Learn English Free

Improve your listening skills, writing skills, reading skills, spelling and punctuation!

You will need a set of headphones, somewhere quiet, a pencil and a sheet of paper.

There are a couple of ways to listen to the files. Use the Yahoo player embedded in the page or use the Winamp plug-in.

With Internet Explorer™ use the Windows Media Player™ plug-in.

With Firefox™ use the Quick Time™ plug-in.

If all else fails, right click on the link and open the files in your onboard player.

The files are large, so be patient.

Instructions:-

Choose your level Elementary or Intermediate.

Play the .mp3 files (they are large so be patient).

Listen to the first file - Just Listen. I will speak, quite quickly, in a natural voice.

Listen to second file - listen and write. I will speak more slowly.

Listen to the first file again - Check and correct.

Check what you have written. You will find the text at the bottom of each dictation page.

There will be a new dictation each month.

Elementary Dictation Exercises

Teachers and other users - You are welcome to link to this page and to use the following dictation files in the classroom. Please do not link to the files.

Intermediate Dictation Exercises (Watch your punctuation!)

Teachers - You are welcome to use the following dictation files in the classroom.

Intermediate Dictation - What is a CEO?

Intermediate Dictation - English Folklore

Intermediate Dictation - Bingo

Intermediate Dictation - The Wedding Feast Part 1

Intermediate Dictation - The Wedding Feast Part 2

Intermediate Dictation - The Maasai

Intermediate Dictation - Trooping the Colour

Intermediate Dictation - German Reunification

Intermediate Dictation - Xmas

Intermediate Dictation - New Year

Intermediate Dictation - Bonfire Night

Intermediate Dictation - London

Quick Spelling Tests

Practise your comprehension and spelling with the Learn English spelling tests - all the words are from my web sites.

Some of these are still in Real Medial (rm) format, but I'm slowly changing them.

1. Adjectives Spelling Test - with words from the Common Adjectives pages.
2. Greetings Spelling Test - with words from Lesson Two - Greetings.
3. Buildings Spelling Test - all words are taken from the Building Vocabulary pages.
4. Food Spelling Test - now with all the words from the Food Vocabulary pages.
5. Twisted Spelling - check your knowledge of Irregular Verbs.
6. Education Spelling Test - all words are taken from the Education Vocabulary pages.
7. Jobs and Work Spelling Test - all words are taken from the Jobs and Work Vocabulary pages.
8. Rooms and Furniture - all words are taken from the Rooms in a house pages.
9. Shopping Spelling Test - all words are taken from the Shopping Vocabulary pages.
10. Transport Spelling Test - all words are taken from the Transport Vocabulary pages.
11. Money Spelling Test - all words are taken from the Money Vocabulary pages.
12. The Human Body - all words are taken from the Human Body Vocabulary pages.

Odeo (which hosted the files) stopped working, so I'm slowly modifying the files and players. I apologise if the file you are trying to listen to doesn't work properly.

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