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Would you like to visit some interesting "virtual" places and use your English, too? Learning Tip: Try the Louvre Museum in France. See Museums around the World for links to more museums worldwide. Additional virtual tour sites are listed below, in alphabetical order by name. Simulations and quests can also be a great way to explore new places and experience things you've never tried before.

Virtual Tours

NASA Space Shuttle Virtual Tour takes you through the Space Shuttle Columbia as it is being prepared for launch in the Orbiter Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center. Tour in the cockpit, go through the airlock and see the inside of the Neurolab payload.

National Museum of Natural History from Smithsonian. Also from Smithsonian:
Ocean Planet Online.

UBUYACAR You are interested in purchasing a new vehicle. What should your annual salary be to afford the car you want?

U.S. Whitehouse history and tours in Washington, D.C. and White House, the First Family's Home.

Virtual Tours of Museums, Exhibits and Points of Special Interest with over 300 additional links of places to visit and things to do.

• Simulations

• Monster's Self-Assessment Center with virtual interviews, work style quizzes, career discovery, and more.

  The Stock Market Game gives students the chance to invest a virtual $100,000 in a real-time stock market portfolio.
  

• Web Quests

Web Quest, HIV-AIDS
http://www.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/CALL9.htmlDeveloped for EFL / ESL learners.

Web Quest, Thanksgiving in the U.S.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/RW5Thanksgiving.htmlDeveloped for EFL / ESL learners.

Web Quests
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webquests/Dozens of web quests on everything from Art to World War II, and from Cinderella to Volcanoes.

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