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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d5bLf0gq2Q
‘This is just to say’, acted version, British.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcTfsG-k_58
‘This is just to say’, read by Williams.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs
Martin Luther King ‘I have a dream’.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Inmhr8iR8
J F Kennedy – speech from minute 8.58.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtQIdI3qvI&list=PLCpzlnTcZvVP1RmGk0E0GmBKYO9pVNgy
YouTube has a cartoon series called ‘Schoolhouse
Rock: Parts of Speech’. It is easy stuff, but the words
are vivid. The one on pronouns listed here.
Word classes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9mf9oZdFbI
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffallo buffalo
Buffalo buffalo (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_
buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo).
Demonstratations of how word
classes change.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqW5XTuRp_8
Embiggen and cromulent.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjQM8PzCEY0
Steven Pinker talks about how the mind computes
language and particularly about metaphor.
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http://www.thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi
Allows you to put words into a vast array of slogans
from the last twenty years and create your own.
http://btemplates.com
Blog templates.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acs5Ic2RFuA
Attenborough voiceover.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07qYg6mtJp0
Parodies the Marks and Spencer advertisements.
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Demonstration of triteness of
slogans.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHFKE6PD_6U
The Marks and Spencer advertisement.
http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.co.uk
A blog about the differences between British and
American English; useful too as an example of blogs
as genre.
Language change and variation.
http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
The definitive, corpus-based study of contemporary
American English.
Invaluable for discussion of
semantic fields.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/
An eccentric but interesting blog about
contemporary usage and ‘abusage’ in English.
It itself makes use of the word ‘embiggen’ for
illustrations.
http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/
A blog on clear writing and avoiding jargon for
businesses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_
popup?v=Uv2fVaHSISw
Peter Kay, British comedian, takes on a range of
singers for their inability to articulate properly, or
rather his own mishearing. Rude, so watch it before
showing it to students.
Podcast, available through iTunes university: Liberty
University, English as a World Language
15 podcasts. The latter ones are more relevant to
the syllabus (‘What makes language influential?’ for
example).
Podcast available through iTunes university: The Open
University – Postcolonial Engish
Three broadcasts (and transcripts) about English and
its transformations in Asia and the Far East.
Podcast available through iTunes university: The Open
University – Global English
20 podcasts, some with video.
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It’s simply very, very funny!
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