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Elementary - Pre-Intermediate
Academic English - Advanced

    • Grabaword ( formerly In The News)

      - activities to help low to high intermediate level English students learn high frequency words as efficiently as possible while improving their listening skills and knowledge about a range of topical issues. Activities for each story are designed to be completed in easy to follow, sequential steps within approximately 45 minutes.

      Reports are carefully selected from:

      • Behind The News (more suitable for low intermediate to intermediate level) and
      • ABC’s The World Today (more suitable for intermediate to high intermediate) and include links to an audio and a transcript.

      HOW TO ACCESS GRABAWORD LESSONS

      To access these lessons, please go to grabaword.com sign up page (this link opens in a new tab) and add the following code:

      24896427323110                (copy and paste this - take care there is no space after the last number)

      This access to GrabaWord is also in the Listening and Reading sections of Independent Learning.

    • Other resources

    • VOA - Voice Of America - Intermediate level Page

       Please also check out the Grabaword lessons based on VOA (See above link)

    • VOA - Major news URL

      Learn English as you read and listen to a weekly show about a major story in the news.

    • English Vocabulary Exercises - General List URL
      Students must
      Mark as done

      - intermediate to advanced

Elementary - Pre-Intermediate
Academic English - Advanced