| Onelook - search 900+ dictionaries, gives you a quick dictionary definition with Google-like speed and simplicity, also, type in a word like "hedge" and you get a list of business dictionaries which explain financial hedging in great detail if you need it 
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| Conversions of all kinds - Whether you are cooking, building or translating, this one-page, no-ads conversion ulility will convert ounzes, liters, inches, milimeters, fahrenheit, celcius, miles, kilometers and more.
Convert Euros to Other Currencies - converts euros into any currency, easy
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| Simple Search of BNC-World - allows regular expressions so "{s[iau]ng}" finds "sing", "sang", and "sung" and you can tell it to find "house" used only has a verb with "house=VVB"
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| LEO - the standard office German/English lookup link, lots of helpful
collocation phrases, plus on the more difficult phrases there are often
discussions that people post on ways they have translated it
woerterbuch.info - Type in 'rief' and you immeidately get 'called', 'shouted', 'cried', plus
phrases such as 'rief kuckuck', 'rief wach', 'rief zu' and common usage
such as 'es rief hervor', as well as a conjugation of sorts, i.e. 'ich/er/sie
rief'. Type in 'swam' to get the same effect the other way round. Wörterbuch
Info is also a thesaurus: type in 'tired' and you get 17 synonyms, none of
which are misplaced or inaccurate. Each synonym is hyperlinked to its own entry
in the dictionary. Try the same for 'genervt' or 'überraschend'.
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| Economist Style Guide - The Economist pursues a strict policy of adherence among its journalists and is well-known for copy-editing accuracy. Among publishers in the English-speaking world it is universally acknowledged as a paradigm.
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| breakingnewsenglish.com - choose from the last two weeks lesson plans, one published each day, either "easy" or "hard" for different levels, and complete with the following sections: article, warmups, before reading/listening, while reading/listening, listening, after reading/listening, discussion, speaking, homework, answers; plus you can download the .mp3 file and play it in class (e.g. on a computer or portable mp3 player)
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| Wikipedia - print out articles on almost anything, e.g. I typed in "Shanghai" and copied the History section out and reformatted it onto one sheet for a class doing business there
Google - I often use Google to find American companies who do the same as German companies where I teach, e.g. type in "elevator manufacturers", great for specific vocabulary
howstuffworks.com - great for engineering students and worth a look for almost any group of fairly fluent business students, e.g. check out How Cell Phones Work
Listen to Different Accents in English - Allows you to click on different areas of the map at England and hear how people talk there, I have Real Audio installed and it worked fine the first time.
International Dialects of English Archive - Allows you to play sound files of accents from around the world.
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