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A “world in one city” is what London is very famously described. The capital of England has many interesting attractions which draws so many tourists from all parts of the globe. The world famous Big Ben, the Tower Bridge above the river Thames, Westminster Abbey and the latest attraction the London Eye are a few of the sights one may find in London. Rich in heritage with a multicultural society London is home to one of the most sought after shopping areas in Europe. Located in central London Oxford Street is one of the most famous shopping destinations in the world.

More than 300 shops are located down Oxford Street. It has many departmental stores and has many flagship stores of world reputed brands .It is not the most expensive Street to shop compared to Bond Street and Regent Street which is home to very exclusive luxury designer brands. Oxford Street has a multitude of shops ranging from clothes to accessories to music stores to shoes everything and anything you need. The phrase you can shop till you drop is appropriate to describe Oxford Street. Many of the flagship stores have their celebrity promotions also down Oxford Street which adds more glamour to this famous Street.

Selfridges one of the largest departmental stores in UK has been down Oxford Street for over a century, John Lewis another departmental store has been there since 1864, Marks and Spencer , Debenhams, Disney store are just to name a few of the very prestigious stores down Oxford Street. While in these departmental stores you can check out the food halls with its variety of cuisine.

New Look, Monsoon, Next and Zara to name a few of the shops to get the trendiest in clothing, while Russell & Bromely, Clarks and Aldo get trendy and quality footwear. HMV’s largest store in the country is also situated down Oxford Street. The latest mobile phone accessories are available at O2 and Vodafone; this is just a fraction of the shops down Oxford Street.

Oxford Street is one and a half miles from one end to the other. If you are looking to make a London hotel reservation it is important that you are located close to all the shopping, entertainment and dinning areas in the city. Millennium Hotel London Mayfair is minutes away from Oxford Street and all the wonderful attractions that London has to offer. This luxurious hotel will make you feel at home and make your stay in London a memorable one.

Postgraduate Scholarships at the University of Oxford for Chinese students

Study Subject:Any

Employer: Oxford University

Level:Postgraduate

Scholarship Description: The Fund was founded in 1992 to award scholarships to the best Chinese graduates to assist them to take up places to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford and then return to contribute in leadership positions to the future development of China.

For scholarship updates visit scholarships portal to get to know the latest happenings about various national and international scholarships and all the requirements for those scholarships.

It is actively campaigning to raise ?25 million to endow twenty to twenty-five scholarships at Oxford solely for Chinese students. It seeks to emulate the success of the Rhodes Scholarship programme, which has helped educate many distinguished American men and women over the last century, amongst them President Bill Clinton. It is this level of excellence that the Fund seeks to emulate.

For scholarship updates visit scholarships portal to get to know the latest happenings about various national and international scholarships and all the requirements for those scholarships.

The Fund sees leadership in terms wider than the political or commercial. It aims to help those who will mould China’s industry and finance, to manage its world-beating manufacturing corporations, to set trends, styles and fashion and to lead its world-class scholarship and research. Leaders, in fact, who will stimulate, formulate and drive the changes which will come to all parts of society in China’s 21st Century.

The Fund is seeking to establish permanent funding for future generations of Chinese scholars in Oxford by attracting donors with the vision to invest in China’s future and by seeking out students of rare talent who would benefit from the Fund’s help.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 15th April 2011

For scholarship updates visit scholarships portal to get to know the latest happenings about various national and international scholarships and all the requirements for those scholarships.

Teaching ESL with a dictionary sounds like as much fun as a 24 hour read-a-thon of Chomsky’s theories on innateness (if that sounds life fun to you…stop reading now). Honestly, when I first began teaching English as a Second Language (ESL), I never thought that I would be teaching classes with a picture dictionary. However, I’ve come to find that the Oxford Picture Dictionary, 2nd Edition is the book of ESL textbooks to use in any ESL class. Use it with the Teacher’s Manual and you will have the ultimate ESL curriculum.

The Oxford Picture Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Monolingual English) can be used by ESL students of all levels, and contains important English words or vocabulary. We use this book at our ESL school, Hawaii Literacy’s Drop In Center (www.hawaiiliteracy.org), because it can be used with any level of student. As long as the student has learned their basic ABCs and the basics of English reading, they can learn from it effectively.

To understand the almost magical adaptability of this ESL textbook, I will discuss a little more about how it is used in our school.  The Drop-In Center is a free ESL school for the local immigrant community of Hawaii. Therefore, student attendance is not always consistent. Students are free to come and go and thus it is difficult to have a traditional lesson plan structure. In addition, since the school is mostly run by volunteers, there are often not enough ESL teachers to divide students into different levels.

The Oxford Picture Dictionary offers many advantages for us:

1) It has up-to-date vocabulary relevant for all levels of students.

2) Students and ESL teachers can begin on any page at any time, so new students will not feel like they are behind the class.

3) Pictures can be easily understood even if the student is a true beginner.

4) All levels of students find the book useful and fun.

5) The teacher’s manual and workbooks are excellent and make teaching and learning much easier.

6) It is inexpensive for most students (between $11-$19 US)

The only disadvantage that I could find is that it is a little heavy. I suggest cutting the book into parts, or suggesting to your students to get backpacks with wheels.

Of course, even with these many advantages, how do you get around the fact that you are teaching from a reference book? Well, you need a wise and experienced ESL teacher, one who is also not afraid to use the Teacher’s Manual!

For my class, I don’t even prepare. I open up the Teacher’s Manual and go from there. It already has ready made sample dialogues (which are very realistic), lists of sentences for dictation, discussion questions, related vocabulary and other suggested activities. I might throw in a quiz or two to help the students check their comprehension. Then I have them go home and review the vocabulary on their own at ESL teacher (www.eslteacherguide.blogspot.com), a blog recently created to help students and teachers all over the world learn and teach ESL on the internet. ESL teacher has a video lesson and a review lesson of the words in the book. We have the students work on only one page of the book a week, so that they have the opportunity to go home and absorb the words effectively.

Some of the other ESL teachers at our school integrate the vocabulary into their grammar practices, or into their own self-created activities. Whatever your classroom focus is or what methods you use, the Oxford Picture Dictionary is by far the best textbook/workbook series for building American English vocabulary building. Enjoy!

Meylysa Tseng