Activities Update
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1.1 It all depends
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You can also
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1.2 Desperately seeking
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Search engines
AltaVista |
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Northern
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Hotbot |
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An excellent
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1.3 Starspotting
Search engines
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AltaVista |
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Northern Light |
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Excite |
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Category-based
web directories
Yahoo! |
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Excite |
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AltaVista |
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About |
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1.4 Where did I put it?
The following
are example sites which could be classified in various ways under headings such
as: news, travel, music, shopping, newspapers, radio/TV, media.
Broadcast.com
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BBC News |
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British
Tourist Authority |
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CD Universe |
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Mr Showbiz |
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CNN
Interactive |
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Electronic
Telegraph |
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FOX News |
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Rough guides
to travel |
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SonicNet: The Online Music Network |
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Guardian
Unlimited |
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Yalplay (The
Interactive Music & Video Shop) |
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The International Lyrics Server |
http://songfile.snap.com/index_2.html |
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The Sydney
Morning Herald |
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The Times Internet Edition |
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Travelfinders |
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There
are many sites on the Web with information about how Web pages can be
evaluated.
An Intemet quiz
The
following site has a quiz that tests people's expectations about the Web.
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NOT FOUND Internet/internot
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http://www.gvsu.edu/library/intnotqz.htm |
Evaluating the
design and appearance of Web pages
The
following Web pages have information about designing and judging the design of
Web pages:
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http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/pages/page_design.html |
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http://www.ochin.on.ca/webdesign/ |
Evaluating
the status of Web pages
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following Web pages have information about judging the status of information on
the Web:
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http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval/eval1198/index.htm |
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http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/library/staffpages/gwpersonal/senginestudy/zeval.htm |
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http://www.tiac.net/users/hope/findqual.html |
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http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm |
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http://longman.awl.com/englishpages/citation.htm |
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http://www.orst.edu/Dept/eli/July.html |
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http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm |
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http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/ |
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1.5 And the award
goes to
The following addresses offer listings of ‘cool sites'
The Internet Top Ten |
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Yahoo |
http://dir.yahoo.com/entertainment/cool_links/index.html |
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Netscape
What's Cool |
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Cool Site of the Day |
http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com |
1.6 Electric news
1.7 Style check
News sites from
The Guardian
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BBC News |
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Daily Telegraph |
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CNN Interactive |
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ABC News |
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Sydney Morning Herald |
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An international list of online newspapers can be found at:
NewsCentral
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http://www.all-links.com/newscentral/ |
1.8 With a pinch
of salt
Sites offering contrasting views on smoking are:
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ASH |
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FORCES |
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1.9
Lurking detectives
Discussion lists
for learners of English can be found at:
Thomas Robb's Website
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http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/slinfo.html |
The lists
include discussions on:
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INTRO-SL |
Discussion List
for New Members (Registered classes only) |
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CHAT-SL |
General
Discussion List (Low level) |
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DISCUSS-SL |
General
Discussion List (High level) |
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BUSINESS-SL |
Discussion
List on Business and Economics |
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ENGL-SL |
Discussion
List on Learning English |
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EVENT-SL |
Discussion
List on Current Events |
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MOVIE-SL |
Discussion
List on the Cinema |
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MUSIC-SL |
Discussion
List on Music |
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SCITECH-SL |
Discussion
List on Science, Technology &
Computers |
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SPORT-SL |
Discussion
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lists can be found at:
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Dave's ESL
Café |
http://www.eslcafe.com/discussion/ |
The format of
the messages in these lists is more controlled than in normal discussion lists.
1.10 Electronic holidays
Web addresses
where electronic postcards can be found include:
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The
Electric Postcard |
http://postcards.www.media.mit.edu/Postcards/ |
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Be
Mine Greetings |
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Some of the
cards may include animation and sound, which will require a sound-card. The
cards may not work with older versions of Web browsers.
