Word a day emailing list: Ako zelite da unapredite svoje znanje engelskih reci i izraza, mozete se prijaviti na besplatnu listu "word a day" koja vec 10 godina dnevno salje zanimljive engleske reci na adrese stotina hiljada ljudi sirom sveta. Za prijavu, sledite uputstva: POsaljite emaj na adresu: wsmith@wordsmith.org sa naznakom u naslovu poruke: "subscribe <vase ime>" Za vise informacija o svemu, posetite http://wordsmith.org/awad General Grammar Guides and Exercises These sites provide detailed explanations of grammar issues and offer practices of many kinds for native speakers as well as students of English. Some sites even offer a little fun—through games, humor, or off-beat site design. Guide to Grammar and Writing (http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/) This site is a labor of love from Professor Charles Darling at Capital Community College in Hartford, CT. There’s everything here from the mysteries of concocting a paragraph to the baffling world of prepositions. Strunk and White’s "Elements of Style" (http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html) You’ll benefit from looking up this classic text, because it may still be the rule of thumb so many teachers and others live by when assessing your writing. Science Fiction Grammar (http://pages.prodigy.net/cynthea/grammar.html) Do you fall asleep the minute the word grammar is mentioned? Well, you just can’t doze off when the sentences state, "Many of the ogres had blood dribbling down their chins," or "None of the babies had been switched at birth." Big Dog Grammar (http://gabiscott.com/bigdog/) All the basic points of English grammar are reviewed here in such casual style that you might think you’ve bumped into an under-achieving English Ph.D. in a Caribbean tiki hut. Here you can learn, but . . oh so casually. CNN Grammar Exercises (http://lc.byuh.edu/CNN_N/grammar.html) Want a glimpse of what life is like for high-pressure wordsmiths? This site provides CNN broadcast transcripts and then asks you to fill in the missing words—in proper grammatical form, of course. The good news? You don’t have to do it to deadline. EFL Links The sites listed below were developed for students studying English as a Foreign Language. Internet TESL Journal: Activities for ESL Students (http://a4esl.org/) Here you’ll find an abundance of English quizzes, crossword puzzles, links and an ESL Web Guide. Note that the easy level is VERY easy, so many students of English will want to use the medium or difficult levels on the quizzes. English Blue(s) (http://www.collegeem.qc.ca/cemdept/anglais/trouindx.htm) From Canada, this site has plenty of useful quizzes, grammar explanations, reading/comprehension pages and exercises for detailed problem spots. It’s especially focused for intermediate to advanced English learners. English Zone (http://english-zone.com/) This site will take a long time to use up. There are pages for grammar, verbs, vocabulary, spelling, idioms, jokes, activities, conversation, reading, writing, links and more. ESL Independent Study (http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/grammar.html) All the sites noted above contain healthy lists of links to other worthwhile sites. But...if you really want ESL links, this is the site. Best of all, the web-editor has organized the links by level (from beginner up through advanced). By the time you exhaust the resources here, you’ll know English well enough to create your own ESL website. Purdue University’s OWL (On-line Writing Lab) (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index.html) Purdue’s OWL was on the web early on, which now makes it a classic site in this field. However, it has organized its information around a much older teaching device, the Handout. So click a "handout option" for any of a number of focused issues in the English language (a/an rules, countable/uncountable nouns, or verbs of any tense or function.) And that’s just for starters. This is a rich and practical site. Grammar Safari (http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html) We end with one of the most innovative sites and one which might just give you English learning tools for a lifetime—or at least as long as the web exists. On this site, you’ll become expert at searching for that phrase, word, or expression that has always puzzled you in English. You’ll search it on the web and review so many examples of the term in context that at last its use and meaning will become clear to you. Intrigued? Visit this site for a guided tour of a learning method that puts you in the driver’s seat of your English language education. |