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London House Web Links have been collected so Students, Teachers and Group Leaders can find helpful information on the web easily. There are sections on interesting places you can visit while at London House, British Culture and History. There are also sections dedicated to Learning English as well as sites that can help teachers plan lessons and improve their own knowledge and skills. All websites have been checked by London House and all are FREE.

• English in Britain www.englishinbritain.co.uk/school_detail.cfm?SCHOOLID=425 www.englishinbritain.co.uk/school_detail.cfm?SCHOOLID=425 Accredited English language courses The English in Britain web site holds information on hundreds of English language courses in quality, accredited language training organisations in the United Kingdom. You can easily search for a course or an institution, get the information you need and contact the institution or a local contact directly. London House School of Englsih is on English in Britain.

• British Council Accreditation www.britishcouncil.org/accreditation-az-list.htm#L www.britishcouncil.org/accreditation-az-list.htm#L Accreditation UK, formerly the English in Britain Accreditation Scheme (EiBAS), is the quality assurance scheme for UK based ELT providers. The Scheme is managed by the Accreditation Unit of the British Council in partnership with English UK, the UK's national, professional ELT Association. London House is a British Council Acceditted School. Our Mission Accreditation supports the teaching and learning of English, helping to strengthen UK English language teaching in a highly competitive international market and building lasting relationships with the UK for millions of learners. London House is Acceditted by the British Council

London House School of English is situated in Westgate-On-Sea on the Isle of Thanet in Kent. This is in the South East of England. Here is a list of links about Westgate, Kent and the South East, including Canterbury, Dover, Maidstone and Rochester. Kent is known as the Garden of England and boasts some of the most beautiful scenery in the Land, Castles, Roman Ruins, Vineyards and much more.

• Westgate-on-Sea www.visitthanet.co.uk/thedms.aspx?dms=13&feature=1&venue=3203090&easi=true www.visitthanet.co.uk/thedms.aspx?dms=13&feature=1&venue=3203090&easi=true Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside resort in northeast Kent, overlooking the River Thames estuary about two miles west of Margate. It is situated on the Isle of Thanet which was a separate island until the channel silted up in the 18th century.

There are many great Free online General English learning sites for you to use and study independently. Many of these sites cover all areas of English Grammar, Pronunciation, Vocabulary and skills. London House has collected many of the best site here for you to use in your own time. We recommend that you have a pen and paper when ever you are studying online to make the most of your time and build your knowledge.

• BBC Learning English www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ The BBC offers comprehensive materials for intermediate to advanced ESL learners from the BBC World Service. Uses simplified news stories to present English in context, has an excellent section on pronunciation and much more. Excellent!

• Teaching English British Council www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ The award-winning global home for English teaching on the web brings together everything busy teachers need, from classroom materials to ideas for development. Excellent

• BBC Skills Wise www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/ www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/ The BBC site is so big that you will find it here in more than one place so you don't miss out on anything. BBC Skillswise enables adults to improve reading, writing skills and Grammar.

• VOA Voice of America Learning English www1.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/ www1.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/ VOA is another big professional site Learning English though Text, Videos and POD Cast Excellent

• English Club online www.englishclub.com/ www.englishclub.com/ English Club online, helping you learn English or teach English. You'll find everything from lessons for learners to jobs for teachers, including fun pages like games, quizzes and chat - all free!

• World English www.world-english.org/ www.world-english.org/ World English offers free English Language Activities, Exercises and Tests

• UsingEnglish.com www.usingenglish.com/ www.usingenglish.com/ UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. A grammar glossary and references of irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts and printables.

• ESL about esl.about.com/ esl.about.com/ This is the ESL section from about.com It's All About English as 2nd Language.

• Language In Use www.putlearningfirst.com/language/index.html www.putlearningfirst.com/language/index.html Language In Use hear it, speak it understand it & use it This site aims to help students learn about - and teachers teach - the English language. There are tasks to help work through the material, expert advice and strategies for identifying unknown texts.

• Lingu@net Europa www.linguanet-europa.org/plus/en/home.jsp www.linguanet-europa.org/plus/en/home.jsp Lingu@net Europa is a multilingual, on-line resource centre for foreign language learning. It provides information about and links to good on-line resources from around the world relating to the learning and teaching of any modern foreign language.

• krysstal.com www.krysstal.com/language.html www.krysstal.com/language.html Languages and Linguistics Language Families The English Language Words Grammar History of Writing UK and USA English London English Place Names Writing for the Internet

• EFL Classroom 2.0 eflclassroom.ning.com/ eflclassroom.ning.com/ EFL Classroom 2.0 is a site dedicated to providing and sharing the best resources and methods available for EFL / ESL teachers and students around the globe. A site by teachers and students for teachers and students. The focus is on materials and methods that help language learning.

