and now war in Ukraine
Simple work sheets for listening and learning vocabulary.
- Covid coping tips File 895.8KB
- Coronavirus and commuting File 430.1KB
- Videoconferencing etiquette File 990.7KB
- Meditation for calm File 779.3KB
S2: Articles and sound tracks
Simple work sheets on songs and other activities.
From Jean Sabiron, excellent listening material here (short radio extracts for repeated listening).
- NEW Having Hell with HAL File 148.5KB
- Our addiction to oil File 716.5KB
- Conscious capitalism File 339.4KB
- A diet designed to save us File 761.7KB
- Carbon footprint of food File 494.3KB
- A virtual journey File 642.5KB
- How to draw a funny cartoon File 632.5KB
S2 - Music
- Elvis and the "Colonel" File 165.2KB
S3: English with movies and games
Amazing material to learn English on #LearnEnglishWithMovies on Youtube, including:
"Notting Hill" with Julia Roberts / "Forrest Gump" and Tom Hanks / "Aladdin" with Will Smith and many, many others...
From Joséphine Remon : interactive games / listening-speaking-reading-writing / generators and other activities.
S4: Grammar
Grammar on line seems pretty good. The general grammar section is here.
Many good exercises (gap filling, crosswords), and the website of Englisch-hilfen.
Many, many excellent exercises for elementary, intermediate and advanced level grammar at English Grammar.
The British Council grammar website is a reference.
From Cécile Cosculluela: "Is a past action always expressed with the past tense?" (the definitive explanation).
From Carine Kool, see examples of connectors below (and, because, however, etc.).
- Connectors - exercises File 198.3KB
- Connectors - answers File 652.3KB
S5: Pronunciation material on Internet
These links were posted by Guillaume Coatalen on the SAES message list in March 2020:
British vs American Accents and Why do French People Sound French?t
Ecoutez la prononciation des 3 formes
BBC English: Tim's Pronunciation Workshop
Play Phrase me gives expressions as used in films. It is available on Youtube, but can also be downloaded on smartphones. It seems excellent.
S6: Vocabulary, proverbs, phrasal verbs, irregular verbs
Proverbs on Anglais facile, suggested by Cathy Roche-Liger.
Phrasal verbs: i) a list by EnglishClub.com, and ii) exercises by MyEnglishPages.com and PDF worksheets here with English Grammar.
Irregular verbs: great list and exercises with englishpage.com.
S7: Tips to avoid common mistakes when writing in English
S8: Work and Job Search
Here are some tips and advice about finding a job.
Great videos by Linda Spencer from the Harvard Extension School.
- Application letters File 408.5KB
- CVs File 277.1KB
S9: English terminology for economics
Work sheets of vocabulary and exercises on several areas in economics.
- Unit 4: Macroeconomics File 67.8KB
- Unit 7: Foreign trade File 28.8KB
- Answer key File 649.4KB
Section 10: English for economics - texts and vocabulary
This section includes various texts, exercises and vocabulary related to economics.