Www.orianit.edu-negev.gov.il



Learn English with Audio



Learn English with Pictures and Audio



Learning Vocabulary Fun



Stamps Tell Stories



Feel Good Articles



Learn English Hotsites



Israeli English News Sites



Jewish Hotsites



Israeli Hotsites



Jewish Holiday Hotsites



3 Year Jewish Holiday Calendar









 

























Bookmarks

ebooks

Stories

StoryPlace Pre-school Library

StoryPlace The Children's Digital Library

Welcome to eBOOKSWORLD.de

Conversation Lesson Plans

Songs for English Teaching

800 Remedial Reading & Phonics Worksheets

Adult Learning Web Resources

AEL Publications e-Store

Aesop's Fables - Online Collection - 656+ fables -

ALFY - Teach Learn Communicate

Amazing Resources for Teachers and Learners of English. Instant Lessons from the news.

American Teachers saves TIME & MONEY FREE Quality Teachers' Resources lesson plans, curriculum, special education, ESL, kid

AMIT - English Site

AN EXPLANATI0N OF LEARNING STYLES AND MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE(MI)

Ananova - News - Quirkies

anglit gov

anglit net

Back to School Theme

Bagrut - ministry info

bagrut practice pages

Basic Handwriting for Kids - Cursive

Basic Handwriting for Kids - Manuscript

BBC British Council

BBC British Council teaching English - Downloads - British Literature

BBC British Council teaching English

BBC - Words and Pictures - Starwords Home

Beatles Headquarters, the Tribute to THEY Band

bogglesworld

Breaking News English - EFL - ESL Lesson Plans for Current Affairs - Events and Business English

Breaking News English Free ESL Lesson Plans and Listening

British Council - SearchEnglish Engine

Bulats

CET

Chanukah Song

Chart Page - Lyrics to the Oldies Top 100 Songs from the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's

ClassroomClipart _ Home

clipart thumbs

Cognates

Coloring Planet - Printable Coloring Pages!

Content Area Reading

Conversation Topics

Country Crafts

Create A Gradebook

Customs, and Etiquette

Dave's ESL Cafe

DLTK's Educational Activities

Dream-

ECB On-line

Education World ® Lesson Planning Making the Most of the Dreaded End-of-School Days

EF Englishtown

EFL CLASSROOM 2.0

Embracing Learner Styles in the EFL Curriculum

English as 2nd Language - Learn English

English Inspectorate

English is Fun - אנגלית בכיף - אתרים אחרים ללימוד אנגלית - Other sites for learning English

English is Fun - אנגלית בכיף

English Language (ESL) Learning Resources

English lesson plans and resources for teachers from English-To-Go

english papers

English to go - English lessons, Learn English, Teach English, Lesson plans, ESL resources, ESL reading

English to go

Englishtown - the place to learn english

Englishtown

ERIC - Education Resource Information Center

ETNI - Israeli English Teachers Network

ETNI

Extra! Extra!_ Unit Plan [English On-Line]

Ferd'nand comics

Find A Things

Free Resources - Songs

FREE resources

FreeLists - etni

Funland English

Funland TESL

Gamequarium A portal to hundreds of free, online learning games and activities for Pre-School through Grade 6 students.

Global Warming cartoons

Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive

highlearn

Hila Aknin

Hopper

HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works!

http--zehava.where2go.co.il-

iGuide - Israeli Internet Guide Education K12 Schools

index

Interesting Things for ESL-EFL

International Children's Digital Library

Internet Scout Project

Irregular verbs - ESL Resources

Israeli Internet Guide Education

Israeli Newspapers

Jacob Richman's Home Page

Jewish Education

John Korber TESOL lessons

John Korber_ One World, One People ESL _ TESOL lessons

KIDiddles Song Lyrics

Kidzone - Fun Facts for Kids!

