Advanced World Wide Web Treasure Hunt

We have given you ten URL’s of web sites with ten questions to answer. We have chosen 5 from EFL sites and 5 from authentic material sites.

We haven’t provided a direct link to the correct web page on the site so you will need to read the question and work out where on the website you are likely to find the answer. To get the answer you may have to search through the site by clicking on the hyperlinks. You may also have to enter some details into text boxes before you get the answer. Work together and if you get stuck call us over for help.

Email us with your completed answers.

As you work through the activities think about the English language skills your students would use / develop in order to complete a similar activity.

  1. Dave's ESL Cafe
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    http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/eslcafe.html

    What does the phrasal verb "catch on" (no object) mean? Quote the example sentence.

  2. The Comenius English Language Center
    3.

    http://www.comenius.com/

    What is this month’s idiom on the Comenius site? Quote the definition and example dialogue.

  3. Dictionary
    4.

    http://www.dictionary.com/

    Look up the word 'adjudicate'. What is the definition offered?

  4. Guide to Grammar and Writing
    5.

    http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm

    Check out the Word and sentence level resource. What are the three ways the apostrophe is used?

  5. The Collins COBUILD direct – Bank of English
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    http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html#democonc

    Run the concordancer with the full corpora and lookup a new query with the word "help". What is the first line of the concordance?

  6. The New York Times Daily lesson plan
    7.

    http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/index.html

    What is today's lesson called and what is it about?

  7. NASA
    8.

    http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov

    What is the Valentine’s Day feature captured by the Mars Global Surveyor?

  8. Encarta

    9. http://encarta.msn.com/default.asp?

    What were Shakespeare’s first two poems and when were they published?

  9. EasyJet

    10. http://www.easyjet.com/index.html

    What is the latest time that you could catch a flight from Barcelona to London Luton on a Saturday? How much would it cost?

  10. Lonely Planet

    11. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/

    What’s the recommended best time of year to visit Sydney?

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