| Free English Lessons .com >> MORE VIDEOS << Good web sites for practicing English FUNNY PAGES FOR LISTENING iteslj.org Specific QUIZZES a4esl.org Hiroko suggests: esl-lab.com (listening) Raquel suggests: ReadingUpgrade.com esl.about.com eslcafe.com marksesl.com/link_exchange ELLLO.org, listening with transcripts -- recommended by a student in Brazil Practice English by writing to students in other countries... for example, write to Cary at bradstow2@yahoo.co.uk and Steve at s2314@tmail.com practice by calling SKYPE.com SteveFortLauderdale....or STEVEEnglishTEACHER THURSDAY SKYPE CLASS You are invited to get a SKYPE account and call between 2:15 and 3:15 pm USA time. The next lessons are on the BOTTOM of this page... ??? LIST OF QUESTIONS ??? Hi, friends of Maysam, My name is Steve and I live in Fort Lauderdale. I hope you will call me by SKYPE.com and practice English. I offer a free conversation class to any person in Iran (up to three people per day, 20 minutes per person) and you can reserve your time by writing to me at s2314@tmail.com -- for example, perhaps you want to connect at 10 p.m. your time on Monday and Wednesday. You can get some suggestions for exercises at www.FreeEnglishLessons.com and I hope you will send email messages to me in Fort Lauderdale. I teach students from France, Switzerland and Japan. We all would like to correspond with people from Iran so we can learn more about your country’s history and natural beauty. I don’t agree with everything my government says. I believe that people-to-people contacts will build trust. If you cannot connect via SKYPE.com, please send me your phone number and I will call you by SKYPE.com One of the exercises is learning to pronounce. You can go to www.FreeEnglishLessons.com and practice a conversation and a list of words from the 14 groups of sounds: ate, at, Pete, pet, Bite, bit, hope, hop, cute, cut, could, house, bought, boy… those are the fourteen vowel sounds in English. I will check your pronunciation. Steve S2314@tmail.com English teacher |
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| A list of things to do ... ALL OF THESE ACTIVITIES can bring you POINTS… How can we learn a language? How can we improve our use of the language? 1. Do the exercises in the book. Yes, do your homework, Karim, Sezer and Fernando. 2. Work ahead. When you finish the homework, go ahead, push yourself. Finish the book. 3. Ask for more exercises. 4. Get more exercises on the Internet Eslcafe.com Esl.about.com freeEnglishLessons.com For some students, the book is not enough. If you want more things to do, here are some activities. What are some other ways to learn new words? LISTENING 1. borrow some of Steve's DVDs and CDs and listen to his past lessons. 2. esl-lab.com 3.. npr.org and click on “I Believe” -- you can listen to the statement and write the sentences, then check your spelling. 4. songs – find the lyrics of your favorite songs. WRITING Sign up for HOTMAIL.com and write with students. Send messages to steveEnglishTeacher@hotmail.com Send email messages to Steve’s cell phone s2314@tmail.com Write a note to Leslie and tell her something unusual… make a suggestion about where your class can go for a walking class. “Let’s go to the fountain and practice irregular verbs” Write to a teacher in England. Write to local high school students. You can write to John and he will find you a penpal. JLsport88@aol.com You can write to Aaron and he’ll find you a student to write to aarond3989@gmail.com Independent study Write all the names of the parts of the human body that you know. What are the parts of a car? What are the parts of a tree? SPEAKING Call Steve’s cell phone 954 646 8246 Speak to a class and make an announcement. For example, “Steve is looking for volunteers to go to the middle school near our school. He leaves at 3.45 pm. You can meet him Volunteer at a local school and you WILL need to practice speaking. Make a presentation about Gaudi or about your city or about something that you think is FABULOUS. Make an appointment with the teacher so you can give the presentation to the class. FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS (or students who are curious about what a university is like) Call a professor, make an appointment, then visit the professor on the university campus. Ask for a tour of the campus through the admissions office (you can say that your friend is interested in studying in the USA and you are collecting information). For example, visit Nova University, 3301 College Avenue. Suggested professor: wolfl@nova.edu Write to her and ask for her phone number. Then call her and ask for a short appointment. LEARN WITH A CAMERA Use a digital camera to record the teacher. Then write the sentences, word for word, and make a guide for studying. Use a digital camera to shoot four or more photos. Then write a story to connect the photos. Use your camera to find signs that you don’t understand. Take photos of things you don’t know how to describe in English. Record a commercial on TV and bring the camera to class. We’ll play the commercial and try to understand what was said. VCR or DVD Record a TV show and find a part that you don’t understand. Bring that piece into class and we’ll talk about it. Ask your teacher for a DVD or videotape to play and practice. Use the program to check your spelling by writing the s Record a news program and count the number of news stories that are discussed. What is a headline for each piece? Ask your teacher for a DVD with recorded news programs. Copy an actor. “Make my day” like Clint Eastwood. “I’ll be back,” like