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
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/
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