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This selection deals with Jean-Francois Champollion’s deciphering the hieroglyphs. The comprehension skill is using graphic sources to help understand information. This lesson plan introduces the comprehension skill and the new vocabulary of the story.

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Resource Description: A video on how to present Subject and Object Question Forms to students.

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Handouts of activities for Adult Lesson: What to do if you are pulled over by a police officer? 

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Resource Description: This lesson is designed for adult beginning or Intermediate English learners learning about transportation life skills and road signs.

Textbook: Future 1: English for Results, D. S. Pittaway, 2010, Pearson/Longman.  Unit 10, Lesson 1., pp. 186 - 187, and  Lesson 4: Forms of transportation and traffic signs, pp. 191 -192

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Resource Description: This virtual seminar will present a number of existing and emerging tools and resources that provide new opportunities for language learning and teaching. Some of these tools are designed specifically for language instruction, while others are general purpose. The presenter will discuss trends and how they may change in the near future. Suggestions for curricular implantation, as well as teacher preparation, will be discussed.

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Resource Description: This is a 5-minute end of class or warm-up activity. It is a fun activity to learn words by heart. The words are randomly chosen by each student.

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In English, we use 'Progressive' and 'Continuous' interchangeably.  But did you know that in general linguistics, there is a slight difference?  The two are very similar, but it's helpful to know what those differences are.

Check out this video for more on Progressive/Continuous tenses.

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Resource Description: In writing and training, the presenter has found that so-called taboo subjects and language are often censored in the name of cultural diversity. In this thought-provoking session, he will argue that this is often the result of cultural stereotyping and the infantalization of students. The presenter will claim that ‘taboos’ are not taboo when teachers’ primary focus is on language (not issues) and when teachers help students express their own ideas.

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Resource Description: In this activity, students practice interrupting politely as well as story-telling and culture sharing. Students are asked to tell a story about a tradition in their family or culture, and other students are tasked with interrupting politely to ask for clarification or details. This activity always has my class completely attentive and excited to listen and share! It can also be a great "icebreaker" activity to help students learn about each other. 

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Here's how to teach the 3 parts of Indirect Question sentence structure, whether they are reported questions or polite or formal requests or inquiries.

The full resource is a seven-minute video.

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Resource Description: This resource can be used as a way to teach students how to revise and edit their own writing.

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Resource Description: This is a lesson I use with advanced level learners as a cumulative review of all grammar points. 

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Resource Description: The communicative competencies have been foundational principles in TESOL/Applied Linguistics for several decades. They are included in theoretical and methodological textbooks for teacher candidates with little modification over the years. Yet, conversations on the construct of communicative competencies have continued to evolve since Canale and Swain (1980) proposed the organizational model; Celce-Murcia, Dornyei & Thurrell (1995) made some notable modifications. In recent years, Richards (2012) proposed a reconceptualization of the model by adding ideas of communicative capacity and complexity. Lotherington and Ronda (2014) posited the need to consider the communicative skills in light of digital and multimodal technologies. Lui, Ortega and Bryam (2015) explored the notions of critical intercultural competence and empowerment. Hall (2018) reasserted the importance of interactional competence. For such an important guiding principle, teacher educators and researchers need to reconsider what communicative competencies look like today and how our teacher preparation courses and materials should be evolving with these conversations. This session will review recent developments on the model of communicative competencies and facilitate an interactive conversation on how teacher educators can use this information.

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Resource Description: This lesson plan should be used to introduce ELD 3 (English Language Development) students to writing persuasive letters.

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