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	Upper-Intermediate Weblinks

	1	Identity
		You can find out more about Helen Keller at: http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_keller.hcsp and Anne Frank at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank

		You can analyse your own handwriting with a fun test at: http://handwriting.feedbucket.com/
		An interesting lesson concerning national stereotypes, which you may like to adapt for your class, can be found at: http://the_english_dept.tripod.com/stereo1.html


	2	Laughter
		You may wish to give your students more amusing quotations. There is a good selection on a variety of topics at: http://www.amusingquotes.com/

		You can find more information about the author Nick Hornby at: http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/nickhornby/index.html

		Up-to-date crazy news stories can be found at: http://www.ananova.com/news/lp.html?keywords=Quirkies


	3	Style
		A great site for viewing examples of street art in countries all over the world is: http://www.graffiti.org/


	4	Beauty
		An excellent site with poems organised by author, title and topic is: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/index.html

		Another great poetry site is: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
		A website authorised by the Bulgarian artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude can be found at: http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/


	5	New Frontiers
		A detailed site about science from ancint times up to the present day can be found at: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/science/sciencesbook.html#Egypt

		An interesting site about artificial intelligence is: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/whatisai.html


	6	Soft Machine
		The complex area of gene therapy is explained at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy
		And the controversial area of cloning is examined at: http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml


	7	Journeys
		A short biography of Che Guevara, author of The Motorcycle Diaries, can be found at: http://www.moreorless.au.com/heroes/guevara.html

		An interesting site about seeing Canada by train is: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/trains/h30-2000-e.html


	8	Global Issues
		A very easy-to-use site which quickly explains the main problems facing planet earth is: http://www.global-issues.net/


	9	Society
		An excellent site for summaries of Golden Ages, everything from Ancient China to the European Enlightenment, can be found at: http://regentsprep.org/regents/global/themes/goldenages/index.cfm

		The full text of Thomas More’s Utopia is available free at: http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/more/utopia-contents.html and you can read more about his life at: http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/tmore.htm


	10	Conflict
		A very useful site giving synopses of all Shakespeare’s plays can be found at: http://www.bardweb.net/plays/index.html

		A website devoted to collecting and preserving wartime memories is: http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/warmemories.htm

		The BBC has a site about nuisance neighbours at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/A1174727


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