Kiko - Create a WebQuest

Korean Eng Teachers site

Ktav-Net

L A N D M A R K S new

landmarks

Language Arts Projects

Learn English - British Council

Learn English

Learn Real English Conversation Now

Learn to Read at Starfall

Learn To Read

Learning English BBC World Service

Learning Resources

Learning Vocabulary

Lesson ideas - Virtual School

Literacy Teaching Ideas

Longman adult

Longman English Language Teaching

Longman-websites

Make a Pictionary

MAKING WAVES

MES- - Worksheets

– English for Kids for Free. Approved by Teachers - Frontpage

My Own Resources. ESL-EFL

New Edition Snapshot - Teacher's resources

News - Quirkies

NIEHS Kids Page Jokes

On Line Tutorial [English On-Line]

one stop English

Onestopenglish Grammar and vocabulary

Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Language Reference -

Online Materials for Language Teachers - EL Easton

pearl harbour

Penguin Dossier

PowerPoint Presentations



Reading a-z. A complete online reading program

Reading Comprehension

ReadWriteThink

resources-pictures etc

Robert Dilts NLP Home Page

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

SchoolHouse Printables

Schwab Learning

sheeloney_bagrut-

Sing Along Songs NIEHS

SINGaSONG

Sites for Teachers

Song for Teaching

Songs & music

Songs to listen to



Speaking Activities

Storyline Online

StoryPlace Pre-school Library

teachers for teachers

Teaching English British Council BBC

Teaching Idea! Worksheets, lesson plans,

TEFL Farm - Reviews - _English @ Work_

The Best on the Web for Teachers

The International Children's Digital Library

The Internet Picture Dictionary

Time For Kids

Topica Email List Directory

UFO A Story to Remember

UNICEF - Voices of Youth

- Learning English (ESL) Online

verb -3 forms

verb forms

Verbs

VOA News - News Radio for Learners

Welcome to ETAI

Welcome to the UK's official site for Winnie the Pooh

Wired for Books

Word frequency list

workpages





Young Learners - Teachers

_'The World's favourite English language resources that are ready to go ! Lessons based on real

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מיצב - מדדי יעילות וצמיחה בית-ספרית

Hi!

lakash

It's my site for deaf and hard of hearing high-school students. under DOCUMENT LIBRARY you will find categories with online exercises. I keep adding to it.

         An easy way to make customized crossword puzzles, etc.

 

 

     A way to check for plagiarism on book reports, etc.

 

I’m sure you’ve got these already – but  :

 I use STARFALL a lot for the little ones.

 Also the British Council – both for their short articles on English teaching & their site for EFL learners. 

And of course the BBC site.

This is a nice visual dictionary :

READ PLEASE for kids who have the ‘hatama’  for ‘hakraat sheelon’

. There's also this list - don't know where I got it from - probably ETNI

.

. ALA (American Library Association) - Great Web Sites for Kids

. Ask for Kids - selected sites

. Berit's Best Sites - directory of kids' web sites

. CyberSleuth Kids - search for K-12 students

. KidsClick - web directory by a bunch of librarians

. KidsKonnect - web directory maintained by educators

. Yahooligans - selected sites

2. Use education websites specifically for younger students:

. AT&T Knowledge Network - online library of outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level

. BBC Learning English - short courses, quizzes, grammar, vocabulary, audio and video \

. Edsitement (National Endowment for the Humanities) – lesson plans

. Home School - home schooling sites / reference

. Read Write Think - National Council of Teachers of English (web resources)

3. Use articles from newspapers and magazines for pupils

. KidsNewsRoom

. KidZone - National Wildlife Federation

. Headline Spot for kids

. NewsHour Extra for Students and Teachers – PBS

. Scholastic News

Time for Kids

Also Ruthi Sheffer put up this list….

this is the collection of sites that I have for the kids who are

studying at home.Most are junior high or high school sites. but some have activitiesfor all levels.

All the best

Ruth Sheffer,Ort college Jerusalem



listening,reading ,funny videos,articles with dictionary support



grammar,vocabulary, crossword puzzles,podcasts



grammar,listening ,reading



news articles



daily news videos and National Geographic



live audio talk (2 levels)



free authentic listening materials



listening to stories (authentic materials) you can download and listen later



songs/ words and songs



lots of materials for learning including podcasts



- rebecca. grammar lessons

JenniferESL

Hi Howie,

long time no hear or see!

