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This section presents two stand-alone language-learning activities related to cars.

1. “Walking Cars,” designed for beginner students, gives vocabulary describing the movement of vehicles, provides listening practice, and energizes learners.

2. “Checklist Talking,” for Intermediate and Advanced students, reinforces vocabulary related to transportation and travel and allows students to practice speaking English freely.

Author: Kevin McCaughey Format: Text
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This activity sheet requires unscrambling a factual statement about cars and a follow-up question that can be used for classroom discussion.

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The Lighter Side: "Traffic Jam"
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Cars are the focus of this feature article, which explores such topics as the history of cars in the United States, the national highway system, classic car shows, and the road trip in American literature and film.

Author: Phyllis McIntosh Format: Text
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Cars, Cars Cars
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Recognizing the relevance of English for Specific Purposes, this article outlines an approach for using authentic readings in a course in Engineering English. The article describes the importance of needs analysis, rhetorical focus, and reading for content; it suggests content for 15 lessons and provides a sample worksheet and other suggestions for assessment.

Author: James W. Porcaro Format: Text
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Teaching English for Science and Technology: An Approach for Reading with Engineering English
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Using communicative activities with learners from diverse cultures can create excitement and empathy while promoting the acquisition of English. This article offers ESL/EFL activities that foster interpersonal tolerance among students who have experienced intergroup conflict. The activities are based on the idea that there are four levels of cultural awareness: self, family, community, and region/world.

Author: Susan Renaud and Elizabeth Tannenbaum Format: Text
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Making Connections: Language Activities for Creating Interpersonal Tolerance in the Classroom
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This article discusses the role of culture in language teaching and provides activities for introducing culture in the classroom, focusing on teaching context and methodology to integrate culture. The authors outline five activities that can be adapted to the language level and interests of students. Instructions for each activity include language points and intercultural points.

Author: Peter Neff and John Rucynski Jr. Format: Text
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Tasks for Integrating Language and Culture Teaching
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Using dialogue journals gives English language learners valuable writing practice. This article explores topics such as audience, fluency, teacher-student relationships, empowerment, and making the connection to academic writing. And the author gives practical advice on how teachers can institute dialogue journals in their classrooms and how best to respond to students’ journals.

Author: Sara Denne-Bolton Format: Text
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The Dialogue Journal: A Tool for Building Better Writers
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Sculptures can be created from a variety of different materials.  They can be big, small, abstract, or representational. Sculpture provides students with a great tactile alternative to drawing or painting. Kinesthetic learners particularly benefit from the process of working with their hands. Similar to all art media, sculpture can help students make associations and deepened connections between any topic and the target language, English. In addition, the sculptures students create in the language classroom can be used as a platform for conversation, comparison, and meaningful language use.  This section contains six lesson plans focusing on yes/no questions, comparatives and superlatives, past and present progressive, and adverbs of frequency focusing on beginner to advanced proficiency levels.

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Unit III: Sculpture
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The board game Would You Rather…Why? gives students a chance to express their preferences on a num­ber of different topics. For this board game, you will find the downloadable game, game instructions, and game variations.

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Would You Rather? Instructions
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Baltimore-based ukulele player Victoria Vox writes honest, heartfelt lyrics. This song, America, is part of the album Vox Ukulele Cello, which won the 2011 Wammie award for Folk Contemporary Album of The Year. In this song, the artist sings about taking a road trip across American and using the time to reflect on life and to follow intuition. In the contemporary folk acoustic America, we can hear the sounds of the ukulele and the cello in addition to Vox’s enchanting voice and reflective tone.

Author: Victoria Vox Format: MP3, Text, Video
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