English Speaking

English Speaking

Online Tutors
Cambly

Videos
Why I keep speaking up, even when people mock my accent
How to Speak with Confidence

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Self-introduction

Present Yourself

Examples of Self-introduction

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Free Time and Hobbies

How to Talk About Your Free Time and Hobbies in English

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Education
Getting a job - How to talk about your education
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Food

Food, Cooking & Catering

Five Common Mistakes When Talking about Food

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Mistakes and Regrets

How to Talk about Mistakes and Regrets 

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Complaining

5 useful expressions to complain in English politely -

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Negotiation
How to negotiate in English: Vocabulary, expressions, and questions to save you $$$
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Fashion
How to talk about fashion in English
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Stress

How to Talk about Stress

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Films
How to Talk About Films in English – Video Lesson
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Home

Talking About Your Home - How to Describe Your Home in English

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Hometown

Describe Your Hometown in English

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Travel English

160 English Dialogues for Travelling and Tourism

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Medical English

Medical English - Hospital English - Free English Lesson

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First Aid Vocabulary 

Learn First Aid Vocabulary in English – It could save your life!

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Visiting a Doctor

English Vocabulary for Visiting a Doctor

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Diet and Health

Words to talk about DIET and HEALTH 

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Topics

250 Conversation Starters

Interesting Conversation Topics

50 Interesting Conversation Topics To Talk About With Anyone

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Exams

English Speaking Exam

Exam Speaking Tasks: Describe a Photo or Picture

Exam Speaking Tasks: Discussion

Exam Speaking Tasks: Information Gap Activity

Exam Speaking Tasks: Tell a Story or Personal Anecdote

Exam Speaking Tasks: Oral Presentation

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Contest

English Speaking Contest of National College Students

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Methods & Skills

Conversation Skills – Learn new words and keep a conversation going!

14 Methods for Improving Your Spoken English Without a Speaking Partner

For Excellent English Speaking: 

Rule No. 1 Study Phrases, Not Individual Words

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Topic Discussion

How to talk about a topic intelligently

How to discuss a topic in a group

How To Talk About Sensitive Topics In English

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Alcohol and Drinking

Talking about Alcohol & Drinking in English -- 

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Phrases for discussions in English

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Presentation

How to give a presentation in English

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How to Discuss Charts and Graphs in English

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Fillers

How to use right filler words or 'gap words' in English conversation

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English Conversation - 

Learn English Speaking [English Subtitles] Lesson 03

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Let’s Learn English: Speaking Practice

Lesson 37: Let’s Agree to Disagree

Lesson 46: May I Borrow That?

Lesson 50: Back to School

Lesson 51: A Good Habit

Lesson 52: Taking Chances

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Speaking Situations – Low Beginning to Advanced

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Ask for Things
How to Ask for Things in English
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Interrupt a Conversation

How to politely interrupt a conversation

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Daily ESL:
Conversation Starters for English Students

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Oxford Online English:
Free Spoken Lessons
https://www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/free-spoken-english-lessons
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Speaking lessons on communication skills

(Including greeting, … introducing people, 

ability, permission, talking about favorite things, … 

expressing shock and disbelief, … cause and effect, … 

defining concepts, etc.) 

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English Speaking Basics

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Phrases and Idioms
Sections 1 to 10 
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Shopping Expressions

(BBC)

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Weather
Weather Words: How to Talk About the Weather in English with the Perfect Vocabulary

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Food

25 Delicious Phrases for Talking About Food in English

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Films

HOW TO TALK ABOUT FILMS IN ENGLISH

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News

English Conversation – Learning and Talking About World News

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Expressions

Greeting and General Things

College Related Topics

Health, Dating, Marriage

Guys, Girls, and Sports

Feelings and Emotions

Family, Children and Friends

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Love

What are the other ways to say I LOVE YOU?

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Criticism and Compliments

How to give criticism and compliments

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Sympathy

How to Find the Right Words to Express Sympathy in English

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Applause

6 Different ways to ask for Applause

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Thank You

112 Phrases for Saying Thank You in Any Situation

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Hurry Up

Polite Ways to Say Hurry Up › For employers, parents and more…

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Condolence

How to express condolence in English

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Bad News

Responding to Bad News in English

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Joke

Three Ways to Respond to a Funny Joke in English

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Job Interview

Interview English Lessons

Great Answers to 8 Common English Job Interview Questions
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Public Speaking

27 Useful Tips To Overcome Your Fear Of Public Speaking

20 Public Speaking Tips of the Best TED Talks

12 Tips for Public Speaking─Forbes

A former child prodigy who gave 100 speeches

before turning 13 shares 3 public speaking tips.

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Online Listening and Viewing

Online Listening and Viewing

Audible Stories

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VOA Learning English---American Stories

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Poem.hunter.com

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ELLLO (English Listening Lesson Library Online)
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Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
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English Listening Lessons (Oxford Online English)
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English Listening: Explore, Listen, Understand

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HowStuffWorks
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Videojug

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CNN Student News/Quick Guides & Transcripts

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TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
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Audio Dialogues with Scripts

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Video Sparknotes

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Speakaboos

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Listen and Read Along

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American Stories for English Learners

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American Rhetoric - Top 100 Speeches - Text and MP3 Streams

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Vocabulary 
(Fruits, Men's Clothing, Pets, Religion, Sea Animals)

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Films from General Electric

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ICRT Online

The Student Standard

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Talking Sport 
(from BBC Learning English)
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English Listening Material

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Collocations Dictionaries; Collocation/Corpus Search Engines; Corpus Analysis Tools

Collocations Dictionaries  Collocation/Corpus Search Engines
Corpus Analysis Tools

Collocations Dictionaries

● The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English

● Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English--Online Search

● Free Online Collocations Dictionary

● Macmillan Collocations Dictionary

● ozdic.com: the English Collocations Dictionary Online

      ● Sports Dictionary of English-Chinese & Chinese-English Collocations

Collocation /Corpus Search Engines

● Collocations Search

● JustTheWord

● Sketch Engine

● BYU Corpora (The mostly widely used corpora)

● WebCorp Live

● Corpuseye

● Complete Lexical Tour

● Corpus Concordance English

● TCSE (Ted Corpus Search Engine)

● TIME Magazine Corpus

● Search for Sentences Used by VOA's Special English Program Scripts

● TANGO

● TOTALrecall

● Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

● British National Corpus

● British Academic Spoken English (BASE)

● British Academic Written English Corpus (BAWE)

● CARE (Concordancer for Academic wRitten English)

● PERC Corpus Online

● Business Letter Corpus Online KWIC Concordancer 

● Corpus of American Soap Operas

● MICASE (Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English)

● Corpus of of Historical American English

● Strathy (Corpus of Canadian English)

●  International Corpus of English 

Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus of Modern Chinese

● A Collection of Chinese Corpora and Frequency Lists 

(1. Chinese Internet; 2. Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese;

3. Corpus of Business Chinese)

Student Corpora

 MICUSP (Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers)

The Corpus of Academic Learner English (CALE)

Corpus Analysis Tools
Tools for Corpus Linguistics

(Simple Concordance Program)

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