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Tipp des Monats
Buch: Eats, shoots and leaves. The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation von Lynn Truss. Profile Books, London 200. 209 Seiten.
The latest bestseller from England - read this if you have any questions regarding the proper use of punctuation. As we know, we often use the comma, semi-colon, apostrophe, hyphen and other punctuation marks differently in English than we do in German...
A good companion to this book: The Elements of Style, Strunk & White. The classic - a writing style guide for anyone who wants to write clearly in the English language.
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Theater Vorstellung: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; 13.-20. Februar 2004, 7:30 p.m.
The American Drama Group presents the TNT theatre with Arthur
Miller's famous play "Death of a Salesman". Willy Loman is a salesman in post
war New York. He has devoted his life to a career that leads nowhere. His world
is falling apart, even his family is collapsing around him as they try to life
up to the American Dream.
Tickets: € 15 (students € 8) Phone: 089/34 38 03
Organizers: American Drama Group, Amerika Haus Verein
More Resources
Interessante Links zu den Themen English reading,
English as a second language (ESL), Veranstaltungen, Lessons und
mehr.
Improving English
http://www.wordsurfing.co.uk/4598.html
A vocabulary learning strategy for developing good language habits
Language
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang
A Dictionary of slang - from a British point of view
http://www.americandialect.org
Those tricky American dialects!
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html
A word a day, with audio samples
http://www.worldwidewords.org/
This site investigates international English from a British viewpoint, featuring short articles, histories of words and expressions, definitions, development of new words and more.
http://www.plainlanguagenetwork.org
The portal to clear communication - resources, samples, literarcy resources, news
Reference
http://www.ipl.org
The Internet Public Library: provides links to reference materials covering such areas as computers, law, science, entertainement and education
http://www.about.com
About anything you want to know!
http://www.onelook.com/
OneLook Dictionaries - over 700!
http://dict.leo.org
A favorite online English/German, German/English dictionary, with many technical terms
http://www.allwords.com
English dictionary with multilingual search function
http://www.bartleby.com/
Features encyclopedias, dictionaries, a thesaurus, books of quotations and English usage, among other reference materials.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
an index to resources and publications on the Internet, arranged by subject. Topics include business and industry, finance and economics
http://usinfo.state.gov/
United States Information Agency
Business English
http://www.bspage.com/1netiq/Netiq.html
Business "netiquette"
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/glossary0209.html
ABC News.com Business Glossary
http://www.business-spotlight.de/
Business Spotlight magazine website
Reading English
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com
Thousands of newspapers on the net
http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/news/
Links to British newspapers and worldwide media in English
http://www.themorningnews.org
English news site
http://www.guardian.co.uk
British newspaper online
http://www.newslink.org
American Journalism Review - newspapers, magazines and more
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
The science and geography magazine online
http://www.aldaily.com
Arts and Letters Daily
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~tanguay/readclub.htm
The Online Reading Club (trilingual)
http://online.wsj.com/
The Wall Street Journal online
http://www.reuters.com
Up-to-date and in-depth news coverage
http://www.economist.co.uk
The Economist weekly magazine online
For fun
http://www.english-usa.net/humor-jokes/
English language humor
http://www.engrish.com
Funny mistakes in English on signs, packaging, etc.
http://www.comics.com
All the favorite comics from the funnies pages.
http://englishenglish.com
English fun, facts & figures
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