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Curated Video
Using Voice and Body Language
Using Voice and Body Language explores effective communication skills by reviewing ways to use one’s voice and body language to communicate effectively when giving a speech.
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Powering through Prose - Figurative Language (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)
Our third lesson will zoom into the finer elements of prose fiction. We’ll delve into figurative language, imagery, rhythm, syntax and tone. We’ll review some basic language features before building on your understanding. To help us,...
Curated Video
ABC Phonics and Vocabulary Posters For Kids With Initial Letter Pronunciations
Grab any toddler's attention as they actively engage in the teaching and learning process, as they learn to identify the letters of the alphabet. This video can be used for letter recognition, learning letter sounds, initial letter sound...
Curated Video
ABC Phonics and Vocabulary Posters For Kids With Initial Letter Pronunciations
Grab any toddler's attention as they actively engage in the teaching and learning process, as they learn to identify the letters of the alphabet. This video can be used for letter recognition, learning letter sounds, initial letter sound...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Powering Through Prose - Common Narrative Techniques (Stage 5, Years/Grades 9-10)
Our second lesson will zoom into the finer elements of prose fiction. We’ll explore narrative style, techniques, figurative language, imagery, syntax and tone. We’ll revisit some basic language features before building on your...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Perfecting Poetry - Sensory Imagery and Sound Devices (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)
Let’s dive deeper into the world of poetry. In this second lesson, we’ll explore poetry with all five senses. Discover how poets use sound devices, sensory imagery, figurative language and much more! Soon, you’ll have all the tools you...
Let's Tute
Understanding Dyslexia: Signs and Symptoms
This video explains the signs and symptoms of dyslexia, a learning disability that affects a person's oral and written language skills. It covers difficulties with speech, reading, numbers, following instructions, and writing. The video...
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Curated Video
How to Learn the British Accent: Received Pronunciation (Modern RP)
Want to know how to learn a British accent? Start by mastering the hardest sounds in Received Pronunciation, or rather, modern RP. These are the features of the RP accent that my students and I work on, most of the time. I transformed my...
TED-Ed
Aphasia: The Disorder That Makes You Lose Your Words
Do you ever have a moment where you can't get the words in your head to come out precisely? Or do you mix up words that sound similar? For some of us, these are simple errors in communicating, but for others, this is called aphasia....
PBS
Resurrecting Zora Neale Hurston | American Masters: Alice Walker
Zora Neale Hurston, her life, her work as an anthropologist recording the customs and speech of southern Black people, and her novels would have remained largely ignored if not for the efforts of Alice Walker. An American Masters video...
PBS
Documenting Rural Southern Black Culture
"Sweet Speech," the vernacular of southern blacks that Zora Neale Hurston captures in her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is the subject of a resource from the PBS American Masters series. An anthropologist, Hurston drew on her...
Crash Course
History of Media Literacy Part 1: Crash Course Media Literacy #2
Even Plato understood the importance of media! Part of an ongoing series of media literacy videos, the resource takes viewers to where it all began ... ancient Greece. The video covers the emergence of media and the written word, the...
Camelea Publishing
Camelea: Like a Seagull
Hummingbirds and seagulls—how different and alike are the two birds? At her brother's birthday party, Camelea taps into her inner bird as she dances like a zippy hummingbird. But when it is time to sleep, she thinks of the calm seagull...
TED-Ed
How Miscommunication Happens (And How to Avoid It)
The transactional model of communication is used in this short video to explain how miscommunication happens and to offer suggestions for how to improve listening and communication skills.
The School of Life
Philosophy - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Why does communication between people go wrong? According to Ludwig Wittgenstein, it's because the words we use make pictures in our minds but do not create the same picture in the minds of our listeners. Introduce young philosophers to...
PBS
When the Book is Better than the Movie
Sometimes the book is better than the movie; other times, the movie comes out on top. A video discusses the topic of novels and their film adaptations, pointing out specific texts and how the tale translated to the big screen. The...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Common Core Mathematics: Language Support
A video focused on ELL classrooms learning math and building language skills necessary to comprehend the math concepts. Students should be able to, then, orally express their understanding of what they are learning. [4:42]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The History of Oralism: Becoming Helen Keller
In this resource from the AMERICAN MASTERS film Becoming Helen Keller, learn about the history of oralism and its impact on Deaf culture. Using video, discussion questions, and short activities, students examine primary source materials...
British Council
Learn English Kids: Tooth Family
Listen to an animated song about teeth, with advice for keeping them healthy and clean. Read-along lyrics make this resource particularly useful in English language learning settings and with beginning readers, but it also fits 21st...