• Common Errors in English Usage www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ What is an error in English? The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I'll leave to linguists the technical definitions. Here we're concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as teachers, literate executives and personnel officers.

• Language Impact www.languageimpact.com/index.htm www.languageimpact.com/index.htm At Language Impact you'll find language learning articles, product recommendations, MP3 files, and internet resources a site for teacher and students.

There are many great Free online Grammar learning sites for you to use and study independently London House has collected many of the best site here for you to use in your own time. We recommend that you have a pen and paper when ever you are studying online to make the most of your time and build your knowledge.

• Grammar Movies www.britishcouncil.org/professionals-grammar-movies.htm www.britishcouncil.org/professionals-grammar-movies.htm Cool easy to follow Flash Videos for Basic Grammar made by the British Council. Excellent

• The Internet Grammar of English www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/home.htm www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/home.htm The Internet Grammar of English is an online course in English grammar written primarily for university undergraduates. However, we hope that it will be useful to everyone who is interested in the English language. IGE does not assume any prior knowledge of grammar

• An Encyclopedia of English Grammar and Word Grammar www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/enc-gen.htm www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/enc-gen.htm This encyclopedia is freely available for consulting or downloading. An e-book version, which consists of a single file. Is recommended as this version works more smoothly than the basic one.

• Grammar and Style andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/ andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/ The English Language A User's Guide

• Grammar and Writing grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ The Guide to Grammar and Writing is sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation.

• Grammarly.com www.grammarly.com/ www.grammarly.com/ Grammarly checks your text for use of grammar rules you never knew existed. Get accurate error explanations and correct grammar. Plagiarism Detection Find borrowed text before it gets you into trouble. Automatically generate references. Vocabulary Enhancement and much more

There are many great Free online Vocabulary learning sites for you to use and study independently London House has collected many of the best site here for you to use in your own time. We recommend that you have a pen and paper when ever you are studying online to make the most of your time and build your knowledge.

• LanguageGuide.org www.languageguide.org/ www.languageguide.org/ LanguageGuide.org offers free sound integrated resources for learning languages. These resources are developed collaboratively with the help of volunteers. It is sponsored by Language Guide, a registered non-profit organization. Your financial help is needed!

• The Visual Dictionary www.infovisual.info/ www.infovisual.info/ Visual Dictionary, to learn by way of image with thematic, clear and precise pages, with concise and rigorous texts, multilingual, the InfoVisual will become an academic resource. Different from an encyclopedia or from a traditional online dictionaries, thesauri and glossaries because the images replace the words.

• The Visual Dictionary visual.merriam-webster.com/index.php visual.merriam-webster.com/index.php The Visual Dictionary Online, the dictionary with a new point of view. A quick glance at the index is all it takes to connect words with images. Explore the 15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images and see words like never before.

• Visuwords online graphical dictionary www.visuwords.com/ www.visuwords.com/ Visuwords online graphical dictionary Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree.

• Borrowings into English www.askoxford.com/globalenglish/borrowings/?view=uk www.askoxford.com/globalenglish/borrowings/?view=uk In the following sections, arranged according to the world's major regions, is a wide selection of languages from which at various times and in various ways English has borrowed. The samples are organized so as to suggest the proportions in which material from other languages is present in English.

• Wordle www.wordle.net/ www.wordle.net/ Wordle is a toy for generating Word Clouds from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

• Word Count www.wordcount.org/ www.wordcount.org/ WordCount is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it. The smaller the word, the more uncommon it is.

• Word Spy www.wordspy.com/ www.wordspy.com/ The Word Lovers guide to new words

The Internet is a great place to find out information Online Dictionaries are very useful and can hold huge databases and can cover everything from single words, pronunciation, phrasal verbs and idioms. London House has collected many of the best site here for you to use in your own time. We recommend that you have a pen and paper when ever you are studying online to make the most of your time and build your knowledge.

• Cambridge University Online English Dictionary dictionary.cambridge.org/ dictionary.cambridge.org/ Free Online English Dictionary, Thesaurus, Word of the Day and other language resources from Cambridge University Press includes phonemic script of all words.

• The Phrase Finder www.phrases.org.uk/ www.phrases.org.uk/ The Phrase Finder phrases sayings and idioms

• Urban dictionary slang www.urbandictionary.com/ www.urbandictionary.com/ Urban Dictionary is the slang dictionary you want 4,351,444 definitions written since 1999

• Index English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom www.peevish.co.uk/slang/index.htm www.peevish.co.uk/slang/index.htm A monster online dictionary of the rich colourful language we call slang... all from a British perspective, with new slang added every month.

