Categorise activity: A simple drag and drop activity where the user drags text boxes to an appropriate category.

Identify all the nouns in the following extract. Click on all the words that you think are nouns; they will appear in the box below. You don't have to type anything but you can click in the box to edit your answers if you need to.

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Aliens are dropping grammar bombs on the PolyU. Shoot down the bombs by clicking the correct button at the bottom of the PolyU. (not working!)

The learner is dropped in the middle of a labyrinth. He has to move around by following grammatically correct patterns (S V O, etc.). Realisation is crap, concept is good.

A given category is given... a sentence appear. The learner has to shoot the words that are of the predefined gallery. Feedback is given in the form of sound, color (word turns green when correct and red when incorrect). When incorrect, additional feedback is given as to what category the word belongs to. Interface is poor, but concept is good.

With the mouse, drag and drop each name into the correct category.

Post office In the Post office game you have to stamp each word for syntactic function. Group function is stamped onto heads, subclause function onto the '['-bracket left of the first word in a given subclause. For instance: 'Anne (S) e (CO) seu (D) namorado (S) vão (Vaux) dizer (Vm), [ (Od) que (SUB) isso (S) é (Vm) fácil (Cs) .'

Each word needs to be dropped in the correct category. Decision needs to be made in a limited time.

Words falling out of the sky, the learner has to drag and drop them in the right category. (quite bad in terms of interfacing etc.)

Select the correct sentence among various options. The student click on a sentence, on clicking he is directed to another page, where he receives feedback. (quite bad in terms of navigation!).

The student is expected to click on the correct form of a verb. After a click, feedback is given in the message window.

"Drag and drop" activities practice the language focus in a lesson.

After you fill in a blank, click anywhere on the page to check your answer. All the incorrect letters will be erased leaving only the part of your answer which is correct. Click on the ? button to see the correct answer. (If you have typed in the correct answer, nothing will change.) In order to type in an answer, the cursor must be visible inside the blank. Use the TAB key or the mouse.

Simplistic Fill the blank exercise.

Use one of the words in the pull down menu to fill the gap. While doing this exercise, look for clues which tell you what kind of word is missing (adjective, noun, verb, adverb).

Words appear in the form of fridge magnets that the user has to put back in the right order.

A dialog is shown on the left. On the right, the same dialog is shown in the past form and the person has to provide the correct word form for verbs.

There are two verbs in this sentence. Each of the verbs describes an event. One event — Jill having a cup of coffee — is ‘inside’ another, longer event — Jill waiting for Jack. The larger event is described with the past progressive. The smaller event is described with the simple past.

Part One: use the words to make sentences with the same pattern as the example above.

Put the parts in order to form a sentence. When you think your answer is correct, click on "Check" to check your answer. If you get stuck, click on "Hint" to find out the next correct part.

"Which word doesn't belong?" activities practice the vocabulary in a unit.

A sentence appears in a shuffled format. The user has to put the sentence back in the right order by drag and dropping the pieces around.

One of the most common types of grammatical error in Hong Kong students' English is called 'agreement'. Agreement means that the verb changes depending on the type of noun it refers to. See below for examples. The grammar rules for agreement are reasonably clear and simple, and therefore, because these mistakes are so common in Hong Kong students' English, you can show that your English is superior if you follow the rules on this page.

Put the parts in order to form a sentence. Words are drag and dropped. Words in the incorrect position are in red and words in the correct position in black.

"Unscramble the sentence" activities practice the language focus in a lesson.

What do you see?" activities practice the vocabulary in a lesson.

Ajax script that let you rapidly and easily create a comic.

Pairs of images are presented in random order, initially with only their back visible. The user is required to match-up all of them in as few mouse clicks possible in order to win the game.

To play the user needs to direct your mouse and click on two separate instances of the card background. That will (when clicked upon) rotate and reveal two images. If those images are an exact match (an identical pair) they will remain on the screen while you can continue onto another pair, but if they are not they will rotate and hide again leaving you to test your luck and knowledge again.

Puzzle game. Pieces are in mixed order and you have to put them back at the right place. The task is facilitated by the presence of a semitransparent background representing the image.

Welcome to 'Where to Next?', an interactive game that takes its users on a tour of six locations in the British Isles. The rules are simple. Each location contains a group of English language questions and audio reports. Your 'tour' will involve listening to these audio reports and answering as many questions correctly as possible. Once you have finished a location you can progress to the next one on your tour. But beware! You only have a limited amount of cash. With every wrong answer, you lose some cash, and if you lose it all you must start again!

