Connections

To assist in enriching your English lessons, ECB Online provides:

Internet Sites

Unit 1 — School's Back!
Reach Out!: Starting a New School

Task Sites:
Teen Advice Column:
Moving to a New School
I'm Having Problems at School

Unit 2 — Just Ordinary People
Stories/Poems by kids 
Taking Tamar: Adopting and Briging Up a Child with Down Syndrome - Amazon with book reviews
Brooke Ellison on Larry King Live

Task Sites:
CNN Internview Transcript: Brooke Ellison

Unit 3 — Use Your Head
How Marketers Target Teens
Children and Media
Undercover Marketing Uncovered 


Unit 4 — Digital Talking
Text messages in war against truancy
Dictionary of SMS shortcuts
Teen breaks SMS world speed record 
Cell phones may present health risks for kids 

Task Sites:
Mass communication - Wikipedia
History of email
About ICQ
The History of the Telegraph and Telegraphy

Unit 5 — The Love of Books
All about Dracula
Amazon Books - The Rainmaker
The Face on the Milk Carton by Nora Chandler - review

Task Sites:
Books Online 
The Internet Public Library

Unit 6 — It's in Your Hands
Columbia Shuttle Astronaut's Holocaust Tribute Honored in New Film
Nasa for Students
Ilan Ramon - The First Israeli Astronaut
ENO Online