On the Boyar site look at the listening menu as well as the Nice stuff menu - I think There are some good sites there schooly.co.il/boyer_english then on my site you may find something

 

Resource Picks

Recommendations on materials and resources for your classroom

featured | books | websites | cd-roms

[pic]¡Colorםn Colorado!

website ¡Colorםn Colorado! ¡Colorםn Colorado! is a wealth of information for all educators of ELLs. It also provides information, activities, and advice for Spanish-speaking parents of ELLs. Teachers are invited to print and distribute the information on this site. Check it out. It's worth the visit.

[pic]Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

website Kathy Schrock’s guide for educators is part of This preeminant site contains an amazing 1600 carefully selected resources for teachers. Also included are , Science Fair Central, Quiz Center, and Dictionary Plus.

[pic]Kidspiration

cd-rom In the field of ESL we know the value of visual learning. Kidspiration, the K-5 version of Inspiration, is an outstanding tool for young English language learners. It helps them represent ideas using pictures when they don't yet have the language to express themselves in English. Kidspiration also helps ELLs brainstorm ideas and organize information.

[pic]Jamestown Online For Kids

website Have your class go online to participate in a virtual Jamestown adventure. They will become Jamestown colonists and use resources to make decisions. Will they fare better than the original Jamestown colonists?

[pic]Ten Read Alouds for ELLs

book Doris Hoover is an Educational Program Specialist in Camden, N.J. who has written a book of ten preschool ESL activities. This book can be bought through her website where she features a new unit each month.



 



 

  (stories)

 

kids

 



 

free-

 

 

















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LINKS FOR PASSAGES – READING/LISTENING



This is a great resource link with lots of material and links



EFL / ESL/ English Lesson Plans for Teaching Current Events



fantastic site with many topics and related articles with exercises



an online video program featuring actors reading children’s stories with activities



a site with many links for teachers (not only efl/esl teachers)



famous people lessons + exercises



daily news videos and National Geographic



live audio talk (2 levels)



free authentic listening materials



listening to stories (authentic materials) you can download and listen later



songs/ words and songs

lots of materials for learning including podcasts



rebecca. grammar lessons



haaretz in English



-jerusalem post



great sites for downloading literature



free daily video update of news.

Printable short stories that go with an online version (starfall)

printables at

Online at

debatabase – a data base of about 300 debates (two different level with for and against arguments for each proposition)



some great sites for dialogues

 Beginner Dialogue

 

 

 Elementary Dialogue

 

 

 Pre-Intermediate Dialogue

 

 

 Very young learners (includes Teletubbies!)

 

List of generating programs (to make puzzles, word searches using your own words) which have to be downloaded. Once they are downloaded, they can be used when you are not online.

1.

Educational Software for Teachers - WISCO Computing - Vocabulary Word Games

Download Word Power

2.

Crossword Construction Kit, Windows Crossword Creator, Home Page

3.

Write “ClozeMaker” in the search box to download the program

This is a great generating program – it is online, but does not have to be downloaded



DIFFERENT SITES (miscellaneous)



(rhymes, nursery rhymes, mother goose, activities –great site includes lyrics and sound)





Phonics Printable Worksheets and Activities

(Word Families) 



activities with abc – very comprehensive

(phonic songs that aid teaching)



big story books for kids (younger and older)

   (template for no-staple book)

 (some free little books)

Starfall – early reading program in four levels:

a) ABC's – Let's get Ready to Read:

b) Learn to Read:

3) It's Fun to Read:

4) I'm Reading:



Click on Games, Teasers and Illusions

Games: Brain Buggle; Hangman; Wassat; Wheresat; Word Search.

1.

Pun of the Day, funny joke of the day, free archive of funny one liners and funny people



fun lessons – what am I going to be doing with my class??



a whole lot of stories on phonics – exercises/games etc

2.

