Discover English

Discover English contains 150 exercises practising grammar points, vocabulary, spelling and idioms, as well as an Editor facility to enable teachers to write their own exercises.

Before attempting an exercise the learner can read an explanation of the language to be practised, and can read and listen to the completed sentences. An animated Scotsman called Hamish will check the answers as they are entered, or you can choose to wait until the end of the exercise to have them checked.

The exercises are in three categories according to difficulty, and there is a further group of exercises on living in the UK. Each language level offers exercises on verbs, other parts of speech and use of language, with sub-menus for each. The 'Living in the UK' section gives essential information for the newcomer.

The learner can read and listen to a series of sentences illustrating the particular point. The sentences have been recorded by teachers from different parts of the UK, so that learners hear a variety of voices and accents.

The exercises vary in type - gap-fill (with or without options), substitution (with or without options), re-ordering words, re-ordering sentences, correcting sentences (e.g. punctuation), questions about sentences (e.g. their meaning), selecting words from a sentence (e.g. Find the adjective) and matching two halves of a sentence or two parts of a word.

Using the Editor provided you can make up your own exercises. A variety of types of exercise is available: gap-fill, with or without multiple-choice answers; substitution, with or without multiple-choice answers; rearranging words in a sentence or sentences in a text; changing sentences by correction (e.g. punctuation) or re-writing; multiple-choice questions about sentences, e.g. their meaning; selecting a word or words, e.g.'Find the verb'; matching two words, two halves of a sentence, etc.