May 24 2008
Archive for the 'Links' Category
Apr 18 2008
A Little Book of Useful Links
By
Dot MacKenzie & Eman Marafi
Feb 2006
Links – Introduction - How Can You Use the Internet to Study?
The Internet is an extremely useful means of obtaining information about any subject under the sun. Once you are connected to Netscape Communicator, for example, it is possible to type any word in the search box, and you will usually find a list of sites that provide information about the word or subject you are looking for. There are also many ways that the Internet can be used to learn English, such as:
1. learning the alphabet as you type
2. learning alphabetical ordering
3. learning to read numbers
4. scanning – working out what is useful when you are reading
5. synthesizing information from different sources
6. listening and understanding spoken English
7. writing emails to friends around the world
Moreover, there are many sites that can help you to study grammar, test you on your knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, or teach you reading and writing skills, as well as sites where you can look up meanings of new words, and learn idioms. They are of use to beginning students, and those who are writing PH. D. dissertations.
In addition, if you are studying other subjects, the following list of websites may be of interest. Try them and see what you find. With some of them, you will be given links to other useful sites. There is no limit to the amount of information that you will find, useful and useless, interesting and boring. The only limit is time since most of us do not want to spend all day looking at a computer screen.
Unfortunately, links change so that some of the links here may not work. If you need specific information, type a word related to the information in a search box, and you should find lots of links. The problem then is that you will have to open each site to see if it is easy enough for you to understand, and to assess the information for its relevancy.
Table of Contents
Advice for Authors
Alumni
Arabic
Arabic/English dictionaries
Archaeology
Architecture
Art galleries
Asking questions
Associations
Biology
Blogging
Books on the web
Business English
Calendars
CALL
Chemistry
Climatology
Clip art
CMC (Computer mediated communication)
Computer science
Conferences
Creative technology
Diagrams
Dictionaries/Idioms
Disabilities
Distance education
E-learning
Encyclopaedia
English
Environment (see geography)
E-publishers
ESP
Examinations
Food
Foreign languages
French
Games
Genealogy
Geography
Geology
German
Grammar
Groupboards
Health
History
Holidays
Home exchange
Homework
How stuff works
Idioms
Journals – see newspapers
Just for fun
Kids
Kids (teachers’ links/CALL)
Kuwait
Kuwait University online language learning
Language Schools – Kuwait
Lesson plans & material
Libraries
Linguistics
Links for majors
Listening & speaking
Magazines (see newspapers)
Marking schemes
Maths
Medical English
Meeting other teachers
Movies
Museums
Music (ESL/EFL) (see songs)
Muslim scientists/philosophers
Nasreddin
Natural history
Newspapers/magazines/journals
Oceanography
Odds & ends
Online ESL/EFL journals
Online magazines
Ornithology
Patents
Phonics (see pronunciation)
Photography
Poetry
PowerPoints
Prefixes
Presentation skills
Professional organisations
Projects
Pronunciation/phonetics
Proverbs & quotations
Publishers
Puzzles
Quizzes
Quotations
Reading
Reference/encyclopaedia
Report writing – low level
Report writing – higher level
Report writing – advanced
Report writing – other links
Rhetorical functions
School directory for Kuwait
Science
Search engines
Security (computer)
Slang
Smileys
Songs
Space
Speaking (see listening)
Speed reading
Sports
Statistics
Student life
Surfing the net
Teachers’ CALL links/Teaching ideas/Materials/Lesson plans
Teacher training
TESOL/TEFL
Testing & assessment (see quizzes & exams)
TOEFL
TOEIC
Translating
Travel
Treasures of Arabia
Typing
Virtual offices
Vocabulary/Internet vocabulary
Webquests
Websurfing
Worksheets
Writing
Why?
