Useful Websites

Hello!

Here you have some useful websites that can help you improve your understanding and knowledge of illnesses, diseases and epidemics!


365 ESL Short Stories http://www.eslfast.com/  has a short story called "Influenza". You can listen and read the story at the same time, which will help you both with your oral and reading skills.

VOA Voice of America  http://learningenglish.voanews.com  includes a very interesting article about Diseases in Refugee Camps. In the article you can learn about some diseases that spread in refugee camps, and you can also listen to it. This article can help you with your oral and reading skills.

Focus English http://focusenglish.com/index.html provides real life situations and dialogues when speaking in English. Go to the section "Every Day English in conversation” and choose the option "Health". There you can listen to dialogues related to common diseases. You can use the expressions in the dialogues when talking about the diseases and thus improve your oral skills.

Enchanted Learning http://www.enchantedlearning.com offers complete tasks for learning about the Flu. In the main page, go to searcher and type "Flu". The first result contains a reading and a glossary of Flu-related terms, which are very complete. You can write sentences with the words from the glossary in order to work on your writing skills and understanding of the words.

I hope these websites will help you improve your English skills as well as your knowledge about the topic!