• Word Web wordweb.info/free/ wordweb.info/free/ WordWeb is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can look up words in almost any program. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia. Features of the free version include: Definitions and synonyms Related words 5000 audio pronunciations 65 000 text pronunciations150 000 root words 120 000 synonym sets

• The Sage English Dictionary and Thesauru www.sequencepublishing.com/thesage.html www.sequencepublishing.com/thesage.html The Sage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a professional software package that integrates a complete dictionary and multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single and powerful language reference system.

• The online dictionary of financial terms www.finance-glossary.com/ www.finance-glossary.com/ The online dictionary of financial terms

• Lingro lingro.com/ lingro.com/ Lingro lets users read Web sites and click on any word for a translation. The new Web-based service works in English, Spanish, Italian, German, French and Polish. The site uses open dictionaries, so users can help fill in missing words

There are many great Free online Pronunciation learning sites for you to use and study independently London House has collected many of the best sites here for you to use in your own time. We recommend that you have a pen and paper when ever you are studying online to make the most of your time and build your knowledge.

• BBC Pronunciation www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/ www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/ Learn about and improve your spoken English with free pronunciation downloads. There are videos, audio examples, quizzes and other activities to help you.

• The Phonetics Flash Animation Project www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/# www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/# A real-time Flash animated articulatory diagram of each consonant and vowel. For each sound an animation with sound and movie will load. This project was produced at The University of Iowa

• Pronunciation Web Resources www.sunburstmedia.com/PronWeb.html www.sunburstmedia.com/PronWeb.html Just loads of useful links for anyone interested in Pronunciation Web Resources

Videos, Podcast, TV and Radio there is so much out there now a days it's hard to know what you should look at or listen to help improve your English. Grab a pen and paper and a pair of headphones. Relax listen watch and learn.

• ESL Podcast www.eslvideo.com/index.php www.eslvideo.com/index.php Watch videos and answer questions. Read the Transcript and check your listening comprehension. Check the Notes for information about culture, grammar, slang, or pronunciation.

• Yappr Video Bank en.yappr.com/welcome/Welcome.action;jsessionid=424768B4487AC49B411A9B5778AE17DC en.yappr.com/welcome/Welcome.action;jsessionid=424768B4487AC49B411A9B5778AE17DC Watch and learn from movies, music, sports, even celebrities. Choose from thousands of videos enhanced with subtitles, definitions and more; new videos added every day. Practice your pronunciation! Get immediate feedback from our unique pronunciation analysis tool.

• BBC The Flatemates www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/ www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/ Online EFL Radio Show Soap POD Cast about a group of students living, working and studying in London!

• ELLO POD Cast Lessons www.elllo.org/ www.elllo.org/ The mp3 files and text on elllo are Creative Commons. Students and teachers are free to download, copy and distribute these materials for educational purposes.

• 6 Minute English www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/ www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/ POD Cast lessons from the BBC

• ESL Podcast www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html English as a Second Language Podcast

• Open Culture www.openculture.com/audio_and_podcasts www.openculture.com/audio_and_podcasts Audio & Podcast Collections Free Audio Books Download free MP3's of great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Free University Courses Discover and download free online courses from some of the world's leading educational institutions, including Berkeley, Stanford, MIT & Yale.

• ESL Listening Lab www.esl-lab.com/ www.esl-lab.com/ Free ESL podcasts

• EnglishConversations.org englishconversations.org/ englishconversations.org/ EnglishConversations.org started as a collaboration between Mark White and Aaron Campbell as the internet and the digital revolution suddenly made audio and video technology freely and easily available. We set out to provide a source of free language learning materials on the internet because we believe that education is the key to making this world a better place.

• Facebook www.facebook.com/pages/London-House-School-of-English/125019314175702 www.facebook.com/pages/London-House-School-of-English/125019314175702 Facebook is the world?s largest social network, with over 500 million users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. London House westgate Facebook Page

• Live Mocha www.livemocha.com/ www.livemocha.com/ Live Mocha is the world's largest online community for language learners, with free lessons and a global community to help you learn a new language.

• Hello-Hello www.hello-hello.com/index.php www.hello-hello.com/index.php Hello-Hello is a revolutionary FREE language learning website with a community of like minded individuals that help each other during the learning process.

• EnglishCafe www.englishcafe.com/ www.englishcafe.com/ EnglishCafe the premier place on the Web to teach English. Create quizzes, upload audio and video content to your personal library, write blogs and then assemble it all in to online Lessons for learners.