Young learners (see kids)
Zoology
Alumni
http://infophil.com/Kuwait/Alumni/
http://www.alumni.net/Middle-East/Kuwait/Kuwait-University/
Arabic
http://www.j-cias.com/babel/arabic/001.htm
www.academicinfo.net/langarabic.html
Arabic/English Dictionary
www.dictionary.ajeeb.com/en/htm
www.almisbar.com/dict_page.html
Archaeology
www.cc.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/
www.channel4.com/nextstep/great_excavations
http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/
British listed buildings
Photos and information about ancient monuments
www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/kuwait/
http://www.web.idirect.com/atrium/thisday.html
Unesco’s world heritage sites
http://Discoverychannel.co.uk/rebuildingthepast/_home
Replica Roman villa
Architecture
http://www.geocities.com/dygonza/unitsyllabus.html
http://www.architectureforall.com/
Kuwaiti art gallery
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
Associations
See professional organisations
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience
Online learning centre
Blogging
http://www.classicbookshelf.com/
http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/
http://www.intac.com/~booklink/
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
Gutenberg Online Library
http://www.studentbookworld.com/
Business English
http://www.nonstopenglish.com/allexercises/BusinessEnglish.asp
Grammar and vocabulary exercises for business English
Business language testing service
http://www.better-english.com/exerciselist.html
Vocabulary, grammar, reading, presentations, etc
www.english-english-english.com
Multimedia techniques
http://marksesl.com/site_map.html
Links for business English
http://eslcafe.com/search/Business_English/index.html
Business English links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/business/index.html
Exercises for business English
http://cwabacon.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/seyler_ab/chapter8/
Inferences
http://eleaston.com/biz/bizhome.html
Business English links
Calendars
http://highhopes.com/21centurycalendar.html
http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/main.html
Make your own calendar, with Saturday as the first day of the week.
CALL
http://www.members.tripod.com/grovesie/call.htm
Information and ideas on using the WWW and computers for teaching. You can share your own ideas and questions.
www.aitech.ac.jp/~teslj/TESL/CALL
Extensive CALL links
www.coe.missouri.edu/~cjw/CALL/Links.htm
Extensive list of CALL links
http://www.eslcafe.com/search/CALL/
Extensive CALL links
http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~elu_sci/links_call.htm
Links to various CALL related sites.
http://eslcafe.com/search/Resources/index.html
Links to other sites
www.csc.fi/lal.chem/graphics.html
http://www.chemsoc.org/timeline/pages/timeline.html
Chemistry time line
http://www.aurorawatch.york.ac.uk/
Clip art
http://school.discovery.com/clipart/
Practice using clip art. Send emails to your friends and teacher with clip art included in your paragraphs. Include it in your paragraphs.
http://school.discovery.com/clipart/
Learn how to insert clip art into your documents.
CMC (Computer Mediated Communication)
http://www.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/math_res.html
Conferences
IATEFL
TESOL
http://www.tesol.edu/conv/index.html
Diagrams
Dictionaries/Idioms
www.almisbar.com/dict_page.htm
www.shu.ac.uk/web-admin/phrases/search.html
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/Roget.html
http://www.netlingo.com/
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
http://titania.cobuild.colins.co.uk/
Disabilities
http://eslcafe.com/search/Disabilities/index.html
Links to other sites
Distance education
Open University
National Extension College
University of London external program
Open Learning Center International
International correspondence schools
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/odlqc/
Open and distance learning quality council
www.distance-learning.hobsons.com
E-learning
Encyclopaedias
Encyclopaedia Britannica on-line
http://www.historychannel.com/
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes.grammar.html
http://bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
http://www.britishcouncil.org/
http://www.churchillhouse.com/english/
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/
http://www.english-forum.com/interactive/
http://eslgames.com/teachingsongs/edutainment1/
www.heinemann.co.uk/elt/elt.html
http://www.manythings.org/voa/
http://www.virtualhouse.org/game.cgi
www.know-how.org.uk/Intro.html
http://www.onlineoriginals.com/
English for specific purposes
http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~dotmack/
http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~elu_sci/
Links for scientific writing, report writing, presentations, and research
Examinations
Business language testing service
Cambridge EFL
International English Language Testing System
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC)
Food
Information and quizzes about food, health and your personality.
