Connections
To assist in enriching your English lessons, ECB Online provides:
- Internet sites based on the themes in your coursebook and provide resources for the unit tasks.
- Internet Activities: fun tasks to help you enrich your class lessons.
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- Audio - Listening Files: click here.
Internet Sites
nit 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