The Internet

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David Hardisty. The Internet

Acknowledgements

Foreword

The authors and series editor

Introduction

How to use this book

1 Core Internet skills

1.1 It all depends

1.2 Desperately seeking …

1.3 Starspotting

1.4 Where did I put it?

1.5 And the award goes to …

1.6 Electric news

1.7 Style check

1.8 With a pinch of salt

1.9 Lurking detectives

1.10 Electronic holidays

1.11 Post it

1.12 That’s telling them!

2 Focus on language

2.1 Word treasures

2.2 Tough questions, cross words

2.3 Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you …

2.4 Holiday essentials

2.5 Just the job

2.6 I do!

2.7 Electronic error-checking

2.8 Jembled tuxt

2.9 Email to myself

2.1 °Consequences

2.11 Last question please

3 Focus on language skills

3.1 Home on the Net

3.2 Valentine’s Day

3.3 The play’s the thing

3.4 Alternative school guide

3.5 The Truth is out there’

3.6 What the critics say

3.7 Virtual kitchen

3.8 Step by step

3.9 Academia

3.10 Play it again, Sam

3.11 Breaking news

3.12 Audiobooks

3.13 Listen and link

3.14 Listen and look

3.15 Fingers crossed

3.16 Knock, knock. Who’s there?

3.17 All in the stars

3.18 Desert Island Discs

3.19 Once upon a time

3.20 Salute the flag

3.21 Coming to a theatre near you

3.22 Not so automatic

3.23 TranSearch

3.24 Cognitive translation

3.25 Made to measure

3.26 Simultaneous interpreters

Appendices

Appendix A Glossary of Internet terms

Appendix B The Web

Appendix C Using computers for communication

Appendix D Internet resources

Appendix E Activity links

Appendix F Bibliography

Titles in the Resource Books for Teachers series

Index

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The authors would like to thank the many colleagues who have given us inspiration for ideas in this book. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the British Council in Hong Kong in developing some of the material in the book. We should especially like to thank Martin Peacock and Rod Pryde for their support. We would also like to thank Tony Sibbons for his comments and Nina Blackett for her help in finalizing the manuscript.

Appendix B1, ‘Surfing the Web’, was based on a page produced by Charles Kelly which can be found at http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/

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The remaining two chapters (Focus on Language and Focus on Language Skills) offer a wide range of language-learning activities drawing on the resources of the Internet. The primary focus is always the language-learning payoff rather than the technical sophistication of the medium.

Features which will recommend themselves to novices and Net experts alike are the appendices and Website, which contain a wealth of information and links.

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