Support Materials For ESL 28

Concordancers and Dictionaries

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (The entries in this dictionary have links that take you to various word forms.)

Cobuild Collocation Sampler

Sentence Concordancer

WebCorps

Voycabulary

All Words.Com



Exercises using words form the AWL.

 

Unit 1 Our Changing Society

NOVA  (Iceman’s last meal):  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/icemummies/iceman.html

BBC (Death of the Iceman):  http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/iceman.shtml

NSTA SciLinks (info about Iceman): http://www.mummytombs.com/mummylocator/featured/otzi.htm

Latest News on the Iceman:  http://www.mummytombs.com/mummylocator/featured/otzi.news.htm


Unit 2 Consumer Behavior and Marketing

Frontline “Merchants of Cool” (marketing to teens)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/

(Self Esteem Test) Discovery Channel
http://discoveryhealth.queendom.com/self_esteem_abridged_access.html;

participate in online psych studies:  http://www.socialpsychology.org/expts.htm


Unit 3 Workplaces and Work Spaces

UCLA Ergonomics: http://www.ergonomics.ucla.edu/


Unit 4 Use and Abuse of Natural Resources


NOVA “What’s Up with the Weather?” (global warming) viewable excerpt: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/


Unit 5 We Are What We Eat

The Future of Food: http://www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food

Interview with Deborah Garcia: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8098965482866581381


Unit 6 Encounters with Music and Sound

Noise Pollution: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/554566_3

Music Therapy Informative Site: http://www.musictherapy.org/faqs.html


Unit 7 Animal Nature


"The Nature of Human Natures: unitary, multiple, given, constructed?" lecture  for the Tomorrows People Conference Forum 2006 that took place on the 14-17 of March 2006 at the Saïd Business School at Oxford.  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6316234998344259673&q=human+nature

"Could Tiger Farms Save a Species" NPR report.

"Program Aims to Protect Tigers -- and Their Prey" NPR Report