My students are multilingual adult learners from across the globe, representing a wide range of academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds. My daily interactions with them continually enrich my own learning, as teaching offers immediate insight into the effectiveness of my instructional approaches. Every day brings a new opportunity to grow in my practice—an aspect of the work that I deeply value and enjoy.
Culture Notes:
Giving & Receiving Gifts reading & vocabulary with interactive exercises & survey (intermediate & advanced)
Four Interactive Exercises on Cultures (intermediate & advanced)
Cloze Exercise: Past, Present, Future Tenses (beginning & intermediate)
Cloze Exercises: noun clauses (intermediate & advanced)
Cloze Exercises: idioms (intermediate & advanced)
Places in the Community: exercises & games with audios (beginning)
Adjectives & Adverbs : exercises & games with audios (high beginning, intermediate & advanced)
Immigration Vocabulary (intermediate)
My Animations for ESL (intermediate & advanced)
String Instruments : the comparatives of adjectives & adverbs (intermediate)
Musical Humorist Victor Borge : vocabulary (intermediate)
Degas & The Ballerinas : vocabulary (advanced)
The Living Roof learning about exciting green-eco technology [video with interactive exercise] (intermediate & advanced)
Dances from the Depths the Wonders of the Ocean [ 3 videos with 3 interactive exercises:] (beginning)
The Flamboyant Greek Soloist from the Deep Sea (vocabulary)
The Dancer in Fancy Costume (on colors & prepositions)
The Dancer in Stripes (on colors & prepositions)
Paradise enjoying the beauty of nature [video with interactive exercise] (beginning)
1. ESL Contact Assignment: (high-intermediate & advanced)
2. A Health Literacy Curriculum for ESOL Students
3. Immigrant Communities Exploring Connections
Multilingual Proverbs & Sayings (my collaborative project with educators worldwide)
Collaborative Podcast by ESL/EFL Teachers Worldwide: Comparing Places the comparatives & the superlatives of adjectives (all levels)
Presentation Project (website): Rhythm & Acoustics (in Architecture)
Class Projects:
1. A Cultural Kaleidoscope: A Cross-cultural Writing & Reading Project
2. Memorable Memories: ESL Students' Wonderful Experiences
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Cambridge Ventures Arcade (beginning-advanced exercises: Listening, Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary, Citizenship)
Learn English with Cambridge YouTube channel
Oxford Online English (free video lessons for all levels)
Woodward English Courses (video lessons for all levels)
BBC 6 Minute English (listening, vocabulary w/downloadable audio & transcript)
2-Minute English (video lessons for all levels)
ESL Fast / ESL Short Stories (reading w/audio & exercises)
StoryCorps Animations (listening)
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
World Stories in English & many other languages (reading)
The Idiom Connection English Idioms & Quizzes
Live Worksheets (interactive exercises)
English Grammar Online (exercises, explanations, vocabulary)
E-grammar (online exercises, explanations)
Test-English (grammar, listening, reading, writing --beginning -advanced)
Talk English ESL resources for teachers & learners
Using English a large collection of ESL tools & resource
ESLPartyLand ESL resources for teachers & learners
News in Levels (reading - beginning-advanced)
Ryan Detwiler’s ESL Video Site
Jennifer Lebedev's Video English Lessons
Mike Marzio's Real English Videos for ESL/EFL
Learning Chocolate (beginning vocabulary exercises w/ listening)
U.S.A.Learns lessons with videos & exercises
Michael Kellogg's WordReference online bilingual dictionaries in many languages
The sounds of English and the International Phonetic Alphabet