Reading Skills

If you want to improve your reading skills by doing exercises according to your level, you can go the English Gold website, which is particularly comprehensive (click here).

Of course, you can also go to the English Learning pages of the main British and American newspapers: The Guardian or The New York Times (click here) for example; or else, if you feel you can do it (and I’m sure you can!), go straight to the newspapers’ websites: The Guardian (click here), The Times (click here), The Economist (click here), The Financial Times (click here), The New York Times (click here), The Washington Post (click here)… or online news websites: The ConversationSlate, Project Syndicate (click here) to name just a few. If your reading level is expert, then you can try The New York Review of Books (sometimes a goldmine for economics students, click here).

As far as general dictionaries are concerned, in addition to the old-fashioned but very useful paper version, you can use monolingual online dictionaries: Merriam Webster (click here) for example. The Wordreference website presents French/English translations and you can also ask questions on the forums. The Cambridge Dictionaries On Line website (click here) also offers monolingual dictionaries.

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