This website is a collection of resources concerning learning Arabic as a second language as well as information about Arab culture, Islam, and various Arab countries. There are links to videos from YouTube on the site relating to Arabic study, including songs and lessons, as well as a host of other more unrelated things, such as tornadoes. Links to opportunities to study Arabic, teacher resources, and Arabic newspapers are available.

This will be accessible to everyone, including my classmates, colleagues, neighbors, the Dept. of State, and FHI 360. 

This speaking lesson will help you gauge your students’ vocabulary skills when discussing family. You should encourage students to use the present simple tense to talk about family structure and relationships. You can use this lesson plan to review how to talk about age too.You can also access 150+ more free lessons like this with a free Off2Class account!

Learn more about your students with this fun speaking lesson! This ESL lesson plan teaches students to use the present simple to talk about a family house. With lots of picture prompts and new vocabulary, this interactive lesson will help increase your student's confidence.You can also access 150+ more free lessons like this with a free Off2Class account!

This is a reading lesson about Easter Island, also known as Rui Napa, one of the most isolated islands in the world. It is designed for intermediate students who can comfortably read texts and answer basic questions about them.If you enjoyed this ESL lesson plan download, there are 150+ more free lessons available with a free Off2Class account!

ESL: American English Pronunciation I introduces English language learners to the basic sounds of American English. Students will learn how to recognize, produce, and differentiate between the various sounds of American English. They will also strengthen oral communication and reading skills. Special attention will be directed towards the correction of vocal techniques when pronouncing difficult sounds in letters, words, and sentences.

Students whose first language is not English reflect on nature through readings, a visit to a green area, and bookmaking using the writing process and peer feedback.

This newcomers ELD lesson (WIDA: Pre-Entering) introduces students to common objects in a classroom, the language used by teachers, and the actions in the classroom environment. To access 150+ free ESL lesson plans like this, sign up for a free Off2Class account: https://app.off2class.com/auth/register!

When to teach this lesson?So you are teaching wishes in the present to ESL students and you want to do it as effectively as possible. Well, you are in the right place. This lesson plan is designed for intermediate students comfortable with forming sentences and completing activities. It introduces verb forms used after to wish for wishes about the present. Also, it introduces ways for students to concept check real versus unreal outcomes. Finally, this lesson provides ample opportunities for students to practice making wishes about the present.If you want additional lesson plans and support, including teachers’ notes, be sure to register for a free Off2Class account.

Planning Your Destination at a GlanceIn this lesson, students will be required to do a variety of tasks that revolve around vacation planning. The lesson begins with an activity that elicits vacation-related vocabulary. Then students will move on to a reading exercise that will test their reading comprehension. Following this, students will participate in a role-play exercise. To conclude the lesson, students will have the chance to share their ideas and opinions about their ideal holiday destinations. With that being said, this lesson is a fun way to get to know your students!If you want additional lesson plans and support, including teachers’ notes, be sure to register for a free Off2Class account.

A short introduction to the concept and features of online photo sharing web sites.

In this innovative project, Southwestern College students teamed up with one another and with faculty to create and publish openly-licensed content highlighting their understanding of academic material and providing models of syllabi, class assignment directions and class assignments for future students.

This work by Surian Figueroa, Paola De la Riva, Eduardo Lozano, Maximiliam Martinez-Agueros, Cindy Montano and Elisa Mora-Alaniz was part of an Open Education Practices Project sponsored by the Southwestern College Foundation and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This projected was funded by the Southwestern College Foundation.

This board game combines practicing conversational English for adult ESL students with using the various purposes for oral communication (informing, entertaining, persuading, and honoring/inspiring). It will also develop foundational reading comprehension skills through game participation and will develop professional communication and interpersonal skills by allowing discussion of different social subjects that students could encounter in daily life, academic, and career situations.

A lesson for orienting new students to the distance learning platform, USA Learns. The teacher goes over the class expectations and goal setting sheet, as well as helps students make an email and USA Learns account, and save this info.

Each unit begins with a chapter of fiction about a teacher and students in one ESL class. Reading comprehension and reading skills exercises follow. Prefix and suffix vocabulary-focus exercises are included. Academic Word List vocabulary exercises help students build a strong foundation in both receptive and productive knowledge. The following chapters in each unit expand on unit themes through non-fiction articles focusing on academic preparation, international experiences, and cultural adjustment. Vocabulary is repeated and comprehension and reading skills are further practiced.

Make connections across genres and across cultures to engage students in the study of literary voice and themes. Comprehension skills and vocabulary also come into play, especially for English language learners, as students read a novel and related poems, then write and perform original poems related to the novel.

This lesson focuses on a family depicted in a work of art. Students practice using vocabulary related to people and families. Activities emphasize oral and written descriptions of the people portrayed in the work of art, using possessive adjectives. Students are challenged to infer what the relationships are between figures depicted and what individuals are doing, based on such clues as their pose.

This lesson focuses on people doing leisure activities as depicted in a work of art. Students practice using vocabulary related to people and leisure. Activities emphasize oral and written descriptions of the people portrayed in the work of art, using action verbs. Students are challenged to infer what leisure activities individuals are doing based on such clues as their pose.

This lesson focuses on people at work depicted in a work of art. Students practice using vocabulary related to people and work. Activities emphasize oral and written descriptions of the people portrayed in the work of art, using job-related vocabulary and adjectives to describe feelings. Students are challenged to infer what job individuals are doing, based on such clues as their pose.

This is an intermediate integrated-skills module for English language learners. The module has three chapters on the theme "People and Places," which is equivalent to approximately 4 weeks of material for a 9 unit community college course. The module has materials to learn and practice all of the necessary language skills at the intermediate level. Academic language skills include reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary, grammar, and rhetorical analysis.