The China-Global South Project (CGSP), formerly known as The China Africa Project, is a non-profit independent multimedia organization dedicated to exploring every aspect of China's engagement with Africa. The project has a full-time team of editors and analysts in five countries in African and Asia working every day to produce daily news and analysis. The site produces a mix of editorial content that combines original material with carefully curated third-party information.
Six English language learning programs are selected from Clarity English program list:
Clear Pronunciation 1:
Clear Pronunciation 1 (Sounds) helps learners recognize and pronounce 43 English phonemes: vowels, consonants and diphthongs. The program includes over 1,000 audio clips and 50 videos which provide both comprehensive input for the sounds, and models for learners to copy. The Recorder enables users to record their voice and assess their pronunciation against a native speaker.
Clear Pronunciation 2:
In Clear Pronunciation 2 (Speech), students learn to put the sounds of English together in natural speech. This program helps them recognise and accurately produce word stress, sentence stress, consonant clusters, connected speech and intonation. By the end of the program, learners have a comprehensive understanding of the key features of English pronunciation.
Practical Writing:
Practical Writing helps students not just with the essays and reports they have to write in their academic work, but also with the job application personal profiles and letters they will need to write in their final year. For more information.
Road to IELTS Academic module:
Road to IELTS is online preparation and practice resource for IELTS. With over 120 hours of interactive activities, advice videos from British Council experts, hints and tips on question types as well as downloadable practice tests, it is comprehensive, up-to-date and aimed precisely at the challenges candidates face. Road to IELTS is suitable for IELTS candidates from band score 4.5 upwards, and for institutions running IELTS preparation courses.
Study Skills Success:
Study Skills Success is for students in their final years at school and first year in higher education. It provides comprehensive coverage of skills and resources that will enable them to approach their academic studies effectively and with confidence.
Tense Buster:
Tense Buster, Clarity's most popular program, helps learners improve their understanding of key grammar areas from some/any at Elementary level to phrasal verbs at Advanced level. The program is ideal as a self-access resource for extension or remedial work, or integrated into a course of study and used for classwork or homework.
An e-book database of encyclopedias, almanacs and reference sources for multi-displinary research. It supports full-text search within and across collections, advanced search capabilities, bookmarks and annotations. The titles can also be searched in the Library Catalogue
Global Issues (Gale In Context) offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issues and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.
Integrated our subscribed The New York Times and The New York Times in Education, the New York Times Learning Network connects classrooms to the world with The New York Times contents and provides opportunities daily for teenagers to both learn the issues that matter to them and raise their voices in response to it.
Features:
Lessons and Teaching Ideas
Lesson Plans Short lesson plans based on Times content.
Teaching Ideas Ideas and inspiration for teaching with The Times.
Writing Prompts
Student Opinion Questions (Daily) Daily questions inspired by Times content from across sections.
Picture Prompts (Tuesday-Friday) Accessible, image-driven prompts that invite a variety of kinds of writing.
Current Events Conversation (Weekly on Thursdays) A weekly round-up of our favorite student comments on recent news and issues.
Quizzes and Vocabulary
Word of the Day (Daily) Learn vocabulary with The New York Times.
Student News Quizzes (Weekly) A current events quiz that tests students about the biggest news stories.
Geography Quizzes (Monthly) Introduce students to over 150 countries via Times maps, photos and journalism.
Photos, Graphs & Videos
What’s Going On in This Picture? (Weekly on Mondays) Times images without their captions and an invitation to students to discuss the live.
What’s Going On in This Graph? (Weekly on Wednesdays) Graphs, maps and charts from The Times and an invitation to students to discuss them live.
Film Club (Weekly on Thursdays) Short documentary films and related discussion questions.
Contests & Challenges
Contests Ten challenges that invite teenagers to engage via writing, photography, audio, video and more.
Accessible Activities A curated selection of student activities for a broad range of readers and writers.
create a free NYTimes.com account using your university email address.
(If you already have a NYTimes.com account associated with your university email address, log in with those credentials. Remember to login out when you leave the platform. You may download NYTimes mobile apps via Google Play.)
Naxos Spoken Word Library have over 400 titles of audio books which includes classic novels, plays and poetry, from medieval times to the twentieth century. It also includes unabridged titles, from Shakespeare to James Joyce. The texts are also available to follows on screens, providing a comprehensive presentation of the literature and an excellent language-learning facility. These texts can also be printed out. All titles can be accessed online, no matter in the library, campus or at home.
PC user:
Microsoft Windows XP with Internet Explorer 7 / Mozilla 1.7.1 / FireFox 1.5 / Netscape 7.1 and Media Player 10 / 11 Mac user:
OS X 10.4 with Mozilla 1.7.12 / FireFox 1.5 / Netscape 7.2 / Safari 2.0.2 and Media Player 9
Language:
English
WARC and WARC.AI Note:
To access the WARC platform, users need to create a user account with Shue Yan webmail to log in.
WARC offers a global view of the advertising and marketing sector, providing information and tools to help you produce creative marketing. It includes hundreds of case studies featuring strategies from leading brands, best practice guides, reports on emerging industry trends, benchmarking tools, educational content, and verified advertising investment. It also covers various topics such as brand building, creativity, analytics, and marketing management.
The new version of the WARC platform introduces WARC.AI, a brand-new AI-driven research tool that helps you get reliable answers to your marketing questions anytime, anywhere.
Features:
Case Studies Learn from the best with over 21,000 advertising effectiveness case studies, spanning from 1980 to date.
Analysis Provide you with successful marketing ideas and guidelines for the most effective marketing, including Big Picture, Global Ad Trends, Platform Insights and Retail Media.
Data & Benchmarks Build media strategies that deliver with the interactive dashboard, media intelligence, quarterly data, and AI-powered forecasts.
News & Talks Offers daily effectiveness insights and the latest marketing news, curated by WARC’s editors.
Functions:
Case Finder Search for advertising effectiveness case studies from over 30,000 case studies.
Media Dashboard Visualise, compare and export verified media data, including Advertising Spend, Media Consumption and Media Costs
WARC.AI You can ask questions in natural language and get answers that combine expert guidance, case studies, and benchmark data.
Sources:
Advertising, market case studies, trend analysis, and research reports.
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