Sunday 24 December 2017

Grand Quiz

Grand Test
1.We use graphic organizer to organise our ideas graphically. A GO is a pictorial representation of ideas.
2.Khan Academy is owned by Suleman Khan of the USA. This website has a great treasure of videos on topics such as physic, Math, Chemistry etc. This is the URL of Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org
3. TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. We can use these talks for language development. We can listen to variety of accents on TED. This will improve our listening and pronunciation skills. TED offers subtitles too. A speaker speaks and their talk appears on the screen. Likewise, we can read the whole talk as a transcript. If you wish to visit TED, click on this link https://www.ted.com
4. OATD stands for open access theses and dissertations. Open access means these theses are in public domain and everyone can download and read them for free. This website has a huge collection of published research reports in the form of theses and dissertations. We can search our research topic and oatd offers brief detail about a thesis. OATD also offers a URL which we can click upon to download the thesis. We need these theses to broaden our horizon for our own research. Click on the link to visit OATD https://oatd.org
5. CALL stands for computer assisted language learning. CALL is a programme offering a variety of online or offline tools to help us develop our language. Instead of a teacher, it is a computer that helps or assists us in language learning. For example, we can develop our writing at home by using Penzu. In case we need help with writing rules we can go to OWL ( online writing lab). So CALL is language learning with the help of computer and internet.
6. Scholar Commons is a repository of graduate research reports. It is a website if university of Florida. Here the university uploads research reports of BS Honour students. 8th semester students do research and when their research is published and approved it is put in   Scholar Commons. Some of these studies can be accessed from international students free of cost. This website can be accesses at this web address http://scholarcommons.usf.edu
7. We can find collocations or combinations by using Just-the-Word . It tells us which two words go together in English sentence structure. Click here to visit this website http://www.just-the-word.com