Free Tutorials for English Learning & Practice

  OM VIDEO
 

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Video conversations with interactive exercises for listening practice in six levels: Elementary, Low Intermediate. Intermediate, High Intermediate, Advanced and First Certificate.

OM DICTATION
 

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Dictations with interactive exercises for listening practice in four levels: Bsic Elementary, Intermediate. High Intermediate and Advanced.

 OM CONNECTOR

 

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150 connectors, linkers and discourse markers split into 18 categories. This complete tutorial will help you improve your essays, general writing and conversations. Activities with automatic answers.

  OM PODCAST

 

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OM PODCAST is our brand new "Free Download Center" with lots of resources in 8 levels of difficulty. If you are a teacher or a student are looking for audios and videos to transfer them to your iPOD or portable mp3 player, then this is your section.

OM ACCENTS

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OM ACCENTS analizes the way English is pronounced by different people in different places. This special tutorial shows how accents vary not only geographically, but also with social class, formality, sex and age. You will listen to the various accents used by people who speak English as their mother tongue. You will also listen to several non-native speakers. Start making the most of it just clicking on the link to the left !!

OM AUDIO

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Multimedia dialogues and conversations with sound files for listening online and interactive exercises for practising. Three levels: Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced.

OM BUS

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Take a ride on our Double-Decker and experience hilarious conversations or hot arguments onboard and enjoy 3-step interaction: a) overhear what passengers are saying; b) practise with interactive activities and online answers; c) print out full dialogue transcriptions together with interesting with glossaries. Levels range from Intermediate and First Certificate to Advanced listening. We believe this FREE package of interrelated sound files and 11 dialogues provide a basis with wide possibilities for both ESL students and teachers. Get on board and take it for granted that you will have fun inside our OM BUS!!

OM EXPRESS
VOCABULARY

 

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Bilingual Talking Dictionary of Situations and Vocabulary with Thematic Index (over 200 pages). SITUATIONS: A wide variety of everyday situations with extensive lists of vocabulary.
SPECIFIC GLOSSARIES: Specially-designed reports on several useful topics: company profiles and reports, job interviews, management styles and doing business with Japanese. Questions, recommendations and technical glossaries (legal, business, ecology, beer, etc.).

OM EXERCISE

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NOW INTERACTIVE EXERCISES !!! Over 200 grammar exercises with online answers for your self-evaluation. Split up in 12 categories: Verbal Tenses, Modals, Conditionals, Passive Voice, Reported Speech, Questions, Gerunds, Articles, Relative Clauses, Adjectives, Adverbs, Word Order, Prepositions.  

OM EXAM

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Academic examinations with online answers in 6 levels of difficulty: Beginner, Elementary, Low Intermediate, Intermediate, High Intermediate and Advanced.

OM EVALUATION
 

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50 practical evaluation tests with automatic scoring and printable copies with online answers and 6 levels of difficulty: Elementary, Beginner, Low Intermediate, Intermediate, High Intermediate, and Advanced. 

OM FCE
 

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NEW SECTION FIRST CERTIFICATE: We recommend you to visit this section in order to improve and update your techniques for the FCE Exam: listening activities; the main exercises with online answers (Multiple Choice and Open Gap Filling, Rewriting Sentences, Error Correction and Word Formation); fundamental articles (common mistakes, reported speech, confusing families, character and personality description, word order, countables and uncountables, pronunciation of -ED in the past of regular verbs) and much more.

OM GRAMMAR

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YOU ASKED FOR THIS!! All the English grammar explained in Spanish: adjectives, adverbs, articles, comparative y superlative degrees, false friends, nouns, passive voice, prepositions, pronouns, pronunciation, punctuation marks, verbs... and much more. 

OM LIBRARY
 

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This is your personal library in our portal: 50 works from well-known English and American writers. Each author has an infopage with her/his biography and complete information about each volume. Books have been zipped so you can download them onto your computer easily. At present you can download books from these authors: Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, John Buchan, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens, Edward M. Forster, Elizabeth Gaskell, Francis Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe, William S. Porter (O. Henry), George Bernard Shaw, Mary Shelley, Robert L. Stevenson, Bram Stoker, William Thackeray, Mark Twain, Herbert George Wells, Edith Wharton and Oscar Wilde.  

 OM LISTEN
 

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This is really good news. OM LISTEN allows you to practise listening comprehension with assignments in three levels of difficulty and online answers. This brand new section in our portal provides a wide range of possibilities for ESL students and teachers in three levels: Basic or Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced.

OM MISTAKE
 

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OM MISTAKE is dedicated to 300 of the most common errors found among English language learners of Spanish-speaking background. This 3-level bilingual section is mainly aimed at helping students to avoid making these common mistakes, and may also help English teachers who are working -or planning to work- with Spanish-speaking students.

OM PHONETICS
 

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Brand new section with MP3 sound. The phonetic alphabet and the English sounds. All the symbols for vowels, diphthongs and consonants. Voiced and voiceless sounds. Practice with reading exercises. Tips on learning or practising phonetics. English spelling. The English alphabet. This section provides wide possibilities for ESL intermediate students and teachers.

 OM PHRASAL
 

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Impressive brand new section with 1000 Phrasal Verbs ordered alphabetically through an interactive index. With bilingual grammar, examples, activities and exercises with over 250 sentences and automatic answers. A section providing wide possibilities for ESL intermediate students and teachers.

