Tools

CILL has the following tools to help you learn English:

• Alphabetiser - puts words into alphabetical order

• ASCII converter - changes text into ascii code to disguise answers

• 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.

• Idea Web - helps you to organise ideas for essays and presentations etc.

• Job Advert Writer - a program that writes job adverts for you - fill in the boxes and choose from the options to write a job advertisement

• Job Application Letter Writer - fill in the boxes and this program will write a job application letter for you, with correct content and good grammar.

• Organisation Tool - helps you to re-organise lists; e.g. lists of topics to put in essays.

• Pros and Cons Calculator - helps you decide which side of an argument is stronger

• Presentation Planner - helps you to write presentations by asking you for all the necessary sections of a presentation. It then produces printable notecards and a script. It also reads your presentation to you to help with your pronunciation.

• Resume Writer - fill in the boxes and this program will produce a resume for you.

• 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.

• Differences - a program to show you the differences between two texts that you paste into it.