Kids jokes children’s’ jokes activities links for children of all ages

3.

Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun (Vocabulary Building for K-12 and ESL students)

4.

An Online Rhyming Dictionary for Poetry and Songwriting

5.

Surfing the Net with Kids Games

6.

A Game A Day Interactive Just for Kids (click on Welcome ( click on Kids in the top menu)

7.

Brain Quest It's O.K. to Be Smart!

8.

Zillions of Games - Free Games for Download - – use for board game backgrounds and ideas

9.

Free Games!

10.

Kids Crafts from Activity Village

11.

Click on Idea Cookbook ( click on Games

12.

ESL Games Songs Lessons and Resources

13.

Three Wise Monkeys - main index sorted by level



listening, reading ,funny videos, articles with dictionary support



grammar, vocabulary, crossword puzzles, podcasts



grammar, listening , reading

WRITING LINKS





sentence combining exercises





links for teachers



a very good link with explanations and handouts on different writing topics.



Debatabase – a data base of about 300 debates (two different level with for and against arguments for each proposition)



explanation of sentence problems and how to fix the errors



CURSIVE WRITING SITES













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ETNI (English Teachers’ Organization of Israel)

ETAI - English teachers’ organization of Israel (on the front page of ETNI)

LINKS (MARGARET) – THIS IS A LIST OF LINKS WHICH I HAVE COLLECTED. SOME MAY BE REPEATED IN OTHER LISTS.

| |Treasure hunts |

| |Eric Cohen Books online for |

| |teachers |

| |Elementary school links |

| |English Banana |

| |English Teachers’ Network of|

| |Israel |

| |Games (Reed) |

| |Games to Print (elementary_ |

| | |

| |Sites for teachers |

| | |

| |Haaretz (in English) |

|Teaching with minimal resources | " |

|Stamps tell stories | |

|Games | |

|Jacob’s folk song festival –Hof Ginosar next | |

|to the Kinneret | |

|The far side – humour in the classroom (Barry| |

|Silverberg) | |

|Longman site –young learners | |

|Longman site (games) | |

|Pesach links | |

|The Phonics Room | |

|Opposite maze game | |

|Teachers resources | |

|Pesach page | |

|Different game links | |

|EFL/ESL Resources on the internet | |

|(general) | |

|More EFL/ESL links – | |

|Amit School Home Page | |

|Dave’s Cafe | |

|Excellent site for teachers | |

|Teachervision site (including a lot | |

|of | |

| | |

| | |

| | |

|Site for teachers | |

| | |

| | |

| | |

|Holocaust site | [pic] |

| |Links for activities on the |

| |Holocaust |

| | |

|Cost site | |

|Lyrics site | |

|Judy Yaron’s site on |  |

|“Using the Textbook”- some really | |

|helpful ideas | |

|Humanistic language teaching | |

|Pizza site – creative poetry and a | |

|lot of other creative writing and | |

|game sites | |

| |Jack Pillemer’s site of humourl( |

| |including odds and ends) |

| |Smilies |

| | |

| |One minute mysteries |

| |Interesting things for ESL Students|

| | |

| |A free tool to help teachers create|

| |rubrics |

| |Sites for Israel’s Independence day|

|' training games |

|r2004/kirk.htm'&UserID= |+ a lot of connected sites + |

| |gwenerating programs |

| |Site for remembrance day |

| |Jewish entertainment and holidays |

This is a list which Batya Lederfein kindly gave to me.

Kids' Portals (Teaching and Activity Sites)

ABC Teach: (portal for teachers of young children)

NIEHS:

The EFL Playhouse:

Enchanted Learning:

KIDiddles:

CBeebies: ; Tweenies:

Gayle's PreSchool Rainbow:

Kiz Club:

Child's Play Family Daycare:

Sites for Teachers

Young Learner Teachers. Longman.

Primary Tips. Working with Young Learners. British Council.

