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This is a unit-by-unit guide to
websites that will help inform and extend the topics covered in
the Level 1 Student's Book.
The websites are categorised as follows:
Military English: the language or theme
is specific to the military
General English: the language or theme
is not specific to the military
Information: the site is information
on the topic only
Interactive: the site contains online
activities for students
Non-interactive: the site contains
activities that can be practiced offline
Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3 | Unit 4 | Unit 5 | Unit 6 | Unit 7 | Unit 8 |
Unit 9 | Unit 10 | Unit 11 | Unit 12 | Unit 13 |
Unit 14
Unit 1 Start point
Grammar: The verb ‘to be’
http://www.esl-lounge.com/level1a/lev1amrxatoq1.shtml
This is an excellent free website with all kinds of resources for
teachers and students. As unit 1 introduces the verb ‘to be’
this is an interview where the student is given only the answers.
Students have to reconstruct the interview. Most of the questions
only use the verb ‘to be’.
General English - Grammar
Countries and nationalities
http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz53bds.htm
http://a4esl.org/q/h/9704/ow-nationalty.html
http://a4esl.org/q/j/ck/fb2-nationalities.html
These three addresses are fun online quizzes on countries and nationalities.
General English - Interactive - Grammar activities
Numbers
http://www.esl-lab.com/phone.htm
This is a listening activity from esl-lab using telephone numbers.
General English - Interactive - Listening
Unit 2 Boot camp
Grammar: Present simple yes/no questions
and short answers
http://a4esl.org/q/h/9801/cg-shortans.html
This on-line activity has fifteen questions to practice the use
of short answers.
General English - Interactive - Grammar
A day in the life
http://www.esl-lab.com/schedule/schedrd1.htm
This on line multiple choice listening activity gives practice of
the time and typical daily routines.
General English - Interactive - Listening
Countable and uncountable
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar_home_frame.html
Click on nouns on this page. With the use of a
dictionary, students can do this drag and drop exercise on the British
Council learn English website.
General English - Information - Interactive
Basic Training
http://www.army.mod.uk/careers/index.html
In the menu, click on any of the different corps e.g. combat, engineering,
IT and click on basic training. Week by week you will see the different
training activities. Vocabulary could be quite difficult at this
level but you could grade your language to prepare a reading quiz.
E.g. ‘In which week does a trainee soldier first fire a weapon?’
http://www.army.mod.uk/careers/index.htm
If you click on FAQ’s you’ll find lots of questions
about army life that you could use to make a reading race quiz.
Military English - Information - Reading
Weapons and equipment: Weapons history
quiz
http://www.triv.net/html/Users9/u21359.shtml
With the aid of a dictionary, elementary students should be able
to do this on-line weapons history quiz. If students get the answers
wrong they have to go back either to the beginning or to the half
way point. An excellent ‘drill reading’ activity!
Military English - Interactive
Unit 3 To be a soldier
Great military leaders
http://www.worldhistory.com/timelines/people.htm
At this address you will find information on all sorts of famous
people in history: (famous country leaders, military leaders, explorers
etc.) Prepare a quiz for your students or ask them in pairs or teams
to choose personalities and to write questions for another pair
or team, who have to find the answers.
Military English - Information
The family
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/words/activities/family.html
This British Council drag and drop gives more practice with the
family members and the possessive ’s
General English - Interactive - Grammar
History quizzes various
http://www.triv.net/html/history.htm
If your students enjoy the military history quiz, they may like
to try these quizzes. As in the weapons history quiz if they get
the answers wrong they have to start again from question number
1 or the half way point.
Military English - Interactive
Grammar: Questions with
is, are,
was, were,
do, did
http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/quest-quiz.htm
General English/ Interactive - Grammar
Unit 4 Military
organisation
Army organisation
http://www.army.mod.uk/royalengineers/org
This is the web page of the Royal Engineers. There is information
about all of the different units, some more complete than others,
e.g. history, deployments, tasks performed, regimental organisation
etc. You could prepare a reading comprehension activity with some
of the units you find most interesting.
Military English - Information - Reading
British Army ranks
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/militaryenglish/
From this address go to exercises in the menu, then click on exercises
archive and go to ‘Army ranks’, ‘Navy ranks’
and ‘RAF ranks’ for three on-line exercises where students
have to put the various ranks in the correct order.
Military English - Interactive
Months of the year - ordinal numbers
http://iteslj.org/v/e/ck-months.html
This on-line quiz allows students to practice both the months of
the year and ordinal numbers (covered on page 36)
General English - Interactive
Unit 5 Sports and
fitness
Sports
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar_home_frame.html
From this address students can click on ‘archive’ in
the menu, then ‘word games’ to then click on ‘sports’
in order to practice sports vocabulary in this drag and drop exercise.
