Teacher Development Unit 1

Fun Ways to Better English

Teacher Development Unit 2

Useful Websites

An Interactive Dictionary

Learning the Academic Words you need

Teacher Development Unit 3

English on the Web Improve your English British Council Learn English

www.learnenglish.org.uk English Club

www.englishclub.com  Test your English Chomp Chomp

www.chompchomp.com English Learner

www.englishlearner.com  Learn vocabulary Wordsurfing

www.wordsurfing.co.uk 

Read a story

The English Library www.englishlibrary.org

  Listen to a song

The Singer and the Song www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/music/singersong/

Find a friend

Language Exchange Community www.mylanguageexchange.com

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An Interactive DictionaryMake notes Expand your vocabularySearch for wordsFind words as you workPractise new wordsPractise pronunciation Print and copy

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Which dictionary?Lower Levels The Oxford Student’s Dictionary The Longman Active Study Dictionary The Macmillan Essential Dictionary The Oxford Wordpower Dictionary

More advanced levels The Longman Contemporary English Dictionary The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary The Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners The Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

Many dictionaries have study skills pages, CD-ROM and on-line resources for students.

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Dictionaries on the WebMacmillan www.macmillandictionaries.comOxford University Press www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/teachersites/

oald7/?cc=trLongman www.longman.com/dictionaries/

international.htmlCambridge University Press http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

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What is the AWL? The Academic Word List is a list of 570 word

families you need to know  Created by Avril Coxhead, Victoria University of

Wellington Items selected from The Academic Corpus of

3,500,000 words Four faculty sections: Arts, Commerce, Law and

Science  http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/index.

htm

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Four Faculty AreasArtsEducation

History

Linguistics

Philosophy

Politics

Psychology

Sociology

CommerceAccounting

Economics

Finance

Industrial Relations

Management

Marketing

Public policy

LawConstitutional Law

Criminal Law

Family Law and Medico-legal

International Law

Pure Commerce Law

Quasi-Commercial Law

Rights and Remedies

ScienceBiology

Chemistry

Computer Science

Geography

Geology

Mathematics

Physics

Teacher Development Unit 9

The AWL on the Web

Vocabulary exercises for the Academic Word List

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm

http://www.uefap.co.uk/vocab/vocfram.htm

http://web.uvic.ca/~gluton/awl/index.htm

Teacher Development Unit 10

We have shown you

Some useful Websites

An Interactive Dictionary

How to learn the academic words you need

Teacher Development Unit 11

Have fun!