OM POETRY
 

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Maybe you are wondering, "What am I doing at this section?" Perhaps you are consumed by curiosity today or it is just casual interest about poetry. This is our poetic choice through 20 poet and poetesses: John Howard Payne, Thomas Hood, Mary Howitt, Henry Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wordsworth, Alan Alexander Milne, Edward Lear, Christina Rossetti, John Boyle O'reilly, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Katherine Mansfield, Jorge Luis Borges, Quentin James Reynolds, Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood and Wendy Cope. You can also check short and easy-going poets' bios. Make the most of these 32 poems -some of them with MP3 sound- just clicking on their titles.

OM QUESTION
 

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In OM QUESTION four teachers will ask you 200 three-level questions. Many of them are typical questions in FCE or CAE oral exams. This section provides wide possibilities for ESL intermediate students and teachers.

OM THEATRE

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Students can practise American English conversation at OM THEATRE with Richard Via's "NEVER ON WEDNESDAY", and have fun with a "traditional" American family whose dialogues are based on this play and written by Julia Dobson. We believe this package of interrelated play and 14 dialogues with sound provide a basis with wide possibilities for both ESL intermediate students and teachers.

OM VERBS

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Verbal tenses (simple and progressive) are explained in an amusing way with basic math formulas. Lists: 450 Regular verbs, 120 Irregular verbs, Business verbs, and the 20 Top Phrasal Verbs.

OM WEATHER

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In this section we display an interactive map on which you can click to listen to the weather forecast in 17 USA cities. Also we present -both in text and audio- two full weather reports and a curious funny dialogue: 20 cold-weather words beginning with "S". 

Free Edutainment (Education & Entertainment) Tutorials

GRAMMAR SONGS
 

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Bilingual songs with sound files especially designed to revise grammar issues. At present you can practise the DAYS OF THE WEEK; the verbs CAN, CAN'T and NEED; the structures THERE ARE MANY/A LOT OF and STOP/LIKE plus gerund; the main VERBAL TENSES, etc. It is an excellent resource to learn or practise grammar with fun. Don't lose them!!! 

OM BEATLES
 

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Come to OM BEATLES and enjoy the performances of the four lads from Liverpool in these videoclips. The Beatles can never truly make music together again. However, their legacy remains with us and today their music is expanding as new (and old) listeners discover it everyday. Repeating a song is highly effective to learn a language, so this brand new section provides wide possibilities. Just click on the images and have fun !!

OM BROADWAY
 

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Come to OM BROADWAY and enjoy our favorite music. You will find here musical excerpts, bilingual lyrics and grammar to the best musical shows in London and New York: Anything Goes, Cats, Mame, Libertango, My Fair Lady, The Phantom of the Opera, The Sound of Music and Evita. No need to join the queue, no need to pay a ticket. Just click on the POSTERS and have fun !!

OM CAFÉ
 

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Come to OM CAFÉ NOSTALGIA and enjoy our favorite music. You will find here musical excerpts, bilingual lyrics and grammar to 10 best songs of all times. This new section provides wide possibilities for ESL students and teachers. No need to drop a nickel in the jukebox. Just press the RED BUTTONS and have fun !!

OM CHRISTMAS
 

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Come to OM CHRISTMAS and enjoy our festive music. You will find musical excerpts, bilingual lyrics and glossaries to the best Christmas songs: White Christmas, Winter Wonderland, When A Child Is Born, Jingle Bell Rock, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town... and more. Also interesting articles to read and a short story for download. Come in... and sing with us !!!

OM CLASSICS
 

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Come to OM CLASSICS and enjoy our favorite music. You will find here MP3 songs, bilingual lyrics and glossaries from the best Hollywood movie classics. No need to join the waiting line, no need to pay a ticket. Just click on the SONGS TITLES and get chills with these unforgettable melodies !!

OM CRUISE

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We invite you to a virtual vacation onboard an authentic ship. You will be able to check an updated image from a webcam set up on the captain's bridge against a day-to-day itinerary. While you cruise you will visit exceptional ports of call with activities and answers online. 

OM DETECTIVE
 

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Dr. DeLator, a detective from San Francisco, has some mysteries to solve. You will find here sound files with full transcriptions, bilingual glossaries, and the solutions to the cases. OM DETECTIVE provides wide possibilities for ESL students and teachers.

OM GAMES

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EDUTAINMENT SECTION: Crosswords, puzzles, grammar games, word searches and more for your fun. ALL the answers online.

OM MOVIES
 

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Come to OM MOVIES and enjoy the dialogues, conversations and speeches of our favorite films. You will find here sound excerpts with full transcriptions, grammar and bilingual glossaries to 8 best movies of all times. This new section provides wide possibilities for ESL students and teachers. Tickets are sold out, but admission is free for our subscribers.

OM PEOPLE
 

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Eight of our best friends are celebrating OM Personal Eighth Anniversary. OM PEOPLE allows you to practise creative listening comprehension with fun. Placing your mouse on our friends' faces you will read what they are talking about, and by clicking on their faces you will access assignments with online answers. These comments provide with wide possibilities for ESL Intermediate to Advanced students and teachers, so come to our dinner table... and enjoy your meal !!

OM SINATRA

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50 bilingual Frank Sinatra lyrics with MP3 audios, videos, full grammar and glossaries. Enjoy them!! OM Personal is just the ONLY web on the Internet with this material. 

OM SMILES
 

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Laughter has demonstrated to be fully therapeutic as it helps release endorphins and reduce your stress. Here you will find hilarious sound files with full transcriptions and bilingual glossaries. This new section also provides wide possibilities for ESL students and teachers. Come in, listen and show your big smile !!!

OM SPANISH

Argentine artists and specialists speak about their careers and show their CVs (in Spanish).