When they have finished they can then try their hand at the multiple
choice sports quiz.
General English - Interactive - Vocabulary
Colours
http://iteslj.org/v/ei/colors.html
General English - Interactive - Grammar
Unit 6 A Visitor to
the base
Bagram
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/bagram-pics.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/bagram.htm
At these two sites you will find information and pictures on Bagram
airbase in Afghanistan. Use the text on the facilities to prepare
a reading comprehension, or just ask students to take a look at
the pictures and describe what they think the different buildings
might be used for.
Military English - Information - Reading
Royal Engineers
http://www.army.mod.uk/royalengineers/org/33regt/index.htm
This is the website of the Royal Engineers 33 regt, i.e. the EOD
team. There’s interesting information on where they are posted,
deployed, regimental organisation etc. Use it to prepare a reading
quiz for your students, or ask them, in groups, to prepare a quiz
for another group.
Military English - Information
Royal Scots & US Navy Seals
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/militaryenglish/
This British Council on-line activity requires students to build
a text on the Royal Scots and there is also a similar activity on
the US Navy Seals. From the menu click on ‘exercises’,
scroll down to ‘exercise archive’ and choose ‘Royal
Scots’ or ‘US Navy Seals’.
Military English - Interactive
Unit 7 Military technology
Military hardware
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/index.html
This web page has lots of information on the specifications and
use of military vehicles and helicopters, missile systems etc. Use
for a scan reading race to complete a chart that asks for specifications
for various vehicles of weapons systems, or use it for student project
work.
Military English - Information - Reading
Equipment specifications
http://usite.army.mod.uk/CHS/index1.html
A fun, hands on website where you can read about the different specifications
of equipment used in the British Army. Get inside the cockpit of
an Apache helicopter or the drivers position of an Infantry Fighting
Vehicle. As you move round, various parts of the equipment are highlighted
for you to see the names.
Military English - Interactive - Vocabulary
Aircraft terminology
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/militaryenglish
From the British Council Military English exercises archive, this
activity is a gap fill exercise on military aircraft terminology.
Click on ‘exercises’ in the menu then go to ‘exercises
archive’ and then ‘aircraft terminology’. At the
same site in the exercise archive, click on ‘RFA Fort George’
for a matching exercise on the specifications and figures of this
cargo ship. Also to tie in with the Review and Language tactics
on p 72 there is an excellent gap fill activity. In the ‘exercises
archive’, click on 'APCs and IVFs'.
General English - Interactive - Grammar
Unit 8 The NATO school
The History of NATO
http://www.nato.int/issues/faq/index.html
Ask students the questions about NATO and then ask students to visit
this page to check if their answers were correct.
Military English - Information - Reading
The NATO school
http://www.natoschool-shape.de/NCC%20Webpage/Index.htm
This site gives lots of information on the NATO school lodge and
community club. Click on ‘amenities’, ‘dining’
or ‘local area’ to prepare reading races, or ask students
to click on ‘reservations’ to fill out the ‘student
reservation form’.
Getting there
http://www.esl-lab.com/trainnew/index.htm
More listening practice related to taking the train.
General English - Interactive - Listening
Billeting
http://www.esl-lab.com/hotel1/hotel1.htm
This listening activity is another opportunity for students to practice
listening to someone making a hotel booking.
General English - Interactive - Listening
Weather
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/militaryenglish/
Tell students to go to the ‘exercises archives’ and
click on ‘Weather 1’ for a fun word search activity,
‘Weather 2’ for a sentence completion activity where
they have to unscramble the words before deciding which word goes
where, or ‘Weather and Climate’ for a text building
activity.
General English - Interactive - Vocabulary
Unit 9 Fit to fight
You should do more exercise
http://www.greengiant.com/eating/iq.asp
Get students to test their fitness knowledge in the Green Giant
Test your fitness IQ.
General English - Interactive - Reading
Grammar: Comparatives
http://www.english-at-home.com
Go to Grammar and scroll down to Comparisons. At the bottom of the
page, students can press the test yourself! button
for some practice of comparative adjectives.
General English - Interactive - Grammar
Off-duty: eating out
http://www.esl-lab.com/pie1/pierd1.htm
A listening activity – Heavenly Pies Restaurant!
General English - Interactive - Listening
First Aid
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/militaryenglish/
Go to ‘exercises archive’ and click on ‘Essential
First Aid’ for a vocabulary activity.
