17. Affixes

AFFIXES
It-e-m-ize and Re-cogn-ize
[go-out of/action] + [again-know/action]

Prefixes, Roots, Suffixes:
http://www.betterendings.org/ds.htm#ROOT

Prefixes and Suffixes:
http://www.prefixsuffix.com/

English Prefixes & Combining Forms:
http://indodic.com/affixListEnglish.html

Introduction:
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/698.htm
(scroll down)

Affixes Introduction
http://www.bartelby.com/64/83.html
(Scroll down and then back and read !)

Prefixes and suffixes in categories:
http://ingilish.com/english-affixation.htm

16. Don´t miss this !

Corey Arnold´s
challenge in Alaska.
Awesome Story !


A MUST READ

http://www.felacface.com/SF/ew&id=606&Itemid=104
Reading Lesson (Contemporary English) ;-)
(And lots of useful idioms, phrasals and STUNNING pictures)

15. Prepositions

Prepositions (Very useful)
http://www.towson.edu/ows/prepositions.htm

Preposition Introduction A Must Read !
http://www.uhv.edu/ac/efl/prepositions.asp

About Prepositions
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/prep-def.html

Problematic Prepositions
http://www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/lrnres/handouts/1503.html

Rules
http://grammar.uoregon.edu/prepositions/prepositions.html

OWL Prepositions of direction
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslprep.html

Simple Prepositions
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/grammar/prepo.htm

Simple Prepositions
http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/grammar/main/prep.htm

14. For AMBITIOUS ESL-Students only (3)

Don´t hesitate, GO THERE and read and grasp this. Listening Comprehension and Note-Taking
http://www.uefap.com/listen/listfram.htm
University of Hertfordshire

13. Listening Comprehension (1) Audio/Script

Listening + transcript + quiz
http://www.elllo.org/

Interactive Listening Activities
University of Illinois
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/lcra2/11++/index.html
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/lcra2/10++/
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/lcra2/7++/
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/lcra2/9++/
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/lcra2/lcra_index.html

Listening + transcript
http://www.thesportsinterview.com/Alyssa.html
more:
http://thesportsinterview.com/

Listening + transcript
http://www.ezslang.com/

Listening + transcript
http://www.manythings.org/listen/

Listening + transcript
http://www.englishclub.com/listening/everywhere.htm

Listening and Reading
http://www.loudlit.org/
http://content.loudlit.org/audio/matchgirl/pages/01_01_matchgirl.htm

Listening + quiz
http://www.esl-lab.com/

Listening + quiz
http://eslbears.homestead.com/Blank.html

Listening + quiz
http://www.eflclub.com/2songs/songs.html

Listening + quiz
http://www.eflclub.com/2songs/songs.html

Listening + quiz
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/California/index.html

Listening
http://literalsystems.org

Listening
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/home

Reader´s Digest
Listening/Reading
http://www.rd.com/stories
http://www.rd.com/content/rd-out-loud-podcasts----dramatic-true-stories/

12. Pronunciation (2) (audio-visual)

BAD Pronunciation ????

Ready to bear the
consequences ??

Pronunciation with instant sound
http://www.fonetiks.org/
(mouse over)


SPOKEN English grammar
http://www.spokenenglish.org/

"Minimal Pairs" - simply mouse over to hear
http://www.shiporsheep.com/

"Minimal Pairs" - Practice & Quizzes
http://www.manythings.org/pp/

q.v.
Pronunciation (1) - Video/Audio

11. For AMBITIOUS ESL-Students (2)

Tip for ambitious ESL-Students who are looking for collocations or concordances to improve their "English" or to do some lookups by using a text related context.

http://corpora.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/?dict=en

For each word, the most significant words appearing

1. as immediate left neighbor
2. as immediate right neighbor
3. anywhere within the same sentence

are given.

There is also a free download version (mSQL) http://corpora.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/download.html


Do some lookups at The Collins Wordbanks Online English corpus. It is composed of 56 million words of contemporary written and spoken text. Check up some word, idiom or phrasal verb in rhetorical contexts. Notice the settings !. Take your time.

http://www.collins.co.uk/corpus/


BNC British National Corpus (100 million words)
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
+
BNC Information about multiple word queries:
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/using/index.xml.ID=simple


Webster (1913)
http://www.ibiblio.org/webster/#search_form
Notice the query syntax

Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micase/
Site is sometimes temporarily shut down

http://www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kmatsum/corpus/myconc.html