Click on the first letter of the word you are looking for:
A
Academic Essay Example - an essay about designing Internet navigation in which the referencing is highlighted so that you can see when and how to quote, summarise and paraphrase.
Academic Report Writing - CILL materials
Academic Style Guidelines - an explanation and a correction exercise.
Academic Vocabulary - lists of academic words. You can click the links for definitions, example sentences and pronunciations.
Academic Word List hangman game
Academic Vocabulary Crossword
Accountancy Students - list of useful CILL Materials
Address of CILL:
Centre for Independent Language Learning
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom
Kowloon
Hong Kong
N.B. To get to CILL on foot, go to 'A' core (by the fountain steps), 3rd floor. After that, follow the signs.
Adjective order - what order to write or say adjectives in, and a technique to help you to memorise them.
Adjustment, Letter of (Reply to a Letter of Complaint) correction exercise.
How to write adjustment letters - includes the stages of dealing with complaints, some useful expressions, some example letters, and an exercise.
Adjustment Letter Constructor - build a letter of adjustment by selecting the right phrases.
Advanced Dictionary Skills Program
Advert Writer - for writing job adverts
Agreement - Subject-verb agreement - an explanation and an exercise.
Aliens - Prepositions and collocations for job application letters in a Grammar Aliens game
Alphabetiser - a program that puts words into alphabetical order
Andy Morrall - CILL Senior Lecturer
Apologise / apologises / apologies - the grammar of apologise
Approximation - an exercise in describing numbers in an easy-to-understand way
Approximation Correction exercise - to check that you can use the language of approximation correctly
Articles and Geography - a quiz which teaches you the correct articles to use before countries, cities, islands, mountains, lakes, seas and oceans
Articles - List of useful CILL Materials - e.g. a, an, the
Assessment Two Checklist for EAP 1999 - Short Academic Writing
Assessment Three Checklist for EAP 1999 - Extended Academic Writing
Assessment Four Checklist for EAP 1999 - Presentations
B
Because or Due to the fact that - an explanation and an exercise.
Beliefs, opinions and attitudes : vocabulary.
Beliefs, opinions and attitudes crossword
Bibliographic References:
Referencing Resources on the Internet
- Referencing Pages - an overview of using sources and referencing
- Reference Machine - a program to help you write references. You fill in the boxes with the author's name etc. and the computer formats the reference for you. You can use one of the following styles:
- APA style: for an in-text citation, a book, an article in a journal, a chapter in an edited volume, a newspaper or magazine article, or an Internet reference.
- Harvard style: for an in-text citation, a book, an article in a journal, a chapter in an edited volume, a newspaper or magazine article, or an Internet reference.
- Vancouver style: for a book, an article in a journal, a chapter in an edited volume, a newspaper or magazine article, or an Internet reference.
- IEEE style: for a book, a part or chapter in a book, an article in a journal, an article in an e-journal
- Referencing Exercises: Spot the errors and correct them in in-text references and in bibliographical references.
- Choosing whether to use a quotation, summary or paraphrase.
- Secondary citation
- Example academic essay with the quotations, summaries and paraphrases highlighted. It also contains in-text citations and references. The topic is how to design navigation for Internet pages.
- List of referencing-related books in CILL.
Bronze Certificate
Bruce Morrison - Director of ELC
Building and Real Estate - useful materials for BRE students
Business - useful Internet links for Business Students
Business - useful materials for business students
C
Categorisation - this exercise introduces the vocabulary and grammar needed for the function of categorisation, and includes a short exercise to help you check that you understand.
Cause and Effect - this exercise introduces the vocabulary and grammar needed to describe causes and effects. Includes an exercise.
Certificate - how to get a CILL Attendance Certificate
Change and continuity: nouns and verbs table
Change and continuity: nouns and verbs gap fill
Change and continuity: nouns and verbs multiple choice
Checklist for Job Interview Panels - print this out and use it during the interview to record details of the applicants
Chu, Sunny - CILL Language Instructor
Chinese and Bilingual Studies - useful materials for CBS students
Citation:
Referencing Resources on the Internet
- Referencing Pages - an overview of using sources and referencing
- Reference Machine - a program to help you write references. You fill in the boxes with the author's name etc. and the computer formats the reference for you. You can use one of the following styles:
- APA style: for an in-text citation, a book, an article in a journal, a chapter in an edited volume, a newspaper or magazine article, or an Internet reference.
- Harvard style: for an in-text citation, a book, an article in a journal, a chapter in an edited volume, a newspaper or magazine article, or an Internet reference.
