Material de referencia en inglés

9 Awesome Blogs for Learning English

This blog post on FluentU, an English language and culture blog, offers the links to and a detailed description of 9 other blogs for learning English in a fun and easy way.

22 English Podcasts Every English Learner Should Listen To

This blog post on FluentU, an English language and culture blog, offers the links to and a detailed description of 22 websites with a variety of English language podcasts to quickly improve your listening skills.

Academic Vocabulary

This site is intended to help students expand both their general academic vocabulary and the academic vocabulary of their field using the Academic Word List (AWL). This core academic vocabulary is used by writers in many different subject areas, and it can help students not only improve their comprehension of academic texts but also write assignments in an academic style.

Acronym Finder

This site offers over 1,000,000 human-edited definitions for acronyms and abbreviations. Terms can also be filtered by different categories. The site provides more than 850,000 US and Canadian postal codes as well.

Ambiguous Words

This is a list of words with several meanings. Different parts of speech, synonyms, hyponyms, hypernyms, and usage are provided for each entry, as well as a list of external links for further research. The word meaning database is supplied by WordNet, a lexical database for English supported by Princeton University.

BBC Learning English

This site, part of the BBC World Service, offers free audio, video and text materials to learners around the world. It provides multimedia English language teaching materials to meet learners needs and delivers them as full length courses, but each component of the course is standalone and can be studied on its own.

British Council

The British Council is the UK’s international organization for cultural relations and educational opportunities. The site offers high quality English language materials and resources for both learners and teachers.

British Council — LearnEnglish

This is a free website from the British Council to learn English online with games, stories, listening activities and grammar exercises. The site offers a wide variety of listening and video content, a grammar section, IELTS exam practice materials, and materials about business and work.

British Council — TeachingEnglish

This is a free website from the British Council to help teachers plan their lessons. The site offers hundreds of high-quality resources to use in the classroom as well as articles, videos, publications, and courses to help teachers with their continuing professional development.

British National Corpus

This site offers a word collection of over 100 million samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of British English, both spoken and written, from the late twentieth century. The written part of the BNC includes extracts from regional and national newspapers, specialist periodicals and journals for all ages and interests, academic books and popular fiction, published and unpublished letters and memoranda, school and university essays, among many other kinds of text. The spoken part consists of orthographic transcriptions of unscripted informal conversations (recorded by volunteers selected from different age, region and social classes in a demographically balanced way) and spoken language collected in different contexts, ranging from formal business or government meetings to radio shows and phone-ins.