Beginning High

Here are some sites to practice filling out job applications  One is a county job site in California and the other is  a

Stratford Library

Marin County

Here are some links to help you write a cover letter:

How to Write a Cover Letter (Trinity College)

OWL on cover letters:

• Cover letter presentation
• Cover leter workshop
• Cover Letter Tips #1
• Cover Letter Tips #2
• Cover Letter Tips #3

Hwer are some job sies to explore:

• Los Rios Career Inventory
  
• SETA One Stop Job Centers
• Monster Jobs
• Sacramento Bee jobs page
• Craigslist
• Jobstar

Here are candidate sites and sites that provide information about the election:

•  John McCain
• Barack Obama
• Annenberg Foundation
• Annenberg Political Fact Check
• Center for Responsive Politics
• Democracy Network
• League of Women Voters

Most of us use Google all of the time. There are other search engines. Here are some that may be worth a try:

• SortFix
• AskVox
• KartooVisu
• Sputtr
• SearchCrystal
• Kosmix
• Twerq

www.manythings.org is a fun study site for learners of English as a Second Language: Word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and much more

The California Distance Learning Project has stories with activities, sound, and some video on critical areas of adult life, including work.

A4ESL.ORG is a website developed by ESL/EFL teachers and has lots of quizzes, puzzles, and activities. Here's a link to their easy grammar quizzes.

The University of Iowa's Sounds of English lets you pick sounds that you want to hear and see diagrams of how they are pronounced.

Minimal Pairs Practice gives you the opportunity to choose between two similar sounding words.