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1. On-line dictionaries

1. OneLook Dictionary: http://www.onelook.com/

2. Dictionary.com: http://www.dictionary.com

  • A useful dictionary on-line. Tell your students to open it in a New Window.

3. Bigate translation dictionary: http://www.bigate.com/dfzx.com.cn/bigate/b/k/k/http@www.freedict.com/onldict/dut.html

  • One of the very rare translation dictionaries Dutch-English-Dutch. Limited corpus.

4. Merriam-Webster on-line:http://www.m-w.com/

  • Merriam-Webster's dictionary, collegiate version. It includes a thesaurus and has US sound. The full version is not free any more.

5. Encarta World Dictionary: http://www.rong-chang.com

  • Dictionary with sound.

6. Euroglot: http://www.euroglotonline.nl/

  • Vertaalwoordenboek van en uit het Nederlands, Spaans, Italiaans, Engels, Frans en Duits. Met een thesaurus voor semantische woordvelden.

2. On-line grammars

1. Capital Community College: http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm

  • Extensive online American grammar with useful index written by Charles Darling. Includes punctuation and guideline for writing.

2. THe Education Resources: http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/subidx.cfm

  • From the education resources website. Includes a placement test.

3. On-line exercises

1. The Half-Baked Interactive Tests: http://www.lapasserelle.com/lm/pagespeciales/half.baked/halfbakedtests.index.html

  • Look under the heading 'half-baked tests" and "other tests".

2. University of Victoria, Columbia: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/index.htm

  • The Canadian site of the makers of Hot Potatoes with grammar tests, reading comprehension tests and writing tests.

3. Leo Jansegers: http://www.smic.be/smic5022/

  • Find grammar and vocab tests under the headings: learner sites / exercises on-line / Jansegers

4. Activities for ESL Students: http://a4esl.org/

  • Grammar and vocabulary exercises on different levels. Select the option: Activities for ESL students.

5. Better English: http://www.better-english.com/exerciselist.html

  • Advanced grammar and vocabulary for students of professional or business English.

6. Brigham Young University: http://lc.byuh.edu/cnn_n/CNN-N.html

  • Sets grammar in CNN environments. Various grammar and vocab multiple choice exercises with correction. There are printable versions of these exercises.

7. English Forum: http://www.englishforum.com/00/interactive/

  • Look at 'better English exercises' on two levels.

4. On-line site-builders

1. Hot Potatoes: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/

  • Free Hot Potatoes software: the suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web.

2. Hostmb: http://www.hostmb.com/

  • 20 MB space on a website. Easy to use but changes only appear after a day or so.

3: tripod: http://tripod.lycos.com

  • This tool allows you to develop a number of sites without knowledge of HTML, FrontPage or Dreamweaver.

5. Personality tests

1. queendom: http://www.queendom.com/tests/minitests/index.htm

  • A site with short personality tests: IQ, EQ, relationship tests, concentration tests, etc. Students can take two to three tests an hour.

2. Amby's links page: http://www.amby.com/go_ghoti/on-line_tests.html

  • personality tests, Contact 4, unit 2.

3. Quiz Centre: http://www.ivillage.com/ivillage/quiz/pages/0,12912,263701_408393,00.html

  • Longer, advanced tests on health, including relationships and personality.

6. Correction tool

http://www.cict.co.uk/software/markin/index.htm

  • Markin provides marking and annotation software for on-line and electronic teaching environments. It can import text material from the clipboard, or from a text file, and provides all the tools you need to mark and annotate this text. When you have finished, you can export the marked text for loading into a word-processor and you can email this file directly back to the student, all without leaving the Markin program.

7. Speech

1. Randall's Listening Lab: http://www.esl-lab.com/

  • Long and short listening quizzes on three levels. Requires Real Player 8.

2. ElanSpeech: http://www.elantts.com/accueil.html

  • This programme reads out texts that you pasted into a box. American of British English.

3. Second Speech Center: http://www.net-sharing.com/text-to-speech/faq.htm

  • Downloadable free speech software which reads out your highlighted Word documents instantly. American accents. Takes 18 MB.

8. General

http://www.katho.be/reno/englinks.html

  • KATHO-RENO website with lots of links.

http://home.inforamp.net/~teslon/jims_links.shtml

  • ESL-website from prof. Jim Edgar (Canada).

REN 27 november 2002