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The visible effects of Climate Change

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In Kiribati, a way of life is being washed away: "Tiny island nation offers a human face to the growing issues of climate change and rising sea levels."

Learning Styles

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Watch the video and decide which Learning Style you are.

If you are not sure, take this quiz to check.

Nuclear power in the Australian News

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Going fission

Nuclear power shunned for fear of political fallout

More Aussies back nuclear power: poll

Australia tops poll for student safety

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Australia tops poll for student safety

Nuclear Power- Safety

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Emirates to develop nuclear power

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"nuclear power" - Google Fast Flip

International Students in the UK

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Education UK - Innovative. Individual. Inspirational.

Remembering the words

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This presentation is designed to help you use Powerpoint to study and remember vocabulary.

Remembering the words

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Google Search Tips for Students

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Jellyfish

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HIV: New facts and stunning data visuals

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A fantastic talk.

Refugee trends: Lost in limbo | The Economist

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Click the link below to read the article.

Refugee trends: Lost in limbo | The Economist

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Global Crisis by 2030

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Piracy 2009

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Pronuniciation of English Sounds

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Here is a great application from the BBC Learning English website. It is a pronunciation chart that says the sounds when you click on them. You can download a PC or a Mac version.

But there is something strange about the chart. What are these weird symbols? You may have noticed them in a dictionary. e.g. Cat=

You should learn how these symbols represent a sound in English. Here is a good description from antimoon.com

A good dictionary must give phonetic transcription for every word. Phonetic transcription tells you how to pronounce a word. Ideally, the transcription should be based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), which is the standard phonetic alphabet used by linguists all over the world. Here is what IPA-based phonetic transcription looks like:

Here, the phonetic transcription is marked in yellow. It tells you that image is pronounced like this. (sound recording requires Flash)

The World is Flat 3.0

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Watch the lecture and take notes.

You can see my notes here.

Behavioural Economics

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Population and Water: An Australian Dilemma: Graeme Hugo ANU

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The Trylingual Questionnaire

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Speed Reading

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To be an efficient university student, you must be able to read quickly. This will give you more time to do other things.

Try this exercise to practice your speed reading.
Press Start and read the passage.
Press Stop to find out your reading speed.
Then press Yes to take a short quiz on the text.
You can find out the answers by clicking Submit at the bottom of the page.

How long did it take you to read this?

Sentence Stress

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Sentence Stress

Predicting Pandemics

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Gordon Brown: The Internet and Global Good

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Facebook: Meet the maker

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The Future of the Workplace: No Office

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The future of work

China's Economy: Spend or Save?

2009-07-31T09:37:00.001+10:00

The Problems with Melbourne's Train System

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No Logo: Brands, Globalization & Resistance

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America's Economy: The good and the bad

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Globalisation and Indigenous Cultures

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Melbourne

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Animal Rights in China

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Listening to Australia

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Protest!

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What are these people doing?

How does it relate to globalisation?

"Drawing" a sentence

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Deforestation

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Presentation Tips II

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Paragraphs: An overview

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Climate Change in the Artic

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Poverty

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What are the causes and effects of poverty?

How many of them are also in your country?

Collocation Blog

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What are collocations?

Why should I study them?

Words often appear to gether in "chunks". Without knowing that the words are meant to be read together as a "chunk" it makes it difficult to understand a sentence.

For example;

It is an uphill battle for students to learn collocations.

What are the key nouns? battle, collocations

What nouns appear with other words in a chunk? uphill battle

What does each word mean? uphill=going up a hill, battle=a big fight

What do they mean together? uphill battle=a very difficult or challenging fight

This blog, Collocation of the Week, teaches you lots of new collocations that might be useful for.

Great Schools

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What makes this school a great school?

Describe it to me...

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Do you often know what you want to say but can't find the right word? This is the perfect website for you.

The OneLook Reverse Dictionary lets you describe what you are looking for and then it will give you words that match your description. Remember to click on the words that you find to see if they mean what you want to say.

Listening to Students at La Trobe III

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Listening to Students at La Trobe II

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Life in Uganda

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Listening to Students at La Trobe

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Australian Vowel Sounds

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tech4eng

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I have made a wiki for students to learn about how technology can help them improve their English and get into university.

Please visit the wiki here:

http://tech4eng.pbworks.com/

Feel free to leave comments on how I can improve the wiki.

Modal Quiz

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This is a good reference guide to modal verbs.

Here is a quick quiz to test your choice of modal verbs.

Choose the best answer then click on the grey boxes to check your anwer.
Go back and decide which sentences are denifinte and which ones are not.

