aclJohn's English Language-Literature Finds

Conjugation is an english conjugation dictionary database for hundreds of conjugations that can be used to learn English.

One of the most complicated concepts in mastering English for ESOL/ESL/EFL/etc., learners is the conjugation. A conjugation refers to the arrangement of a verb in various voices and tenses – a critical part of written and spoken English.

To start...

• type any verb into the search box or click one of the most popular verbs listed on the home page.
  
• Each verb will...

What could be more wonderful than the original manuscript? From the British Library Online Gallery , this manuscript is the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, the pen-name of Charles Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician.

"Urged by friends to publish the story, Dodgson re-wrote and enlarged it, removing some of the private family references and adding two new chapters."

Take a closer look yourself at http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/...

LoudLit is a good place to find free audio recordings of well known works of literature.

Many websites do this, but what makes LoudLit unique, and useful for practitioners, is the option of reading the text online while listening to the reading of the text.

LoudLit is a great resource for struggling readers.

Learners can...

• use LoudLit to follow along with the reading of a text.
• use individual computers to progress at their own pace.

My son emailed me with this link...

Create poems, for Twitter, using  magnetic words.

To use...

• drag words onto the 'page'
• click the swap words button, to change those words you don't wish to use
• write/compose the text
• Post the poem on your twitter account (if you have one) or publish to the Twitter Magnets Account

Note: Snippy or other screen capture tools could be used to record the end result without publishing to twitter.

Try it out at http://www.twittermagnets.com/. 

60 Second Recap provides book summaries in sixty second video segments.

60 Second Recap is a very new service still in its alpha phase of development; current book titles in its library are...

• Animal Farm
• Fahrenheit 451
• Frankenstein
• Great Expectations
• Hamlet
• Jane Eyre
• Lord of the Flies
• Of Mice and Men
• Pride and Prejudice
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Catcher in the Rye
• The Crucible
• The Great Gatsby
• The Scarlet Letter
• The turn of the Screw and
• To Kill a Mockingbird.

60 Second Recap could be the basis for a le...

Shape Poems is a poem generation template hosted by Read Write Think.

Shape Poems provides a template...

• for writing poems in the shape of an object, selected from one of four themes including...
  • sports,
  • school,
  • nature, and
  • celebrations,

...about that object.

Learners then...

• select a shape
• identify words that they associate with their chosen shape.
• Write a poem

When completed, learners can...

• hear their poems read to them and/or
• print their poems.

LitCharts is an online service that provides outlines and summaries of classic literature.

Most of the outlines and summaries are ten pages, give or take a page or two.

LitCharts...

• colour code...
  • the themes addressed and
  • the symbolism 

...within a particular work. The colour coding makes it easy to quickly pick out the themes and symbols in each chapter of a book.

• can be...
  • viewed online,
  • downloaded as PDFs, or
  • accessed through iPhone applications.

Note: LitCharts provides n...