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1. American Memory Project

   Format(s): Text, Website

   Documents the American experience based on art and song, produced by the Library of Congress.

2. Cross Cultural Activities and Lesson Plans

   Format(s): Text, Website

   Activities and lesson plans based on Peace Corps Volunteers’ cross-cultural experiences.

3. Arts and Culture

   Format(s): Text, Website

   Full lesson plans on a variety of topics related to the arts from the National Endowment of the Humanities.

4. Mary and Her Little Lamb

   Format(s): Image / Poster / Maps

   This illustrated story accompanies the individual song "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

5. Communicative Grammar with Games for the Young Learne

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Video

   This session, "Communicative Grammar with Games for the Young Learner," examines three lively, communicative grammar games that help build grammar competence and speaking confidence in children without them evening knowing it! In addition, we look at developmentally appropriate ways to focus on grammar. These grammar games can be adapted for all ages.

6. An Integrated Skills Lesson Plan for "A Postcard from America" by Robert Olen Butler

   In: English Teaching Forum 2004, Volume 42, Issue 1 Format(s): Text

   This lesson plan is based on the feature article, “Postcards from America” by Robert Olen Butler. It is appropriate for high intermediate to advanced students. The lesson integrates the four skills and has five parts: Preparing to Read, Reading the Text, Understanding the Text, Making Connections Beyond the Text, and Integrating Language Skills. The lesson includes group discussion of comprehension questions, scanning for vocabulary, and using the dictionary.

7. A Lesson Plan Speaking (and Writing) of Sports

   In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This lesson plan offers several sports-related photographs and classroom activities that use the pictures for individual, pair, or group work. The activities include a sentence-combination task, structured writing questions, open-ended writing tasks, a charting task, and questions for a whole-class discussion. The author gives suggestions for making the tasks easier or more difficult for multiple levels.

8. Drama-Based Activities to Improve Student Confidence and Motivation

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This session, "Drama-Based Activities to Improve Student Confidence and Motivation," shares fun, confidence-building, evidence-based drama techniques that can be applied in any EFL classroom setting!

9. Four Reading Tasks to Promote Critical Thinking

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This session, "Four Reading Tasks to Promote Critical Thinking," shares classroom-ready activities that can be adapted to encourage critical thinking in reading lessons for students of varying ages and proficiency levels.

10. Four Reading Tasks to Promote Critical Thinking

    Format(s): Text, Video

    This session, "Four Reading Tasks to Promote Critical Thinking," shares classroom-ready activities that can be adapted to encourage critical thinking in reading lessons for students of varying ages and proficiency levels.

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