Tourism
Tourism Auckland
Auckland City
Pure NZ
Visas
NZ Universities & Polytechnics
AUT (Auckland University of Technology)
Canterbury University
Christchurch Polytechnic
Lincoln University
Massey University
UNITEC Institute of Technology
University of Auckland
University of Otago
University of Waikato
Victoria University of Wellington
Waikato Institute of Technology
Here is a list of English as a Foreign Language sites, which may help you with independent study.
A Very Good List Of
Study Links
This site seems to be one of the best links pages around. It has a full
list of activities and you can use the page to look up the meaning of
words in an internet
based dictionary .
Impact! On-line home page
This is "a hypertextual news reader for intermediate and advanced
learners of English as a second or foreign language." This means that
the reading material contains links to definitions of vocabulary items
from the text. The stories are 3 or 4 years old but overall they could
provide quite good reading practice.
CNN
News Stories
The articles on this site are based on CNN news stories. You can read and listen
to the article and then do several exercises based on the contents of the story.
This is designed for students up to intermediate level.
English
Books Online
Search for a book by your favourite author. There are many full texts to choose
from. Try 'Dickens' and see how many choices there are.
- To use the books for study, use the "Find" function in your browser and search for words such as ' a ' and ' the ' to study the use of articles (put a space before and after the words) or 'however' and 'but' to look for examples of linking words. It is also possible (in Netscape at least) to search for only parts of words such as 'ly', which gives you all the words ending in 'ly'. Try this on The Chimes and you'll find plenty of adverbs to look up in an on-line dictionary.
- Verb forms could be studied by doing the same as above but choosing 'ed' for past simple or past participle verb forms. Decide if they are pronounced /Id/ (as in waited), /t/ (as in asked), or /d/ (as in loved). Check them in a dictionary.
