Didactic material for teaching English |
There is an enormous amount of resources on the Internet that you can use to help you to teach and your students to learn. However, for the purpose of this unit, only a small aspect of these resources will be discussed. This aspect involves resources on the Internet from which your students can be directly involved in the learning of the English language as a second language. Resources that can help you to plan and improve your teaching skill will not be discussed in this unit.
Why use the resources from the Internet for your language class?
What activities can you carry out with your students using the resources available on the Internet? Here are just a few possible activities: E-mailing Activities
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The Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link several billion devices worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents andapplications of the World Wide Web (WWW), theinfrastructure to support email, and peer-to-peernetworks for file sharing and telephony.The origins of the Internet date back to research commissioned by the United States governmentin the 1960s to build robust, fault-tolerant communication via computer networks.[1] While this work, together with work in the United Kingdom and France, led to important precursor networks, they were not the Internet. There is no consensus on the exact date when the modern Internet came into being, but sometime in the early to mid-1980s is considered reasonable.
.Web page A web page (or webpage) is a web document that is suitable for the World Wide Web and the web browser. A web browser displays a web page on amonitor or mobile device. The web page is what displays, but the term also refers to a computer file, usually written in HTML or comparable markup language, whose main distinction is to providehypertext that will navigate to other web pages vialinks. Web browsers coordinate web resourcescentered around the written web page, such as style sheets, scripts and images, to present the web page. On a network, a web browser can retrieve a web page from a remote web server. On a higher level, the web server may restrict access to only a private network such as a corporateintranet or it provides access to the World Wide Web. On a lower level, the web browser uses the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to make such requests. A static web page is delivered exactly as stored, as web content in the web server's file system, while a dynamic web page is generated by a web application that is driven by server-side software or client-side scripting. Dynamic web pages help the browser (the client) to enhance the web page through user input to the server. |