OneStop English:

Classroom Management:

Comprehensive Reading Programs

Starfall – early reading program in four levels:

a) ABC's – Let's get Ready to Read:

b) Learn to Read:

3) It's Fun to Read:

4) I'm Reading:

Beginning Literacy

Mrs Alphabet: (children's and teacher activities)

Play and Learn:

Kangaroo Park – alphabet game:

Picture Match:

Early Literacy

Lil' Fingers: (storybooks; games; holidays)

E-Books:

Eric Carle website:

Making Waves: (Guests' entrance - Israeli program for young learners)

Flashcards and Printables

Kinder Printables:

Games and Activities

Kids' Corner:

Songs and Activities

EFL Playhouse:

Rebus Rhymes:

NIEHS Kids' Pages:

Songs for Teaching:

Musical Mouseum:

Songs and Poems for Young Children:

Songs for Teaching Young Children:

Cbeebies –

Gayle's Preschool Rainbow –

Web Resources

Surfing the Net with Kids:

IATEFL Young Learners SIG Web Resources:

Web resources from Making Waves: (excellent list of resources, organized according to topics and levels)



 

Shalom Howie,

The Literature Study Guide For Grains Of Sand:The Fall Of Neve Dekalim is an interesting, educational, and relevant site. It would make a welcome addition to your new website listing links that assist in, and are related to, the acquisition of the English language. The study guide includes challenging and exciting lessons, discussion topics, chapter questions, comprehension exercises, research project ideas, and classroom activities.The study guide is appropriate for native English-speakers as well as EFL, grades 7-12. It can be accessed on the Publisher's website   

and the website of the book's teenage author, Shifra Shomron 



I tested each link and eliminated those that no longer work.

I also killed a few that became too "commercially degraded", including one that became a portal to online gaming sites.

And I updated the "Search Engines" section that had become completely out-of-date.

 

For word play enthusiasts, I recommend joining the WordFun and WordczaRus lists:

WordFun@ 

WordczaRus@ 

 

Izzy

 

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Contents -- Intro B: Useful Web Sites for AUE Participants

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* - Where to find previous postings

 - Where to learn about ASCII IPA

 - Learning English as a Foreign Language

 - Audio Archives

 - Word lists

 - Dictionaries, On-line: General

 - Dictionaries, On-line: Historical and Special Purpose

 - Acronyms and abbreviations

 - Words and language

 - Grammar: Frequently Requested Topics

* - Writing and Grammar Guides On Line

 - Encyclopedias & Search Engines

* - British English; Scots

 - Black English (African-American Vernacular English, Ebonics)

 - Historical English, and English Literature

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Where to find previous postings

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If you suspect your topic has already been discussed, even though it is

not in the FAQ, please check for articles, following the appropriate

search guidelines, at the Google Usenet archive, which holds articles

since 1991:

 

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Where to learn about ASCII IPA

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ASCII IPA is a way of expressing pronunciation on Usenet. It is a

version of the International Phonetic Alphabet, using only the ASCII

symbols (basic keyboard characters). There's a guide to ASCII IPA,

including illustrative sound files, at

   

A detailed specification of the ASCII IPA transcriptions scheme,

including tables showing the mapping to and from IPA characters,

can be found at

   

See also "Audio Archives"

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Learning English as a Foreign Language

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Good entry points to the many resources on the Web are:

English as a Second Language

 

Dave's ESL Cafe

 

English as 2nd Language

 

ELTWEB

 

ESL Resources at Purdue University - covers common grammar issues

 

1-- The Comprehensive ESL Site

 

Paltalk chat room on "English Usage and Grammar" - listen and speak.

 

VOA's Special English - easy-to-read articles on many subjects

 

See also "Writing and Grammar Guides On Line," below.

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Audio Archives

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Three pages at the AUE Website with speech files and links to more:

 The a.u.e Audio Archive -- listen to speakers with varying accents

  

 Other Sound files

  

 Audio References - more links to useful sound files

  

British Library archive of English accents, esp. Northern England:

  

BBC Voices, collection of UK speech

  

IDEA, the International Dialects of English Archive -- Large collection

of MP3 speech files from around the world.

