ENGLISH - GENERAL

This site is all about english degrees - what they’re like, why anyone does them and loads of useful job statistics to show what you can do with one.

This is Andrew Moore’s excellent site, which has a wealth of material on both language and literature.

LANGUAGE

This is Dan Clayton’s excellent language-based blog, focusing on language in the news, and very helpfully identifying which bits of our syllabus (AQA A) the stories are relevant to!

Here you will find a fabulous blog on English Accents and Dialects, featuring up to date research info - this site’s a must for A2 Language students.

This is a funky phonetics page - I’ve shown some of you this one in class.  It has cool animations and video and organises consonants by place and manner of articulation.  The only downside is it’s American so some of the vowel sounds aren’t accurate for our purposes.

This site is great for Language students, AS & A2.  It has resources relevant to many of the key topic areas - child language, dialect, research methods etc.

This blog relates to The Wonder of Whiffling by Adam Jacot de Boinod, featuring weird and wonderful words from the English Language, while this one is based on his first book - The Meaning of Tingo - on words for which there is no direct equivalent in English (you know the words you need a whole phrase to translate).  The fact that these words merit a single word in other languages gives us some idea of how important the concepts are within those cultures.This one is Geoff Barton’s site, for language topics/theories.

This link takes you straight to the grammar section of this detailed and very useful site for both language and literature.

LITERATURE

There are some literature resources at S-Cool, including Wuthering Heights and Larkin’s Whitsun Weddings.

Another literature site: Spark Notes, similar to York Notes, but free and online!  Useful for chapter summaries, general comments about theme and character etc.  Not as in-depth as you’ll need to be, but a helpful starting point.