Writing, Reading, Listening and Speaking

Click on these links to open today's learning activities:

http://www.esl-lounge.com/level2.php

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topicsmenu/pre-intermediate.html

Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening

Here are some exercises we will be working on today. Please open a
new document so you are able to complete the exercises:
http://www.esl-lounge.com/level2.php

Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening 115

Speaking about holidays, festivals:
http://iteslj.org/questions/holiday.html

English Festival exercises:
http://www.esolcourses.com/topics/world-festivals.html

English for work:

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/englishforwork/englishforwork.html

Beginner writing:

http://www.stickyball.net/writing.html

http://www.discoverychannel.ca/things/default.htm?clipid=510956

English 115 Reading and Writing

http://www.esl-lounge.com/level2readwrite.php

Speed Reading Exercises

Speed Reading Exercises

#1 These lessons will help improve your reading speed by getting your eye used to recognizing words quickly. It is not necessary to know the meanings of the words to do this lesson.


http://eslus.com/LESSONS/READING/SPDREAD/1/INTRO1.HTM

Speed Reading Exercises

#2 These lessons will help improve your reading speed by getting your eye used to recognizing phrases quickly. It is not necessary to know the meanings of the words you read to do this lesson.


http://eslus.com/LESSONS/READING/SPDREAD/2/INTRO2.HTM

Speed Reading Exercises

#3 These lessons will help improve your reading speed by getting you to read phrases instead of individual words.


http://eslus.com/LESSONS/READING/SPDREAD/3/INTRO3.HTM

Speed Reading Exercises

#4 These lessons will improve your reading speed by helping you recognize sentence structure quickly. It is not necessary to understand the sentence or all of the words to get the right answer.


http://eslus.com/LESSONS/READING/SPDREAD/4/INTRO4.HTM

Speed Reading Exercises

#5 These lessons will improve your reading speed by helping you recognize the core meaning of complex sentences


http://eslus.com/LESSONS/READING/SPDREAD/5/INTRO5.HTM

Reading exercises/ Speed reading exercises

Text adventure game

Read the stories and make decisions. Your decisions can be good or bad. If you make the wrong choice the game ends....have fun!

http://eslus.com/LESSONS/READING/maze/vacation/vacation.htm

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topicsmenu/pre-intermediate.html

Text builder

Click on this link for a text completion and reading exercise:
http://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/preint/g_ef_pre_builder?cc=global&selLanguage=en

Videos-write about the one you liked the best

http://designerlessons.org/2012/01/02/viral-video-predictions-will-going-to-elt-lesson-plan/

Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening

http://designerlessons.org/2011/12/09/unplugged-esl-passing-disagreeable-notes/

http://designerlessons.org/2012/01/03/picture-based-student-centred-natural-english-dogme-tech-free-lesson-plan/

http://designerlessons.org/2012/01/16/esl-lesson-plan-interviewing-housemates/

Hollywood Movies

http://iteslj.org/questions/movieindustry.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywwChePSB94

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0510/051004-hollywood-e.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/james_cameron_before_avatar_a_curious_boy.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYJ4TjF4Sv4

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1202/120219-animation.html

http://www.onestopenglish.com/teenagers/topic-based-materials/culture/news-lessons/culture-news-lessons-hollywood-boys-club/147773.article

http://www.michellehenry.fr/cine.htm

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0806/080611-hollywood.html

http://www.simplyscripts.com/genre/drama-scripts.html

Plastic Surgery

http://www.esldiscussions.com/c/cosmetic_surgery.html

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1111/111106-eye_colour.html

http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_beginning.php?id=605

http://www.newsenglishlessons.com/1102/110212-cosmetic_surgery.html

http://www.michellehenry.fr/cosmetic_surgery.htm

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/eve_ensler.html

http://www.newsenglishlessons.com/1108/110819-plastic_surgery.html

http://www.esl-lab.com/cosmetic/cosmeticsc1.htm

http://iteslj.org/questions/beauty.html

Syria, Rwanda, Somalia and corruption

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1204/120419-asma_al_assad.html

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1104/110416-syria_protests-jc.htm

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1104/110416-syria_protests_cross.html

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1104/110416-syria_protests_flash.html

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1104/110416-syria_protests_fib.html

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1104/110416-syria_protests_match.html

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0609/060924-darfur.html

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1107/110721-somalia_food_crisis.html

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0510/051019-corruption.html

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1011/101101-drugs.html

Happiness

http://iteslj.org/questions/happiness.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/michael_norton_how_to_buy_happiness.html 

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/nancy-etcoff-on-the-surprising-science-of-happiness