  

Fonetiks -- sound clips of 6 kinds of English plus 9 other languages

  

Pronunciation Voice of America - 3000 soundfiles of placenames & people

  

University of Lausanne Phonetics Course -- pronouncing sounds

  

Speech Accent Archives

  

IPA Handbook, Univ. of Victoria - sound files for many languages

  

ESL Cyber Listening Lab -- 100+ conversations with practice exercises.

  

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Word lists

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Brian Kelk maintains a Web page with pointers to numerous wordlists on

the net - for UK English, US English and other languages. Many are bare

lists of words but some have other info. There is also information on

word and letter frequency and on phonetic alphabets (Alpha Bravo).



The Moby Project has large downloadable lists of words:  Hyphenator,

5-Language, Parts-of-Speech, Pronunciator (American), Shakespeare,

Thesaurus, and American Words.

 

Webster's Second (1934) list of over 200,000 words



Scripps National Spelling Bee - word lists & prefix/suffix dictionary



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On-line dictionaries: General

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Please look up simple questions of meaning and origin in a dictionary

before posting to the group. There are now several large, recent

dictionaries on-line to choose from.

Merriam-Webster Collegiate, 10th Edition, 1994. With US pronunciations.

 

Concise Oxford Dictionary

 

American Heritage Dictionary -- includes Indo-European roots

 

Collins Dictionary (UK) plus related features

 

Onelook, which searches over 500 dictionaries at a single stroke.

 

, based on the American Heritage Dictionary

 

Cambridge International Dictionary, also Idioms & Phrasal Verbs

 

Encarta World English Dictionary

 

Random House Webster's College Dictionary (no etymology)

 

The Web of On-line Dictionaries, with links to many bilingual, slang,

hobby, science, etc, dictionaries:

   

Hyperdictionary -- accesses WordNet and other dictionaries

  

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On-line dictionaries: Historical and Special Purpose

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Webster's 1913 Revised Unabridged Dictionary

 

The Century Dictionary, 1914 (12 volumes scanned):

 

The Oxford English Dictionary is available for a subscription fee:

 

Hobson-Jobson: Anglo-Indian Glossary, 1903

 

The Jargon Lexicon, the Jargon File or New Hacker's Dictionary -

computer and hi-tech terms. Various copies on line including:

  

Online Etymology Dictionary

  

Dictionary of the Scots Language - site combines two large dictionaries

  

Marius Hancu's list of slang dictionaries on the Web is here:

  

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Acronyms and abbreviations

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Onelook (above) finds many initialisms. Two other searchable databases:



 

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Words and language

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Looking for the origin of a colorful expression? The a.u.e webmaster

has

arranged a combined link to the indexes of many of the sites below.

Enter your word once at the AUE Website Search field and get links to

each place the term is discussed.

   

The Maven's Word of the Day (formerly Jesse's)

A dictionary editor answers word questions. Large archive.

   

Common Errors in English -- Tips on hundreds of confusing words and

pairs such as affect/effect, adapt/adopt, advice/advise, etc.

   

Michael Quinion, World Wide Words -- Discusses new words and the

reappearance of old ones. Q&A section.

   

Evan Morris, The Word Detective -- Answers questions on origins of

colorful words and phrases. Large archive.

   

John Lawler -- A linguistics professor gives masterful explanations of

how language really works

   

sci.lang FAQ -- language and linguistics questions commonly asked

   

Take Our Word -- the Weekly Word-origin Webzine

   

- Dave Wilton's Etymology Page

   

Sharp Points by Bill Walsh -- real-life copy editing dilemmas

   

Atlas of North American English -- Maps and articles on regional

dialects in the US. Knowledge of basic linguistics advised.

   

Dialect Survey Maps and Results - Over 100 US regionalisms

   

WordforWord - articles & forum on words & phrases

   

Word2Word -- links to dictionaries, translators, language sites, etc.

   

Fun with Words -- unusual words, lists of oddities, etc.

