Collocate Dictionary

Here you can find an online collocate dictionary.  There you have the option of comparing collocations in Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), Time Magazine Corpus (TIME), British National Corpus (BNC) and Google.

Germany's success

Here is an article that can be summarised with your reflections.

Streams and texts for summary reports

As we discussed, I am hereby making two streams and two articles for you to watch and listen to respectively for a summary report followed by your reflections, which you may leave out if you want to.  This, of course, is an optional exercise; you can choose the one(s) you like the best if you do not have the time to do all of them.  You can send me your summary reports at your convenience before our next session on Monday, 21st of November.

Here are the two talks:
Charles Leadbeater on innovation
Yochai Benkler on the new open-source economics

Here are the two articles:
Globalization's Missing Middle
The Impact of Globalization on Income and Employment

Reported speech

I am hereby providing some documents on reported speech as well as object and subject questions with the key for the exercises from English Grammar in Use: Intermediate by Raymond Murphy.  More  exercises on reported speech along with the key are also made available.

Here you can also find more information on subject, object, verb, tense, time and location modifications in reported speech and indirect speech. (Business Grammar Builder by Paul Emmerson)

Four sources for audio and video streams

Here you can have access to the NPR of the NYC region.  It could be useful if you want to improve your listening comprehension of American English.  You can listen to the live FM broadcast or go their show archives.  I personally like Radiolab, Selected Shorts and Fresh Air among the shows they air.

Here you can have access to the BBC website, which also airs on the WNYC in the mornings Brussels time.  It could be useful to improve your listening comprehension of British English.  They also have links under "Learning English", where you can find numerous tools for learners of English as a second language.

Here you can have access to the audio and video streams on The Economist website.  This again is a good source for improving British English listening comprehension.

Here you can have access to TED which is a good source for numerous talks on a very wide range of topics.  Most talks are given by Americans and Canadians, but there are also other speakers of different nationalities, including some British.

Modal verbs

Here you can find some information and exercises on modal verbs along with the key for the exercises. (Source: English Grammar in Use. Intermediate by Raymond Murphy)

Here you can find more exercises on modal verbs.

More tips on PowerPoint presentations

Here you can find list of do's and dont's for PowerPoint presentations.