One free reading, writing, listening and speaking paper. Five other sample papers can be ordered but not viewed. Requires RealPlayer. Another set of papers are currently being prepared and should be available soon.

http://www.aapress.com.au/ielts/english/ielts.htm

Holmesglen Institute

http://international.holmesglen.vic.edu.au/IELTS01.htm

Lots of information about the exam and question types with practice material for reading, writing, listening and speaking ( watch out for the occasional error ! ). The practice activities can only be completed on line. The listening material is limited to part of a lecture but is available through Windows Media Player.

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10. Business English

Bell English Online - The best on the web

http://www.bellenglish.com/

English international business English exercise http://www.better-english.com/exerciselist.html

Linguarama business English http://www.linguarama.com/ps/index.html

The Besig links page:

www.lydbury.co.uk/besig/pages/links.htm

An Austrian teacher’s page. Very good.

www.vhs21.ac.at/english-business/home/links.html

Another very good page

http://eleaston.com/biz/bizhome.html

The Business English Market:

www.geocities.com/athens/sparta/9487/index.html

Practise your business Engish.

http://www.davevolek.com/

The Language key is a monthly online business English magazine with lots of resources for students

http://www.languagekey.com/

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11. Dictionaries and thesauri

Cambridge University Press Dictionaries

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Longman Dictionaries

http://www.longman-elt.com/dictionaries/

Newbury house online dictionary of American English

http://nhd.heinle.com/

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

http://www1.oup.co.uk/elt/oald/

Wordsmyth English dictionaries- thesaurus

http://www.wordsmyth.net/

Plumbline visual thesaurus

http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus

Dictionary list http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries_noframes.html

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12. Virtual schools

Bell English Online - The best on the web

http://www.bellenglish.com/

English school

http://edx.org/english.shtml

English club

http://www.englishclub.net/

Free English has lots of exercises to help you improve your English

http://www.freeenglish.com

Global English has some free learning material at three different levels

http://www.globalenglish.com

Peak

http://www.dli-peak.com/

Tower of English

http://www.towerofenglish.com

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13. Encyclopaedias

Britannica

http://www.britannica.com/

Biblomania

http://www.bibliomania.com/

Encyclopedia

http://www.encyclopedia.com/

Encyclopedia smithsonian

http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/

Linguistics

http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ccsd/

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General resources on the net for students

1. Bookshops

Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/

Blackwells http://www.blackwells.co.uk/

Heffers http://www.heffers.co.uk/

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2. Business

The Economist

www.economist.co.uk

The Financial Times

www.ft.com

Europages

www.europages.com

BESIG

http://www.lydbury.co.uk/besig/

http://www.dis.strath.ac.uk/business/index.html

Business info and the Internet

http://business.dis.strath.ac.uk/

HM treasury

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/

International Financial Encyclopedia

http://www.euro.net/innovation/Finance_Base/Fin_encyc.html

Guide to management and technology http://www.euro.net/innovation/Management_Base/Man_Guide_Rel_1.0B1/Introduction.html

