QUICK RESOURCE SHEET #40
Sources for authentic materials
In a prior Quick Resource Sheet, we looked at the rationale for using authentic materials, guidelines for selecting appropriate materials, as well as some suggestions for how to adapt such materials for classroom use. In this edition, we’ll look at some of the best websites for finding authentic materials you can incorporate into your teaching.
http://www.languagebox.com/Resources.htm
Language Box offers useful links to major world media and language resources, organized according to language. You’ll find online dictionaries, machine translations, international newspapers and magazines. Click on Radio to tune into some great stations from around the world. TV features a number of major TV stations.
“Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books. Project Gutenberg is the brainchild of Michael Hart, who in 1971 decided that it would be a really good idea if lots of famous and important texts were freely available to everyone in the world.”
http://www.itools.com/research/
One of the web’s best collections of research tools, with links to biographies, encyclopedias, collections of quotations, legal dictionaries, and much more.
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/
CalPhotos is a collection of 90,166 images of plants, animals, fossils, people, and landscapes.