Information about food
http://www.fti.net/mocolib1/kid/food1.html
History of food
http://www.recipebookonline.com/
You can send your own recipe to this site.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/healthyeating/
Healthy and unhealthy food
www.travlan.com/languages/index.html
French
http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~kuoll/
www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/french/index.shtml
Games
http://eslgames.com/teachingsongs/edutainment1/
Create your own learning materials
http://www.eslcafe.com/ideas/sefer.cgi/Games
Games for learning English
Tools and templates for creating quizzes, and links to other sites
http://www.funbrain.com/teachers/index.html
Make your own multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and essay quizzes. Online and ready-made quizzes
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/
Make cloze, multiple choice, and comprehension quizzes, or your own homepage
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
Create your own multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence,
crossword, matching/ordering, and gap-fill exercises. You can download free software
Games for kids
http://www.funbrain.com/detect/
Make your own word search
Genealogy
Public records
Surname web
vsia.edu/vnp/titanic/p2.htm
List of passengers
Worldroots.com
US census
UK and Ireland Genealogy Service
Canadian archives
http://geography.miningco.com/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
www.nationalgeographic.com/maps
www.new7wonders.com/voting.php
Vote for new seven wonders of modern world
www.crystalinks.com/seven.html
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/country-frame.html
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/
German
http://Kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~kuoll/
www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german.index.shtml
Ages 12 – 14
Grammar
http://aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/grammar.html
http://bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
http://www.churchillhouse.com/english/
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/toc.cfm
http://www.english-forum.com/interactive/
http://eslgames.com/teachingsongs/edutainment1/
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
Grammar rules and writing style, listed alphabetically.
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/toc.cfm
Verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, practice activities, and a grammar clinic.
http://busboy.sped.ukans.edu/~allenq/netgrammar/main.html
Grammar points, reading, writing, and listening practice.
http://www.Pacificnet.net/~sperling/wwwboard2/wwwboard.html
Help for ESL/EFL students.
http://www.engl.niu.edu/dhardy/grammarbook/title.html
Grammar and structure explanations with quizzes.
http://www.manythings.org/voa/
http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/help/grammar_help/
Hints, rules, and exercises on English grammar from Ruth Vilmi.
Groupboards
http://www.thehealthnetwork.com/
History
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/gateway/index.html
http://www.learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/
http://www.thisdayinhistory.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
http://www2.canisius.edu/~emeryg.time.html
Holidays
http://www.extremeadventures.com/au/home.php
Students’ holidays
Holidays all over the world.
Home exchange
Homework
www.bbc.co.uk/education/revision
http://www.digitalbrain.co.uk/
http://www.freeserve.com/education
The way things work
Idioms
http://www.eslcafe.com/idioms/
Just for fun
Kids
http://kcu02.kuniv.edu.kw/~dotmack/
Links to other sites
Very young children’s links
Kids (Teachers’ links/CALL)
http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~dotmack/
Links for children and teachers
http://www.zu.ac.ae/library/elt_teachers.html
Zayed University’s teachers’ links
Kuwait
General site
http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~kuoll/
Kuwait University online language learning
Student information service
http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~dotmack/
What’s on in Kuwait, and information about Arabian Peninsula
www.britishcouncil.org/kuwait/
Kuwait University Online Language Learning
http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~kuoll/
Language schools – Kuwait
AMIDEAST
Berlitz Language Institute
British Council
British Institute of Training and Education
New Horizon
Lesson plans & material
See teachers’ CALL links
Libraries
British Library
Internet public library
US Library of Congress
National Library of Scotland
Linguistics
http://www.cal.org/resources.update.html
Center for Applied Linguistics
Links to other sites
Links for Majors
http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~dotmack/
Links to sites for many majors
Links to sites for many majors
http://webster.commnet.edu/webpicks/weblist/weblist.htm
Links for sciences, humanities, education, computers, and general education topics, e.g. writing a research paper.
Information about anthropology, astronomy, biology, earth science and paleontology. Worksheets.
http://picasso.wcape.school.za/subject/subj.htm
Links to ESL, geography, history, mathematics, etc.
