A Rich Haul for Very Little Effort

The next time I clicked the 'Stumble!' Burton

, my screen was filled with bright red punctuation marks. When they cleared, I found an elegant little quiz: sentences where all I had to do was add an apostrophe in the correct place. Based on the best-selling Lynne Truss book, the Eats, Shoots and Leaves Came is trivial but entertainingand I certainly would not have found it without stumbling. A few more clicks on the button brought me to One Sentence. This site invites visitors to submit 'true stories, told in a single sentence'. Typical examples include: '"Happy New Year", I said to the empty room' and 'It took an argument about subject-verb agreement to get me to realize that I am not the slightest bit attracted to my ex-boyfriend D&G jewelry sale anymore'. The site is clear and simple to use, and is moderated to exclude profanity and stupidityI can think of several classes that I could use it with.

One site that I cannot imagine using with students, but which might be useful for advanced users with a taste for exploration, is I instant Word Search. The elegantly simple interface lets you type into a little box, rather as you would in Google, and displays immediately all the words which include that string of letters, with links to Wikipedia and other such sites for further information. You can specify whether words should begin with or end with what you type: did you know that 30 words begin with days but only two ends with it And for crossword addicts, there is the facility to type in patterns to find what words match when you only know some of the letters.

The next few hits were about world languages and American compared with British English. And then SU came up with Pompous Ass Words. This is a collection of 'words everyone should know about and never use' uncommonly understood words that are used in place of commonly understood ones. The site was a sobering find for me, when I realized that I used almost every word in the list. Pretentious academics read and beware!

SU is a delightful way of finding sites that would otherwise elude you. The problem is that its categories are very broad: linguistics, for example, is not divided into any subcategories, and as a result you can find yourself looking through dozens of sites which, while often fascinating, are not particularly relevant. Fortunately, there is a way around this: the S U toolbar also cheap Cartier jewelry includes a search mechanism which allows you to do a simple word-matching search within each category.

To check this out, I refined my search to locate only 'linguistics' pages which included the word 'CLIL'. I stumbled through not only the expected pages from the British Council and the EU, but also a useful Catalan site with a superb collection of links to CLIL articles, resources, and ready-made classroom materials. You can also get SU to confine its searches to news articles, or photos, orand perhaps most usefullyvideos. Selecting this option with my linguistics category still selected came up with Victor Borge's wonderful Phonetic Pronunciation, as well as several entertaining advertisements for language schools and a Stephen Pinker video on language and thoughta rich haul for very little effort.

A Rich Haul for Very Little Effort

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