Self-Access Computer Study Outside Term Time

In response to a question, I checked whether it is possible for students to come into the British Council outside term time and use the computers for self-access study. Yes, you can. The building is open from 8.30am until 6.30pm.

CPE students, I particularly encourage you to try the excellent 'CPE Tutor' programme, available only on British Council computers.

Online Resources

http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/lookup.html

http://thesaurus.reference.com/

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

Thanks to the student who sent me these!

Ebola World

Not sure what to make of this. Try it and see. You'll need speakers or headphones.

http://www.ebolaworld.com/mainpage.html

Virtual Access Centre

The Virtual @ccess Centre is a web resource for learners of English as a second language, brought to you by the British Council, Thailand.It is a free resource and therefore we invite any learner, regardless of age, to come on here and enjoy the rich learning resources we provide.There are games, videos, forums, polls, blogs and more for you to enjoy. We will be updating the site with fresh content all this month and next so why not stop by and enjoy!http://vac.britishcouncil.or.th

Authentic Happiness

For those of you who enjoyed the Happiness class, and for anyone who wants to be happy, here’s the link to the Authentic Happiness website. Some interesting questionnaires here! You need to register, but in my opinion it's worthwhile.

http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/

Check out the link to the Time Magazine article on this page, too!

Enjoy!

British Council Links

For those who haven’t explored the British Council’s resources, here are a few links you might like to try.

Society and Science

The excellent online mag, CultureLab
http://www.britishcouncil.org/science-society-culture-lab.htm

Café Scientifique
http://www.britishcouncil.org/science-society-cafesci.htm

Women in Science
http://www.britishcouncil.org/science-women.htm


History

For those more interested in history, there’s an amazing selection of articles on important historical events available on the learnenglish site.

An alphabetical list of events
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-history-archive-theme.htm


Learn English!

And if you want to practice your grammar…
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-grammar-archive.htm

CP2 Preparation (2)

Again, this is relevant to this week's Saturday CP2 classes.

Go to this website http://www.nickowen.net/ and click on 'Leadership' on the left of the page. Have a look at the ideas Nick is putting forward about leadership. If you find them interesting, follow some of them up and try to find some more information.

The ordinary thinker keeps fish;
the integral thinker keeps water.

CPE2 Saturday March 4th

To get a head start with this week's lesson, read the article on this page, and check out some of the links to other articles on the right hand side of the page.
http://www.management-issues.com/display_page.asp?section=research&id=2980

Also, read this press release.
http://www.dlapiper.com/files/Publication/5156e8b7-53e7-41c2-98fe-01c557a98f50/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/ea7d450b-f8c5-43ea-9cb3-037229f6e27c/BFL_January_2006.pdf

See you Saturday!

Mark