Listening & speaking
Links and quizzes
Links to other sites
http://www.onestopenglish.com/
Free resources
Magazines
See newspapers
Marking schemes
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/triton/tidepoolunit/Rubrics/reportrubric.html
Scientific report rubric
Maths
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math.drmath.college.html
http://www.lessonsplanspage.com/
http://www.mathslessons.co.uk/
www.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/math_res.html
Kuwait University’, Faculty of Science - math links
http://www.internet-at-work.com/hos_mcgrane/ancient_numbers/maths_menu.html
Ancient number systems
http://saxakali.com/COLOR_ASP/chinamh1.htm
Math in Ancient China
http://www.factmonster.com/mathmoney.html
Math and money
http://www.guernsey.net/~sgibbs/roman.html
Roman numerals and date conversions
Math activities
http://www.trentu.ca/academicskills/math.htm
Math links
http://www.coolmath.com/home.htm
Algebra, geometry, calculus, fractals, etc
http://en2.wikipedia.org.wiki/Mathematics
Links to many mathematical topics
Math problems
Medical English
http://markesl.com/site_map.html
Courses for doctors, nurses, and pharmacists
Meeting other teachers
http://ti2.sri.com/tappedin/do/CalendarAction
Synchronous meetings with other teachers
http://www.geocities.com/bawebhead/
Becoming a webhead
Movies
Information about the latest films
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm
http://www.museums.reading.ac.uk/thames/ThamesIM.html
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/
Music
See songs
Muslim Scientists/Philosophers
www.mideasti.org/library/islam/introislam.htm
Middle Eastern religion, life and culture
Nasreddin
http://web2.uvcs/uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/reading
Quizzes about Nasreddin
Natural history
Information about anthropology, astronomy, biology, earth science and paleontology. Worksheets
Newspapers/ Magazines/Journals
http://www.english-to-go.com/english/sample_lessons.cfm
Reuters News
Create your own online newspapers
http://learning.turner.com/newsroom/index.html
Classroom guide for CNN news stories. Archives
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/
English language activities for many different subjects.
http://lc.byuh.edu/CNN_N/CNN-N.html
Grammar and vocabulary exercises based on CNN newsroom broadcasts.
Links to all language skill areas, quizzes, tests, history, country profiles, science, sports, etc.
http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/
http://www.mermaid1.demon.co.uk/
http://www.underwaterdiscovery.org/
Strange goods
Online ESL/EFL journals
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/ari/arihome.html
Journal and links to other resources
http://www.chronicle.merit.edu/
Chronicle of Higher Education
http://corax.cwrl.utexas.edu/cac/
Online journal for teachers of writing
http://www.eflweb.com/
Online journal for teachers and students of English
http://education.guardian.co.uk/tefl
News about issues in teaching and learning EFL form the Guardian newspaper
http://www.fno.org/
Journal of educational technology for learning and literacy
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/
TESL journal. Articles, teaching techniques, activities, lesson plans, and links
http://www.usq.edu.au/electpub/e-jist/
E-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/
International peer reviewed electronic journal
http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/llt/
E-journal for teachers of writing
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/index.html
Online journal for foreign and second language teachers
http://www.tesol.edu/pubs/magz/tm.html
Quarterly publication of TESOL organization
Online magazines
Online magazine for young Europeans. Read it, write and send your article, and see if they will publish it. Tell your friends and teacher if your article is published.
