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ISSUE 3/2003  >  E-Talk Teen-oriented Internet Web Sites By John R. Harrington, EFL Fellow, US Embassy in Moscow TEEN ADVICE ONLINE www.teenadviceonline.org This web site contains a huge amount of material that can be adapted for use in the classroom. It is easy to use, the information it contains is updated weekly, and it addresses a vast number of teenage issues. Like many other teenage web sites, many of the topics it offers are sexually explicit. Its subject matter ranges from such harmless topics as pets and etiquette to such controversial topics as sexual abuse, drugs, and homosexuality. TEEN MAGAZINE www.teenmag.com Based on the popular American magazine Teen, this site contains a wide variety of articles of interest to teens and is updated frequently. Recent articles included "Ten Things Guys Love about Girls!", "Ten All New Poems", "Your Top 5 Hair Concerns Addressed" and "How Can I Make My Zits (i.e., acne spots) Look Less Red?" SEVENTEEN www.seventeen.com Seventeen magazine, a popular American magazine for teenage girls, operates this web site. It contains articles on fashion, beauty, sex and the body, love, "real life," and celebrities. It also offers games, quizzes, and horoscopes. Recent articles included "Kissable Lips," "Tasty Tips on Going Vegetarian," "How Can I Change My Lying Ways?" and two quizzes: "Love, Like or Infatuation?" and "Do You Hate Your Body?". TEEN HEALTH CENTRE www.teenhealthcentre.com/teens/index.htm This web site includes excellent advice to help teenagers stay healthy inside and out. The topics it offers relate to health, teenage relationships, and much more. DR. DREW www.drdrew.com This web site offers advice to young people from 14-24 about health-related topics, relationships, drug and alcohol abuse, violence and many other subjects. The Frequently Answered Questions section of this site is particularly interesting, though many of the questions and answers it contains are too provocative to be discussed in the secondary school classrooms of most countries (e.g., "Do condoms work underwater?", "Do women always bleed the first time?", "Can banana peels make you high?"). YOUTH EXPRESSIONS www.youthexpressions.org This is an Internet community which allows young people to express themselves through poetry and art, to seek advice from professionals and peers, and to discuss different topics that affect relationships through message board and experiences pages. TEEN GROWTH www.teengrowth.com/ This site was created by a team of teenagers, doctors, and teachers who are "committed to improving the lives of adolescents." Common topics include the body, emotions, health, friends, sports, danger, school, family, and sex. HIGH SCHOOL HUB highschoolhub.org This web site offers an extensive array of educational resources for secondary school students. Interactive learning games, puzzles and quizzes are available, as well as study aids and subject guides for English, U. S. history, the sciences, and other disciplines. TEEN INK teenink.com This is the web site for Teen Ink, a monthly print magazine which has been published since 1989 to provide teenagers a forum for their literary efforts. Everything in the magazine is written by teenagers. THE OPEN DIARY www.opendiary.com/ At The Open Diary Internet users keep diary entries which can be read by others. You can browse using the author's name, age, or geographical location. You can also become a diary author yourself and share your innermost thoughts with complete strangers. ROMANCE 101 www.rom101.com/ How do you know if you're really in love? Read the stories and advice from teenagers who have been in love. In addition to quizzes and games, this site has candid, heartfelt and caring information about romance and falling in love. SECRET ADMIRER www.SecretAdmirer.com/ This is an interesting web site for teenagers who have access to the Internet. At this site, teenagers can send an anonymous e-mail message to someone they like, telling them about their feelings. The person will get the message, but the only way s/he can learn the identity of his or her secret admirer is to go to the Secret Admirer site and send a message to that person. DATING PATTERNS ANALYZER www.jimidog.com/dpa/dpaform.html The Dating Patterns Analyzer allows teenagers to rate how important each physical or personality quality is in each of the people they've dated so they can spot the trends in the teens they're attracted to. FOR TEENAGERS: MARRIAGE IS FOREVER www.bygpub.com/books/tg2rw/chap12excerpt.htm This is a chapter from the book The Teenagers Guide to the Real World. It doesn't tell teens what to do, but gives them information so they can make their own decisions. It includes a chart on the advantages and disadvantages of marriage. eCRUSH www.ecrush.com/ Find out if someone you like likes you, without having to risk the possibility of rejection. You can read about success stories, horror dates, and check out the fortune teller's booth. BOLT www.bolt.com/ Bolt is one of the Internet's most popular "hang outs" for secondary school and university students. This web site allows teenagers to express their views about whatever subject they wish, from kissing to current events, from classroom exams to the latest CDs. MIDLINK MAGAZINE www.ncsu.edu/midlink/ This digital magazine is sponsored by North Carolina State University and the University of Central Florida and is written by students for students from 8 to 18. IPL (INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY) TEENSPACE www.ipl.org/div/teen This web site is operated by the University of Michigan, one of the leading universities in the United States. It offers advice on writing compositions and suggests articles relating to the arts and entertainment, books and writing, dating, homework help, issues and conflicts, money matters, and style. COOL TESTS www.cooltests.com This site offers personality tests and other tests. It is similar, in some respects, to eCRUSH DATING VIOLENCE www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/familyviolence/html/datingeng.html What is dating violence? How widespread is the problem? Is jealousy a sign of love? What are some of the warning signs of dating violence. This web site provides some answers.

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