- Vancouver style: for a book, an article in a journal, a chapter in an edited volume, a newspaper or magazine article, or an Internet reference.
- IEEE style: for a book, a part or chapter in a book, an article in a journal, an article in an e-journal
- Referencing Exercises: Spot the errors and correct them in in-text references and in bibliographical references.
- Choosing whether to use a quotation, summary or paraphrase.
- Secondary citation
- Example academic essay with the quotations, summaries and paraphrases highlighted. It also contains in-text citations and references. The topic is how to design navigation for Internet pages.
- List of referencing-related books in CILL.
City - how to find the right city to put in your bibliography for books and edited books.
Civil and Structural Engineering - useful materials for CSE students
Club - website of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University English Club
Coherence in a Text on Palmistry
Collocations - contains links to the vocabulary; e.g. 'meet', and a matching exercise
Collocations - contains links to the vocabulary; e.g. 'express' and a matching exercise.
Collocations - contains links to the vocabulary; e.g. 'empirical' and a matching exercise.
Collocation: Set Phrases
Collocation: Verbs and Nouns 1
Collocation: Verbs and Nouns 2
Communication Studies One course - useful materials
Common Confusions - a developmental vocabulary and grammar quiz with feedback.
Common Error Detector - a program to check your grammar. Paste in your text and this program will check for many common errors. It is an aid to proof-reading, not a replacement.
Company Profile Form - EIW groups should fill this in to give to job applicants
Comparison and Contrast - exercise on the functions of comparison and contrast and definition.
Complain / complaint / complained - the grammar of 'complain'.
Complaint letters - describes the content, language and organisation of letters of complaint, and includes examples and an exercise.
Complaints - list of useful CILL materials
Concern - how to use concern correctly
The Conclusion section of a report - an explanation, an example and an exercise.
Concordancer - a program to find example sentences containing words you choose
Conditional Clauses
Confusing words - exercise on the differences between some commonly confused words. Includes links to pronunciation, definitions and examples.
Contact Information: Centre for Independent Language Learning
Contrast Clauses - in spite of the fact that, etc.
Contrast clauses - sentence patterns
Contrast sentences
Correction Code
Covering Letters in Job Applications - how to answer questions when filling in forms
Covering Letters - Job Application Letter Writer - fill in the spaces and this program will write your job application for you!
Covering Letters in Job Application Letters - list of useful CILL materials
Covering Letters in Job Application Procedures - list of CILL materials
C.V. / Resume Writer - fill in the boxes and this program will write your resume for you.
D
Data Collection Methods - CILL materials
David Wong - CILL Lecturer
Definitions - exercise on the functions of definition, comparison and contrast.
Departmental-specific materials in CILL (for ACCT, BRE, BUSS, CBS, CSE, EE, HTM & ITC)
Department of English home pages
Describing Numbers - an explanation, a program to write and speak a number, and an exercise
Describing Trends - this exercise introduces the vocabulary and grammar needed to describe trends.
Diagnostic Grammar Test: find out your grammar problems and how to solve them - click here if you have a PolyU student ID, or else click here
Diary
CILL EAP Diary Frequently-asked Questions
Dictionaries
Dictionary Skills Program
Dictionary Usage - CILL materials
E
E-mail Pen-pals
English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
CILL EAP Diary Frequently-asked Questions
EAP-related tasks:
EAP: Lists of CILL materials to help with EAP (English for Academic Purposes):
EAP Homework Suggestions
EIW (English in the Workplace)
Effects and Causes - this exercise introduces the vocabulary and grammar needed to describe causes and effects. Includes an exercise.
Electrical Engineering - useful materials for EE students
E-mail of CILL
E-mail - how to write e-mails
E-mail Pen-pals/Pen-friends
English Club - website of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University English Club
English Language Centre home page
Enquiry letters - describes the content, language and organisation of letters of enquiry. Includes an exercise.
Enquiry letter replies - describes the content and language of letters of enquiry, with example letters. Includes an exercise.
Common Error Detector - a program to check your grammar. Paste in your text and this program will check for many common errors. It is an aid to proof-reading, not a replacement.
Essay Introductory Paragraph Techniques - identify four basic techniques for composing the opening statement of your introductory paragraph: the general statement, the rhetorical question, the impact statement, and the anecdote
The Order of an Essay - putting paragraphs in the correct order
Essay Writing - list of useful CILL materials (Early-intermediate and Intermediate)
Essay Writing - list of useful CILL materials (Intermediate and Upper-intermediate)
Error Detector - the Error Detector finds some common problems in academic essay writing and gives you tips how to solve them.
