Useful websites and online resources for English teachers n students

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A word of warning: these sites and links were all functional at the time of posting, but it cannot be guaranteed that web addresses will not change. Sites and resources rarely disappear entirely; if a link does not work, try a Google search.

www.thepaperboy.com
- This is a gateway to thousands of newspapers around the world.
www.themagazineboy.com
- Sister site to paperboy but allowing access to international magazines.
www.guardiancentury.co.uk
- This is The Guardian’s archive and contains a wealth of articles from 1899-1999.Type in key dates (or the day after) for useful resources.
www.pbs.org/greatspeeches
- A speech archive plus ideas for teachers.
www.education.bl.uk
- This British library site gives access to pictures, biographies, text and spoken records of historical events.
www.englishonline.co.uk
- Try going online to the fruit machine on this site
www.learn.co.uk
- This site has a whole variety of resources to support the English National Curriculum. Media analysis is a strong strand of the KS4 curriculum so this site contains useful resources and lesson ideas. The site contains some on-line lessons which students will enjoy.
www.teachit.co.uk
- This site contains activities designed to help students engage with the media. Sections on investigating magazines, newspapers etc are useful and offer resources as well as teaching ideas.
www.englishbiz.co.uk
- Aimed at UK GCSE students.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/
- Hundreds of language- based ‘how to’ guides and quizzes based on higher level texts.
http://literature.britishcouncil.org/
- is the British Council’s subject gateway for literature
www.bibliomania.com
- A collection of online texts
www.bbc.co.uk/videonation
- A collection of video extracts
www.englishonline.co.uk/freesite_tour/resource/wordlab/collapser.html
- Collapser is a utility to turn any text into a sorted list at the click of the Go! button. You can use any text, including material from a web page or a word processed document, to produce activities that give fascinating insights into vocabulary and grammar.
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
- Hot Potatoes is a utility which enables you to author 6 different types of interactive activity: Quiz; Match; Mix; Cloze; Crossword; Sequence
http://www.inspiration.com/productinfo/inspiration/index.cfm
- Inspiration is a concept mapping tool which enables you to set up frameworks such as brainstorms, storyboards, mind maps for students to complete (or they can create them from scratch themselves).

Other sites:

www.eduseek.com
www.english-to-go.com
www.webenglishteacher.com
www.newi.ac.uk/englishresources
www.english-teaching.co.uk
www.onestopenglish.com
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english/