Phonetic Symbol Guide is a comprehensive and authoritative encyclopedia of phonetic alphabet symbols, providing a complete survey of the hundreds of characters used by linguists and speech scientists to record the sounds of the world's languages.

The Union Jack - The Story of the British Flag

Known the world over as a symbol of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack is an intricate construction based on the crosses of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick. Nick Groom traces its long and fascinating past, from the development of the Royal Standard and seventeenth-century clashes over the precise balance of the English and Scottish elements of the first Union Jack to the modern controversies over the flag as a symbol of empire and its exploitation by ultra-rightwing political groups. The Union Jack is the first history of the icon used by everyone from the royalty to the military, pop stars and celebrities.

Symbol Simon

This fast thinking game challenges players to decipher everyday words and phrases using clues (letters, drawings,etc).

Are you good at figuring things out? Try this mind masher:

S + (a picture of an ant) + A  and   (a picture of an animal paw): YES! It's Santa Claus!

The game can be played by two or more players ot in teams. It's good for starting or finishing a class

pronunciation Chart

This is the new British Council phonemic chart. Help your students hear the sounds of English by clicking on the symbols below. Click on the top right hand corner of each symbol to hear sample words including the sounds.

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TMS - Eternal Chalice: The Grail in Literature and Legend
Professor Monica Brzezinski Potkay (College of William and Mary)
14 lectures [30 minutes/lecture]

The goal of this course is to provide an overview of the many different ways writers of fiction and nonfiction have imagined, and reimagined, the object known as the Grail. We’ll look at how the Grail was invented as a powerful literary symbol in the late 12th and early 13th centuries by a group of medieval romancers who celebrated the Grail as a symbol of perfection.

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