General English - Interactive - Vocabulary
Unit 10 War Games
Exercise Bright Star
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/militaryenglish
To tie in with this reading activity on page 94, try the ‘Peaceshield’
text reorder activity in the ‘exercises archive’ section
of the British Council site. Peaceshield is a NATO exercise held
every two years in the Ukraine.
Grammar: The definite article 'the'
http://www.english-at-home.com
From here students click on ‘Grammar’ and from the scroll
down menu they choose ‘articles’. They can read a comprehensive
explanation of the rules of use of articles and then they can go
to the ‘Test yourself’ button where they can try their
hand at the on-line quiz.
General English - Interactive - Grammar
Unit 11 Peacekeeping
United Nations peacekeeping operations
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/faq/index.htm
UN peacekeeping operations: questions and answers. For class discussion
ask your students some of these questions. Write the answers on
the board then ask students to visit this site to compare their
answers.
Military English - Information - Reading
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/contributors/index.htm
Facts and figures about the contributors - both military and civilian
- to the peacekeeping forces.
Military English - Information
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/militaryenglish/
Click on UN Peacekeeping in the ‘exercises archive’
for a text building activity on the ‘Code of Conduct’
for a member of a UN peacekeeping force. Click on ‘Croatia
and Peacekeeping’ for a word order exercise on peacekeeping
in Croatia.
Military English - Interactive - Reading
Grammar: Imperatives
http://www.english-at-home.com
Go to Grammar > imperatives > test yourself for an exercise
on imperatives
General English - Interactive - Grammar
Mines and demining
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/militaryenglish/
The vocabulary in this sentence matching exercise may be a little
difficult, but your students may like to try, with the help of a
dictionary. Go in to the exercises section on the menu, then click
on the ‘exercises archive’ and then ‘Mines at
Sea’.
‘Slovakia – demining in Africa’. Go straight
to this exercise from the exercise menu. A drag and drop activity
that looks at the work of engineers from the Slovak Armed Forces
in the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Military English - Interactive - Vocabulary
Unit 12 Headquarters
Camp orders: Parts of a rifle
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/militaryenglish/
Go to the ‘exercises archive’ from the menu and click
on the ‘Firearms’ activity – a fun wordsearch.
Military English - Interactive - Vocabulary
Please hold the line
http://www.esl-lab.com/tc1/tc1.htm
From the esl-lab this listening give practice on dealing with telephone
calls in an office.
General English - Interactive - Listening
Off-duty: an invitation
http://www.esl-lab.com/invite/inviterd1.htm
From the same site this slightly more difficult listening activity
gives students practice at listening to a couple making invitations.
General English - Interactive - Listening
Furniture vocabulary
http://iteslj.org/v/ei/furniture.html
For more vocabulary practice ask students to try this furniture
quiz.
General English - Interactive - Vocabulary
Unit 13 Convoy
Escort
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/militaryenglish
Go to the exercises archive and click on ‘convoy operations’
for this drag and match activity connected with convoys.
Off-duty: cars and driving
http://www.dsa.gov.uk/
This is the Driving Standards Agency website. Ask students to click
on ‘theory tests’ in the menu and then click on ‘mock
theory test’. From there they can try and do an on-line mock
test, maybe in pairs and with the aid of a dictionary.
General English - Interactive
Grammar: Prepositions
http://a4esl.org/a/g.html
Ask students to scroll down the page to the exercises on ‘prepositions’
in the ‘easy’ section. There’re loads to be found!
http://www.english-at-home.com
More preposition practice in the ‘test yourself’ section
under ‘time and place’.
General English - Interactive - Grammar
Unit 14 Patrol
The briefing
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/militaryenglish/Teachers/Briefings%20exercises.doc
This page on the British Council Military English website has some
good ideas for the use of briefings in the classroom, with some
useful addresses of where to find more briefing material.
Military English - non-interactive - Reading
Patrol Kit
http://www.the-outdoor.co.uk
This website is a retailer of new and used British military kit.
Give students a shopping list and ask them to calculate how much
the articles on your list would cost them, or give them a budget
to go out and buy what they require and ask them to present their
list of purchases to you.
Military English - Information
Off-duty: describing people
http://www.manythings.org/hmf/hm-adjpeople.html
This is a fun game of hangman – 58 words used to describe
people.
General English - Interactive - Vocabulary
Prowords
http://www.qsl.net/lcares/prowords.htm
At this address you can find a comprehensive list of radio prowords,
the phonetic alphabet and numbers.
Military English - Information - Vocabulary & Pronunciation
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