This page links to some documents you might like in printed form, including examples of worksheets and exercises.

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To save the document on a computer, Windows users can right click on the link here and select Save Target As... (or "Save Link As..." in Netscape).

Using the Internet 

This document combines most of what you'll find here in the pages on the Internet, the books page and the basic skills page.

Using text from the Web - an example from Macbeth 

This article by Chris Warren originally appeared in The Secondary English Magazine.

For an easier way to turn text into a collapsed list, see Collapser in the English Online WordLab.

A Macbeth speech to use 

A speech to use with the collapsed text idea in the article, or with text mapping (see below), and on the next page the same speech in a table, ready for you/students to add comments and notes in the columns on either side - for example, you could have good and bad angels whispering in his ears, in the manner of a morality play.

A Macbeth word quarry 

A "quarry" of words created with the collapsed text method - ask students (before reading the speech) to create a short poems using these words and then discuss the mood, emphasis, etc, of the results. Could also be used a kind of memory test afterwards, of course!

Two more word quarries

A poem by Keats - guess which one!  

A non-fiction text taken from a travel brochure - which opens up interesting explorations of language use.  

An example of text mapping 

An example of text mapping from the opening of Hardy's The Withered Arm. The beauty of this approach is that you can specify any features you want them to concentrate on - or, even better, leave them to do the mapping and explanation themselves.

PowerPoint 

A simple guide to help you begin creating a PowerPoint presentation.

A photograph to use

A photograph you can use in documents to practise your skills. Rather than loading it here, save it to your own computer (right click on the link and select Save Target As...) and then in Word use Insert - Picture - From File to add this to a Word document.

Try using the speech bubbles in Word to make this a frame from a photo story: use Insert - Picture - AutoShapes - then select the speech bubble image from the pop up menu (Word calls these "callouts").

You can use any other pictures you find in this way - often you can just copy and paste them into a document without having to save them. A digital camera is an excellent way to gather your own pictures from your school or area.

An ICT Glossary 

This glossary from the TTA should explain some of the jargon. If you find yourself puzzled by other ICT terms, click here for a source of online help.

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