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Useful Links - Adults

 

News

The teachers’ newspaper

http://www.guardian.co.uk/    

Daily news, straightforward format.

http://www.independent.co.uk/  

The Beeb online – including radio + TV

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ 

Real-time news         

http://www.reuters.com/     

Serious stuff

http://www.economist.com/printedition/   

Links to 3000 newspapers around the world

http://uk.dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/By_Region/Countries/ 

 

Images

Limited but user-friendly

http://images.google.com/

As above – a bit more content – same as Yahoo?

http://www.altavista.com/image/default

Need to subscribe but very fast and useful

http://www.clipart.com/  

A different selection      

http://www.picsearch.com/ 

Maps, links, info....                          

http://worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm 

 

Podcasts

Especially Radio 4 and World Service

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/waystolisten/podcasts/ 

News and features

http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/ 

News, documentaries and more…

http://www.time.com/time/podcasts/  

News and features from down under.         

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/ 

Listed in categories including news, comedy             

http://odeo.com/ 

 

Film and Video

Film, commercials, including free stuff

http://filmdownloads.aol.co.uk/  

http://www.cinemanow.com/

News and features          

http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/  

Lots of shorts – home and professional  
http://www.youtube.com/ 

Life explain on film

http://www.videojug.com/

 

 

Publishers' resources

http://www.insideout.net/resources/index.htm

http://www.macmillanenglish.com/

http://www.oup.com/elt/

http://www.longman.com/

http://www.cambridge.org/elt/resources/login/

              

Teaching Materials     

Loads of stuff here.

http://www.onestopenglish.com/

Check the idea cookbook

http://www.eslcafe.com/ 

Worksheets and tests at different levels

http://www.englishbanana.com/

Quality handouts – some free samples      

http://www.handoutsonline.com/ 

From BC – some very good plans   

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ 

Lots of stuff for lessons           

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/      

http://www.usingenglish.com/lesson-plans.html   

 

English Language Resources

Dictionary search – linked to 930 dictionaries!

http://onelook.com/

A thesaurus

http://thesaurus.reference.com/ 

Concordances and collocations taken from a huge corpus        

http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/  

For word detectives

http://www.etymonline.com/  

Unusual and naughty words        

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/

 

Business

The Harvard Business School. Articles and guides on marketing, sales, investment, finance, interviews with business gurus

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ 

UK website for entrepreneurs. A mine of free materials in the form of PDF guides. Fantastic for ESP teaching, log in and create your own PDF books then print them out for free.           

www.businesslink.gov.uk 

Chartered Institute of Marketing. Articles, case studies, fact files, guides on all aspects of marketing: sales, forecasting, market research, brand management etc.     

www.cim.co.uk/knowledgehub 

Free presentation templates plus articles on presentation skills.       

http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/presentations.htm 

A fantastic website with learning materials on specialist subjects like accounting, business strategy, statistics, operations management etc. Free ppt presentations with mindmaps of key terminology plus real case studies with real problems to solve.    

http://www.bized.co.uk/learn/learn.htm 

Good for both General English and ESP, contains useful key vocabulary lists for HR, logistics, accounting etc      

http://esl.about.com/     

 

Miscellaneous

Poetry – written and recordings

http://www.poetryarchive.org/

Audiobooks, poetry, film clips – loads of stuff…         

http://www.archive.org/ 

All types of puzzle – make and paste to Word                   

http://www.puzzlemaker.com/