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0510/051006-happiness-e.html

http://www.china232.com/100-happiness-how-to-be-happy.php

http://breakingnewsenglish.com/1207/120706-intermittent_explosive_disorder.html

Everyone's favorite subject-Politics

http://iteslj.org/questions/politics.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?ContentType=text/html;quiz=930_elections

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/omar_ahmad_political_change_with_pen_and_paper.html

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1207/120709-jordan.html

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1108/110808-politicians.html

Swine flu

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0904/090428-swine_flu.html

Pandemic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj9SUJdpJS4

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pandemic

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/when-contagion-spreads-crowdsourcing-disease-outbreaks/

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-pandemics-spread

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0910/091025-h1n1.html

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pandemic

Speaking Practice for everyday English

http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/preintermediate/f_everydayenglish/?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

Vocabulary War of the worlds

Vocabulary

Click on any of the vocabulary words below to hear them pronounced and used in a sentence.    apex  Definition: The uppermost point. Context: Wells believed that human beings in the 1890s were at the apex of their rule over the world and would be overthrown by another species.    genre  Definition: A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content. Context: Wells and other writers of the science fiction genre inspired several generations to look toward the stars.    evolution  Definition: A process of change in a certain direction. Also, a theory that the various types of animals and plants have their origin in other preexisting types. Context: The Martians may have been a representation of man's evolution, of what man would become.    microorganisms  Definition: Microscopic living things, such as bacteria. Context: No microorganisms existed in the atmosphere of Mars; therefore, the Martians had not developed immunities to them.    putrefaction  Definition: Decomposition of organic matter. Context: The Martians died as a result of the bacteria to which they were exposed on Earth, and the resultant putrefaction.    socialist  Definition: A person who advocates collective or governmental ownership of property. Context: Wells was a socialist, yet not a socialist; he hated the privileged, yet enjoyed hobnobbing with the rich. He was from the lowest of the middle class and feared slipping down to the working class.

Looking for other life forms

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0903/090308-space.html

What is out there?

http://www.esldiscussions.com/a/aliens.html

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/calculating-the-odds-of-intelligent-alien-life

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0805/080515-ufo.html

Cheating and Plagiarism

Here is another reading exercise:
http://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/32.html

The most difficult language

http://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/5.html

Learning in your sleep

Conversation Questions: Sleep and Dreams

Do you usually remember your dreams? Tell about a recent dream you remember.	What do you know about dream interpretation? What might the following dreams represent: a dream in which you're flying, one where you're paralyzed, one where you're naked? Have you ever had any of these dreams?
Do you think that animals dream? Why or why not?	Have you ever slept outside for an entire night? If so, tell about the experience.
How many hours a night do you usually sleep? Would you like to get more sleep or less?	Do you believe that dreams can help us solve our problems? Do you try to understand the meanings of your dreams?
Do you ever take naps? If so, when?	Have you ever had the same dream more than once?
Are you a light sleeper or can you sleep on airplanes, trains, and buses?	Have you ever had a dream that later came true? Why do you think this might happen?
Do you prefer to go to sleep late or wake up early?	Have you had dreams in other languages? How often do you dream in English? Would you like to?
Have you ever known anyone who walked in their sleep? If so, tell about it.	Describe a nightmare that you remember from childhood.
Have you ever experienced insomnia? What can you do to treat insomnia? What do you think causes it?	If you could have an operation that would allow you to get only two hours of sleep each night, would you have it? Why or why not?

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1206/120627-sleep.html

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/richard-st-john-the-power-of-passion

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1001/100102-lifes_greatest_pleasures.html

The environment

http://ed.ted.com/on/2Yy019iv

http://iteslj.org/questions/environment.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OAcv7k8Qc0&feature=related

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0807/080714-solar_energy.html

http://www.headsupenglish.com/minilessons/ecotours.pdf

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0712/071211-wind_farms.html

IELTS exercises

http://www.dcielts.com/ielts-lessons/

Vocabulary from today

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1104/110422-shakespeare_fib.html

Shakespeare

http://www.tastefullyoffensive.com/2011/10/shakespeare-insult-kit.html

Shakespeare

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/insults-by-shakespeare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rexKqvgPVuA&feature=related

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1104/110422-shakespeare.html

British Singer Adele is Pregnant

Lyrics and song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSXJtFA1LvU&feature=related
Cloze exercise Adele:
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1206/120630-adele-jc.htm
Adele is pregnant:
http://breakingnewsenglish.com/1206/120630-adele.html
MySpace Music Site
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0809/080927-music.html