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These pages are general and specific resources that can be of use to students that are taking an English course.  Please email me if you have a good suggestion for an english resource site for this page.

Useful Resources

• NEW: English Literature Dictionary / Glossary for Students - Made by the staff of ITS Tutorial School

Young Learners

• BBC - KS2 Bitesize - Reading, writing and spelling and grammar skills can help you tell a story, share your ideas, write a litter and make sense of instructions.
• British Council - Teaching English - A host of reading, writing, speaking and listening activities.

Intermediate Students

• BBC - KS3 Bitesize - For tips on reading fiction and non fiction texts, developing communication skills and writing about Shakespeare - look no further than here.
• BBC - Secondary Ages 11-16 - This link will take you to a host of different sites for a variety of English activities including writing, poetry, novel analysis.
• BBC - GCSE Bitesize for Literature
• BBC - GCSE Bitesize for English - Offers excelllent preparation tips for all those important IGCSE Exams.

Intermediate to Senior Level

• Englishbiz - All sorts of tips for different types of writing amongst a host of other great revision activities. English, English Literature and Media Studies are all covered here.
• S-cool.co.uk
• Times Educational Supplement
• Bibliomania.com
• Spark Notes - Study guide to literature classics. Includes plot overview, character analysis, themes etc.
• Pink Monkey - Study guide to literature classics and novels. Includes chapter summaries, themes, etc.
• Bartleby Shakespeare texts

IB

• ASM IB English Grades 11 & 12 - Great IB English site. With oral commentary tips, sample World Lit essays, scoring guides, poetry review terms etc.
• Definitions of Literary Terms - Definition of Literary terms.
• Guide to writing your commentary
• Guide to writing an Oral Commentary

General

• BBC - General and Business English - All sorts of grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation activities.
• English Bites - An informative and entertaining way to improve your knowledge of the English language. It has learning programmes and video podcasts for youto explore.
• Web English Teacher - The University of Liverpool has a great site suitable for young adult literature on up.

Tertiary

• Active Map of UK Universities and Higher Educational Institutions
• A Research Guide for Students

Other sites of interest to students

English language resources * ESL resources for students and teachers

• Improve Your English - At EFL.NET you can listen to songs, stories and poetry, while you read the texts on the screen. Here you can do cloze tests, play word games and improve your grammatical and idiomatic English.
• A Slang Dictionary - A regularly updated dictionary of English slang and informal expressions currently in use in Britain.
• ESL Student Resources - Offered by the the Department of Lingustucs of Ohio University.
• Daves ESL Cafe - Collections of idioms and phrasal verbs amongst others.
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online - It also tells you about words related to what you looked up.
• Thesaurus.com - Online resources for finding synonyms and antonyms.
• The Purdue Online Writing Lab - Offers over 200 resources including Style Guide and Grammar and Mechanics.
• English-Zone.Com - Resources for English Learners
• ESL Teachers Board - Free ESL materials, jobs and resumes

IB Resource Links

The following links contain a collection of subject specific resource links for IB and other students studying different subjects

Anthropology | Biology | Business Studies | Chemistry | Computer Science | Economics | English | Environmental Systems | French | Geography | History | ITGS | Mathematics | Philosophy | Physics | Psychology | Spanish | Visual Arts