Example Academic Essay - referencing is highlighted so that you can see when and how to quote, summarise and paraphrase.
Exercises - a list of the exercises on the CILL site
F
FAQ - Frequently-asked Questions and their answers
Fax Number of CILL: (0852) 27745172
Films - how to learn English using films
Film Society (PIFS) - the Polytechnic International Film Society
Final Year Projects website
Final Year Projects - CILL materials
Formality:
Frequently-asked Questions
French
Functions - exercise on definition, comparison and contrast.
G
List of games on the CILL site
General Service List of vocabulary
General Service List vocabulary hangman
Replacing 'get'
Gold Certificate
Good point! - An ELC site for sharing your ideas on topics that you are interested in, and for reading about topics that you can use in discussions, seminars, presentations, papers and essays.
Grammar
Diagnostic Grammar Test: find out your grammar problems and how to solve them - click here if you have a PolyU student ID, or else click here
Grade Calculator
Grammar - Infinitive and -ing (Intermediate) - list of useful CILL materials
Grammar - Passive Voice (Intermediate) - list of useful CILL materials
Grammar - >Common Problems - list of useful CILL materials
H
Hangman for the 2000 most common words in English
Hangman for the 2000-5000th most common words in English
Hangman for the Academic Word List
HASALD - presentation about the CILL site
Hedging
Help
Hong Kong Polytechnic University home page
Hours of Opening
How Can I Learn English on the Internet?
How Can I Plan My Work?
How Can I Test Myself?
How Do I Use This Site?
Hotel and Tourism Management - useful materials for HTM students
Ho, Rosana - CILL Language Instructor
I
Workplace Idioms - Explanation and Examples, Exercise 1, Exercise 2.
Replacing idioms with formal verbs
IELTS - International English Language Testing System Organisation web site
IELTS - the ELC's IELTS information and practice exercises
Important or Importance? Explanation and exercise on which word to use.
Importance and Unimportance
Informal English names; e.g. Bill=William
Instructions - CILL materials
In-text referencing - error correction exercise.
Interview Panel Discussion - example phrases and an ordering activity
Interview Panel Checklist - print this out and use it during the interview to record details of the applicants
Interview Quiz - questions and advice on the content and grammar of job interview answers
Interview simulation - practice interviews in an animation
Interviews (Early-intermediate and Intermediate) - list of useful CILL materials
Requesting an interview about a company - the organisation and content of a message requesting an interview to find out details of a company.
Internet - Searching
Introductions in Reports - a page to help you understand the content and grammar of report introductions. It contains explanations, an example and an exercise.
Introductory Paragraph Techniques for Essays - identify four basic techniques for composing the opening statement of your introductory paragraph: the general statement, the rhetorical question, the impact statement, and the anecdote
Institute of Textiles and Clothing - Useful Internet Links for ITC Students
Institute of Textiles and Clothing - useful materials for ITC students
Investment Phrases- matching exercise
IPA Chart of the sounds of British English
IPA Typewriter
It is because and this is because - an explanation and an exercise
ITC Vocabulary Hangman:
- Design Styles
- Kinds of Clothing
- Kinds of Textile
- Surprise Me
J
Japanese
Job Advert Writer
Job Applications - how to answer questions when filling in forms
Job application letters prepositions and collocations in a Grammar Aliens game.
Job Application Knowledge Game
Job Application Letter Writer - fill in the spaces and this program will write your job application for you!
Job application letter checklist
Job Application Letters - list of useful CILL materials
Job Application Procedures - list of CILL materials
Job Interview Panel Discussion - example phrases and an ordering activity
Job Interview Panel Checklist - print this out and use it during the interview to record details of the applicants
Job Interview Quiz - questions and advice on the content and grammar of interview answers
Job interview simulation - practice interviews in an animation
Job Interviews (Early-intermediate and Intermediate) - list of useful CILL materials
Job-seeking Process - listen and put the steps in the right order
Peter Johnson - CILL Instructor
Journalistic Questioning
K
Key Words in University Study - Nouns - Crossword - area, aspect, category, class, component, compound, division, domain, element, entity, field, group, portion, sphere
L
'Lack' or 'Lack of'? - an explanation and an exercise
Learner Diary
Learning Strategies
Learning Styles
Letters
- Arranging a Meeting: reading comprehension exercise on a letter arranging a meeting. This exercise illustrates the format and layout of a modern business letter.
- Sales letters: an explanation and an exercise.