1.11 Post it
Free web-based
discussion lists can be obtained from:
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ListBot |
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Egroups |
1.12 That's telling them
Sites with
news discussion features include:
CNN live chat
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CNN message boards |
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Lycos message boards |
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2.1 Word treasures
WordNet Lexical Database for English
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http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ |
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Plumb Design
Visual Thesaurus |
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Roget's
Thesaurus |
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Wordsmyth educational dictionary-thesaurus |
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2.2 Tough questions,
cross words
Quizzes:
Dave Sperling's ESL café |
http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/ |
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Self-study
quizzes for ESL students |
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/ |
Crosswords:
Crossword puzzles for ESL students |
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/cw/ |
Anagrams:
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Everyday
vocabulary anagrams |
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/anagrams/ |
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NOT FOUND Word games |
Exercises and
other activities:
Linguistic Funland
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http://www.tesol.net/teslact.html |
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Business English Exercises |
http://www.better-english.com/exerciselist.html |
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Interactive
exercises |
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Aardvark's EFL
Resources |
http://www.english-forum.com/interactive/
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2.3 Everywhere you go, always take the
weather with you ...
For
information about the current
The Met.Office Latest Weather
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http://www.meto.govt.uk/sec3/sec3.html |
Information about
international weather can be found at:
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The Weather
Channel |
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Yahoo!
weather |
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Yellow Pagestravel – weather |
Online texts
for use in the variation are available at:
Project Gutenberg |
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2.4
Lists of
international emergency numbers can be found at:
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Irish Emergency Ambulance Services |
http://ambulance.ie.eu.org/Numbers.htm |
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SOSresponse Net |
http://www.healthcareland.com/SOS/SOSresponse.htm |
The emergency
numbers for individual countries can be found at:
Rough Guide Travel |
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Currency
converters can be found at:
The Universal Currency Converter
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Pacific
Exchange Rate Service |
http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/xr/today.html |
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Thomas Cook |
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2.5 Just the job
Sites with job
information include:
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http://www.employmentservice.gov.uk/ |
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Prospects
Web |
http://www.prospects.csu.ac.uk/ |
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Jobs Unlimited |
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Top Jobs on
the Net |
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2.6 I do!
Information
about weddings in the
Weddings.co.uk
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http://www.weddings.co.uk/info/ |
2.10 Consequences
2.11 Last question please
Free web-based
chat rooms can be obtained from:
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Beseen |
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Xoom.com
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3.2
Valentine's Day
Love poetry
can be found on the following sites:
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Poems from the
Planet Earth
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http://redfrog.norconnect.no/~poems/anthologies/love_poems.html |
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Love Poems |
http://www.weddings.co.uk/info/poem.htm |
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Weddings.co.uk |
http://www.weddings.co.uk/info/poem2.htm |
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The Love in Poetry Page |
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/b/Gary.N.Boone/beauty_and_love.html |
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Poets corner |
http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems/SubjIdx/love.html#table |
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Vers libre
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http://www.nth-dimension.co.uk/vl/ |
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Love Poetry |
http://www.weddings.co.uk/info/poem.htm |
3.3 The play's
the thing
Free web-based
chat rooms can be obtained from:
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Beseen |
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Xoom.com
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3.4 Alternative school guide
Informal
descriptions of
The Independent's A-Z of universities |
http://www.independent.co.uk/advancement/Higher/AZuniversities/
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'The Truth is out there'
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The X-Files episode
guides |
http://www.thexfiles.com/episodes/ |
3.6
What the critics say
The following
site lists others which accept and publish book reviews:
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NOT FOUND Where to find book reviews |
http://www1.sympatico.ca/Contents/Entertainment/literature.html#reviews
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The Guardian
book pages for models of reviews |
3.7 Virtual kitchen
Resources about
health and nutrition can be found at:
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Yahoo!
