Dictation
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.
The sound 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.

We are adding videos to each dictation test. Please be patient, it takes a lot of time to create these.

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 directly to the sound files.

Elementary Dictation - April Fool's Day

Elementary Dictation Football

Elementary Dictation - How Much Coffee?

Elementary Dictation - Looks Like

Elementary Dictation - New Year

Elementary Dictation - St Patrick

Elementary Dictation - Thanksgiving

Elementary Dictation - The Month of August

Elementary Dictation - The Month of February

Elementary Dictation - The Time

Elementary Dictation - The United Kingdom

Elementary Dictation - Valentine's Day

Elementary Dictation - Xmas

Elementary Dictation - Mr Bean's Morning

Elementary Dictation - Mr Bean's Preferences

Elementary Dictation - Mr Bean's Working Day

Elementary Dictation - Mr Bean's Holiday

Intermediate Dictation Exercises (Watch your punctuation!)

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

Intermediate Dictation - Bingo

Intermediate Dictation - Bonfire Night

Intermediate Dictation - English Folklore

Intermediate Dictation - Football

Intermediate Dictation - German Reunification

Intermediate Dictation - London

Intermediate Dictation - The Maasai

Intermediate Dictation - New Year

Intermediate Dictation - Trooping the Colour

Intermediate Dictation - The Wedding Feast Part 1

Intermediate Dictation - The Wedding Feast Part 2

Intermediate Dictation - What is a CEO?

Intermediate Dictation - Xmas

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 Media (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.