ABE: Adult Basic Education

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Use the essays from the NPR Radio program to create speaking/conversation activities, vocabulary learning exercises, listening (main ideas, cloze, details, etc.) activities, and follow up with extension activities in which students speak or write about themselves.

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In this lesson, students discuss heroes, listen to and summarize a podcast episode from NPR's My Unsung Hero for sharing with classmates, write their own personal narrative, and record their scripts, sharing their personal stories with classmates. Students build vocabulary, listening comprehension, writing skills, and oral fluency (prosody) and accuracy with feedback from the teacher.

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In this activity, students will use online classified ads to investigate job openings and find housing where they live for someone they know who is hypothetically relocating to their city. Students create a PowerPoint slideshow about the job and salary, the housing and cost, and create a monthly budget.