Other Stuff
This section is especially for students of all ages to improve language skills and for teachers to assign to students or use as templates for developing their own exercises. Parents may also find the materials here useful. Click the button for a short teacher’s guide explaining how these tools and materials can be used.
Reading and Listening
Click the buttons below to see the lessons. To return to this page, close the tab of the lesson page. The short and extended reading texts, all of which use simplified language, are accompanied by audio versions of the texts to assist readers. This makes it possible to use them for listening as well as reading practice.
Other Skills
Click the buttons below to see these interactive lessons and exercises on a variety of topics. To return to this page, just close the tab of the lesson page.
Culture
Video Gallery
It’s hard to find anything on Youtube as entertaining as cat videos, but I hope you find this collection of videos relating to language, teaching and learning thought-provoking and enjoyable. Please view videos on full screen for clarity.
American Tongues – about dialects and more
Debra Tannen on Language and Gender
Chomsky on the concept of language
Sophie Scott – Men, women and language
Stephen Krashen on language acquisition
John McWhorter Talking Back, Talking Black
Code Switching
Steven Pinker on Language
ESL-related Articles
These essays focusing on learning and teaching were originally published in Global Studies Magazine.
Photo Credits:
Photo by 2Photo Pots on Unsplash (Reading and Listening)
Image by PSD Gang from Pixabay (Other Skills)
Photo by Jin Sol Feder (Video Gallery)
Photo by Juan Rumimpunu on Unsplash (ESL-related Articles)
Photo by 2Photo Pots on Unsplash (Reading and Listening)
Image by PSD Gang from Pixabay (Other Skills)
Photo by Jin Sol Feder (Video Gallery)
Photo by Juan Rumimpunu on Unsplash (ESL-related Articles)