ESL: English as a Second Language

In this activity, students listen to and read along with a short story about a bus driver written in the simple present tense and complete a variety of practice activities including a crossword puzzle, cloze task, sentence scramble, and dictation.

This activity will show students how to use Tagxedo to create a word cloud about their current jobs or their career goals, or words that describe their strengths (also known as soft skills or transferable skills) for their field of employment. The word clouds created on Tagxedo have many customization options, including constraining the word clouds to selected shapes or in the forms of silhouettes of uploaded images.

Use this Web site to teach students expressions that will help them learn to speak better and gain fluency in English. There are a number of different types of lessons, which follow a "Click, Listen, and Repeat" functionality. In most of the lessons, users read the sentence, select the sentence to listen to the sentence, and then practice speaking by repeating after the audio file provided by a native English speaker. This method includes reading, speaking, and listening all at the same time. The Interview section would be valuable for students to practice questions and answers for many types of interviews, from immigration and citizenship-related to employment interviews, so this particular activity focuses there, but feel free to use the many others at this site in a similar fashion.

This 123 page printable book is designed to support teachers and tutors who are working with low-intermediate English language learner (ELL) parents in family literacy programs. The strategy provides detailed instructional activities to help ELL parents build and practice English conversational skills. The resources are NOT online. It is designed to be printed out and used as a hard copy.

Developed by National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) with funding from the United Parcel Service (UPS).