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
Teacher Development Unit 4
An Interactive DictionaryMake notes Expand your vocabularySearch for wordsFind words as you workPractise new wordsPractise pronunciation Print and copy
Teacher Development Unit 5
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.
Teacher Development Unit 6
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/
Teacher Development Unit 7
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
Teacher Development Unit 8
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!
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