Material de referencia en inglés

TalkEnglish.com

This site provides English lessons in the form of text and audio files. The content is sorted into different categories, such as regular English, business English, traveler English, interview English, and useful phrases. The site also uses message boards, forums, and bulletin boards to help users learn English.

TED

This is a nonprofit organization devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where technology, entertainment and design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 110 languages.

The Idioms — Largest Idioms Dictionary

This is an educational website which provides the meaning, origin and examples of the world’s most famous idioms, sayings, slang and phrases, thus helping users to improve and refine their English language.

The Law Dictionary

This free online dictionary features the 2nd edition of Black’s Law Dictionary, which contains over 15,000 legal terms for business and research use.

The Phrase Finder

This site hosts a searchable database with the origins and meanings of thousands of English sayings, phrases, idioms, and expressions. It includes a browser, a phrase thesaurus, and a discussion forum, which is now closed to new queries but remains online as a reference archive.

The Punctuation Guide

This is an interactive website which focuses on American punctuation and provides a thorough analysis of every punctuation mark, including examples and common mistakes. It also attends to other problematic areas, such as punctuating titles and style.

The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

This site of Purdue University of Indiana offers over 200 free resources, including writing and teaching writing, research, grammar and mechanics, style guides, ESL (English as a Second Language), and job search and professional writing.

The Times

The website of the famous British daily national newspaper based in London offers a wide range of news stories from Britain and all over the world. It is very useful to learn about what is going on in both Britain and the world while developing reading skills.

The Writing Center

The George Mason University Writing Center, which is aimed primarily at the university’s students, faculty, and staff, helps users in the process of writing. The site offers a useful section with writing resources and tips, as well as several downloadable files with information concerning basic grammar, composing and revising.

TheFreeDictionary

This site offers an English dictionary and thesaurus, as well as a medical dictionary, a legal dictionary, a financial dictionary, a dictionary of acronyms, a dictionary of idioms, an encyclopedia, and a link to Wikipedia. Each entry comes with its synonyms or related words, antonyms, and translations to several languages. The site also allows users to customize their homepage.