Favourite Links:

 

I have spent many enjoyable hours searching the Internet for new information that I can use in my classroom to motivate my students with; information that, more importantly, I can use to bring myself up to date on the topics that interest me. Culture, cultural readings, civilisations, social evolution, language development and historical facts are some of the subjects that pique my interest. Below are some of the links I have found to be helpful.

I have also added a few dictionaries that may be useful to others.

These links have been tried, but, as many pages on the Net, some may have changed and may no longer function. If that is the case, my apologies… Please be kind enough to email me with the information. Thank you in advance.

 

 

Some French sites:

 

For online books and journals

   http://www.Questia.com

For French texts Online

Athena

   http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/francaut.html

For the Bibliothèque universelle

  http://cedric.cnam.fr/ABU/

For the Hachette Dictionnaire de la francophonie

  www.francophonie.hachette-livre.fr

For a French-English/English-French dictionary-75000 terms

  http://humanities.uchicago.edu.forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html

For a French-English dictionary (technical)

  http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~deschamp/www/CMTI/LFA.html

For the Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française

  http://www.epas.utoronto.ca8080/~wulfric/académie

For a dictionary with a difference

  http://www.thefreedictionary.com

For the Modern Language Association

  http://www.mla.org/

For links to French resources including French presses

  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/Romance/france.html

For over 6000 French links collected by "TennesseeBob" (director of the Globegate project)

  http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html

For the Middle Ages

  http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/middle.ages.html

For the 16^th Century

Either Globegate's:

  http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/early.modern.html

or

The Renaissance Society of America

  http://www.r-s-a.org/

For the 17^th Century

  http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/neoclassical.html

For the 18^th Century

The American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies

  http://www.press.jhd.edu/associations/asecs/

For the 19^th Century

  http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/century.19.html

For History and Culture

  http://www.culture.fr/culture.htm

For a magazine of French culture – Le Francophile

  http://leFrancophile.com/

For Libraries

La Bibliothèque Nationale

  http://www.bnf.fr

Links to libraries in France

  http://library.usask.ca/hytelnet/fr0/fr000.html

French Search Engines 

  http://www.yahoo.fr/

  http://www.echo.fr/

  http://www.adminet.com/minitel

  http://www.minitel.fr/

 

Some English sites:

For general and useful information

  http://www.bbc

  http://www.ITN

Dictionaries

  http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

  http://www.englishstudydirect.com/OSAC/diceng.htm

  http://dictionary.sakhr.com/

  http://dictionary.reference.com/

For a historical view

  http://britannia.com/history/

For a definitive record of the English language

  http://www.oed.com/

For cultural heritage

  http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-themes-cultural-heritage.htm

For cultural trivia

  http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-trivia-cultural-heritage.htm

For theory and method in American cultural studies

  http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/tm/cultstud.html

For cultural studies and critical theories

  http://theory.eserver.org/

For British cultural studies

  http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198742067

For the British Library

  http://portico.bl.uk/welcome.html

For Learning English

  http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/

For Museums and Art

The British Museum, London http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
The Tate Gallery, London (modern art) http://www.tate.org.uk/
The National Gallery, London (classical painting) http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/home/index.html
The Science Museum, London (history of science) http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/Welcome.asp
The London Museum (history of London) http://www.museum-london.org.uk/MOLsite/menu.htm
The Museum of Modern Art (New York) http://www.moma.org/

 I hope you enjoy surfing!!!