Useful websites for improving English skills

Hi guys! I would like to recommend you some effective websites that I am using to advance my English

1.http://www.bbc.co.uk

This is really a excellent  websites to develop your listening skill. It provides a massive of news around the world  and debatable topics as well. You do not only do listening but also can enjoy with reading.Everything is written in standard English.

2.http://www.ted.com

This website is great practices for listening with huge variety of lecture between 15 and 20 minutes. You can also use for note-taking practice as well. It effectively suits for Advance students

3.http://www.breakingnewenglish.com

My favorite website. You will have a similar feeling like me when you come to this website which supply a huge of topics about the latest news and support you to promote your English skill in terms of reading,listening and speaking.

4.http://www.writefix.com.au

This website is fantastic. You can easily to develop your IELTS writing skills

with many different kind of essay, a lot of example and clues as well

5.http://www.abc.net.au/btn/

I admit that it is impressed me when I come there at the first time. That is because it has variety of video, transcript and tapes  toward the different topics. Additionally, The wealthy resources will provide to you more choices to listen the topic that you are interested in

They are a few websites that I used everyday. I hope they will be useful for you guys

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Subject: English is lingua franca around the world !!!	Reply
Author: Mohammed Saeed A ALSHAHRANI Creation date: Monday, August 16, 2010 11:42:56 AM EST Date last modified: Monday, August 16, 2010 11:42:56 AM EST Total views: 83  Your views: 1	Next Post
As we know, English regarded as a lingua franca/global language all over the world. People who are from different nations . Communicate with each other in English, It is spread across culture and improve economy. There are several of reasons to present why it is as a lingua franca. Firstly, English become language of technology, America grew powerful through technology innovation. Furthermore, economy is a majority factor to lead English as a super language. People do business from different countries, and make money from trade by communicating in English. It shows global economy can be improvement. Finally, it is educational language , it means many subjects use it to describe these knowledge to be understood and involved such as Medicine, Computer, Engineering and accounting.   I completely agree with you. English now becoming the language of better future because there are a lot of advantages of English over the world. Nobody can deny the power of the US economy with the democracy of  institution, others country will look at its successful and follow American way. The language they use is English, as a consequence , other countries ,that  want to trade with America, have to learn English. As a result, American will take English to the other places where  they trade and therefore English is able to extend its influence and power wider over the world.  However, globalisation and economy always come together and also promote the rests of the world. Considering the future, as far as I concerned English will remain to be successful if no countries can replace the impact of the US economy. That why we have to learn  English and using English.