Advertising

Advertising

Ted Talks

Beware neuro-bunk

How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate our emotions

Perspective is everything

The dangerous ways ads see women | Jean Kilbourne | TEDxLafayetteCollege

Social media and the end of gender

Life lessons from an ad man

Why sneakers are a great investment

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Top Digital Advertising Trends Coming in 2018

2018 Trends in Facebook Advertising That Will Help You Reach Prospects

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International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising (IJIMA)

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Videos

Budweiser, "Puppy Love"

Microsoft2014 Super Bowl Commercial: Empowering

Honest University Commercial
I SEE YOU Change the way you see the world.

The Commercials of all airlines in Oneworld

Holland. The original cool
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The 3D crocodile escalator ad that's terrifying Brazilian commuters

A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All?

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Online Listening and Viewing

Online Listening and Viewing

Audible Stories

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VOA Learning English---American Stories

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Poem.hunter.com

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ELLLO (English Listening Lesson Library Online)
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Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
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English Listening Lessons (Oxford Online English)
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English Listening: Explore, Listen, Understand

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HowStuffWorks
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Videojug

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CNN Student News/Quick Guides & Transcripts

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TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
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Audio Dialogues with Scripts

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Video Sparknotes

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Speakaboos

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Listen and Read Along

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American Stories for English Learners

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American Rhetoric - Top 100 Speeches - Text and MP3 Streams

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Vocabulary 
(Fruits, Men's Clothing, Pets, Religion, Sea Animals)

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Films from General Electric

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ICRT Online

The Student Standard

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Talking Sport 
(from BBC Learning English)
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English Listening Material

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Education

Education

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Ted Talks

5 dangerous things you should let your kids do

An ultra-low-cost college degree

Do schools kill creativity?

How to raise successful kids — without over-parenting

4 reasons to learn a new language

This virtual lab will revolutionize science class

The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything: Josh Kaufman at TEDxCSU

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Epoch Times

NY State Under Fire Over Standardized Tests

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BBC

Online students can't help being sociable

School in the cloud: Children with mentors on the other side of the world

South Africa education gets e-learning digital makeover

Want to learn quicker? Use your body

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CNN

Why do we make students sit still in class?

A school's experiment: Cutting out the classroom

2014's big-name college commencement speakers

Parental involvement overrated? Don't buy it

How Bobby Smith learned to talk at 9, and other autism success  stories

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The Atlantic

Study: You Really Can 'Work Smarter, Not Harder'

What Can You Do With a Degree in Watching TV?

How to Improve 'Privilege Training' at Harvard

Why Kids Care More About Achievement Than Helping Others

What Are Kids Learning About Global Warming?

Why Do Chinese Students Know More About Money Than Americans?

The Invisible Economy

Are Multiplayer Games the Future of Education?

When English Proficiency Isn't Enough

Education Isn't the Problem—Inequality Is 

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Reuters

Success in life doesn't depend on college choice

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Teachthought

30 Incredible Ways Technology Will Change Education By 2028 

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Videos

Outward Bound

What Makes Great Teachers Great?

Bill Gates: "How Do You Make a Teacher Great?" Part 1, 

Part 2

What Sherlock Holmes Can Teach Us About Decision Making

Tips on learning Mandarin

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Learning Liftoff

10 Reasons Why Arts in Education Are So Important for Kids 

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World University Rankings 2015-2016

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 The European Conference on Education 2016: Programme

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Collocations Dictionaries; Collocation/Corpus Search Engines; Corpus Analysis Tools

Collocations Dictionaries  Collocation/Corpus Search Engines
Corpus Analysis Tools

Collocations Dictionaries

● The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English

● Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English--Online Search

● Free Online Collocations Dictionary

● Macmillan Collocations Dictionary

● ozdic.com: the English Collocations Dictionary Online

      ● Sports Dictionary of English-Chinese & Chinese-English Collocations

Collocation /Corpus Search Engines

● Collocations Search

● JustTheWord

● Sketch Engine

● BYU Corpora (The mostly widely used corpora)

● WebCorp Live

● Corpuseye

● Complete Lexical Tour

● Corpus Concordance English

● TCSE (Ted Corpus Search Engine)

● TIME Magazine Corpus

● Search for Sentences Used by VOA's Special English Program Scripts

● TANGO

● TOTALrecall

● Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

● British National Corpus

● British Academic Spoken English (BASE)

● British Academic Written English Corpus (BAWE)

● CARE (Concordancer for Academic wRitten English)

● PERC Corpus Online

● Business Letter Corpus Online KWIC Concordancer 

● Corpus of American Soap Operas

● MICASE (Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English)

● Corpus of of Historical American English

● Strathy (Corpus of Canadian English)

●  International Corpus of English 

Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus of Modern Chinese

● A Collection of Chinese Corpora and Frequency Lists 

(1. Chinese Internet; 2. Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese;

3. Corpus of Business Chinese)

Student Corpora

 MICUSP (Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers)

The Corpus of Academic Learner English (CALE)

Corpus Analysis Tools
Tools for Corpus Linguistics

(Simple Concordance Program)

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English Words

English Words

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Ted Talks

The joy of lexicography

Why is 'x' the unknown? | Terry Moore

What our language habits reveal

Txtng is killing language. JK!!!

Go ahead, make up new words!

What makes a word “real”?
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Word(s) of the Year

Words of the Year for 2017

Oxford's Word of the Year for 2016 Is 'Post-Truth'

Oxford’s 2015 Word of the Year Is This Emoji

Oxford's 2014 Word of the Year Is Vape
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Lingohack (Intermediate Level)

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List of phobias

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11 Weird and Interesting Words in English

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Word Origins

Origins of US State Names

25 Interesting and Somewhat Strange Word Origins
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3,000 Core Vocabulary Words

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Synonyms
Collins English Thesaurus

Synonyms.net

Online English Synonym Dictionary

Synonyms in English

Synonyms for Verbs

RhymeZone

Synonyms for the 96 most commonly used words in English

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Other Ways to Say “Interesting”

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21 Synonyms for Give: Offer, Award, Donate,…

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85 Synonyms for “Help”

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103 Synonyms for ANGER or ANGRY

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13 Synonyms for Adorable: Beautiful, Cute, Sweet, Lovely, Darling,…

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15 Most Common Synonyms for Specific

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10 Most Common Synonyms for Possible

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Commonly Confused Words
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Commonly confused words (Oxford Living Dictionaries)

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Difference Between Quest and Pursuit

Difference between 'Angry' and 'Upset'
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How to use 'too' and 'enough' in English
Confusing Words in English: WISH and HOPE
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6 confusing words - small & little, big & large, tall & high

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Confusing word pairs in English - 

Free Spoken English Lesson

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16 Super-Confusing Words in English

Confusing Words

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Thematic Vocabulary

Useful Sales English Vocabulary – 37 Most Important Words and Phrases Explained

Professions & Occupations

Thematic vocabulary lessons arranged in categories

7 Best Words You Can Use Instead of Love

5 adjectives to make you sound smart

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28 Internet acronyms every parent should know

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Word Power

How to increase your vocabulary

Word Power: How Well Do You Know Your Travel Lingo?
OMG! Oxford English Dictionary adds new words

How World War I gave us 'cooties'

New Words in English

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32 Of The Most Beautiful Words In The English Language

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People sounds

List of Human Sounds

Animal sounds

Everyday sounds

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English Numbers

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How Words Hook Up With Each Other in Spoken English

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