The New York Stock Exchange

www.nyse.com/

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3. Crime

Metropolition police

http://www.met.police.uk/

Murder Inc

http://www.murderinc.com/

Focus on the death penalty

http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/just/death/

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4. Entertainment

Disney

http://disney.go.com/

The Discovery Channel

http://www.discovery.com

If you like murders and mystery check out this site

The case

http://www.mysterynet.com/thecase/

Films

Lots of information about films @ The Internet movie database

http://us.imdb.com/search

Thousands of complete film scripts @

http://www.script-o-rama.com/

http://www.screentalk.org/moviescripts.htm

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5. Environment

Green peace

http://www.greenpeace.org/index.shtml

Friends of the earth

http://www.foe.co.uk/

Global Eco-village network

http://www.gaia.org/

Enviro link

http://www.envirolink.org/

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6. History

The history net

http://www.thehistorynet.com/

Education World

http://www.education-world.com/history/

The National Archives Virtual Museum

http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/virtualmuseum/

Today in history

http://kwtv.com/today/today.htm

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7. Life in Britain

The British Monarchy

http://www.royal.gov.uk/

The British Council

http://www.britcoun.org

UK Government Information

http://www.open.gov.uk/

The Green Party

http://www.greenparty.org.uk/

The Labour Party

http://www.labour.org.uk/

The Conservative Party

http://www.conservative-party.org.uk

The Liberal Democrats

http://www.libdems.org.uk/

Dept for Education & Employment

http://www.open.gov.uk/dfee/dfeehome.htm

Norwich Tourist Information

http://www.norwich.gov.uk/tourism/

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8. Literature

Shakespeare

http://www.shakespeare.com/

The complete works of Shakespeare

http://www.ipl.org/reading/shakespeare/shakespeare.html

Information about Shakespeare

http://www.folger.edu/welcome.htm

Links to other Shakespeare sites and more @

http://daphne.palomar.edu/Shakespeare/

Lots of famous books that can be read online @

http://www.literature.org/

Lots of links at this site

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html

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9. Magazines

A list of magazines that have web sites @ Media directory

http://www.mediauk.com/

Find out what’s on TV and the Radio @ The Radio Times

http://www.radiotimes.co.uk

Private Eye - Britain’s top satirical magazine

http://www.privateeye.uk.msn.com/nogo1.htm

All the latest Pop music information @ Dot music

http://www.dotmusic.com/whatsnew.shtml

Britain’s best known Pop magazine

http://www.nme.com

The Economist

http://www.economist.com/

National Geographical

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Fashion and lifestyle features for men @ GQ

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/content/ie4/177/1346-2-1-1.html

Fashion and lifestyle features for women

http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk

http://www.vogue.co.uk/content/ie4/822/366760-2-1-1.html

Travel information @ Conde Nast traveller

http://www.cntraveller.com/content/ie4/197/212531-2-1-1.html

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10. News

UK

BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/

ITV

http://www.itv.co.uk

Sky TV

http://www.sky.co.uk

Discovery channel

http://www.discovery.com/

Ananova

http://www.ananova.com

World

CNN

http://www.cnn.com

BBC World

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/default.stm

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11. Newspapers

The Times

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/

The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk

The Guardian / Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk

The Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

New York Times

http://www2.nytimes.com/

The Paper Boy has links to national and local newspapers from all over the world ***

http://www.thepaperboy.com

The Paper Boy has a UK site with links to UK national and local papers

http://www.thepaperboy.co.uk/

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12. People

Biographies @

http://www.biography.com

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13. Science

The www virtual library

http://www.vlib.org/

How stuff works

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/lzone/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/schools/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/

Science mag

http://www.sciencemag.org/

You will have register for this site, but it is free !

The New scientist

http://www.newscientist.com

Life science connections

http://vilenski.com/science/humanbody/

PBS

http://www.pbs.org/

Not all science stuff, but there is some there. From the American Public Broadcast service

The Wellcome Foundation

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/hme.html

A list of science related sites

http://www.keysites.com/keysites/hotspots/hotspots.html

NASA

http://www.nasa.gov/

The Greenchannel

http://www.greenchannel.com

The Green house effect

http://www.tip.net.au/~edmonds/greenhouse

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14. Sport

Sky Sports

http://www1.sky.com/sports/home/index.html

Sports illustrated

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/

Eurosport

http://www.eurosport.com/

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15. Travel

Foreign office

http://www.fco.gov.uk/

UKOK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ukok/

Financial times country surveys.

httP://surveys.ft.com

Lonely plant destinations

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/

Plan your car journey @ The AA

http://www.theaa.co.uk

Multimap UK – This site has detailed maps of the whole of the UK. It can even find your house !

http://uk2.multimap.com/

Travel matters

http://www.moon.com/travel_matters/travel_library.html

Travelocity

http://www.travelocity.com/

Visit Britain

http://www.visitbritain.com/frameset.htm

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16. Travel in Britain

These sites plan your journey for you if you are travelling by car. The first two give door to door directions.

