Here's a selection of links and other bits and pieces related to IA902 Session 9.
Flax (Flexible Language Acquisition) is a very interesting website from New Zealand which aims to "automate the production and delivery of practice exercises for overseas students who are learning English". Meanwhile, Tom Cobb's Vocabulary Profiler is a potentially useful tool which can be found on his Compleat Lexcial Tutor website.
In terms of texts we looked at in class, you might be interested in reading more about Derek Bentley or in watching the film "Let Him Have It", which is based on his case. The events of the Battle of Balaclava and Lord Raglan's miscommunication are also well documented online. For those with more literary tastes, there's "This Be The Verse" by Philip Larkin, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, or a huge number online limericks.
If you're tired of reading for now, you could always just watch any of the videos below, one of which involves the mysterious case of the Pineapple Princess:
