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1. “Listen to the Music: Using Songs in Listening and Speaking Classes”

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article provides detailed descriptions of three practical activities that integrate music with English language learning.

2. Using the Linguistic Landscape to Bridge Languages

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This Teaching Technique shows how languages found on public signs can help students practice English and understand the use of languages spoken in their context.

3. Integrating Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking with Visuals

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This Teaching Technique gives suggestions for using pictures and other images to give students practice in the “four skills” and using authentic English to communicate.

4. My Classroom: Turkmenistan

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Learn how teacher and administrator Zelila Roziyeva manages a busy schedule to provide her students with the English skills they need to succeed in their careers.

5. My Classroom: Zanzibar

   In: English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Learn how Muhaymina Omar and her students on Unguja, one of the two main islands in Tanzania’s Zanzibar Archipelago, have come together in regular classes and in a special Saturday class to study English, collaborate to solve problems, and learn about themselves and the world around them.

6. Dialogs for Everyday Use

   Format(s): Text

   Dialogs for Everyday Use is a collection of thirty situational dialogs that focus on a wide variety of communicative situations and natural encounters in English.

7. VOA Podcast: The State of Vermont - Fertile Farmland, Green Mountains and Revolutionary History

   In: VOA Podcasts: Shows in Special English Format(s): Website

   Listen online or download the podcast. Stories are written at the intermediate and upper-beginner level and are read one-third slower than regular VOA English.

8. VOA Podcast: Words and Their Stories - Down to Earth

   In: VOA Podcasts: Shows in Special English Format(s): Website

   Listen online or download the podcast. Stories are written at the intermediate and upper-beginner level and are read one-third slower than regular VOA English.

9. VOA Podcast: Music Would Not Be The Same Without the Guitar

   In: VOA Podcasts: Shows in Special English Format(s): MP3, Text

   From Voice of America Podcasts in Special English. Learn how guitar just may be the most popular instrument in the world! Download the MP3 or listen online.

10. VOA Podcast: Making of a Nation: The Heart of the Constitution

    In: VOA Podcasts: Shows in Special English Format(s): MP3, Text

    From Voice of America Podcasts in Special English. Take a look at the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Download the MP3 or listen online.

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