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Useful Sites

Listening

a. BBC main pages

URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk

b. BBC Learning English web pages

URL:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml

Speaking:

Pronunciation

a Free Online

University of Iowa

American Pronunciation

http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eacadtech/phonetics/

Presentations & Seminars

a.  Presentation Planner English Language Centre of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/tools/presplan.htm

b. A presentation on presentations  + Seminar skills (iffy) 

English Language Centre of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/eap/Audio-visual/default.htm

Reading:

Writing:

University of Essex (Academic/Study/Key skills resources)

a. KSOL (Key Skills On Line)

Very useful for referencing

URL: https://profile.essex.ac.uk/lskills/tltp3/entersite.asp

b. ProFile

Key skills for academic study and the job market.

URL: http://profile.essex.ac.uk/

c Helpdisk! 2.4

Essay-writing program devised by Mantex corporation: “complete guide to all the skills needed for writing essays”.

URL: http://www2.essex.ac.uk/essay-writing/

   

OWLS (Online Writing Labs)

    a. Richmond University:  Writer's Web

“a free, public-access handbook designed & maintained by University of Richmond students & faculty”.   URL: http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb.html

b. Purdue University: Purdue OWL

“Purdue OWL has been serving the Purdue community and the rest of the world over the Internet since 1993”.

URL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ 

For their main index: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index2.html

c. Virginia Tech Department of  Mechanical Engineering

“Writing exercise for engineers and scientists”. 

URL: http://writing.eng.vt.edu/exercises/

Referencing

e. Referencing Machine English Language Centre of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/referenceMachine.htm

Vocabulary

Dictionaries

a. Merriam Webster dictionary (American English)

Find the meaning, read example sentences, hear the pronunciation

URL: http://www.m-w.com

b. Cambridge online Dictionaries (British and American English)

URL: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

c. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English online edition (British English)

URL:  http://www.ldoceonline.com/

d. your dictionary.com

Links to all dictionary sites in all languages.

URL: http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.html

Concordancer

e. VLC concordancer

Great help in understanding word meaning, common collocations, grammar conventions  URL: http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/

EFL:

    The English Firsthand Website

http://www.efcafe.com/

Other:

    a. British  Media On-Line

Links to all newspaper websites from one page.

URL:  http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/britnews.htm