Ryton
Students - Departments – English – Web Links
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Reference |
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Ryton
Reads |
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Online
Dictionary |
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Rhyming
Dictionary |
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The
Geordie Dictionary |
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A
Dictionary of slang |
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Dictionary,
encyclopaedia, thesaurus, glossaries |
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American
versus English - Standard English |
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World
wide words |
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Useful
search site for famous quotations |
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Site for
book reviews and study guides |
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Yahoo
listing of linguistic links |
http://dir.yahoo.com/social_science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages
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Dialectizer
- fun site that plays around with dialects |
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Martin
Luther King |
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Skills |
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BBC
Revision Site – link to Bitesize |
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BBC AS
English Guru |
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GCSE
revision site |
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USA
Study site – notes on texts |
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On-line
help with texts |
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User
friendly guide to the English language |
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Test
your grammar knowledge |
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Common
errors in English |
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Step-by-step
spelling units |
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Site
that produces randomly-generated sentences! |
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Poetry |
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Poetry
Society Home Page |
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Shakespeare |
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Information
about each of Shakespeare’s plays – summaries & sample essays |
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Official
site of Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust |
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Exploring Language |
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The
Geordie Dictionary |
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Dialectizer
- fun site that plays around with dialects |
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Martin Luther King |
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Martin
Luther King Biog. |
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BBC On This Day Site – Martin Luther King |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/28/newsid_2656000/2656805.stm |
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Access
to a recording of the I have a Dream
speech and transcript (as well as other speeches) |
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Identity Cards |
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Site
opposing the introduction of Identity Cards in the UK |
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Year 10 & 11 |
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Power
points and interactive resources for teachers and pupils |
http://geoffbarton.co.uk/student-resources.php |
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Andrew
Moore’s pages for Lang & Lit |
http://www.eriding.net/amoore/ |
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Great
links to interactive resources for English |
http://www.educeth.ch/english/ |
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Shakespeare’s
life and times |
http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html |
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BBC’s
online help |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/english.shtml |
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Help for
Language and Literature |
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Helpful
tips for original writing coursework |
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Revision
materials for GCSE |
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English
Language and Literature resources for GCSE |
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GCSE
English revision notes |
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Materials
to aid GCSE revision |
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Revision
tips |
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Tips for
improving spelling and grammar at GCSE |
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Notes on
set literature texts for GCSE coursework and revision |
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Year 12 & 13 |
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Files
relevant to GCSE, A Level Lang. and Lit.
In loving memory of Andrew Moore who died in 2006 |
http://www.eriding.net/amoore/ |
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Interactive
resources for A level |
http://geoffbarton.co.uk/student-resources.php |
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Accent
and dialect |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish/ |
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An
excellent blog run by an A level language teacher |
http://languagelegend.blogspot.com/ |
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A good
start to any study of grammar |
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/literacy/prof_dev/self_study_archive/571599/ |
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The
BBC’s on-line help- links to on-line writing sites |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/english.shtml |
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http://www.colchsfc.ac.uk/english/ |
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A really
attractive site of moving synonyms set in linked semantic fields |
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ |
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The
British Library – an absolutely fantastic resource |
http://www.bl.uk/welcome/everyone.html |
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Newspaper
archive |
http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/ |
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Free
mindmap software |
http://freemind.surceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page |
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Grammar
– a Flash presentation |
http://wwwstandards.dfes.gov.uk/literacy/prof_dev/self_study/archive/571599/ |
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BBC’s
online help – various links including online writing sites |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/english.shtml |
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Lang & Lit. activities created by |
http://apirations.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/alevel.acds |
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A level English Literature notes |