English Links
Train Times UK |
Express Coaches |
London Transport |
Sussex Links | search The Guardian Newspaper | World Clock |
Live Rail Departure Boards: London Road Brighton | Brighton Station | Three Bridges | Gatwick Airport | London Victoria
Bus Times for routes in Brighton & Hove: Index | 1 | 2 | 5 and 5A | 5B | 6 | 7 | 25| 27 | 49 | 26 46 and 46A | 50 and 50A
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- Online stores with search engines
- Search for an English language school or English language coaching in the UK
- Long Distance Travel
- UK Rail, Express Coaches and Buses
- Examination Boards & Bodies for Learners and Teachers of English
- Internationally Recognised (Cambridge) Examinations for English Language Teachers and LT Managers
- Higher Education and Career Development in the UK
- English Encylopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus and Vocabulary Acquisition
- Resources for Translators (especially French-English & Anglais-Français)Postgraduate Training (MA or Diploma) in Translation
- Writing - paragraph and essay construction for students planning to go to UK universities
- Speaking - Common pronunciation problems, phonology and phonetics
- Newspapers, Radio and Television
- ELT Authoring Software
- Royal Mail: postage rates and tracking
SEARCH ENGINE: use the input box below to search The Internet TESL Journal, which includes self-correcting exercises.
You can enter search strings such as "phrasal verbs" (exercises by different authors) or "Ted Power" (links to my own!).
01 Online stores with search engines
Amazon Stores: Amazon.co.uk [UK] | Amazon.com [USA] | Amazon.fr [France] | Amazon.de [Germany]
Used Books: Abebooks.co.uk | Abebooks.com | Adall.com | Hay-on-Wye | Fetchbook | Internet Bookshop UK
Ebay Books: Home | English Language &/or Grammar | ELT | TEFL | Language Study | Book info: ISBN / ISSN = Title?
CDs LPs Vinyl: Netsoundsmusic | Gemm | Alt Vinyl | Musicstack | Cheap Or What CDs | MusicOnTheWeb
02 Search for an English language school or English language coaching in the UK
Course search: English UK or try my old school The English Language Centre in Brighton & Hove.
[ Over 10 years since I left - mention me and I'll continue to get invited to the Christmas party! ]
Language coach: Corballis Communication can offer online coaching or face-to-face (1:1 or small group) coaching based in London. Tony Corballis is widely experienced in teaching English in many overseas locations and at tailoring English language coaching to specific requirements. Other services offered by his company are Copy writing, editing and proofreading.
Tourist information: Visit Britain | S.E. Tourist Board | National Trust Events Diary
Up Your Street – statistics and comparisons for your area: find out everything you could want to know about an area.
03 Long Distance Travel
The Man in Seat Sixty-One - How to travel by train & ship. Maybe you don't like flying, or are concerned about air travel's contribution to global warming. Or perhaps you just prefer real travel by train or ship, where the journey is part of the adventure... Either way, The Man in Seat Sixty-One will tell you how to travel overland comfortably & affordably where you might think that air was now the only option. (a) within the UK & Ireland. Train times & fares for train travel in the UK: UK page How to travel from the UK to Ireland by train+ferry: Ireland page. (b) from the UK to Europe. How to travel by train from London to almost any country in Europe: Europe page. (c) in Asia, Africa, America, Australasia.
Airports: London Heathrow | London Gatwick | London Stanstead | London Luton | East Midlands | Scottish
Airlines: | Easyjet | Ryanair | BA Dep + Arr | Monarch | Flybe | British Midland | Opodo [access to 500+ airlines]
'Make a pledge not to fly' at www.lowflyzone.org
04 UK Rail, Express Coaches and Buses
Train journey planning: UK Rail Planner | The Train Line [bookings] | Eurostar
UK coach travel: National Express Coaches | Multimap (UK)
Buses in UK Cities: UK Public Transport | Transport in London | Brighton & Hove buses
05 Examination Boards & Bodies for Learners and Teachers of English
UCLES (Cambridge Exams) | The British Council | ARELS | Trinity College | IATEFL
06 Internationally Recognised (Cambridge) Examinations for English Language Teachers and LT Managers
ELT to Adults: CELTA [Certificate] | DELTA [Diploma] | Language Teaching Management: IDLTM [International Diploma]
07 Higher Education and Career Development in the UK
Hobsons Postgraduate Courses | www.postgrad.com | LearnDirect.co.uk. | Hot Courses
Open University: Distance Learning Open University | OU Business School
Careers Advice Service Home | Help with Funding | The Educational Grants Advisory Service (EGAS) | Research Councils UK
Search for funding by UK organisation you wish to attend or subject you wish to study: www.studentmoney.org
08 English Encylopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus and Vocabulary Acquisition
Wikipedia encylopedia | Wordsmyth Dictionary/Thesaurus
British National Corpus | Lexical Analysis Software
Top 1000 English words | Easy Word Java Hangman | Anagram Server
Wiktionary | Cambridge Dictionary Online | Webster's Online Dictionary
yourdictionary.com | A comprehensive directory of bilingual & multilingual dictionaries | yyy
Slang & Colloqialisms | From British slang to American English | From Internet and mobile slang to English
BBC websites: Voices: English accents | International English | Poetry: Poetry Archive
Bartleby provides free online access to books.