Health |
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The Health Site |
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Cyberdiet |
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3.8
Step by step
Websites with
instructions of various types are listed here:
Recipes
Don't Cook |
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The Vegetarian Society |
Crafts
NOT FOUND The
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http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~vbeatty/origami/gate2.html |
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Great Craft Ideas |
http://craffpage.webrequests.com |
Making web
pages
Webmonkey
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http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/ |
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WebTutor |
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/ |
Card tricks
The Card
Trick Site
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NOT FOUND Card Tricks Website |
http://members.aol.com/Cardtricky |
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Card Tricks
Homepages |
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http://web.superb.net/cardtric/ |
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Card Magic! |
3.9 Academia
Information
resources for
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The Independent's A-Z of universities |
http://www.independent.co.uk/advancement/Higher/AZuniversities/ |
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Red Mole |
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Links to
individual universities can be found at:
Red Mole |
http://www.redmole.co.uk/student_mole/universities.htm |
Information
about towns and cities in
British Tourist Authority |
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For
information about studying English in the
The EFL
directory
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3.10 Play it again, Sam
Instructions
for creating and subscribing to newsgroups can be found at:
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All about
newsgroups |
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/26nwsgrp.htm |
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Newbie-U
Usenet News course |
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NOT FOUND Walt’s navigating the net forum |
http://www0.delphi.com/navnet/faq/newsq.html |
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http://www.ntlworld.com/help/newsgroups.htm |
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http://www.umanitoba.ca/campus/acn/docs/ns_news.html |
Lists of
newsgroups can be found at:
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CowTown Hobby newsgroups |
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Deja |
http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/deja_announcement.html
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alt.guitar.tab |
alt.guitar |
3.11
Breaking news
RealPlayer, which
allows you to play streamed audio and video files on the Internet, can be
downloaded free from:
RealNetworks |
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Examples of
audio news broadcasts can be found at:
Newshour |
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CNN audioselect (choose On Demand) |
http://www.cnn.com/audioselect/ |
3.12 Audiobooks
Audiobooks can be listened to at:
Broadcast.com AudioBooks |
http://www.broadcast.com/audiobooks/ |
3.13 Listen and link
Examples of audio
news broadcasts can be found at:
Newshour |
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CNN audioselect (choose On Demand) |
http://www.cnn.com/audioselect/ |
3.14
Listen and look
To find
interesting images, try:
KidsNet Museums Links |
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Aperture
Photo Gallery Archive |
http://www.tssphoto.com/gallery/garchive.html |
Real Audio
music clips from CDs can be found at on-line CD stores, including:
Amazon |
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Yalplay now called Boxman |
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(The
Interactive Music & Video Shop) An archive of music in the form of midi
files can be found at:
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Daily WAV |
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3.15 Fingers crossed
Some sites on
the theme of superstitions are:
Superstitions
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http://www.cam.org/~jennyb/super.html |
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Superstition: Some common fears and
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3.16 Knock, knock. Who's there?
Sites with
jokes include:
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Funny.com |
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Humor.com |
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Englishday.com Jokes |
http://www.englishday.com/jokes/jokes.htm |
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http://www.bayne.com/wolfbayne/kaitlyn/ |
3.17 All in the stars
Fortune-telling
sites include:
LuckNet |
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3.18
Biographies of
celebrities can be found at:
The Internet Movie Database
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Mr Showbiz |
http://mrshowbiz.go.com/celebrities/index.html |
Real Audio
music clips from CDs can be found at on-line CD stores, including:
Amazon |
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3.19
Once upon a time
Traditional
stories can be found at:
The Online
Book Repository
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http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/Online-Book-Initiative/Grimm/ |
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Cinderella
stories (links) |
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/cinderella.html |
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Folk tale
links |
http://www.muw.edu/~kdunk/folk.html |
Sources of
urban legends include:
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Urban Legends archive |
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(AFU
= alt.folklore.urban newsgroup)
3.20Salute the flag
Sites with
images of national flags include:
Flags of the World
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http://www.emulateme.com/flags/ |
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NOT FOUND Flags of all the states |
http://fotw.digibel.be/flags/iso3166.html |
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Flags of all the states |
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/iso3166.html |
3.21 Coming to a theatre near you
Sites with
information about films include:
Movie Review Query Engine
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The Internet
Movie Database |
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Mr.Showbiz |
http://mrshowbiz.go.com/reviews/moviereviews/index.html |
3.22 Not so automatic
Free automatic
translation can be found at:
Babelfish
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http://babelfish.altavista.com |
3.23 TranSearch
The European
Union's electronic dictionary for translation is located at:
http://www2.echo.Iu/edic
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3.24 Cognitive translation
Listings of intemational news sources are available at:
NewsCentral
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http://www.all-links.com/newscentral/ |
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All the World's Newspapers |
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ |
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CNN also reports
the news in several languages |
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3.26 Simultaneous interpreters
Long audio
clips can be found at:
Broadcast.comAudiobooks |
http://www.broadcast.com/audiobooks/ |
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Newshour |
RealPlayer,
which allows you to play streamed audio and video files on the Internet, can be
downloaded free from:
RealNetworks
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