www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2408/
www.webgod.net/leonardo/flight
Phonics
See pronunciation
50,000 photos by Bruce Hertzler
Poetry
http://firstscience.com/site/poems.asp
Science and nature poems
http://www.readfasternow.com/links/poetry-organizations.htm
http://extext.lib.virginia.edu/epd.html
Database of poems
PowerPoint
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/index.html
Prefixes
Presentation skills
http://cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~aae451/presentations/index.htm
Slide presentation about making presentations and slides
http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/
Information about presentations and speeches
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/presentation.html
http://www.canberra.edu/au/studyskills/learning/oralpres.html
www.hio.hanze.nl/thar/presenta.htm
Guide to presentations
Professional organisations
www.tesol.org/
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
TESOL Arabia
http://www.britishcouncil.org/
British Council
http://www.iatefl.org/
International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
http://www.catesol.org/resources.html
Pronunciation/Phonetics
http://www.sunburstmedia.com/PronWeb.html
http://www.eslcafe.com/search/Pronunciation/index.html
Links to other sites
www.sunburstmedia.com/PronWeb.html
Comprehensive links
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html
www.englishclub.net/pronunciation
http://www.onestopenglish.com/
Online phonology course
Proverbs & quotations
www.oneliners-and-proverbs.com
www.famousquotations.com/asp/origins.asp
http://starlingtech.com/quotes/
Publishers
http://faculty.millikin.edu/~rbrooks.hum.faculty.mu/webpubcurriculum.html
Conference paper with information and links on web publishing
Addison Wesley Longman
Cambridge University Press
Heinemann ELT
Holt, Rinehart & Winston College
http://www.thomson.com/heinle.html
Heinle & Heinle
Macmillan
McGraw Hill
Oxford University Press
Thomson Publishing
University of Michigan Press
Puzzles
Make your own puzzles
http://discovery.com/index.html
Make your own crossword, word search, letter tiles, cryptogram, mazes, and math
Activities for science students
See grammar and English lists
http://www.nclrc.org.fltestdb/
Foreign language test database
Bilingual quizzes
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/
Internet TESL Journal quizzes
Quotations
Reading
http://cwa.bacon.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/seyler_ab/chapter8
Inferences
http://www.geocities.com/speed_read/
Commercial site
http://www.nelliemuller.com/reading_comprehension.htm
Reading comprehension exercises
http://lc.ust.hk/~sac/advice/english/reading/R1.htm
How to become a better reader
http://www.school-for-champions.com/grades/reading.htm
Guide to faster reading
http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/texred2.htm
SQ3R reading method. Main site has study guides
http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/English/Labs.htm
Reading lab
http://www.wannalearn.com/Personal_Enrichment/Speed_Reading/
Free instructional sites
http://www.readingsoft.com/freader.html
Speed reading software and online test
http://www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts/512.html
Suggestions for increasing and effectiveness of reading
http://www.eslus.com/LESSONS/READING/READ.HTM
Speed reading exercises
http://www.psychwww.com/mtsite/rdstratg.html
Reading strategies
http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/methods.html
Speed reading self-pacing methods
http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/Speed1.html
Reading better and faster
http://www.school-for-champions.com/grades/reading.htm
Reading faster
http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/eslc/Learning_m/reading.htm
Useful links
http://www.canberra.edu.au/studyskills/learning/reading.html
Reading and remembering
Links for reading
http://english-zone.com/reading/index.html
Reading exercises
http://english-zone.com/study/readtip.html
SQ3R reading method and useful reading tips
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/reading2.html
Reading exercises
http://www.brainquicken.com/px_project_article.asp
How to read 300% faster in 20 minutes
Reference/Encyclopaedias
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/
http://linksmanager.com/firstscience/
Gutenberg Online Library
Report writing - low level
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/report/animal/
Report about an animal
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/report/invention/
Report about Invention/inventors
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/report/planet/
Report about a planet
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/report/explorer
Report about an explorer
http://www.harmsky.freeuk.com/SciRep/GCSE.html
GCSE scientific report
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/essay/bookreport.shtml
Book report
http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/info/howto/yahooligans/
Writing a children’s report
Report writing – higher level
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/reportw/understanding.html
Understanding the sections of your report/General technical guidelines
http://www.askoxford.com/betterwriting/osa/reports/
Successful reports for any situation
http://www.unn.ac.uk/central/studserv/report.htm
Information about report writing
http://homeworktips.about.com/library/weekly/aa012700a.htm
Writing a book report
http://www.eslnetworld.com/paper.html
Simple research paper
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/ScienceReport.html
Writing a scientific report
http://tigger.cc.uic.edu/~magyar/Lab_Help/Report_Writing/body_report_writing.html
Laboratory reports
http://www.si.umich.edu/libhelp/toolkit/usingReportWriting.html