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This resource is meant to enable teachers to give a 50 minutes session on effective presentation skills for ESL students using cloud voting systems and audio response systems.

The students will work in groups later to create a group presentation and present together.

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Resource Description: YouTube video describing a lesson plan for future tense.

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Resource Description: An online interactive video-based lesson uploaded to TEDEd platform.

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Resource Description: Reported Speech, or Indirect Speech, isn't the same as Direct speech.  Students need to learn how to go from one to the other.  To make it easier for them, here is a video featuring 3 steps to make that change.

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Resource Description: Students are required to learn some basic knowledge of the Solar system and usage of ordinal number with certain sentence structures. Students will know the basic characteristics of the Eight Planets, such as size, color and the order of orbits by which planets circle around the Sun, through collecting information from reading materials, video clip and exchanging views with classmates. 

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Resource Description: One of the weaknesses of many common “diversity” frameworks in the United States is that they are built around vague notions of “culture” rather than strong commitments to equity. The result is a network of equity initiatives that are no real threat to inequity. In this session I will discuss the equity literacy framework — a framework for strengthening educators literacy related to equity. Its key principle is that there is no path to equity that does not involve a direct confrontation with inequity. The presenter will discuss what equity work looks like when it is really designed to be a threat to the existence of inequity.

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Resource Description: Swap meet is a language activity to practice the recognition of subjects and predicates.

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Resource Description: 6 March 2018

Presenters: Dr. Shannon Sauro, Malmö University, and Dr. Volker Hegelheimer, Iowa State University

Moderator: Dr. Christel Broady, Georgetown College 

Coordinators: Christel Broady (CALL-IS), Olga Griswold (ALIS),  Kathryn Howard (ALIS), and Claudio Fleury (CALL-IS)

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Resource Description: a video on how to teach Conditionals in a way that makes it easier for students to remember

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Resource Description: Plenty of students make mistakes with having an 's' at the end of verbs following third-person subjects, either by not including it when they should, or by including it when they shouldn't.  If it's not addressed when students are beginners, it can continue to be a problem for intermediate students.

Here's a trick to help students identify those mistakes, or even prevent them from making them in the first place.  It's called "the One Red 'S' rule".

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Resource Description: While a great deal of theorizing of intercultural approaches to language teaching has emerged in recent decades, there remains limited understanding and examples of how it may be realized in practice. The aim of this seminar is to examine approaches and examples from practice, considering how teachers of languages attend to an intercultural perspective, and how they enact their role as mediators, a role that presents a number of challenges.

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Resource Description: A grammar lesson on when and how to use "going to" versus "will" to describe future plans.

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Resource Description: The purpose of this activity is to introduce the APA referencing system.

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Resource Description: This video talks about when and why we use the Present Perfect Simple tense, complete with timelines as visual aids.

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Resource Description: Teaching across academic disciplines reinforces cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP).  Incorporating delivering a speech using presentation software like PowerPoint or Prezi facilitates preparing learners for college-level for-credit courses taught in English.  This activity guides learners through the research process using primary and secondary sources—print and digital—and connects their research to writing a persuasive or information (biographical) piece to be delivered as an oral speech with presentation software.  Adding the use of technology—PowerPoint and/or Prezi—engages learners in multiple contemporary literacies which are necessary for academic and professional success in the twenty-first-century global environment.

This assignment will take four to five class periods.  Some instructors might be in a situation where they can invite guest speakers like educational technology trainers to provide training on PowerPoint and Prezi or information services librarians to introduce print and electronic resources available to learners for this specific assignment.  Inviting guest speakers allows learners to interact with other education professionals finding new venues for using English.

Other teachers might be able to invite historians to discuss historical figures relevant to the learners’ project.  A field trip to a historical society or museum might be possible as well; such an activity will introduce learners to museum education as a complement to the traditional classroom experience.  Museum educators are also available to make classroom visits or give talks at secondary schools, community, and four-year college as well as universities. 

The final project is an oral speech using presentation software and dressing in the period attire whenever possible.  The assignment can be modified for learners whose linguistic skills are limited but can allow those with advanced language skills to explore new ways to use English. Several options are suggested under “Caveats and Options.”

In summary, the activity prepares learners for university and professional success, providing practice among the four language learning skills as well as increasing speaking opportunities with peers, instructors, and non-traditional educators.

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