• Ning www.ning.com/ www.ning.com/ Ning is the social platform for the world's interests and passions online Ning offers an easy to use service that allows people to join and create Ning Networks. With more than 1.8 million Ning Networks created and 37 million registered users millions of people every day are coming together across Ning to explore and express their interests discover new passions and meet new people around shared pursuits.

• Breaking News English www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ EFL / ESL English Lesson Plans & Podcast for studying Current Events and News. Thousands of FREE 13-page, Ready-to-Print Handouts with Downloads & Quizzes. Keep up with the news and learn English - Reading, Writing, Listening & Speaking.

• English-Zone.Com english-zone.com/index.php english-zone.com/index.php Graded ESL texts

• Aesop's Fables www.aesopfables.com/ www.aesopfables.com/ Online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed Great for making Jigsaw reading lessons.

• The Logos Foundation www.logos.it/ www.logos.it/ Logos Foundation Highlight of Free Resources at a glance: The Dictionary: Featuring 251 languages currently and genesis of the Logos Foundation Logos Library: more than 700 million words within a library search resource, featuring multilingual novels, technical literature and translated texts. Children's Dictionary: 180 languages featured with words specially targeted to encourage children's interest in language.

• Index 100 free short English stories for ESL learners www.rong-chang.com/qa2/index.html www.rong-chang.com/qa2/index.html Good for Kids and Adult learns Reading Jigsaw Reading Grammar dictation or prompts for a writing exercise.

• Punctuation made Simple lilt.ilstu.edu/golson/punctuation/ lilt.ilstu.edu/golson/punctuation/ A site about Punctuation Simple!

• English reading and spelling problems englishspellingproblems.co.uk/index.html englishspellingproblems.co.uk/index.html This site presents the whole range of English reading and spelling problems. It shows why so many learners of English have difficulties with reading and writing.

• manybooks manybooks.net// manybooks.net// Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from our visitors. Perhaps you'll find something interesting in the special collections. There are 25,742 eBooks available here and they're all free.

• Just Free Books www.justfreebooks.info/ www.justfreebooks.info/ Just Free Books search the content of more than 700 web sites, including gutenberg.org, wikibooks.org and archive.org. With JustFreeBooks you can find public domain texts, open books, free audio books, ad-supported books and more. Just type in the search box the book, author or theme you want to find.

• Slide Share www.slideshare.net/ www.slideshare.net/ Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios on SlideShare. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to make a webinar.

• WiZiQ www.wiziq.com/ www.wiziq.com/ WiZiQ enables teachers and learners to collaborate through * Virtual Classes * Online Tests * Educational Content * Contact Network

• Scribd www.scribd.com/about www.scribd.com/about Scribd is the largest social publishing company in the world, the Website where tens of millions of people each month publish and discover original writings and documents. On Scribd, you can quickly and easily turn nearly any file

• Issuu issuu.com/home issuu.com/home Issuu is the leading digital publishing platform delivering exceptional reading experiences of magazines, books, catalogs, reports, and more. In just a few seconds users can create beautiful digital editions simply by uploading their publications.

• Google Docs docs.google.com/ docs.google.com/ Create and edit web-based documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Store documents online and access them from any computer.

• PDF Queen www.pdfqueen.com/ www.pdfqueen.com/ This site offers thousands of academic books and files in PDF format to download for free it surely breaks many copyright laws however if you can get hold of a book you need this is a good place to look.

• PDFGeni www.pdfgeni.com/ www.pdfgeni.com/ PDFGeni is a dedicated pdf search engine for PDF ebooks, manual, catalogs, spreed sheets, forms and documents.

• data-sheet www.data-sheet.net/ www.data-sheet.net/ pdf ebook datasheet manual search engine you can search any ebook datasheet pdf files and download

• Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.

• Feed Books www.feedbooks.com/ www.feedbooks.com/ Discover: On Feedbooks you'll discover thousands of public domain books and original books from new authors that you can read on any mobile device. Publish: Turn your book into a high quality e-book with our publishing service or contribute to our collection of public domain titles.Feedbooks can distribute ebooks to a whole ecosystem of reading platforms and reach a global audience of millions of users.

• Using English for Academic Purposes www.uefap.com/index.htm www.uefap.com/index.htm Using English for Academic Purposes A Guide for Students in Higher Education

These Links are for teachers and cover teacher education and links to sites that are useful for lesson planning and designing materials.

• Teachers.tv www.teachers.tv/ www.teachers.tv/ Get a TV experience on your computer. Watch themed videos selected to match your interests, including great lesson ideas and inspiring documentaries.

