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Welcome to Rob Oliver's blog on English language learning and teaching.
Scroll down for links to language resources, exam support, and reading tips.
Welcome to everyone preparing for the United Nations Language Proficiency in English (UNLPE) exam! Please see the section below for resources.
Please contact me if you have any observations or comments at: rob dot oliver 1 at gmail dot com.
About Me
- Rob Oliver
- I am a learning and development consultant specialising in professional training and career transition in the international non-profit sector, including the United Nations system. I am from London in the UK and currently based in The Netherlands.
United Nations English UNLPE
Good sites for learning English
- Fluent Language UK
- Duolingo English learning site
- Grammarly
- BBC Learning English
- BBC Grammar Challenge
- BBC Ask About English Archive
- British Council Learn English
- English Grammar Secrets
- Learn English
- UsingEnglish.com
- englishpage.com
- World English: Exercises, Activities and Tests
- Grammar Quizzes
- Expand Your Vocabulary: Links to Activities
- English Tenses Tutorial
- Gerunds and Infinitives Tutorial
- Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs Tutorial
Speaking and Listening Resources....
- Howjsay.com pronunciation support
- BBC From Our Own Correspondent (podcasts)
- Randall's Cyber Listening Lab (Listening Quizzes)
- The Forum: 60 Second Ideas
- Splendid Speaking
- Pronunciation Guide for Nine Varieties of English + Other Languages!
- Prounciation Tips
- Ship or Sheep? Practise Your Vowels
- Word Stress Patterns in English with Audio
- Article on Stress and Intonation (Advanced)
- Scripting Sound in Presentations
Writing Resources
Dictionaries and Glossaries
- Cambridge Learners Dictionary
- AskOxford.com
- English Word Roots Chart
- Phrasal Verb Dictionary
- The Visual Thesaurus
- Legal English: Law.com Dictionary
- Political English: IRC Politics.org
- Business and Financial Terms
- Medical English: Medicine.net
- UNTERM: United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database
- United Nations Treaty Terms
- EU Terminology Database (Translation and Search)
- Walt's Internet Terms Glossary
- IT English: TechWeb Encyclopedia
- IT English: Webopedia
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Visual Dictionary
- Word Reference Online Forum
- Freelang: Online Dictionaries Site
- French/English: False Friends/Faux Amis
- Good Translation Web Site - proz.com
Cambridge Exams
Exam Support
Good Reading Online.....
United Nations English Links
Fishing for Grammar?
- Grammar Bytes (grammatical terms explained)
- Make or Do?
- Relative clauses
- Using articles 1
- Using articles 2
- Using articles 3
- Using articles 4
- Continuous tenses and 'state'verbs
- Uncountable nouns
- Collective nouns
- Noun phrases
- Let, make, see, hear, notice
- Apostrophes: a user's guide
- Learning phrasal verbs tips
- Fewer or Less?
Quick Links to Grammar Tips on the Blog
- Tip 1: Split Phrasal Verbs
- Tip 2: Double Subjects (Cleft Sentences)
- Tip 3: Any
- Tip 4: Suggest
- Tip 5: Adjectives after the Noun
- Tip 6: State Verbs
- Tip 7: 'Since' and 'For'
- Tip 8: 'a Few' and 'a Little'
- Tip 9: Despite
- Tip 10: of + Gerund
- Tip 11: As Soon As/No Sooner
- Tip 12: Pretty
- Tip 13: Quite
- Tip 14: Hardly/Barely/Scarcely
- Tip 15: Which or That?
- Tip 16: When in the Future
- Tip 17: Indirect Questions
- Tip 18: Except
- Tip 19: Order of Adjectives
- Tip 20: Verb + Preposition + Gerund
- Tip 21: Door + Step: Joining Things Together
- Tip 22: Neither/Nor
- Tip 23: More on 'Suggest'
- Tip 24: This is the first time....
- Tip 25: Affect or Effect?
- Tip 26: Past Perfect Tense
- Tip 27: It's Time...
- Tip 28: Present Perfect Tense
- Tip 29: More on Present Perfect Tense
- Tip 30: Subject/Verb Agreement
Fun With Words
The English Blog Word Cloud
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