Reading Texts & Activities

English Club Reading (Extracts, short stories, articles, proverbs, tests, news...)

Study Zone (University of Victoria, BC, Canada - reading, vocab, grammar etc - choose your level first)

A4ESL (Mainly reading texts and activities, but also grammar & other stuff)

Newspapers, Radio and TV (for native English speakers - articles only, no activities)

Newspaper Index.com (links to newspapers for the whole world!

The Big Project's Newspaper Page (UK site, links to newspapers in the UK and accross the world)

News Links (Very complete links site - links to radio, Internet and newspapers for the whole world! Go to any country you want and choose the newspapers or websites in English. This URL takes you the the UK page)

Indymedia.org ("Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.")

News Link (American links site - links to US and other counties newspaper websites)

Online comics (a directory of online comics)

The web comic list (very comprehensive alphabetical list of online comics)

Science & Technology (for native English speakers - articles only, no activities)

New Scientist (the No 1 in the field - paper magazine and very complete website)

Slashdot (News for nerds - the ultimate site for gadgets, gear, tecky stuff...)

The Register ("Biting the hand that feeds IT". Whatever that means. Articles and reviews)

Focus (UK monthly paper magazine website - computer, technology & science)

21st Century (UK site - great site for science & technology - articles, reviews, gadgets, films...)

Corante (serious tech news site)

Extreme Tech ("Deep technology"... - for hard-core teckies)

TechMag (mainly articles, but other stuff too)

 

IT security specific (for native English speakers - articles only, no activities)

IT Security (serious security news and stories)

Search Security (news and stories for IT security professionals)

IT Security Cookbook (basically lots of "how to" stuff - the format / name is presumably inspired by the infamous "Anarchist's Cookbook...)

Tech Repblic (big IT site - this link is to their security blog)

SC Magazine ("world's leading security magazine for IT security professionals" - choose US / UK / Australia

 

Random Useful Sites for Reading

Online Books (Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web

Yahoo's "This Day in History" (either today or choose any day in history to find a short text about what happened on that day)

Text Content Analysis Tool (cut & paste text into this window to see the number of words, difficulty of the text etc)