Bridging English 

The following websites are aimed at helping students who plan to enter university and want to improve their English and study skills.

Using English for Academic Purposes

This is an excellent website containing various exercises and information aimed at students who want to study at university and need to improve their language and study skills. 

Self-Access Centre for Language Learning

An excellent website for students wishing to improve their lecture listening skills. Consisting of a number of university lectures, visitors to the website can listen to these lecture in sections, or play it through. There is also transcript for each lecture and comprehensions questions to help check for understanding. The lectures vary in terms of difficulty and can be downloaded and played on any mp3 player.

Centre for Independent Language Learning - Grammar

Consisting of a variety of interactive exercises, this website is useful for students who plan to study at university and want to brush up on their English grammar. 

Guide to Grammar and Writing

A comprehensive website containing lots of information on English grammar and writing academic essays aimed at students with a high level of English. As well as tutorials there are many interactive quizzes on a variety of areas including grammar, vocabulary and sentence structure. 

The Online Writing Lab at Purdue

This website is administered by Purdue university and has been around for a long time. This webpage contains links to a variety of online grammar and punctuation exercises as well as worksheets that can be printed out (with answers).

The Academic Word List

The Academic Word List consists of commonly used academic words and was compiled with the idea that learning these words would help students prepare for tertiary study. For a more concise list of frequently used academic words, click here.

Language and Learning Online

Created by Monash University, this website contains a variety of resources which help students improve their academic study skils. The resources consist of tutorials, interactive exercises and short video clips. Topics include how to prepare and present an oral presentation, note-taking skills, academic writing and grammar. Click here to go to grammar tutorials on the passive, articles and perfect tenses.