English Language

BBC: Get Writing
Aimed at budding writers and features work of past winners of BBC writing competitions, mini-courses, articles on writing, tools and quizzes for aspiring writers, shared expertise from well-known authors and useful links for writers.

Changing Language
The English language is vast, flexible, fascinating, frustrating, challenging, inspiring and endlessly changing. Discover how the language has developed over hundreds of years.

IDEA: International Debate Education Association
The world's most useful resource for student debaters. Here you will find arguments for and against hundreds of debating topics written by expert debaters, judges and coaches.

Can I Have a Word?
New ideas and resources to inspire creative writing in the classroom.

Hard Spell
Spelling is compelling! Test your skills in the spelling game where you race against the clock.

Punctuation Made Simple
Clear guides on the correct use of the colon, semi-colon, comma, dash and apostrophe.

Skillswise: Words
A great resource for those wishing to improve their grammar, spelling, reading and writing.

Blast: Writing
Express yourself, find your voice, play with words, scribble and write, write, write! Find out how it is done and how to make your ideas happen.

Way With Words
Join Benjamin Zephaniah, radical rapper and dub poet, on the site where English literature and language come alive.

GCSE Bitesize - English
Revision exercises from the BBC.

English Resources
Resources for every school age group with plenty of materials for teachers to use as the basis for their own projects.

Mike Jubb
Poet and ex-teacher Mike Jubb offers teaching tips, free resources and lesson ideas to help with teaching creative writing.

Cliché Finder
Searching for just the right cliché to use? Type in any words and Cliché Finder will return any cliché using that word.

Acronym Finder
BTW did you know this site has one of the biggest databases of acronyms on the WWW? Get over there ASAP. TTFN.

The ABCs of the Writing Process
Covers the five steps of writing: pre-writing, writing, revising, editing and publishing in a series of fun tutorials.

Write Site
Take on the role of journalist - generating leads, gathering facts and writing stories using the tools and techniques of a real-life journalist.

Guide to Grammar and Writing
Writing tips and guidelines on grammar for those what know nuffink about speaking proper, knoworrimean?

World Wide Words
Devoted to the English language - its quirks, curiosities and evolution - and includes a section on words and phrases not yet printed in dictionaries.

Familiar Quotations
Who said that...? A searchable collection of passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature.

English Teaching in the UK
Useful and interesting resources.

OneLook Dictionary
Find definitions from multiple dictionaries.