   

Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics

   

Double-Tongued Word Wrester -- definitions, citations of modern words

   

Science Fiction Citation Project - Help OED find words in SF literature

  

The Big Apple - history of words from New York City

   

American Dialect Society ListServ - discusses words, phrases, etc.

   

 

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Grammar: Frequently Requested Topics

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Tenses in English -- learn "progressive," "continuous," etc.

 

Phrasal Verbs, separable & inseparable (see also linked list)

 

Conjugate any English verb; other languages, too - at Verbix

 

Conditionals ("if I would...")

 

Diagramming sentences

 

Agreement: Subject-verb, Pronouns. Singular/plurals.(Use "Next" &

links)

 

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Writing and Grammar Guides On Line

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Guide to Grammar and Writing, by Charles Darling

 

Grammar and Style Notes by Jack Lynch

 

The Online English Grammar, by Anthony Hughes

 

Style guides for British publications:

 

Bartleby -- US style guides: American Heritage Book of English

Usage, Columbia Guide to Standard American English (1993) and Strunk's

Elements of Style (1916). Also, UK: Fowler, The King's English, 1908.

 

*Chicago Manual of Style: FAQ and index (not the manual itself)

 

US Government Printing Office Style Manual

 

The Internet Grammar of English: modern grammar (word classes, etc.)

 

The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

 

APA Style Tips - for academic writing, bibliographies, etc.

 

The Plain English Campaign: guides to writing letters, reports, etc.

 

Garbl's Writing Resources On Line:

A descriptive list of links about writing, and a style manual

 

Yahoo! Grammar & Usage -- A long list of sites.



 

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Encyclopedias & Search Engines

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Sometimes, language questions are tied closely to history, science,

geography, and other factual matters. Web search engines such as

MetaCrawler, Google, and many others can help. Each has its strengths

and weaknesses.

·  

This search engine list is a real time saver! The web's best search engines, COMPLETE WITH SEARCH BOXES, on one page. Once a search term is entered into any ...

20SEARCH - ALL THE WEB - ALTA VISTA - AOL SEARCH

- Cached - Similar -

·

This is a list of Wikipedia articles about search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search ...

en.wiki/List_of_search_engines - Cached - Similar -

·  

The Search Engine List - Comprehensive list of all web search engines, simply laid out and easy to navigate with links to all search engines in the ...

There are also on-line encyclopedias and "reference books":

Bartleby -- search two dozen reference works simultaneously, both recent and older. Includes Columbia Encyclopedia and quotation guides.



Encarta encyclopedia - US English:

 

  World English:

 

InfoPlease - encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, more

 

Biographical Dictionary Search Page - an excellent quick reference

 



 

Dictionary of Famous People

 

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British English; Scots

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*Estuary English - recent developments in southern England

 

The Best of British

 

English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

 

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Black English (African-American Vernacular English, Ebonics)

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The Center for Applied Linguistics: Ebonics Information Page

 

John Lawler on Ebonics: a statement by linguists, bibliography & links:

 

African-American History and Culture

 

Characteristic Features of AAVE

 

 

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Historical English, and English Literature

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Word Safari: Megalist of Word Links -- History Section:

A good starting point with links to a number of sites on the

development, grammar, pronunciation, and literature of Old English or

Anglo-Saxon (example, Beowulf) and Middle English (example, Chaucer).

 

Da Engliscan Gesidas - Anglo-Saxon (Old English). Includes sound files.



I have not yet found a good site about "Early Modern English," but you

can use these two sites to search for your own usage examples:

Search Shakespeare sites

 

     (search single plays only)

"Thou, Thee & Archaic Grammar" -- a brief overview by AUE members:

 

Sites for "Modern English" literature from 1700-2000:

Bibliomania - search many classic novels and essays simultaneously

 

Making of America - many books & journals of mid-1800s

 

: Books / Search Inside the Book -- search text of new books!



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The On-Line Books Page -- thousands of works of literature that are

available for free download & search. Includes Project Gutenberg

titles.

 

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