International Students in Australia

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Here are a few radio stories reporting on the situation on international students in Australia.

National Interest

Life Matters
Australia Talks

Child labour around the world

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Child Labour

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A New beginning...II

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Here is a great website on Obama's speech from the New York Times .

A new beginning...

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A few days ago, Barack Obama gave a speech in Cairo, Egypt. He spoke about the Muslim and Western worlds. Listen to his speech and think about how the world might change in the future.

Global Warming-Notetaking

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Here is a great video. A simple topic but useful for listening and note taking.

Curfews in Russia

2009-06-02T14:11:00.002+10:00

Who are minors? What is a curfew?

Watch CBS Videos Online

Do you agree with the curfews?

The cost of going green

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Many developed countries are planning to change over to "green energy". What will this mean for us now and our lives in the future?

Thesaurus: Helping you find the right word II

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By request, here is a re-post.

Do you have trouble finding the right word when you are speaking or writing? Do you often use the same words because you don't know any others?
A thesaurus can help you with all of these problems. How does it work? Have a look at this.You can buy a thesaurus at any good bookshop (it will be very useful for you) or you can use a free one online.

Corruption in Kenya

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Mixed Conditionals Quiz

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Here is an online quiz about mixed conditonals. The meaning behind a mixed conditional can be a little hard to get, so test yourself.

WordSift

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Here is a great website and a challenge for you. Have a look at the website and think- how can this website help me improve my English?

Workplace Research

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Super Size Me

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Anthony Giddens on Globalisation

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Here is a great website featuring a series of lectures on globalisation. The lectures are by Anthony Giddens. You can listen to, watch and read these lectures.

Final Sounds in Words

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/f/ and /v/ Pronunciation

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Th Pronunciation

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Case studies of the effects of Globalisation

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Listen and read each story. What effect has globalisation had on each country?

Bolivia

Ghana

New Zealand

Globalisation Lecture- Making Globalisation Work For All

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A great lecture from MIT.

Looking for Academic References?-Try Google Scholar

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Islamic Banking

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What is Islamic banking?

How is it different from traditional baking in your country?

Word Ahead- Clamour

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Americanisation???

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How has American culture effected the world?

How has your country been effected?

Has the effect been positive or negative?

Midnight Oil - Antartica

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Word Ahead -Absolute

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The Antartic Treaty

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Word Ahead- Reprisal

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Swine Flu?

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What is Swine Flu?

How big is the problem?

How can we solve this problem?

Word Ahead -Obtuse

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Immigration in the USA

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Watch this great audio slideshow.

Look at this graphic.

Read this article.

How is the US immigration situation different to the Australian situation?

Grammar Revision IV

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Here are some grammar points you should practice.

Word Order
Modal Verbs
Passive Voice

Type 2 Conditionals
Type 2 Conditionals

Is Your Drinking Bottle Environmentally Friendly?

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Read this article and find out.

Journalists Killed In the Line of Duty

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Journalists play a very important role in many societies. There job can be very dangerous and sometimes they are killed. Watch this movie and learn more.

Answer the following questions while you are watching:

Where is this a problem?
Why is it a problem?
How big is the problem?
What are people doing to solve this problem?

Immigration in Australia

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After the accident off the coast of Australia, the big news issue of the week is immigration.

Below is a series of programs on multicultralism. Does it work?

There are seven parts explaining this issue from different perspectives around the world.

Finally, a great migration success story.

TV shows and Education?

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Read this article. Do you agree or disagree?

Electric Cars

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Advertising & Children

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We all see advertising in our lives. Have you ever wondered how much this advertising effects kids? Or how the advertisers target kids? This documetary covers these areas.

If I were you, I would study Type 2 conditionals

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Here is a quick quiz on Type 2 conditionals.

The Language Debate in Malaysia

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Animal Liberation Front-Part 7

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About Barack Obama

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Here is a short story on Barack Obama. Listen and take notes, then write a summary. Check your own writing withthe text afterwards.

Cane Toads

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Animal Liberation Front-Part 6

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Mateship in Australia

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Go to this website. Watch the movie clip and read the information under it to understand why mateship is so important in Australia.

Animal Liberation Front-Part 5

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A Short Lecture on the Current and Future Situation in the Arctic

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Here is a short lecture. Take notes to see if you can understand it.

Active & Passive Voice Practice

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Active and Passive Voice is difficult to understand but this website explains it very clearly. The passive voice is important to use when writing an academic essay. You can also do a quiz here. Good luck.

Animal Liberation Front-Part 4

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The Sea: Now and the Future

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