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The song Count your Sheep involves a partnership between Honolulu-born ukulele player and singer Daniel Ho and singer Bridgette Bryant. The song talks about counting your sheep, which is something many children in the USA and around the world are advised to do when they are having trouble letting go of the excitement of the day and going to sleep.

Bryant has a sweet, soulful voice that goes directly to the heart of her listeners. In this upbeat lullaby, which is a mixture of R&B and folk music, we hear Daniel Ho play the ukulele (an instrument native to Hawaii) accompanied by Bryant’s powerful and mellow voice. The use of the saxophone in part of the song only adds to the magic of the music Ho and Bryant have written together.

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Count Your Sheep
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This puzzle requires unscrambling the names of various boats and using designated letters to solve a riddle.

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Lighter Side: Rock the Boat
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This section presents three stand-alone English language-learning activities related to boats.

  1. “Going to School by Ferry boat,” for upper beginner and intermediate students, allows learners to practice listening to language about an everyday routine and to learn transportation vocabulary.
  2. “Classifying Boats,” for intermediate students, teaches learners about boat types and their features and helps them develop classifying skills and write a classifying essay.
  3. “Mapping the Mississippi River,“ for intermediate students, provides practice with vocabulary related to boats and rivers.
Authors: Carol Chapelle, Jooyoung Lee, Hye-won Lee, Moonyoung Park, Manman Qian, and Amy Walton Format: Text
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Boats are the subject of this feature article, which explores such topics as the age of steamboats, commercial boats, recreational boats, boating vocabulary, and the Mississippi River in American literature.

Author: Phyllis McIntosh Format: Text
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Boats, Boats Everywhere
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This article discusses techniques for organizing large classes to allow smooth transitions from whole-class discussions to individual and group work. Topics discussed include how to form groups, keeping track of groups, using colors to organize students, setting expectations, and establishing consequences.

Author: Gena Rhoades Format: Text
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Minimizing the Chaos through Cooperative Classroom Management
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Test-preparation classes that focus on skills will benefit students beyond the test by developing skills they can use at university. This article discusses the purposes of various tests and outlines how to design effective test-prep classes. Several practical activities are included, and an appendix provides information on common standardized tests of English.

Author: Deirdre Derrick Format: Text
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Teaching beyond the Test: A Method for Designing Test-Preparation Classes
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The authors espouse the need for negotiation in designing and delivering English for Specific Purposes (ESP) programs. Such negotiations take into account learners’ needs as well as structural limitations of the context and candid assessment of ESP providers. The article explores lessons from the field and the importance of needs analysis.

Authors: Spencer Salas, Leonardo A. Mercado, Lynn Hanson Ouedraogo, and Bernadette Musetti Format: Text
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English for Specific Purposes: Negotiating Needs, Possibilities, and Promises
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This article discusses how teachers can incorporate cultural knowledge into English language classes, exploring elements of culture, intercultural phenomena, and high-context and low-context cultures. Activities offered by the author to raise cultural awareness include web quests, role plays, cultural observations, and culture journals.

Author: Jerrold Frank Format: Text
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Raising Cultural Awareness in the English Language Classroom
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In this song, Hawaiian singer and pastor David “Kawika” Kahiapo sings about having done the best he can in his life and always having the strength to fight for his dreams. Kawika invites those listening to his song to also believe in themselves and fight for their dreams, without being discouraged by those who do not believe in their success. In this song, Kawika plays the slack key guitar (ki ho’alu), which is a guitar that has had its strings “slacked”, or loosened, to create a different chord.

In the song Champion, as is the case with many songs composed by Hawaiian artists, you can almost feel the breeze coming from Hawaiian beaches as you listen to the song. There is a sort of upbeat tune to Champion that makes you want to simply relax and enjoy.

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Questions, Questions gives students practice forming yes/no questions. Using a Picture This card, a player chooses one item, and the remaining players take turns asking yes/no questions to try and guess the item.

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