Multiple Choice Questions against the clock.

Shoot-out quiz. You have 30 seconds to score a goal.There are five questions.To score a goal you must answer three questions correctly within the time.If you get more than three questions wrong, the goalkeeper will save your shot.

Block Buster

A multichoice activity showing an image for each question. Feedback can be unique to each response or group of responses.

Shoot-out quiz. You have 30 seconds to score a goal.There are five questions.To score a goal you must answer three questions correctly within the time.If you get more than three questions wrong, the goalkeeper will save your shot.

The participant click on the "play icon" to hear the word, then he is asked to choose between 3 options.

Use the phonetic chart to learn the sounds of English. Then do a quiz to see how well you have learnt them.

The participant click on the "play icon" to hear the word, then he is asked to choose between 3 options.

A short sentence is played. The learner is asked to choose one of three options that are correct.

A basic Flash based MP3 player with various settings.

Some words are missing in the text. The list of these words are given and the student is asked to put the right word at the right spot.

Some words are missing in the text. The list of these words are given and the student is asked to put the right word at the right spot. Click on a word on the right handside, then click on one of the box in the text. If in the wrong box, gives immediate feedback on the error. Limited time. Score.

Essay along with a quiz on the essay. A button needs to be pressed to display the essay content. The essay is only shown for 5 minutes; it disappears when the time is over. The student is then asked to answer the question on the right-hanside of the page, which relates to the essay.

Use this applet to study the names of parts of an image, for instance body parts. In a first stage, move your mouse over the lobes' names to discover their location. In a second stage, check your knowledge by trying to move your mouse on the correct location for each of the four names.

For each word, an image of the word along with its letters in random order are presented. The participant has to enter the letters in the right order. Feedback on accuracy.

Show or Remove the labels on a picture. Useful at a stage where you try to acquire some new vocabulary.

Words appear in a grid, in different orientations, mixed with other letters randomly chosen. The participant has to locate in the grid words from a master list.

Words appear in a grid, in different orientations, mixed with other letters randomly chosen. The participant has to locate in the grid words from a master list.

Different labels are proposed on top of the screen, the task of the user is to drag and drop them at the correct emplacement on the picture (cues on expected position are given). Immediate feedback when a label is dropped onto a reserved position.

A simple drag and drop activity where the user connects labels to points on a image by dragging a pointer to the corresponding area on the image.

A simple drag and drop style activity where the user connects terms in a list to their matching descriptions, by dragging a pointer.

For each word, a letter is missing. The participant has to type it in. Feedback is given on the accuracy of the answers.

Similar to hotspot but here, the person has to enter the name for each entry box on the screen.

For each word, a letter is mispelled. The participant has to type in the correct spelling. Feedback is given on the accuracy of the answers.

A sentence with a missing word. A keyboard is presented with letters a-z. Points are earned for correct letters, removed for incorrect ones. The correct answer is repeated on the next screen, with button to get to see the word's definition.

Words appear in one of two colours. Each word of colour 1 has a matching word among the ones of colour 2. The user has to find these matching pairs.

Pictures are presented on the screen. The participant has to type in the correct name for each picture.

Connect each word on the left with the one of the right that has the opposite meaning.

Definitions are given and the participant has to put in the crossword grid a word matching each definition.

Definitions are given and the participant has to put in the crossword grid a word matching each definition.

GREAT interface.

Choose elements of a face to make up a picture.

• ajax script to crop/resize a picture that has been just uploaded.
• ajax script for assigning a taxonomy tag for each image.
• ajax script to choose color and text for the background and caption, speed, font, etc.

The part of a face or the body is choose and a portrait icon is made on-line.

Create an avatar in the south park style.

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Some *high quality* examples of how concordancer tools can be used to support learning.

On-line concordancer tool.

• online query for wordnet, century unabridged dict, webster 1928, webster 1913
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Includes a taxonomy of entries in wordplay content along with basic weird facts about words.

Bilingual and multilingual dictionaries - English

1000 objects under different angles and different lighting conditions. Royalty Free?

275 transitive and intransitive actions from different sources.

Black and white drawings of 520 common objects (including 174 pictures from the Snodgrass & Vanderwart set and other sources.)

