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AnWriting
Focus: Revising articles
Source: Reddit fiction/BBC Business/arXiv academic abstracts
Time: 3-5 minutes
Description: This application is aimed at working on revising writing for articles. It uses authentic texts from fiction, news, and academic registers. Choose a type of writing, then select from the choices (or search for academic abstracts) and add in the missing articles.
TouchWords
Focus: Identifying and revising irregular simple past verbs
Source: Common irregular verbs
Time: 8 minutes
Description: Find the incorrect simple past forms. Touch them to collect 10 points. In the bonus round, type in the simple past form to get 50 points for each correct answer.
Rhymez
Focus: Identifying words with rhymes
Source: New General Service List
Time: 3 minutes
Description: Choose a word to rhyme with, then tap all the words that rhyme.
Stress Out
Focus: Identifying words with similar main stress
Source: Academic Word List (2000)
Time: 3 minutes
Description: Choose a stress pattern to match, then tap all the words that have the same main stress.