• IPA Help www.sil.org/computing/ipahelp/index.htm www.sil.org/computing/ipahelp/index.htm IPA Help is a computer program for learning to recognize, transcribe, and produce the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

• PhoneticsWebTutorials www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/tutorials.html#phon www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/tutorials.html#phon Phonetics Web Tutorials from UCL

• Phonetic Flash www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/flash/flashin.htm www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/flash/flashin.htm Phonetic Flash is a collection of JavaScript programs for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4+ and Netscape 4+. It is intended for anyone who wishes to improve their knowledge of phonetic symbols.

• Word Sift www.wordsift.com/ www.wordsift.com/ WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. We especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners. We want WordSift to be a useful tool, but we also want it to be fun and visually pleasing.

• Online Etymology Dictionary www.etymonline.com/index.php www.etymonline.com/index.php Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

• The Hyper Text book of Modern English Grammar papyr.com/hypertextbooks/grammar/ papyr.com/hypertextbooks/grammar/ The Hyper Text book of Modern English Grammar by Daniel Kies Department of English College of DuPage

• Zotero Research Tool www.zotero.org/ www.zotero.org/ Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work in the web browser itself. Automatically capture citations Remotely back up and sync your library Store PDFs, images, and web pages Cite from within Word and OpenOffice Take rich-text notes in any language.

• plagiarism Checker www.plagiarismchecker.com/ www.plagiarismchecker.com/ Check for Plagiarism On the Web for Free

• Universal Teacher www.universalteacher.org.uk/default.htm www.universalteacher.org.uk/default.htm Andrew Moore's teaching resource site This is a bid site with lots of resources for teaching and good clear information covering a wide range of TESOL topics and other teaching and learning areas.

• NALDIC www.naldic.org.uk/index.cfm www.naldic.org.uk/index.cfm The National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum (NALDIC) is the UK professional body for all those interested in raising the achievement of bilingual pupils with English as an Additional Language. NALDIC was inaugurated in 1993 and since its formation has acted as the voice of the profession.

• Lesson Writer www.lessonwriter.com/default.aspx www.lessonwriter.com/default.aspx Lesson Writer makes possible Lesson Writer creates opportunities to teach reading wherever comprehension matters - in every class and in every subject. Lesson writer is a web site that generates comprehensive lessons* and lesson plans for teaching English language skills from any reading passage.

These sites mainly aimed at academics and teachers are very useful to give us a better understanding of how language works and are used to help add to our knowledge of collocations, usage and coverage of words. Helping us teach better and design better materials for you and your students.

• The British National Corpus www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of British English from the later part of the 20th century, both spoken and written. The latest edition is the BNC XML Edition, released in 2007.

• The American National Corpus americannationalcorpus.org/# americannationalcorpus.org/# The American National Corpus (ANC) project is creating a massive electronic collection of American English, including texts of all genres and transcripts of spoken data produced from 1990 onward. The ANC will provide the most comprehensive picture of American English ever created, and will serve as a resource for education, linguistic and lexicographic research, and technology development.

• Compleat Lexical Tutor & Online concordancers www.lextutor.ca/ www.lextutor.ca/ Range Vocab profile Concordance CORPUS N-Gram RT Builder Word recognition Vocab Stats Research Base Text Tools CORPUS BUILDER Familizer Frequency Lists Text_Lex _Compare KeyWords Morphology

• Corpussearch The Collins Word-banks Online English corpus www.collins.co.uk/corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx www.collins.co.uk/corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx The Collins Word-banks Online English corpus sampler is composed of 56 million words of contemporary written and spoken text. To get a flavour of the type of linguistic data that a corpus like this can provide, you can type in some simple queries here and get a display of concordance lines from the corpus. The query syntax allows you to specify word combinations, wildcards, part-of-speech tags, and so on.

• Vocabulary Profiler ec.hku.hk/vocabulary/profile.htm ec.hku.hk/vocabulary/profile.htm 1. the list of the most frequent 1000 words, 2. the list of the most frequent 1001 - 2000 words, 3 .the Academic Word List (AWL), (Coxhead 1997), 4. the remaining words in Xue and Nation's (1984) University Word List not included in the AWL, and 5. the words that do not appear in any of the preceding lists.

• The speech accent archive accent.gmu.edu/ accent.gmu.edu/ The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.

• English varieties of the British Isles www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/britishisles.htm www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/britishisles.htm This resource is of general interest to language students on university degree courses, trainee teachers and anyone with a general interest in language science.

• The British Library Sound Archive. www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/ www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/ You can listen to 76 sound recordings and over 600 short audio clips chosen from three collections of the British Library Sound Archive.