Color images of many diagnostic color objects, e.g., a banana. Objects are shown in typical and atypical colors. There are also control sets of neutral color objects. The orignal set were used as stimuli in Naor-Raz, Tarr, & Kersten (2003)

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Ogden's largest category of words are things. Many are picturable and it is only natural that these words be pictured on the web in this example.. The Basic English Institute is seeking volunteer work in this area. Royalty free?

Each dictionary word is connected to a photo.

We have created a new set of stimuli based on the widely used line drawings of Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980). These 260 stimuli contain diagnostic texture and color information. Normative data (naming agreement and latencies, complexity, familiarity, imaginability) for these new stimuli have been collected (Rossion & Pourtois, 2004). Our data shows that surface information, color in particular, greatly facilitates object recognition.

This set of scenes were used as stimuli in the studies reported in Aginsky & Tarr (2000) set contains many variants of individual scenes. Variants were generated by either moving or changing the color of some element of the scene. The images are color PICT files.

French normative data and naming times for action pictures. Preview (schwitser_action_pictures_a.gif)

• Writer's References
• Foreign Language Dictionaries
• AskERIC (Education Resource Information Center)
• Atlases and Geographic Information

Excellent diagrams of the inside of the mouth, along with words given to practice each sound.

Excellent program that interact via text and speech with the user.

Talkr provides a service that allows you to listen to your favorite text-only news sources rather than read them. If you can point us to an RSS feed (a machine-readable version of your favorite blog or news source) we will convert that feed from text to speech.

Number2.com's online test preparation courses are totally free! By creating an account you can access a customized course that includes user-friendly tutorials, practice sessions that dynamically adapt to each student's ability level, a vocabulary builder, and more.

TestMagic is your FREE online resource for the TOEFL, GMAT, and GRE tests with FREE on-line practice questions, vocabulary lists, test information, and classes to help you improve your score fast on these tests.

Concordancers | Concordancing Complements | Word/Frequency Lists | Tools & Resources for Speech Data | On-line Dictionaries/Lexicons | NLP resources (inc. taggers) | Format Conversion Tools | HTML code strippers | Web snaggers | Fonts for Multilingual Computing

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If one were to take the 10,000 word Oxford Pocket English Dictionary and remove the redundancies of our rich language and eliminate the words that can be replaced by combinations of simpler words, we find that 90% of the concepts in that dictionary can be achieved with 850 words. The shortened list simplifies the effort to learn words, spelling, pronunciation, and irregularities. The rules of usage are identical to full English so that the practitioner communicates is perfectly good, yet simple, English.

Word List - in Ogden's order. Simplified language Basic English. The developer is Charles K. Ogden, and was released in 1930 with the book: Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar. He founded the Orthological Institute to develop the tools for teaching Basic English. His most famous associate, I.A. Richards, led the effort in the Orient, which uses the techniques to this day.

lain text versions of the frequency lists contained in WFWSE. These are raw unedited frequency lists produced by our software and do not contain the many additional notes supplied in the book itself. The lists are tab delimited plain text so can be imported into your prefered spreadsheet format. For the main lists we provide a key to the columns. More details on the process undertaken in the preparation of the lists can be found in the introduction to the book.
These lists show dispersion ranging between 0 and 1 rather than 0 and 100 as in the book. We multiplied the value by 100 and rounded to zero decimal places in the book for reasons of space. Log likelihood values are shown here to one decimal place rather than zero as in the book.

List of Common Adjectives in American English.

List of Common Adverbs in American English.

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Home of scowl, agid, varcon, part of speech database, unofficial jargon words, ispell, unofficial alternate 12 dicts, official 12 dicts package.

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First 350 entries in order of Usage ranking

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Short definition for +3000 words that are useful to know for GRE tests.

Short definition for words that are useful to know for GRE tests. Direct on-line query

Information about newsgroups in general and alt.usage.english in particular: our logo, our people, more, in About the alt.usage.english newsgroup.

Long list of links about crossword and word games

• Lists: Minimal pairs, Homophones, Homographs, Function words Spelling alphabets, The Silent Alphabet, Alphabetical words, Chanting sequences
• Insights: English hiccoughs, The Effle collection, Weak forms, Days of the week, An adjectivy poem, Polysemy, Linking, Gender
• Quotations: Foote's Farrago, What Plato thought about writing, Grammar's Bazaar

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We’re an eclectic crowd who enjoy all forms of wordplay and are continuing the traditions – and making our own – in “The World’s Oldest Puzzlers’ Organization”

games in the Seuss' style.

Includes a taxonomy of entries in wordplay content along with basic weird facts about words.