Paragraphs: An overview

Climate Change in the Artic

Poverty

What are the causes and effects of poverty?

How many of them are also in your country?

Collocation Blog

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

What makes this school a great school?

Describe it to me...

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

Listening to Students at La Trobe II

Life in Uganda

Listening to Students at La Trobe

Australian Vowel Sounds

tech4eng

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

This is a good reference guide to modal verbs.

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

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

International Students in Australia

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

Child Labour

A New beginning...II

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

A new beginning...

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

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

Curfews in Russia

Who are minors? What is a curfew?



Watch CBS Videos Online

Do you agree with the curfews?