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This amazing free site provides students with a
whole range of great activities to accompany movie trailers.
There are over 80 trailers on the site for students to watch and learn from. Every
trailer comes with the full script with useful definitions of difficult words. Plus
there are cloze activities and discussion questions that can be completed for self-study
or in a class situation.
This site is an absolute must for all students and
teachers who have access to the internet.
 The Voices project has been nominated for various awards
and represents a fantastic cultural archive of information about the UK.
The main part of the project is over 1000 recordings
of short conversations between people from all over the UK.
The aim of the project has been to document the broad variety of accents and vocabulary
used by people in different areas of Britain.
The results are amazing and every recording is packed full with background information
about the speakers and the particular vocabulary they are using.
This site can provide a fantastic resource for
the advanced learner to improve their English while also learning about British
culture.
 Getty Images provide images for most
of the world's media and you can browse their complete photo archive on their website.
This is a true treasure trove of imagery for any teacher.
Every picture you could ever need can be found on their website. Imagine you want
to discuss some recent current affairs, compare famous people or even debate environmental
issues. By printing a few pictures from Getty, you are giving your students a wealth
of valuable information to draw upon.
An essential reference point for all teachers.
 Frontline is a hard-hitting documentary
programme from PBS. Their powerful and impartial
documentaries are available for viewing at any time online. Many of the documentaries
come with detailed teacher's packs providing teachers with a range of materials
to use with the programmes.
A brilliant documentary programme pushing forward internet
boundaries by being available at any time to anyone in the world with a good internet
connection.
YouTube has become the leading video clip website
on the web with over 200 million videos uploaded to their site.
After only 18 months online this phenomenally successful
site has recently been bought by Google for over $1 billion.
The breadth and depth of videos available on this site
makes it invaluable to a teacher. Especially if you ever need the music to just
about any song, you'll find it on YouTube.
Sometimes the simple websites are the best.
Puzzlemaker is a brilliant website for making all sort of puzzles.
If you want to make a crossword or a wordsearch,
puzzlemaker is the place to go. You just type
in the words you want and this great little website will design a puzzle for you
in seconds.
A brilliant, practical resource for teachers or students.
Another entry in our current top 10 for
the BBC. VideoNation offers teachers and students another fantastic archive of rich
information about the people and culture of the UK.
VideoNation is a huge archive of videoclips uploaded by people from all over the
UK documenting interesting things about their lives.
A really useful feature of VideoNation for teachers
and students is that you can browse the archives by category, subject matter and
region.
One of the nicest things about the internet
is being able to listen to radio shows wherever they are in the world.
A Way With Words is a rare gem of a show for English
language teachers. Broadcast by KPBS, a radio
station from San Diego USA, every week the show offers a lively and light-hearted
look at some really interesting language issues.
A brilliant source of inspiration for any teacher.
 GoogleEarth, like most things
Google, is an incredible invention. With
this amazing tool you can fly around the world faster than Superman and zoom in
from outer space right down to your house in seconds.
This offers unlimited potential in the classroom. For example,
in a multinational class students can show and share where they are from. You do need to download the GoogleEarth program to
use this service.
With GoogleEarth the whole world is your oyster!
The Discovery channel is another one of the
big media companies that are providing huge amounts of their content online.
The Discovery channel has loads of sub-channels
and programs and this provides a rich archive of video clips for you to view anywhere
in the world.
Plus you can now watch clips from the Discovery
channel through Google Earth. An essential resource for all things geographical
and natural!
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