Audio interviews, recorded by the BBC, now appear online in a collection called In Their Own Words.

These archived interviews, with legendary British novelists, takes visitors back to 1937; to a conversation with Virginia Woolf, then moves forward to interviews with...

• Aldous Huxley;

• JRR Tolkien;

• Doris Lessing;

• Martin Amis;

• VS Naipaul; and
  

• Salman Rushdie

...to name just a few.

Visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/ to listen to these recordings.

The Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project has what can only be described as an outstanding interactive resource that everyone who teaches Romeo and Juliet should probably bookmark.

Interactive Folio: Romeo and Juliet is an interactive display of the text of Romeo and Juliet. As learners read the document they can...

• click on any link in the text to view...
  • definitions;
  • images;
  • audio recordings; and
  • videos
    

...related to the content they're reading.

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.

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.