English
This page stores a few selected English language files which may be helpful to teachers and students. Feel free to make use of the material. Please, notify me of flaws and errors.
Some files are compressed and can be opened with any programme capable of handling the ZIP format, i.e. WinZip, PKunzip or others. Most files are saved in the Word or fairly universal RTF format and can easily be imported into most word processors.
Language Files
Activities
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How to write a letter to the editor |
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How to write an editorial (thanks, Reinhold) |
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How to give a speech |
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How to prepare for a presentation - a Word document plus a Powerpoint presentation |
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A guideline to summary writing |
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Mind mapping - a Powerpoint introduction to mind mapping. This nifty little program (MindManager Smart) is free for schools in Lower Saxony |
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Facharbeit - a "walkthrough": how to write the Facharbeit - htm files, Word docs and templates from the NIBIS server |
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London Quiz: lots of interesting questions focussing on London; a good chance to let students use internet search engines |
Analysis
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Words and phrases that help you in literary analysis assignments |
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How to analyze texts, to deal with comprehension questions and to write a comment (three Word docs) |
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Operatoren für 2010+2011 sowie 2012 |
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Film analysis: shots, angles, transitions ... |
Fun
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A collection of metaphoric insults (i.e.: "Your cupboard is missing a cup ...") |
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Jokes based on homonyms, homophones, and homographs |
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Codeword: Giggle |
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Fun with dingbats: what's the secret behind "B_ill_ed"? - Answer: Ill in bed. |
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Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. - Answers from 16-year-olds, compiled by the 1998 GCSE examiners. |
Glossary
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A Student's Glossary of Terms |
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A useful list of organized rhetorical devices |
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Handy guideline for debates |
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An overview of text types and style |
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Useful phrases for discussions and compositions |
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Form and type of short stories |
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Definition of comedy and tragedy |
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Words & phrases that come in handy when talking about plays (i.e.: dialogue, monologue, aside) |
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Sonnets: The Petrarchan, Shakespearean and Miltonic sonnet forms - an introduction. |
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Glossary of poetic terms |
Grammar
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Punctuation (commas) |
Texts
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Science Fiction - 6 files including: |
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The Christmas package - 5 files about Christmas |
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21 US documents, (i.e. Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, inaugural addresses, M.L. King speeches ...) |
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A short history of the English language |
Vocabulary
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Idioms - the Spice of Speech |
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Proverbs (i.e.: "an apple a day ..." and many others) |
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Redeart - Figurative Speech |
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Talking to your boss needs different words than talking to your friends. |
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Connectors - useful words and phrases to open and connect sentences according to their functions - thanks for the contribution, Reinhold Tyrach |
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Helpful phrases to use in a discussion |
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2 pages of useful collocations - (i.e.: to make good progress) |
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more collocations |
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Euro-English: English - German vocabulary |
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Jugendsprache: English - German vocabulary |
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Very many English words derive from Latin or Greek, just like in the German language. So, if you know a German "Fremdwort", you often know the English word, too. |
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Detective story versus crime story |
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Legal vocabulary |
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Thriller typology |
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Detective stories versus novels |
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Overview: verbs followed by an infinitive or a gerund construction |
ESL Web Sites
Check out the following ESL EnPaed web sites - they are worth a look!
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Jochen Lüders offers different kinds of useful material especially
for English teachers in the "Oberstufe" of the Gymnasium. Under
Vocabulary you can find several vocabulary sheets covering e.g. various aspects
of computing, mobile phones, DVD etc. Under Abitur you can download
many model solutions for the Bavarian Grundkurs- and
Leistungskurs-Abitur. |
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Teaching material and links for teachers of English and German; the download section contains annotated texts, some with suggested solutions. |
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Diskussionsforum "Beurteilung von Klassenarbeiten und Klausuren im
Fach Englisch". |
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A web-site for teachers and learners of English as a secondary language from
a German point of view providing teaching and learning strategies as well as
Total Quality Management and assessments at schools and seminars. |
Online English
Online Grammar
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Eine Vielzahl von Übungsmöglichkeiten gibt's auf ego4u. |
Englischhilfen bietet eine Reihe guter online Übungen |
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Weiteres online Übungsmaterial |
Gute Übungen finden sich auch auf den Seiten von Jürgen Wagner |
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Der Burg-Verlag hilft auch weiter. |
Online Language Courses
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TOEFL die bekannten Englisch Tests |
TOEIC US-made tests |
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EF Education zwölfstufiges Kursangebot mit persönlichen Lehrern. Teilnehmer bestimmen Beginn und Lernpensum selbst |
EF Englishtown eine Web-Community mit 55.000 Studenten aus aller Welt |
Online Reference Books/Dictionaries
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by Columbia University. Includes a keyword search tool, index of authors and more |
Bertelsmann Wissen kostenloses Nachschlagewerk populärer Lexika mit Rechtschreibung, Fremdwörterbuch und Atlas |
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Bucknell University Dictionaries - free access to more than 400 dictionaries of over 130 languages (from Afrikaans via Xhosa to "Klingon") |
Business Dictionary (English) |
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Free English Dictionary and Thesaurus Very good for those who do not have the ALD, DCE or the Webster's on their hard disk. |
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Encyclopaedia umfangreiche englische Enzyklopädie mit 3.000 Bildern, Animationen und Tondokumenten |
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History Channel Das umfangreichste Geschichtslexikon in englischer Sprache |
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Just enter a phrase or part of a phrase into the search box and the Idiom Dictionary will offer an
explanation of that idiom. |
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Das Langenscheidt T 1 kann man online testen. |
Leo English/German Dictionary Wörterbuch mit etwa 20.000 Einträgen |
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Das Linguatec Dictionary bietet eine deutsche und englische Wortsuche und enthält über 2 Millionen Wörter |
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Meyers Lexikon 44.000 Artikel, kostenlos |
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MS Encarta online oder auch Encarta kostenlose englische Sparversion der CD-ROM - 16.000 Artikel |
OUP - ELT Oxford University Press - English Language Teaching |
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Roget's Thesaurus searchable index by keywords |
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List of Online Dictionaries a number of helpful dictionaries: i.e. thesaurus, slang, Internet slang, acronyms, abbreviations - for English and numerous other languages |
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Weltgeschichte - in englischer Sprache |
The Word Detective: a newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language. |
A web of Online 
Merriam Webster Dictionary
Merriam
Webster's Online Thesaurus
Facharbeit
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Facharbeit - a "walkthrough": how to write the Facharbeit - htm files, Word docs and templates from the NIBIS server |
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Handreichungen zur Facharbeit |
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Vordruck zur Bewertung von Präsentationen |
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English
| Strange Fruit | Great Barrier Reef Project |
| Film Analysis |