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Google Docs Lesson

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Lesson to introduce Drive and Google Docs to advanced level adult ESL students. Students create their own bio using a template. They will center and left justify, explore different fonts, sizes and colors, use bold and italicize, and insert an image to produce a bio with one-paragraph text.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Sue Ann Rawlins

Remix

New urbanism

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This lesson is for advanced learners who study Built Environment ( Urbanism)  and need to learn English for specific Purposes (ESP). The lesson focuses on 3 skills ( reading/speaking/writing) and also makes the learners familiarise to the vocabulary dedicated to New Urbanism register.The pre-reading tasks make the learners get ready to the text through brainstorming and definition tasks. They are supposed to work in groups and pairs and give feedback to the whole class in an interactive way.The reading tasks allow the learners to read the text and get the necessary information to answer the questions either in pairs or groups. The post reading task is a writing task that makes the learners describe the phenomenon of the sprawl in their country/city and get involved in suggesting some solutions. ( pair work)

Material Type: Lesson

Author: LOBNA BEN NASR

ESL College Transition: Listening & Speaking

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We created this site to share the lesson plans and other materials that we use in this Listening/Speaking Level F class with other ESL teachers -- click around and use what works for you! This is a 10-week course at LCC, but you can pick and choose from the 8 chapters for a shorter or longer term. The chapters can be covered in any order. Lane Community College's Intensive English Language Program offers 6 levels (A=beginner, F=college transition). This site was designed for Listening/Speaking Level F, which is a class that teaches listening and note-taking strategies focused especially on lecture listening, as well as presentation, pronunciation, conversation, and academic discussion skills. LCC ESL Students in Level F take three separate intensive classes (Writing, Listening/Speaking, and Reading for a total of 20 in-class contact hours per week). Prior to the re-imagining of this class and the creation of this site, each Level F class had a different textbook with different thematic progressions. Students experienced cognitive overload with the demand to learn the vocabulary, concepts, and skills of the three separate classes. In addition, students in our department are often from marginalized backgrounds and can find it financially difficult to purchase the three separate textbooks. In order to lessen students' financial and cognitive burdens and create more connections between the three classes, we used the topics from the Reading textbook (Academic Encounters Level 4: Reading and Writing, 2nd edition, Cambridge 2014) to find freely-available authentic videos or recorded audio for the Listening/Speaking class. Over the past year, students have expressed appreciation for the reduced cost of taking the course. In addition, they have shown increased interest and engagement in the course due to the authentic, real-life materials and complementary nature of the three Level F classes.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Annick Todd, Colleen Shields, Dave Schenderlein, Jen Sacklin, Maggie Mitteis

ESL/Academic English II

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Reading and writing are the primary focus. Reading texts are links to authentic readings. Topics covered include MLA/APA, rhetorical strategies, audience and purpose, and forming arguments. Level: 1 below TLEE, TLEE; Skills: writing, reading, vocabulary, all

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Crystal Louden

01 - Classroom

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These lesson plans and activities were developed by Janine Darragh, Gina Petrie, and Stan Pichinevskiy and were previously located on the Reaching for English app. Created for K-12 English teachers in Nicaragua, the materials may be used and adapted for any country's specific context and needs. 

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Marco Seiferle-Valencia, Janine Darragh

Remix

10 - Clothes: Same Closet? Activity

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These lesson plans and activities were repurposed by Raquel Fernández Romero  and were previously drafted by Janine Darragh, Gina Petrie, and Stan Pichinevskiy who created them for K-12 English teachers in Nicaragua. Now the activity will be carried out in a 4th grade of Primary Education but the materials may be used and adapted for any country's specific context and needs. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Raquel Fernández Romero