Click on this link http://podictionary.com for some very good etymological talk about words.Each of the hundreds of short articles HAS AUDIO ! Excellent practice.
I find many, not all, students are helped with seeming polysemy problems when they see how modern uses all come from the same roots.And it also helps when they meet an unfamiliar application of the word.
This blog is chatty, anecdotal, and enjoyable, very much what I often aim at. Obviously, in the space, he can't cover everything, his entry for "jock" for example is limited.
And - it's very close to the time we give you for an "exposicion individual"!
So. models to copy!
For some internet etc english go here: http://niproe.blogspot.com/2010/04/some-internet-english-and-internet.html
for my own post on terms like aka and gadget. It got a bit too deep for NI, really, but the question arose at that level.
If you enjoy words, AND have time to spare,click on the following
http://www.dictionaryevangelist.com/
Also
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
I removed the link,( you can still cut and paste (=cortar y pegar)it, because although you CAN find some meanings here that you can't elsewhere, the problem is that it's mostly very evanescant slang, and often generationally, gegraphically, and socially localized and sexual/tabu too. Do you REALLY need to find out, say, something I have been in teaching for 42 years without knowing or needing, viz and to wit that a certain common English word is used in an expression in NZ young people's (perhaps half a million antipodean people) street slang for a certain type of obscure homosexual activity?
This hardly opens a door to the whole angloshere!
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