- Enquiry letters:
- Enquiry letters - describes the content, language and organisation of letters of enquiry. Includes an exercise.
- Enquiry letter replies - describes the content and language of letters of enquiry, with example letters. Includes an exercise.
- Reply to Enquiry Practice Task - follow the instructions to write a reply to a letter of enquiry, send it in, and the computer will comment on your writing.
- Complaint letters:
Adjustment letters:
Legal Documents - CILL materials
Links to other useful sites for learning English
Listening
Listening to Lectures - list of useful CILL materials
Lists of useful materials in CILL - Index
M
Make-a-word pronunciation game
Manuals - CILL materials
Map of the CILL Internet Site
Materials Lists of CILL Materials
Meetings
Memos
Mind-maps
Modals and tentativity
Morrall, Andy - CILL Senior Lecturer
Mortgage Phrases - matching exercise
Mortgage vocabulary - definitions and a gap fill exercise
Movies - how to learn English using movies
N
Names - Informal English names; e.g. Bill=William
Names - List of other names
Needs Analysis - finding out what English you need to learn
Note-taking - list of useful CILL materials
Note-taking from Written Texts - CILL materials
Nouns - countable, uncountable and special cases
Numbers - an explanation, a program to write and speak a number, and an exercise
O
On-line Dictionaries
Opening Hours
Oral Presentations - CILL Materials
Organisation Tool - type your ideas into the boxes in this program, then re-order them with the 'Up' and 'Down' buttons. You can then print out the re-ordered ideas. Saves you time because this is easier than doing it on paper.
Orientation Video
Orientation Video Quiz
Overview of Our Centre
P
Panel Discussion - example phrases and an ordering activity for a panel discussion in a job interview.
Pathways - lists of useful materials in CILL
Paraphrase, Summary or Quotation?
Paraphrase - how to write and reference a paraphrase
Passive Voice
Pen-pals/Pen-friends - e-mail pen-pals / pen-friends on the Internet
Phone Number of CILL: (0852) 2766 7526
Phrase comparison - compare example sentences for two phrases
Polytechnic International Film Society (PIFS)
Planning
Planning Form
Positive Tone in Adjustment Letters
Precise Words
Prefix Meanings - a matching exercise
Prefixes Crossword
Problem areas: prepositions
The Use of Prepositions in Job Applications
Prepositional phrases
Presentations
Problem words - exercise on the differences between some commonly confused words. Includes links to pronunciation, definitions and examples.
Project Proposals - CILL materials
Promotional Material - CILL materials
Pronunciation
Pronunciation - Intonation and Stress - list of CILL materials
Pronunciation - Individual Sounds - list of CILL materials
Pronunciation Program - 'Sounds'
Pronunciation - IPA Chart of the sounds of British English
Proofreading - the Error Detector finds some common problems in academic essay writing and gives you tips how to solve them.
Q
Questionnaire design errors
Quotation, Summary or Paraphrase?
Quotation - how to write and reference a quotation.
Quiz - CILL Orientation Video Quiz
R
Reading
Reading Skills - CILL materials
Report Recommendations - an explanation, an example and an exercise.
Referencing Resources on the Internet
- Referencing Pages - an overview of using sources and referencing
- Reference Machine - a program to help you write references. You fill in the boxes with the author's name etc. and the computer formats the reference for you. You can use one of the following styles:
- APA style: for an in-text citation, a book, an article in a journal, a chapter in an edited volume, a newspaper or magazine article, or an Internet reference.
- Harvard style: for an in-text citation, a book, an article in a journal, a chapter in an edited volume, a newspaper or magazine article, or an Internet reference.
- Vancouver style: for a book, an article in a journal, a chapter in an edited volume, a newspaper or magazine article, or an Internet reference.
- IEEE style: for a book, a part or chapter in a book, an article in a journal, an article in an e-journal
- Referencing Exercises: Spot the errors and correct them in in-text references and in bibliographical references.
- Choosing whether to use a quotation, summary or paraphrase.
- Secondary citation
- Example academic essay with the quotations, summaries and paraphrases highlighted. It also contains in-text citations and references. The topic is how to design navigation for Internet pages.
- List of referencing-related books in CILL.
Reference Letter Writer - fill in the boxes and the computer will give you a correctly-formatted reference letter
Relative clauses
Reply to a Letter of Complaint (Letter of Adjustment) correction exercise.
Reply to an enquiry letter - describes the content and language of letters of enquiry, with example letters. Includes an exercise.
Report Writing
Content and Organisation
Introductions
- Report Writing: Introductions - a page to help you understand the content and grammar of report introductions. It contains explanations, an example and an exercise.
