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1. The Rules of the Queue

   In: Teaching Pragmatics Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   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.

2. Complaining Successfully: Negotiating Redress in Service Encounters

   In: Teaching Pragmatics Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn how to make complaints during service encounters.

3. Giving and Responding to Compliments

   In: Teaching Pragmatics Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to raise learners' awareness of pragmatic rules and to increase input to learners and opportunities to observe native English speakers' pragmatic behavior.

4. Picturing America: Masterpieces of American Art

   Format(s): Website

   Pictures of famous American art with accompanying lesson plans from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

5. U.S. Time Periods

   Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   Teaching and learning resources on U.S. time periods, from the Department of Education.

6. Chapter 1: The Autobiography of Mark Twain

   In: The Autobiography of Mark Twain Format(s): Text

   Chapter 1 of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, an adaptation of Twain’s autobiography.

7. Chapter 2: The Autobiography of Mark Twain

   In: The Autobiography of Mark Twain Format(s): Text

   Chapter 2 of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, an adaptation of Twain’s autobiography.

8. Chapter 3: The Autobiography of Mark Twain

   In: The Autobiography of Mark Twain Format(s): Text

   Chapter 3 of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, an adaptation of Twain’s autobiography.

9. Chapter 4: The Autobiography of Mark Twain

   In: The Autobiography of Mark Twain Format(s): Text

   Chapter 4 of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, an adaptation of Twain’s autobiography.

10. Chapter 5: The Autobiography of Mark Twain

    In: The Autobiography of Mark Twain Format(s): Text

    Chapter 5 of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, an adaptation of Twain’s autobiography.

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