Links

There are a great many web sites which offer help with English. Below you can follow links to a selection of English-based sites, which might help you. Remember that the majority of these sites are intended to help you, not to do your work for you.

Key Stage 3

The BBC  -  A huge site, with information on almost everything - including KS3 SATs.

S-cool  -  A large, accessible and well-organised site with lots of useful pages.
 

Shakespeare

AllShakespeare  -  A large site with some useful information on Shakespeare and his work.

The Globe Theatre

Summaries of the plots of Shakespeare's plays

Lynch Multimedia  -  Some good information on plays

shakespeare-online.com  -  Big site; lots of good information

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust  -  Biographical information

Shakespeare's Life and Times

Educating Shakespeare  -  School life in Elizabethan England

Elizabethi.org  -  Big site on the life and times of Elizabeth I
 

Key Stage 4

The BBC's Web Pages  -  Very thorough and interactive learning site.

S-cool  -  A large, accessible and well-organised site with lots of useful pages.

Sparknotes  -  Another site with information on novels, plays and authors.

Novelguide  -  Good notes on a wide variety of novels.

Learn.co.uk  -  Lots of information and further links (probably best for GCSE and A-Level).

'An Inspector Calls'  -  Long Guidance Notes

 

A/S and A-Level Literature

General

Literary and Rhetorical Terms
 

Andrew Moore's site  -  A huge resource, especially good for GCSE and A-Level
 

BookRags  -  Guides to Classic Literature
 

Frankenstein and the Gothic

The Literary Gothic  -  A large site with a lot of background and specific information on the Gothic.

Kim Woodbridge's Mary Shelley site
 

A/S and A-Level Language

General 

Andrew Moore's site  -  A huge resource, especially good for GCSE and A-Level

Language, its Structure and Use
 

englishbiz.co.uk  -  Guidance on how to analyse language texts

ilovelanguages.com (!)  -  Huge site with lost of good links

  

Grammar

The Internet Grammar  -  Detailed and accessible explanation of English grammar with 'test yourself' activities

English Online  -  Grammar information

Hypergrammar  -  Explanation of English Grammar
 

Language Change

Luminarium  -  Texts from 1350-1485 and essays on them

Modern English - Old English Vocabulary

Middle English Dictionary

Cambridge History of English and American Literature  -  Some good Language Change information

The Great Vowel Shift

World Wide Words  -  Development in English vocabulary

OEL Dictionaries  -  Information on the development of dictionaries

The Evoloution of Modern English
 

Phonology

Resources for Studying Spoken English  -  Good IPA charts etc.

The IPA Self-Test
 

Language and Society

Estuary English Pages  -  Links and documents pertaining to Estuary English

Non-Verbal Communication

The Nonverbal Dictionary  -  Extremely detailed information on NVC

Introduction to Body Language and some fun exercises

factmonster.com  -  International Body Language information

 

A/S and A-Level Media

Media UK Internet Database

British Film Institute

Internet Movie Database - info and reviews of films

The Newspaper Society

CCMS (Communication, Cultural and Media Studies)

Daniel Chandler's Media and Communication Studies site