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A few years ago {{link http://www.cnn.com CNN}} started to charge for its online video content and many of us fled to other sources of authentic American accents and news reports. That decision was reversed a little while ago and now

We’ve always been big fans of online simulations of processes such as production lines. They offer lots of possibilities for lessons. Visit the {{link http://www.psa-peugeot-citroen.com/en/morning.php PSA Peugeot Citroen}} website and click on “Virtual Visit of a Plant” in the top

This is a subject that has bubbled away almost since the Web was born. This piece by Raphael Behr in today’s Observer newspaper called {{link http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1567143,00.html?gusrc=rss Access Denied}} gives a good summary of the issues although, in light of current

My enthusiasm for podcasts continues. However, it is apparently possible for podcasts to infect your computer with viruses. I think the usual advice prevails about only downloading from reliable sources and keeping firewalls and anti-virus software on your computer operating

Here’s a website called {{link http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ Breaking News English}} that Pete drew my attention to. The author, Sean Banville, has set himself the heroic task of providing a daily lesson based on a news story. He describes it thus: Ready-to-use

{{link http://www.onestopenglish.com/business_esp/esp_banking.htm The Audit Career Game}} is my latest contribution to the Business and ESP materials section. It’s intended to lighten up some of those potentially uninspiring vocabulary lessons. As always, am grateful for any feedback.

This is a brief description of the training session I mentioned on {{link http://kevwes9.dreamhosters.com/pages/blog/archives/00000008.htm 6 June}} and the reactions and comments of the participants. The session was based around a worksheet which can be downloaded {{link http://kevwes9.dreamhosters.com/PDFs/CD-ROM_dictionary_training.pdf here}}. Click on

{{link http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/index.cfm Newsmap}} takes its data from {{link http://news.google.com Google News}} to produce a graphic representation of the latest news stories. It can be set to display the results from the various international versions of Google News, eg US, UK,

I have put up a list of links in the Materials section to websites around the world which provide {{link http://kevwes9.dreamhosters.com/pages/mats/mats_web_listening.htm radio business news reports}}. This was originally published in the BESIG newsletter a year or so ago. I have

At the teaching centre where I work, I have installed all the current CD-ROM versions of the advanced learner’s dictionaries from the main publisherson computers in the self-access room as well as in the teachers’ room. These are the Cambridge