Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Going SmokeFree Matters: Casinos
Everyone has the right to a smokefree workplace, but those who work in casinos are exposed to so much secondhand smoke that they can suffer the same ailments as heavy smokers themselves. Learn more about the effects of secondhand smoke,...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure Is High in Multiunit Housing
Much has been written recently about the danger of secondhand smoke. Laws have been passed to limit that exposure in offices, transportation centers, and public areas. But what about apartment buildings, condos, public housing, and other...
Teaching Tolerance
One Word Posters
Students explore the universal themes they find in the complete set of One World Posters, including art, history, literature and music.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concrete and Abstract Language
This video lesson focuses on concrete and abstract language by defining them in a comparison form, providing examples of each, and providing practice in the form of listing words and asking students to classify them as concrete or abstract.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language Adds Zest!
This slideshow focuses on how to revise writing using concise language by eliminating unnecessary words and redundancy, avoiding generic phrases, using active voice and familiar terms, and looking for just the right words to convey...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language: Wordiness
This slideshow lesson focuses on using concise language by eliminating wordy construction in writing. It explains why writing needs to be concise and ways to do so by eliminating unnecessary passive tense, wordy constructions, and words...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Formal Language
This slideshow lesson focuses on formal language. It reviews the basics of formal language and the need to know your audience. It explains how to change various types of informal language into formal language and provides examples....
Other
Dictionary of the English Language/image
See a Close-up image of an original page from Johnson's dictionary. It shows the definition and a usage example for the word "puke."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language: Qualifiers and Intensifiers
This slideshow focuses on removing unnecessary qualifiers and intensifiers to make writing more concise. It defines each term, gives examples, shows how removing them does not affect sentence meaning, and provides a partial list of each.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language: Removing the Excess
This slideshow lesson compares writing to meat; lean meat is healthier for you as is lean writing. It lists common phrases to eliminate, explains intensifiers and suggests using them sparingly, provides a wordy paragraph and the trimmed...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language: Unnecessay Modifiers
This slideshow lesson focuses on identifying unnecessary modifiers and removing them from your writing. Rule of thumb: if the adjective does not tell the reader something the noun absolutely cannot, eliminate it. It provides student...
Other
Making Faces: Learn Vocabulary Words About Your Face
Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated story about eyes, noses, and mouths.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Affixes 4
This slideshow lesson focuses on affixes. It defines the term; discusses prefixes including location, examples, and how they affect the root word; discusses suffixes including location, examples, and how they affect the part of speech;...
Other
The Official Peanuts Website: Foreign Language Strips
This section of the official Peanuts Web site contains classic Peanuts comic strips in German, French, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese and other languages. The strips can also be translated into English.
Curated OER
Pedigree of Proto Indo European Languages
Chart showing the languages which developed from Proto-Indo European.
Lingolex
Lingolex: Football in Spanish (Football Vocabulary in Spanish, English and French)
Soccer is a very essential part in the Spanish language. At this site elementary students can learn the words while intermediate and advanced students can build and form sentences and conversations around these words.
TES Global
Tes: Frankenstein Comic
[Free Registration/Login Required] This English Language Learner resource provides visual supports to accompany Mary Shelley's classic book Frankenstein. This resource can also be used to introduce young readers to this classic horror...
British Council
British Council Learn English: Jokes
A new cartoon joke weekly and an archive of previous strips organized by topic (animal, family, doctor). All involve a pun or play on words, and are drawn in a non-busy, ELL/ESL friendly style.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Mla Style
This slideshow discusses MLA including what it stands for: Modern Language Association, the purpose of the association, and why it is important to have guidelines and standards for writing.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Cissoid
This site explains what a cissoid is in mathematics and its literal meaning in the english language. The site then names seven different Cissoids and the two curves and pole which create each of these named Cissoids.
New York Times
New York Times: Hurricane Katrina: The Storm's Impact
Riveting pictures of the hurricane and its aftermath have brief descriptions written below. Good reading practice for the advanced English language learner. The video of early reports provides listening practice.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Lab: Orientation for Esl Writers
Slideshow presentation introduces ESL writers to how a writing lab works.
Starfall
Starfall: Reading Left to Right
A short animation that explains the left-to-right orientation of reading and writing the English language.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: America Del Norte: Mexico
This site has a map of Mexico in Spanish, with informational data also presented in Spanish about the country. Land mass, population, life expectancy, literacy, industry, agriculture, minerals and resources are among the topics...
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