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The feature article, “Rodeo: A Uniquely American Sport,” includes sections about the history of rodeo, classic rodeo events, the growth of professional rodeo, the making of a rodeo cowboy, rodeo heroes, and rodeo and fine arts. Websites of interest and a glossary of rodeo terms accompany the article, as well as many images.

Author: Phyllis McIntosh Format: Text
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Rodeo: A Uniquely American Sport
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn to make requests, extend invitations, and offer congratulations (or other speech acts) and to learn how to open and close telephone conversations when leaving a message.

Author: Jane E. Hardy Format: Text, Video, Website
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The Rules of the Queue
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The theme of this issue's "The Lighter Side" is the old west. It includes the song “Home on the Range,” history related to the tune, and a word find puzzle. This activity is appropriate for intermediate to advanced learners. Answers are included.

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The Lighter Side
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This lesson plan is designed for high intermediate to advanced English language learners. Based on an authentic, contemporary essay by an accomplished American writer, the lesson plan includes tasks and activities designed to improve students’ English language skills as well as increase their understanding of American culture. The lesson includes pre-, during, and post reading activities to improve comprehension, learn new vocabulary, and make connections beyond the text. Websites of interest and useful questions for discussion or writing are included.

Authors: Carmel Underwood, Robert Underwood Format: Text
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An Integrated Skills Lesson Plan for "Just Off Main Street" by Elmaz Abinader
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn to make requests, extend invitations, and offer congratulations (or other speech acts) and to learn how to open and close telephone conversations when leaving a message.

Author: Douglas A. Demo Format: Text, Video, Website
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Using the Telephone to Teach Pragmatics
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to introduce students to a range of different ways in which native speakers soften their requests and to develop their awareness of how these are used by different speakers and in different situations within the speech community.

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Softening Short Requests

This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn to navigate requests by identifying pragmatically appropriate language.

Author: Tom Salsbury Format: Text, Video, Website
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The Pragmatics Action Maze
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students develop appropriate written request strategies.

Author: Donald Weasenforth Format: Text, Video, Website
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What do you think? Requesting Responses from Professors
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“Just off Main Street” is for learner use and is an account of the writer’s experience as an Arab American. It opens with a description of the writer’s childhood and the cultural divide between life inside and outside the home. Readers will be drawn into the vivid description of daily life. The article looks at the challenges of being bi-cultural, of keeping home life separate, of being “exoticized,” of becoming comfortable and proud of one’s heritage, and of finding community. The article provides opportunities for discussions of culture, identity, and activism.

Author: Elmaz Abinader Format: Text
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Just Off Main Street
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students develop appropriate written request strategies.

Author: Thomas Mach and Shelly Ridder Format: Text, Video, Website
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E-mail Requests
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