http://maps.altavista.co.uk/altavistauk/startdd.hm

http://www.shellgeostar.com/route/routePlan.asp

http://www.theaa.co.uk/

http://www.greenflag.co.uk

Cheap flights in Europe. You can book online with your credit card

http://www.buzzaway.com/

http://www.go-fly.com

http://www.easyjet.co.uk/

http://www.ryanair.com

Car hire

http://www.thrifty.co.uk/

http://www.bcvr.co.uk/

http://www.avis.co.uk

Train travel. Timetables and tickets

http://www.thetrainline.com

http://www.britrail.co.uk

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17. The Internet

Free webmail from these companies

Hotmail

http://www.hotmail.com

Yahoo! Mail

http://mail.yahoo.com/

Eudora

http://www.eudora.com

Tips on using the Internet from this site

http://www.humbul.ac.uk/vts/english/index.htm

Learn a computer language for free at these sites

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/

http://www.zdnet.com/developer/

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18. Libraries

UK Higher Education and Research Libraries

http://www.ex.ac.uk/library/uklibs.html

London Libraries

http://www.m25lib.ac.uk/M25

UK libraries plus: This is a scheme whereby distance and/or part-time students at one university can use the facilities of other libraries.

http://www.lisa.sbu.ac.uk/uklibrariesplus/index.html

UK Public Libraries on the Web:

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ac940/weblibs.html

Public Libraries of Europe:

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ac940/eurolib.html

London and the South East of England public libraries and other inforamtion providing organizations:

http://www.viscount.org.uk/laser/members.html

Philatelic Library:

http://www.bl.uk/collections/philatelic/

Business library

http://www.lbs.lon.ac.uk/library/

Electronic Libraries

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/

Medical Library

http://www.glenlib.demon.co.uk/

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19. Studying in Britain

The British Council website page on Education in the UK: http://www.educationuk.org/eduuk.html

This has easy to follow links to other websites like:

A page with an alphabetical list of Universities around England

http://www.niss.ac.uk/sites/he-cis.html

The official searchable database of postgraduate course in Britain etc

http://www.prospects.csu.ac.uk/student/pgdir/international/index.htm

UCAS is the admissions organisation for university applications in Britain

http://www.ucas.co.uk

This is the address of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. They are responsible for grading each university department, and they provide listings and more detailed reports of individual departments.

www.qaa.ac.uk/

This Higher Education Funding site also provides ratings, both by institution and by department.

www.hefce.ac.uk

Lots of information about postgraduate courses in Britain from

http://www.postgrad.hobsons.com

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For teachers

1. General ELT sites

Bell English Online - The best on the web

http://www.bellenglish.com/

BBC World service Learning English has lots of free resources for teachers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml

About.com from America has lots of resources and links for teachers of English

http://esl.about.com/

Internet TESL journal links page http://www.aitech.ac.jp/%7Eiteslj/links/

Dave’s ESL café on web – the best known ELT Portal http://www.eslcafe.com/

Linguists fun land TESL page http://www.tesol.net/tesl.html

The English zone http://members.home.net/englishzone/

The TEFL farm http://www.teflfarm.com/

The Tower of English http://members.tripod.com/%7Etowerofenglish/academy.htm

The University of Hong Kong virtual English centre http://ec.hku.hk/vec/

The Hong Kong polytechnic University virtual English centre

http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/

Lesson Plans and Teaching Ideas

School world Internet education http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/

PIZZAZ!

