Student TIPS
Tasks and ideas to help you improve your English using the world wide web.

REMEMBER: This page can be minimalized or printed for ease of access while you work.

The world wide web (WWW) can help you improve your English in many ways. This website provides links, tasks and ideas on how to use some sites with real English to improve all your language skills, grammar, vocabulary, listening, writing, speaking, reading etc.

Many of these sites use combinations of video, text, images etc. which may make it more interesting and also easier to understand and analyse the language.

To make most use of this site, tasks and the multimedia features offered by these sites don't forget to use the TIPS pages.

This site may be used in class but you can also use it yourself at home or at work.email here

Here are some general TIPS for using the site:
Read the task instructions carefully. It might be easier to print them out.

Don't be frightened by initial difficulty or quantity: you don't have to understand, read or listen to everything! Choose something small to start with.

Combining video, pictures and text can make the overall language easier to understand.

When you understand the general sense of a text or video think about the language: vocabulary, style, tenses, expressions etc. Make notes.

Remember the pages all provide links to online grammar and dictionary help.

Remember you can always discuss your work with your class / teacher or eemail the academy for help.

Here are links to all the TIPS pages if you want to explore some techniques of using the different media available through the WWW further.

Teachers TIPS Freer TIPS Video TIPS
Audio TIPS Text TIPS Image TIPS

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