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ESL: English as a Second Language

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281. Listen and Write: Teaching Coffee Farmers about the Birds and the Bees

Activity Description

Students can be assigned to use this free Web site for practicing listening skills with dictation exercises about current events. There are several levels, although the site is most suited to intermediate through advanced ESL learners. Students can additionally improve their typing by increasing their words per minute.

Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
282. Lit2Go: Aesop's Fables

Activity Description

Use this site with intermediate and advanced students for reading practice and building reading fluency with audio support. There are online fables, stories, entire books (many classics), proverbs, and poems in MP3 format, which you can download or listen to online. View the text by projecting the Web page and read along or download, print, and photocopy PDF files of the texts. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Many of the texts have an accompanying student activity that can be downloaded, printed, and photocopied for use with your class.

Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
283. Literacy Center Education Network

Activity Description

Use this site with pre-literacy and novice computer-using students to learn the upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet, alphabetization, shapes, how to hold a pencil and form shapes and letters, and spelling of simple words letter-by-letter, all while practicing keyboarding/typing and mouse skills. The site has audio for listening and repetition.

Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Beginning Literacy, Beginning Low
284. LoudLit: Audio Readings

Activity Description

LoudLit offers audible novels, poetry, children's books, historical documents and short stories, complete with the text, making this site useful for ABE, ASE, Family Literacy, Parent Ed, ESL as well as adults with visual disabilities.

Advanced ESL students can follow along with the text as the words are read.

Some items are available for download as well as online listening, making the audio portion portable. Most are in MP3 format so putting the audio on an MP3 player is also possible for mobile learning.

Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Advanced
285. LyricsGaps: Listening Cloze Exercises with Popular Music Videos

Activity Description

Use this site with students for practice of listening skills and vocabulary building through music videos by popular artists with accompanying listening cloze activities. For this activity we have chosen the song "Upside Down at the beginning level, but if your students are at another level, feel free to choose another level or another song that fits more closely with your vocabulary objectives or topic of study.

Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
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OTAN activities are funded by contract CN240137 from the Adult Education Office, in the Career & College Transition Division, California Department of Education, with funds provided through Federal P.L., 105-220, Section 223. However, OTAN content does not necessarily reflect the position of that department or the U.S. Department of Education.