Arnold in Terminator. Find your favorite movie and memorize lines. Act with other students in the class. Create some fun dialog. LEARN A SKILL Many people learn more words when they think about something that they LOVE. What do you do? What do you think about? What do you want to do in the USA? Learn how to make a web page. www.oocities.org is easy. There’s a DVD that shows you how. Learn how to make a web log. www.fotolog.com is easy (some Brazilians tell me) Learn how to burn a CD. Learn how to edit a movie. Learn how to make a slide show using a macintosh computer. VOLUNTEER Visit a local school and talk with students who are 11 to 13 years old. Help them learn math. Help them read English faster. Help them write clear sentences. They will teach you about English. Organize an activity. You can be independent, you can work with the school’s activity team, you can invite teachers to join you and other students, you can look for students at high school and university. LAUGH Find clean jokes and bring them to class. Clip comics and ask the teacher to explain the joke. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pjchmiel/tags/funnysign/ <<< click and look for signs here. Widower Playing Golf A man and a friend are playing golf one day at their local golf course. One of the guys is about to chip onto the green when he sees a long funeral procession on the road next to the course. He stops in mid-swing, takes off his golf cap, closes his eyes, and bows down in prayer. His friend says, "Wow, that is the most thoughtful and touching thing I have ever seen. You truly are a kind man." The man then replies, "Yeah, well, we were married 35 years." Vocabulary: widower widow chip funeral swing bow 2006 new year’s eve in Rio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0zzm6mWJYw thanks to Isabella Suggest more YOUTUBE videos for people to watch... Steve, why should I do all of these things? You don’t need to do these actions. They are optional Treat students with respect. Give them real work. Give them challenges that need answers, not simple grammar exercises. – Dennis Littky |
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| BRAVO TO FERNANDO and AURELE You are my first "YOUTUBE" students. You love to look at YOUTUBE.com so I asked you to write at least three sentences about three YOUTUBE videos. Here is the first description that you completed. SEARCH: Chelsea vs Arsenal (Carling cup final; fight between players) http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=QAi75ceNqZ4 Firstly, in this video you can see a fight between two soccer players. It happened last weekend during a soccer game between two of the of the best soccer team in England. The fight lasted almost ten minut_s and even the coach_s of the two teams came into the field to stop the fight. Secondly, two players of Arsenal and one of Chelsea got red cards, so they had to leave the field. In fact it wasn't the first fight between this two teams. There are always fights between the two teams, especially when the game is very important. In my opinion i think nowadays there are too many fights during soccer games because of the money. A lot of money makes people very selfish and a_gressive. I think also the stake or the purpose of the game makes people crazy and violent. Aurele COMMENTS BY TEACHER 1. Spelling is only 2% of success. I am not worried about the words that Aurele missed. one coach, two coaches one minute, two minutes aggressive (two Gs) 2. Vocbualry is 46% of success and the energy to complete a project is 52% of your success. Bravo, Aurele and Fernando, for pushing yourselves. Go find three more YOUTUBE.com videos and write about them. FERNANDO's choice: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=5QGjFEyRkqU For MORE YOUTUBE descriptions, click here. |
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in my country (perhaps we will do this during the UNICEF party) (I didn’t write “we are going to…”) World News Update By Embassy Channel 6 Broadcasting from the 6th Floor Your task (job, mission, work) for today is “find an article in the newspaper or a piece of information to entertain or inform other students.” In your OWN WORDS, please explain the news of the day. (If you like reading, you can read the article, but I want your summary to start.) Example: Summary: Perhaps you did not hear about this news item. In Honolulu in November, a woman was running for Senator and she wanted to get attention, so she used an electric car to drive around the city. It was very surprising because she was a candidtate in the party of George Bush. Here is what the newspaper wrote about her…. (Then you can read two or three sentences) Then the next person stands up. Are you ready? Go Go go find a short article and tell us what happened! You can use the Internet We can start a news service for students at CES, so send me your short summary and we can put it on the FREE ENGLISH LESSONS blog. Send to s2314@tmail.com |
| By SUBITA and Kathi A dog is lying on the couch and enjoying his bone. Finally his rear leg is trying to get his bone! He gets very angry about that and starts to bit his own rear leg. He is so stupid! Take a look! www.youtube.com/watch?v= zep.JELd1BpU |
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Subject: Goeography Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 The following link is to an interactive map of the Northern Africa - Eastern Asia region. Everyone should be able to identify these nations without too many errors. http://www.rethinkingschools.org/just_fun/games/mapgame.html A great teaching tool! Matt |