My students - the 10-minute window is here
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/freewriting.htm
DRIVE SLOWLY - DRIVE SAFELY -
SAVE LIVES
Short short story competition $3,000 first prize
http://writersdigest.com/short
Read Gulf News Notes online
Find ways to be creative - go to Creativity Web
http://members.optusnet.com.au/charles57/Creative/index2.html
Creativity and You
http://creativityandyou.webs.com/
REDISCOVER YOUR TALENT - FIND YOUR REAL TALENT
http://findingyourrealtalent.webs.com/
New Look UGRU Journal
CROSSWORDS GALORE
http://mycrosswordpage.webs.com/
Support the Earth – it has supported you since you were born –
and still does!
Earth Day Network - http://www.earthday.net/
Envirolink - http://earthday.envirolink.org/
Picture this – Earth Day 2009 - http://www.picturethis09.org/
My Level 1 students
knock yourself out - write English sentences for me
on
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Ginger
1993- 2009
Rest in peace, love!
Work hard! Be nice!
WRITER
&
LANGUAGE LECTURER
Listen to this great talk by Sir Ken Robinson
'Do schools kill creativity?'
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
and his talk on 'The Element'
http://www.thersa.org/events/vision/vision-videos/sir-ken-robinson-the-element
'Upon this gifted age, in its dark colour,
Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts …they lie unquestioned, uncombined.
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
Is daily spun; but there exists no loom
To weave it into fabric.'
Is writing the loom to weave our wisdom into fabric?
Here is a possible answer -
http://heldtoaccount.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html#7563126296114786682
Scottish poetry link
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/poetryblog
Resources Archive of the 1st MENAWCA Conference
http://tcc.qatar.tamu.edu/1865.aspx
Listening for my students -
click on the link below then choose a talk to listen to
Please visit
United Arab Emirates University
WRITING CENTRE WEBSITE
http://www.ugr.uaeu.ac.ae/writing_centre/index.shtml
MY VIRTUAL WRITING CENTRE
http://www.freewebs.com/myvirtualwritingcentre/
MY VIRTUAL LIBRARY
Where you can get all kinds of help with your writing and your reading too!
http://www.freewebs.com/myvirtuallibrary/
MY INDEPENDENT LEARNING CENTRE
http://www.freewebs.com/independentlearningcentre/
WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
http://www.freewebs.com/writingacrossthecurriculum/
LINKS TO MY BOOKS AND MY WRITING
'GINGER'S TAIL'
(Travelling by cat)
&
'OTHER PEOPLE-OTHER WORLDS'
(A collection of short stories, sketches and monologues)
Available @
&
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
READ MY BLOGS
For thinkers
Imaginary Conversations
www.heldtoaccount.blogspot.com
For students
http://www.whatsnewintheworld.blogspot.com
This blogsite contains most of my current writing for learners of English, and for teachers of it.
For readers generally
http://www.fascinatingfillers.blogspot.com
This blogsite showcases the different styles and genres in my writing
For people who like travelling
http://www.geneticallyunmodifieddiaries.blogspot.com
This blogsite includes my travel writing
For people who like cats
http://acatsjournal.blogspot.com
This blogsite is a serialised form of my first book
FOR MY STUDENTS
INTERNET CLASSROOM ASSISTANT (ICL)
Share what YOU are doing with me and your classmates
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rhubarb_rhubarb Philosophy Resource Centre http://radicalacademy.com/studentrefphil.htm
Try listening to some things on this site.
Click here:- http://www.elllo.org/index.htm
Or try this - British Council Listening
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-skills-listening.htm
Rest in peace, Brian Milloy
Poetry pages of Elizabeth Thomas
Music to start your day - Kathleen Ferrier singing
'Orfeo ed Euridice'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2cmIFpUQQY&feature=related
Short stories for my students in Level 3
Click on the link below - read the next part of the story - coming soon!
Read the excellent endings that were written by some of my best students.
http://storiesforstudents.blogspot.com/
Write about what you think will happen next.
Send me your ideas to
Read about the Gulf News initiative
on reducing the use of plastic bags in UAE malls and supermarkets
http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Environment/10247812.html
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http://www.ugru2.uaeu.ac.ae/ugruenglish/english/Student/Self-Study.htm
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World Digital Library
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http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
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OUP New English Cloze test Generator
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/ef_teachertools/elem/
http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Education/10163386.html