- Report Introductions - a text-reconstruction exercise to help you remember the language of the introduction to a report.
Method / Methodology / Procedure
Findings and Discussion
Conclusion
Recommendations
Practice Materials
Resume Writer - a program to help you with the content and format of resumes - fill in the boxes, press a button, and the program will make a resume for you
Rosana Ho - CILL Language Instructor
S
Sales Letters - an explanation and an exercise
Satisfaction - choosing between 'satisfy', 'satisfied', 'satisfying' and 'satisfactory', etc.
Silver Certificate
Speaking Assistance Programme (SAP)
Scanner - a program that highlights the words in a text that are easy for a reader to find. Use it to improve the organisation and reader-friendliness of your writing.
Searching the Internet
Seminar Skills - CILL materials
Sentence Types - dependent and independent clauses
Sentence structure of simple sentences
Socialising: Meeting a new colleague - example phrases, video and an exercise
Social English Conversation - list of useful CILL materials
Social English: Introductions and Greetings (Early-intermediate and Intermediate) - list of useful CILL materials
Sounds - Pronunciation Program
The Sounds of British English in the IPA (International Phonemic Alphabet) chart
Sounding out i, e and ?sounds
Speaking
Spoken Business Communication - CILL materials
Spoken Opinions (Early-intermediate and Intermediate) - list of useful CILL materials
Spoken Opinions (Intermediate and Upper-intermediate) - list of useful CILL materials
Staff who work in CILL
Staff or Staffs? Using the right part of speech for 'staff'.
Strategies for Learning
Studying
Styles of Learning
Subject Headings - how to write correct subject headings
Subject-verb agreement - an explanation and an exercise.
Suffixes
Suffixes for Meaning and Word Class
Suffixes for New Words
Summary, Quotation or Paraphrase
Summary - how to write and reference a summary.
Summarising (Intermediate and Upper-intermediate) - list of useful CILL materials
Sunny Chu - CILL Language Instructor
Synthesis - gives information and examples of how to describe different opinions in the same text, how to analyse them, and how to give your own opinion.
Synonyms for nouns
Synonyms for verbs
T
Telephone Number of CILL: (852) 2766 7526
Templates for Documents - Modify these Microsoft Office documents to do different types of writing such as reports, certificates and letters of adjustment.
Testing Yourself
Theoretical Background to this Site
That-clauses
Thinking Tools
- Organisation Tool - helps you to re-organise lists; e.g. lists of topics to put in essays.
- Idea Web - helps you to organise ideas for essays and presentations etc.
- Pros and Cons Calculator - helps you decide which side of an argument is stronger
Times of Opening
Tone in Adjustment Letters
The transition from school to university - a reading and categorisation activity.
Transitivity - transitive and intransitive verbs
Trends - this exercise introduces the vocabulary and grammar needed to describe trends.
Trends Headings - this exercise shows how to use headings when describing trends. Includes an exercise.
Trends in line graphs
U
Useful links to other useful sites for learning English
V
Verbs, formal
Verbs of Academic Communication - Crossword - categorise, classify, compose, comprise, consist, constitute, cover, embrace, encompass, incorporate, form, include, involve, make up.
Verbs of Knowledge and Opinion - this exercise is to help you to avoid common confusions between the uses of the verbs know, learn, understand, think and believe.
Video Orientation
Virtual Language Centre's home page: learn English here.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary (Intermediate) - list of useful CILL materials
Vocabulary: Common Confusions - a developmental quiz with feedback.
Academic Vocabulary - lists of academic words. You can click the links for definitions, example sentences and pronunciations.
General Service List of vocabulary
General Service List vocabulary hangman
Vocabulary to express similarity and difference - fill in the blanks
Vocabulary to express similarity and difference - common mistakes
Vowel game - for groups to practise IPA vowel sounds; e.g. /I/, /i:/, /e/ and /?
W
What is Independent Learning?
David Wong - CILL Instructor
Words - exercise on the differences between some commonly confused words. Includes links to pronunciation, definitions and examples.
Words: Academic Vocabulary - lists of academic words. You can click the links for definitions, example sentences and pronunciations.
Word Roots - gap fill
Word Roots - matching
Worksheets
Written Business Communication - CILL materials
Writing
Writing and Presenting Final Year Projects - CILL materials
Writing Complaints - list of useful CILL materials
Writing for Academic Purposes - CILL materials
Writing Notices - CILL materials
Workshop for Staff on authoring pages for the Internet (January 1999)
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