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  1. The Cotton Club

    In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 2 Format(s): Text, Image / Poster / Maps
    This one-page piece details The Cotton Club, one of the most glamorous dance and music clubs in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. The Cotton Club was located in Harlem, which in the 1920s was an African-American residential and cultural business center in New York. The club had 30 to 50 chorus girls who danced and sang and were only hired if they were beautiful and very tall. Although the singers and dancers were almost all black, the audience was almost all white, which was a sign of the racial American society at the time.
  2. Poems About Places

    In: Teacher Resources Format(s): Text
    Learn about places – cities, provinces, villages, countries – that are special to the students who wrote poems about them. Read or download the poems!
  3. Poems About Places

    In: Poems About Places Format(s): Text
    Learn about places – cities, provinces, villages, countries – that are special to the students who wrote poems about them. Read or download the poems!
  4. Poems About Places

    In: Poetry Format(s): Text
    Learn about places – cities, provinces, villages, countries – that are special to the students who wrote poems about them. Read the poems or download the PDFs.
  5. Other Poems

    In: Poetry Format(s): Text
    Do you like surprises? Read a poem from this month’s selection of poems by English language learners. These poems are not categorized by theme or topic, so choose a poem and enjoy the surprise of where it takes you!
  6. Derik Nelson: Exchange Our World

    In: ENGLISH LANGUAGE THROUGH LYRICS Format(s): MP3, Text
    We have created lesson plans and a video series to use in the classroom. Download all lesson materials under resources. This collection from American English provides fun new ways of teaching and learning English. Use these files in conjunction with the song in this language package for an integrated teaching experience. Genre: Country, Pop, Rock
  7. The Lighter Side

    In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 2 Format(s): Text
    This "Lighter Side" begins with a contest to name a Jazz song. The answer is "Georgia On My Mind." Although there is an American state called Georgia, Georgia is the name of a girl for whom the song was written in 1930. In the second section of "The Lighter Side," definitions and uses of the word Jazz are given.
  8. Mary Had a Little Lamb

    In: Sing Out Loud Children's Songs Format(s): MP3, Text, Image / Poster / Maps
    This song in the Sing Out Loud Children's Songs collection is a classic story of a little girl and her lamb.
  9. Story 2: Sayuri's Story

    In: Why English? Comics for the Classroom Format(s): MP3, Text
    The stories in Why English? Comics for the Classroom – written by teenagers and young adults – will appeal to learners of all ages. These stories provide an enjoyable opportunity to increase vocabulary, reading comprehension, listening, speaking, and writing.
  10. Teaching Techniques: Nouns on the Job Market - An Approach for Recognizing Noun Position

    In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2 Format(s): Text
    Using the employment analogy provides a fun and memorable way to help students relate to this sentence-level grammatical concept.

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