09 Resources for Translators (especially French-English & Anglais-Français)
---------Useful links for Translators
Word Reference French-English dictionary | English-French dictionary | Linguistics and phonetics : Glossaire typographique et linguistique
Français-Français: définitions, synonymes, conjugaisons: Dictionnaire de la langue française | 16th-19th centuries: Dictionnaires d'autrefois
Synonyms, Antonyms and Frequency : Dictionnaire des synonymes | Dictionnaire des synonymes (410,000 synonymes)
Verb Conjugator: French-English (ARTFL Project)
Acronyms Acronymes de l'école | First names: Le guide de prénoms | Crosswords: Dictionnaire de mots croisés
Jargon, slang, insults and special registers: Le jargon français | Petit répertoire pour les mal-parlants
French cultural terms: http://franceterme.culture.fr/FranceTerme | la Délégation générale à la langue française
Computing: English-French Word List of Common Computing Terms | Glossaire informatique | Dictionnaire de l'informatique et d'internet
Finance: Dictionnaire Anglais-Français des Termes de la Microfinance (PDF file) | Lexique de l’assurance insurance
Food and drink: Lexique de la bière | French-English Wine Glossary
Medicine: Glossary of medical terms: French | Lexique français-latin des remèdes homéopathiques
Maths and Science: Lexique de mathématique | Glossaire de biochimie | Glossaire genetique moleculaire
Dictionnaire chromatique | Dictionnaire Français d'Hydrologie | Thesaurus D'Astronomie (Français) | An English-French Aeronautical Glossary
Recreation, Sport and Culture : Dictionnaire des termes d'escrime | Glossaire Héraldique | Lexique le golfeur
Lexique des sports olympiques d'été | Lexique des sports olympiques d'hiver
Spanish dictionary | Spanish Dictionary - (Real Academia Espanola) | Translation corpus based on parallel Portuguese and English texts
Free Translation | Systran to translate a block of text | Translators' Café | www.nakedtranslations.com
Postgraduate Training (MA or Diploma) in Translation--Useful links for Translators | Funding: www.studentmoney.org
Institute of Linguistics: Diploma in Translation
University of Portsmouth: MA in Translation Studies (Distance Learning) strong on commerce and professional applications
University of West of England: MA in Translation (Distance Learning via the Blackboard UWE online computer conferencing system)
London Met University: MA in Applied Translation Studies (Full; Part-time = 2 days or 2 evenings per week)
University of Westminster: : MA Bilingual Translation (Full; part-time = day) strong on language technology
Imperial College / University College London: MA in Translation Theory & Practice (Full; part-time = day)
Swansea University: Translation | MA Translation with Language Technology | MA in Literary Translation | Useful links for Translators
Newcastle University: MA in Professional Translating for European Languages strong on medical applications, language technology and research.
10 Writing - paragraph and essay construction for students planning to go to UK universities
Lower levels: BBC Skillwise: writing | Higher levels, including students at university: The Royal Literary Fund
English for Academic Purposes (UK Univ of Hertforshire) | The Centre for English Language Teacher Education (UK Univ of Warwick)
Writing Lab - The OWL (univ of Perdue) The Virtual Language Centre | Writing at the Univ of Toronto
11 Speaking - common pronunciation problems, Phonology and Phonetics and Intonation
English vowel sounds: | RP 1 | English RP 2 | Northern | The vowel machine
English consonant sounds: RP 1 | RP 2 | Transcriber - phonemic transcription
Phonetics: V Grid - vowel quadrilateral | IPA Consonant Sounds | Phonetics Tutorials
Phonology materials from: John Maidment | Univ College London | Virtual Language Centre
Intonation: Intonation practice drills | Plato - 'Place the tonic' | Toni - 7 tunes (days of week) | Toni - 7 tunes (sentences)
Unicode & Fonts: IPA in Unicode | Free IPA FONTS | Unicode Home Page
12 Newspapers, Radio and Television
Brighton UK: The Argus | News Archive | Letters Page | London: Time Out [London]
UK News: The Guardian | The Times | Electronic Telegraph
UK Economy: The Financial Times | The Economist | UK Government Information
UK Radio: BBC Radio Listen Again | BBC World Service | BBC Radio Home
UK Television: BBC 1,2,3,4 | ITV 1,2,3,4 | Radio Times | BBC News | BBC Four TV Listings
UK Education: English Language Gazette | Times Educational Supplement | Higher Education Supplement
13 ELT Authoring Software
For making tests (gap-fill, multiple choice etc) &/or crosswords which correct themselves: Hotpot
See Isabel Perez's English Language web site for good examples of how to author with the above, and a lot more.
International call charges for phone calls made over the Internet
BT Talk Broadband | BT Communicator | Skype
15 Royal Mail: postage rates and tracking
Prices for post within UK | International prices for Airmail and Surface Mail | Royal Mail - track and trace
RSS webfeeds 1.
-- Easy Access to the key parts of English language learning and teaching
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-- Published resources for English language learning and teaching (Ted Power's recommendations):
This feed is intended for learners/teachers/Directors of Studies wishing to review or select books/CDs/CD-ROMs on English language learning and teaching including areas such as teacher training, pronunciation, listening to spoken English, oral fluency, grammar, vocabulary, reading and writing (including handwriting & basic literacy).