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html

ESL/EFL Lessons and Lesson plans

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/links/TESL/Lessons/

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2. Link sites

Bell English Online - The best on the web

http://www.bellenglish.com/resources/

AAA EFL Links

http://www.aaaefl.co.uk/aaa/

Aardvark’s ESL Resources

http://www.baysights.com/aardvark

British Council Hong Kong

http://www.britcoun.org.hk/english/eltsites.htm

Dave Eastment's home page

http://www.eastment.com/links.html

Dave’s ESL Café

http://www.eslcafe.com

Fun web

http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~funweb/

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/

Kenji Kitao’s Home Page

http://148.88.14.7:80/staff/visitors/kenji

Learning English on the web

http://www.lang.uiuc.edu/r-li5/esl/

Linguistic Funland

http://www.linguistic-funland.com/

Neteach-l links page

http://www.tesol.net/neteach.html

TESL Journal links

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/links/

The ELT web

http://www.britcoun.org.hk/english/eltsites.htm

University of Glasgow Links

http://www.efl.arts.gla.ac.uk

University of Hong Kong VLC

http://ec.hku.hk/vec/

University of Illinois

http://www.rong-chang.com/

Volterre

http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/weblinktch.html

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3. Journals and magazines

A free online magazine for teachers and students of English

http://its-online.com/

ELT connections

http://www.awl-elt.com/

ELT spectrum

http://www1.oup.co.uk/elt/magazine/

EFL web

http://www.eflweb.com/

Humanising Language teaching

http://www.hltmag.co.uk/index.htm

Internet TESL Journal (Japan)

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/

It’s magazine

http://its-online.com/index.html

Language learning technology journal

http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/llt/

TESL-EJ

http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/tesl-ej/

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4. Publishers

Athelstan

http://www.athelstan.com/

Clarity consultants

http://www.clarity.com.hk/

Colins cobuild

http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/

Educational software products

http://www.educationalsoftware.co.uk

ELT connection

http://www.awl-elt.com/

Interactive activities

http://www.mhelt.com/shock/index.htm

Longman ELT

http://www.pearsoned-ema.com/

Oxford University press

http://www1.oup.co.uk/elt/

Q group

http://www.qmultimedia.com/

Sky software house

http://www.skysoftwarehouse.com

Talk fast

http://www.talkfast.com/

Teleste educational LTD

http://edu.teleste.fi/HOME.NSF?Open

Wida software

http://www.netkonect.net/wida/

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5. ELT Organisations

The British council, United Kingdom

http://www.britcoun.org/

The Bell school

http://www.bell-schools.ac.uk/

Cilt

http://www.cilt.org.uk/

IATEFL

http://www.iatefl.org/

UCLES

http://www.edunet.com/ciltsrsa/index.htm

Toefl online

http://www.toefl.org/

IELTS

http://www.ielts.org

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6. Discussion lists and Usenet Groups

Alt.uasage.english

http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/flteach.html

Misc. education. Language. English

http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/

The FLTEACH lists home page

http://www.ilc.cuhk.edu.hk/english/neteach/main.html

7. Linguistics

British national corpus

http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/

Simple searches

http://thetis.bl.uk/lookup.html

Corpus linguistics

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html

Directory of MA dissertations

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/ELI/thesis.html

The eclectic company

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/lingmarks.html

The language hub linguistics page

http://www.cetrodftt.com/langhub/transling.htm

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8. Primary and secondary

Government site for schools and higher education

http://www.becta.org.uk/becta_home.cfm

Government site for schools and higher education

http://www.ngfl.gov.uk/ngfl/index.html

European Union Schoolnet site has resources for teachers within the EU

http://www.en.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/index.html

An online library for UK secondary teachers

http://www.teachit.co.uk

IATEFL Young learner SIG with links

http://www.countryschool.com/ylresources.htm

The web site of a company that produces interactive learning games about art science and history

http://www.eduweb.com

Lesson plans and ideas from IBM USA

http://solutions.ibm.com/k12

Lots of interactive learning activities for ages 3 - 18

http://www.argosphere.net

A site with lots of links

http://www.cbull.com/kids.htm

Yahoo’s junior search engine

http://www.yahooligans.com

Yahooligans site of the week

http://yahooligans.com/docs/picks

Lots of free picture resources and graphics for teachers @

http://www.clipart.com/

http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&stype=simage

http://www.linkopedia.com//Computers/Graphics/index.html

Resources and links for teachers

http://www.everythingeducation.org/

Links to sites for young learners

http://www.countryschool.com/ylresources.htm

Word central

http://www.wordcentral.com/

Ask Jeeves for kid’s

http://www.ajkids.com/

Learning @ web sites

http://www.ecnet.net/users/gdlevin/home.html

Study world

http://www.studyweb.com/

Education world

http://www.education-world.com/

Britkids is an interactive game that deals with racism

http://www.britkid.org

Mape has lots of ICT ideas for primary school teachers

http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/index.htm