Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

Why is this important?
Well, like people who move house and their addresses change, so files sometimes move and old web addresses no longer work.
As an example, try clicking on this link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish.html

You should see a page which says Page not found.
This is a shame as this used to work and is a good website.

However, all is not lost. What has actually happened is that the page has just moved location on the remote computer where it is stored and has a new address.

When this happens the pages will often be automatically redirected and you will never notice you are going to a new location. In this example, however, we are not redirected.

What we can do though is try and 'strip back' this web address. Remember that the forward slashes are separate parts. If we remove the last part, in this example learningenglish.html we should see a different page. Try it now.
If you've done this correctly you should see http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ in your address bar and you should see the BBC World Service website.
Now try looking for the learningenglish link now (hint: use Control (Ctrl) F and search for "learning" to find the link).
Click on that and you should be taken to the page we originally wanted: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/.
We can now see the mistake in the address we tried originally - the real address doesn't actually have a .html at the end. However, because we were able to 'strip back' the address we still found what we were looking for.