Sites
with a rich source of British English
BBC
World Service.
News, articles, and RealAudio broadcasts in a wide range
of languages from the World Service.
BBC
English Radio
English language learnig & teaching. Your initial starting
point to help you learn English using the BBC's World Service
radio which gives some great tips on how to start learning
English using radio programmes.
Sites
with a rich source of American English
CNN
News
24-Hour Non-Stop Headlines,World News,US News and Weather
News.
Voice
of America (VOA) . The VOA
newsroom has live news via the internet as well as a
seven day archive. If you want to listen with a radio, schedules
and frequencies can be found here.
America's
Public Broadcast Service Online NewsHour There is a
text
only version of this which you can use to check your
listening comprehension.
Interactive
Listening Comprehension Practice Produced by Doug Mills
from the Lingua Centre at the University of Illinois. This
site has a number of interactive listening comprehension
exercises based on excerpts from American radio and TV programmes.
These exercises are best for intermediate to quite advanced
learners. Try it!
Other
sources of English
CBC Radio on The Internet
This is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio station.
The site uses real audio so you can listen live!
World
Radio Networks (WRN) WRN broadcasts international news
and feature programming from public radio stations in over
20 countries around the world via satellite, cable and the
internet
Radio
Australia's
Asia Pacific programme is broadcast live on Saturdays. Audio
Archives at date back to April 1998. There's a useful
link to Regional Extra which has a list of articles related
to the archived radio programmes.
RTHK
on line live broadcasts of radio programmes in English.
The files can be either sent as a continuous stream to your
pc or you can download them and listen to them in your own
time and at your own pace.
Timecast:
The RealAudio Guide A complete listing of RealAudio
Broadcasts from around the globe - concerts, video, radio
and TV. Take a look!
English
- References
YourDictionary.com
home
to more than 150 dictionaries. Multilingual dictionaries,
specialty Engish Dictionaries, thesauri and other vocabulary
aids, language identifiers and Guessers, and index of Dictionary
indices and a wev of on-line grammars
Merriam-Webster
OnLine provides a free, searchable on-line dictionary
and thesaurus, word games, a word of the day, and many other
English language and vocabulary reference tools and resources.
Multilingual
Tools and Services. Links to online dictionaries, search
engines, and other resources, in a variety of languages.
Dictionary.com
Free online English dictionary, thesaurus and reference
guide, crossword puzzles and other word games, online translator
and Word of the Day.
Encyclopedia.com
More
than 14,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic
Encyclopedia, Third Edition have been assembled to provide
free, quick and useful information on almost any topic.
Encarta
® Online Home
Encarta Online is the home for the Encarta Concise Encyclopedia,
the Encarta Schoolhouse educational site and Encarta Explore,
an ever-changing resource for exploration.
Encyclopeida
EncyberPedia.The Living Encyclopeida. Good sections on Common
Errors in English, Online English Grammar, and Writing Resources
Online.
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English
- Listening
The
English Listening Lounge
Learn English by listening. Study anytime, any place.
It's easy, and it's fun. Listen to real people speaking real
English. Your English will improve quickly.
Foreign
Languages for Travellers.
Basic words and expressions in a wide range of languages,
both text and sound. You can also search for a particular
word/phrase to be translated into all the languages.
The Yamada
Language Center
records a wide variety of programming every weekend. The
weekend schedule broaden the cultural scope. This allows language
students a chance to peer deeper inside the country they're
studying and foreign students to get a taste of home.
English
- Pronunciation
Guide
to Pronunciation This page gives the pronunciation symbols
from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
The
International Phonetic Alphabet This is the full pronunciation
chart produced by The International Phonetic Association.
English
- Vocabulary & Grammar
CNN
Newsroom for ESL An excellent site to practise
English grammar and vocabulary with authentic news articles
based upon a weekly CNN broadcast throughout the school year.
Materials are categorised according to grammar items and dates.
Don't miss it.
WordWatch
Weekly commentary on a common word or phrase taken out of
the Bank of English - COBUILD's database of current English.
The commentary not only offers a definition of the word or
phrase but also discusses interesting details about its usage.
Longman
Dictionaires This site has word games, study exercises
and lesson plans.
World
Wide Words - Usage Notes Short articles about words that
often cause problems.
Learning
'First
Sight, Second Thoughts' looks
at the lives of six people who have settled in Britain. Read
and listen to their stories and then try the exercises. 4
video and 2 audio narratives.
Language
Exercises. Cloze tests in German, Spanish, French, Italian,
Dutch, and English.
The
Learning Group: Personalised Learning Games. Create your
own language learning game online (as a Java applet), or play
games created by other authors.
Interactive
Learning Resources Vocabulary and comprehension exercises
based on CNN New stories. You can read as well as listen to
the new stories.
Gammar
Safari, The Lingua Centre This site includes lots of suggested
activities to learn about how particular grammar items are
used in WWW materials. Particularly good for independent learners
or teachers.
Online
Writing Labs
Online
Writing Room The mission of the Writing Room is to provide
an open teaching and learning environment for the collaborative
discussion of writing so that students may become more aware
and independent writers.
TC's
Online Writing Lab Help with essays, research papers,writing
tutors, helpful documents.
Paradigm
Online writing assistant Writing informal essays, thesis,
argumentative essays, exploratory essays, and documenting
your sources
Quotations
Quotations
Collections including Advice(good and bad), Proverbs, Annoying
Proverbs, Wit, Famous Leaders, Recent, Wisdom, Micellaneous
Malapropisms, Posters with Quotes,
The
Quotations Page A large site devoted to quotations from
famous people and literature. Over 10,000 quotations are available
for searching and browsing. Includes the popular Quotes of
the Day.
Quotations
by Writers Those who live by their words.
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