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Three Muses, Vilnius

The Three Muses, Vilnius

 

Tallinn Tower

Tallinn

 

Chrurch in Tripoli

Church in Tripoli

 

Jelgava

Jelgava, Latvia

 

Roman Arch

Leptis Magna

 

Scottish Loch

Scotland

 

Slovenia

Slovenia

 

Tallinn Tower Hall

Tallinn

 

Parnu

Parnu, Estonia

 

Slovenia Castle

Slovenia

 

Links

1. Sites for English language learners

BBC World Service

This site has a large number of interesting radio programmes, which can be listened to on-line, as well as exercises for learners.

BBC World Service Learning English

This is the web page for learners of English and will give you access to a wealth of materials.

Learn English

A regularly up-dated site where every activity is archived.

2. Self-awareness

Belbin

Belbin is the classic team role 'guru' and this site will introduce you to the concepts and there is the possibility to do a test to find out your preferred team role.

Learning Styles

This site (by Barbara Soloman and Richard Felder of North Carolina State University) has a learning styles questionnaire: 44 a or b questions which you answer and receive an analysis in return.

Temperament: different drums, different drummer

This site has a lot of information on four basic people patterns - Artisan, Guardian, Rational and Idealist - and 16 different types. There is a Temperament Sorter test for you to take.

Humanmetrics.com

Take a Jung Typology Test and receive a detailed personality analysis.

3. Reference materials

Brainyquote.com

A huge site of quotes arranged alphabetically by author, but you can also search for quote of keywords.

The Gutenberg Project

The Gutenberg Project is a fascinating site containing text versions of classics such as Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. A huge resource for corpus linguistics analysis.

The Compleat Lexical Tutor

A site with a wealth of resources for teachers serious about vocabulary and vocabulary learning.

Word frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus.

WordNet

The Princetown University WordWeb site. You can search for the sense meaning of words.

Gender Genie

A program which claims to be able to distinguish between male and female writers.

http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~sipkadan/lingo.htm

A web-browser based concordancer.

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Costas Gabrielatos

Phil's EFL Support

Russell Stannard

4. News and current affairs

The BBC

The Daily Telegraph

The Guardian

The Independent

The Spectator

The Times

The Weekly Standard

Commentary Magazine

Policy Review

Blogs etc

Austin Bay

Ann Coulter

Centre Right

Dailykos

David Limbaugh

Hot Air

Hugh Hewitt

Mark Steyn

Melanie Phillips

Michael Barone

Michael Yon

Michelle Malkin

Peggy Noonan

Powerline

Pyjamas Media

Realclearpolitics

Richard Miniter

Robinson and Long

Roger L Simon

Slate

The Corner

The Long War Journal

Townhall

5. Happening stuff

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