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RECOMMENDED DICTIONARIES & WEBSITES

Monolingual dictionaries

  Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (with CD-ROM). Oxford.7

th edition, 2008.

  McMillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (with CD-ROM). McMillan 2nd edition, 2007

  Cambridge Advanced Dictionary (with CD-ROM) Cambridge.3

rd edition, 2008.

  Collins Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (with CD-ROM) Collins Cobuild.4

th edition, 2003.

Other online resources

Learning material:

  http://esl.fis.edu 

  www.bbc.co.uk   www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/britain/index.stm 

  www.usingenglish.com 

  www.bbc.co.uk/skillwise 

  http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish 

  www.eslvideo.com 

  www.isabelperez.com 

  www.world-english.org 

  www.xtec.cat/~ncasas12/fourth.htm 

  www.privateenglishportal.com 

Listening practice:

  www.yappr.com  (visual documents with transcript)

  www.youtube.com 

  www.euronews.net (visual documents with transcript)

  www.ted.com (visual talks with/out transcript)

  www.elllo.org( English listening lab on line)

  www.worldnewsconnect.com: (CNN,BBC,CBS,ITN etc..)

  www.voanews.com (voice of America)

  www.breakingnewsinenglish.com (listening activities)

  www.esl-lab.com (listening activities)

  www.newsenglishlessons.com

News and Information

  www.guardian.co.uk (online newspaper)

  www.bbc.co.uk (world news)  www.cnn.com (world news)

  www.msnbc.msn.com (world news)

  www.theonion.com  (funny world news)

  www.britannica.com (encyclopaedia)

  www.wikipedia.org  (encylopaedia)