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Periodical articles

Books

Newspaper articles

Find pictures

Listening

How to Get to This Page on the Internet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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your name

Before we get started

  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Internet Links
  2. Click on ESL
  3. Scroll down, and under Course-Related Materials, click on ESL 253, D. Burum
  4. Make it a Favorite -- click on Favorites on the top tool bar, then on Add, then on OK. You can, then, easily, get back to this Web page by going to Favorites.
1.   Find Periodical Articles at the Cabrillo College Library
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Select Fulltext Articles  [If you are coming in from off campus, your user ID is your library card number]  
  3. Click on Magazine & Journal Articles (EBSCOhost)
  4. Click on
  5. On the next screen, click on  
  6. Click in the small box next to Full Text
  7. Type in your search terms.  Then click on Search 
  8. From the Results screen, click on an article title to get to the screen with full information

Click to watch a little movie illustrating those steps.

Look up an article on a topic of your choice! Use quotation marks to keep words in phrases together, e.g., "Monterey Bay"

Article title______________________________

Periodical title (look where it says Source)____________________

Date of the article_____________________

You can, of course, read articles on the computer screen. You can also save them, print them out, and even email them.

2.  Find Books
  • Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  • Click on Library Catalog

It is probably easiest to do a WORD search. Look for a book about any topic that interests you.

When you get a results list, click on the underlined title to get to full information about the book

Note information about your book here

Author____________________________________

Title__________________________________________________

Year of publication______

Location in the library_______________________

Call number_______________

Status_____________ (The Status line tells you if the book is available) 

 

Find Newspaper Articles   

National Newspapers (NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor) Coverage: last 2 years. 

  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homage, click on Fulltext Articles

  2. Click on National Newspaper Articles (ProQuest) [If you are accessing this from off campus, your library card number is your user ID]
  3. Type in your search terms
  4. Click on Search. 

Find an article about your topic and note basic information about it here

Title of article ________________________________________

Newspaper __________________________________________ 

Date of article _________________________

Your notes:_____________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________ 

You can email these articles to yourself! Nifty!

Find pictures.

Go to one or more of these photo collections. In the search box, type in the name of a country or city to get pictures. Usually, you can click on a small photo to bring up a larger version.

Listening.

Places where you can listen AND read transcripts at the same time:

  • Academy of American Poets Click on the name of the poem to get the transcript; click on Hear it! to listen to the poem.
  • American Radioworks  Great documentaries. You can read a transcript and listen to the program at the same time.
  • American Rhetoric Online speech bank and other resources, including movie clips.
  • Earth and Sky Click on Today's Show or on a story listed below. You'll bring up the transcript, and then you can click on LISTEN.
  • Justice Talking Debates on current legal battles. Includes transcripts.
  • McLaughlin Group Transcripts and videos of programs are available (for the last several years). To get started, click to select a month and year, or search for a word.
  • Meet the Author Great video clips of interviews with many, many authors
  • Oyez U.S. Supreme Court cases. Click on Hear Ye, Hear Ye to get video along with transcripts of what was said. Select a story; click to bring up the transcript; click to listen to the audio.
  • Sound Portraits Hard-hitting radio documentaries. Select a documentary; then click to get the transcript; then click to listen.
  • Stories First Listen to great interviews with interesting people! Transcripts included.

Places where you can listen, but no transcripts are available:

  • Audio Vault Authors read from their works
  • Favorite Poem Select a poem; scroll to the bottom of the page and click to watch and listen to a video about what the poem means to someone. After the video starts, click to read the poem!
  • NPR Archives National Public Radio broadcasts
  • Speech Archives from the History Channel
  • Webcasts from Library of Congress

Your notes:__________________________________________

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The News

Listen and Read
  • Literacy Net Offers current and past CNN San Francisco bureau news stories providing the story, an abridged story, and the story outline.
  • NPR Transcripts, and audio, of NPR Mideast coverage

    News -- just video or just audio
  • CBS Click where you see the little video camera
  • CNN Interactive Click next to stories that have a red star next to them for audio or audio/video
  • CSPAN Click where you see the little video camera
  • PBS NewsHour videos
  • Your notes:__________________________________________

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Other Resources

You like music?

Send a Postcard !

More info about countries

  • Use CountryWatch
    1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
    2. Click on Fulltext Articles
    3. Click on CountryWatch (in righthand column)

How to Get to This Page on the Internet

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Click on ESL
  4. Scroll down, and under Course-Related Materials, click on ESL 253

D. Burum and T. N. Smalley, 4/06