Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: People (La Gente)
Students listen to a conversation that uses simple words to describe two different people. They then complete an exercise to test their comprehension. Designed for Spanish-speaking English language learners, this exercise reinforces...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 2: Unit 7: Las Compras
In this seventh unit of an intermediate Spanish course, students learn about shopping and develop their listening, speaking, and writing vocabulary around this topic. Includes modeling of oral Spanish pronunciation and conversation,...
Other
Hong Kong Education City: English Campus
English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...
Other
Bonjour De France: Learn French Online
This is a resource with interactive skill building exercises that illustrate many facets of French grammar and vocabulary. Includes audio segments for listening comprehension, complete with text and hypertext linked vocabulary to aid...
University of Texas at Austin
Spanish Proficiency Exercises: Beginning Task 11
Students will learn how to describe what and where they study with this learning module. Video clips of native Spanish speakers provide context for each question and statement about each of their families.
Mind Tools
Introducation to Communication Skills
This article reveals the purpose of communication: to get your message across to others. This may seem elementary, but the process that involves both the sender of the message and the receiver is complex and can lead to confusion and...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Gallery Walk (Carousel)
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Rehearsing the Speech
Students will learn ways and reasons to rehearse for a speech.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Preparing Sensory Enhancements
This site provides four links to information about the effective use of sensory enhancements such as audio visual to your speeches. These include the do's of using sensory enhancements, the don'ts of using sensory enhancements, design...
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon: Advice on Research and Writing
This site is dedicated to computer scientists or students who are studying computer science to guide their research, writing, and presentation skills.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Effective Interview Questions
Explore effective interview questions. By choosing questions that are open-ended and important to them, students can learn great interview skills that can be helpful in future college and job interviews.
Integrated Publishing
Integrated Publishing: The Communication Process
With text and diagrams, this article surveys the communication process, which consists of a message being sent and received, either verbally or nonverbally.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Giving a Presentation
This Skillswise site focuses on giving a presentation. Included are a video about why learning to give a presentation is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Elements of Speech Communication
This lesson plan discusses the elements of speech communication including the speaker, message, types of channels, audience, and feedback.
McMaster University
Mc Master University: Making Class Presentations [Pdf]
Comprehensive guide with 17 areas of suggestions and tips for delivering a successful class presentation. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4, SL.11-12.4 Presentation
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Future Possible Selves
In this lesson, students create future-self plans. When presented with the idea of future possible selves, students have the opportunity to identify who they want to be.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Common Application for Undergraduate College Admission
SCU uses StoryCorps' tested interviewing techniques-combined with outstanding radio broadcasts and animated shorts-to support high school students in the development of identity and in drawing connections between their unique strengths...
Other
Story Arts Online: Storytelling Lesson Plans & Activities
"This collection of story-related activities, projects and games-developed by storyteller/author Heather Forest for her storytelling workshops with students, teachers, and librarians-can be used by educators in a school setting to...