Language Tree
Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Presenting, Part 2
This lesson for beginner English learners focuses on formal and informal presentation skills: Providing information to friends, using eye contact, presenting a familiar topic, informal or formal presentation language based on the setting.
Curated Video
Greenie Grows a Garden
Hi Greenie! ¡Hola Verdecito! Join Greenie in his garden, as he first plants, then tends to, and finally harvests yummy strawberries. Presented in English and Spanish, this sweet bilingual story introduces kids to common gardening words,...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Personal Pronouns and Connecting Words, Part 2
This standards-based ELD lesson for beginner English learners focuses on applying knowledge of familiar language resources for referring in order to make texts more cohesive (e.g., how pronouns refer back to nouns in text); Applying...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 1
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD video covers how to use a variety of verbs in different tenses (e.g, past, present, future, simple progressive) appropriate to the text type and discipline (e.g., simple past and...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Text Structure, Part 2
This lesson for beginner English learners teaches how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially); comprehending texts and writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Using Noun and Noun Phrases, Part 1
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson explains how to expand noun phrases (e.g., adding a sensory adjective to a noun) in order to enrich the meaning of sentences and add details about ideas, people and things.
Language Tree
Foundational Literacy: Letter Sounds, Part 1
This video lesson teaches how to identify and make consonant and vowel letter sounds.
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Text Structure, Part 3
This lesson for beginner English learners teaches how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially); comprehending texts and writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Text Structure, Part 4
This lesson for beginner English learners teaches how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially); comprehending texts and writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts...
Language Tree
Foundational Literacy: Rhyming
This lesson familiarizes English learners with rhyming words (words that have the same middle and end sounds).
Language Tree
Foundational Literacy: Syllables
This lesson helps English learners create syllables by combining chunks of sounds made up of vowels and consonants.
Language Tree
Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Interacting with Written English, Part 1
This video lesson for beginner English learners teaches how to communicate using written words and sentences.
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Text Structure, Part 1
This lesson for beginner English learners teaches how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially); comprehending texts and writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts...
Language Tree
Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Analyzing Language Choices, Part 1
This video for beginner English learners covers choosing language or words to provide more detail and better understanding of the situation when speaking or writing.
Curated Video
The principal of one of the nation's first adult education charter schools says upcoming changes to the GED exam could deter many older people, especially 'English Language Learners,' from pursuing a diploma - and the American dream. (Nov. 6)
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SOUNDBITE (English) Jorge Delgado, Principal of the Carlos Rosario Adult Education School: "Why put more blocks in front of them? Why more obstacles, when they're trying their best."
MANY OF...
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Young Iranians learn English to prepare for a life abroad
1. Wide of capital Tehran with the mountains in the background
2. Wide of the Zabansara Language School where IELTS candidates prepare themselves for the exam
3. Reza Habibi, an IELTS instructor walking toward his desk while greeting...
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Only on AP: Migrant Kids Kept out of School
LIKE MANY UNACCOMPANIED MINORS BEFORE HIM.. 16-YEAR-OLD CANDELARIO JIMON ALONZO MADE THE LONG TREK FROM GUATEMALA.. TO THE U-S FOR A BETTER LIFE.SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Candelario Jimon Alonzo, migrant from Guatemala"I think that I'd like to...
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: Online Library & Listening Lab
An amazing project done by a California high school sophomore. After working as an ELL tutor, she decided to build a website that would provide free audio clips to ELL learners around the world. The resulting site is a library of...
Other
Esl Teacher Talk: Esl Podcasts for Teachers
Find free broadcasts on topics such as classroom management, lesson planning advice, and so on. Each broadcast contains a Game of the Week that you can use in your lessons, with supporting materials.
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Barcelona Young Learners Efl Podcast
Five podcast episodes geared to elementary students learning English -- subscription is free. Each show is an individual episode that you can listen to from the site or download to an iPod or MP3 player. Choose from sports, first...