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1. Sing Out Loud Traditional Songs

   Format(s): Text

   This CD contains traditional American folk songs. Download songs, lyrics, posters, and activities. Watch a video to get teaching tips!

2. Create to Communicate: Collage

   In: Create to Communicate: Art Activities for the EFL Classroom Format(s): Text

   This section contains five lesson plans focusing on imperatives, present continuous, wh-questions, contrastive nouns, and future aspect using will focusing on high beginner to advanced proficiency levels.

3. Create to Communicate: Mixed Media

   In: Create to Communicate: Art Activities for the EFL Classroom Format(s): Text

   Mixed media, an art technique that combines two or more art media, can provide students with many avenues for expression, exploration, and experimentation while using English.

4. Lesson Plan: Greetings from Sunny New Mexico

   In: English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The New Mexico lesson plan for this issue is a self-contained 1 1/4 to 2 hour lesson with a complete pre- during- post framework for interacting with the main text - a letter from a friend living in New Mexico. The focus here is on the vocabulary and grammar of description (e.g., words for scenery and weather, relative "that" clauses). Extension activities are provided for multi-session lessons (e.g., written response, class survey).

5. Create to Communicate: Sculpture

   In: Create to Communicate: Art Activities for the EFL Classroom Format(s): Text

   This section focused on sculpting contains six lesson plans focusing on yes/no questions, comparatives and superlatives, past and present progressive, and adverbs of frequency.

6. Raggedy Ann Stories

   Format(s): Text

   Raggedy Ann Stories contains 13 short stories about the classic rag doll and her friends. Download the MP3 or listen online. Or download the MOBI or EPUB files for your e-reader.

7. Voice of America YouTube Channel

   Format(s): Video, Website

   Videocasts on current events which connect with other Special English VOA content. Learn American English and much more with captioned news and features in VOA Special English.

8. Guess What? Guess the Topic

   In: Activate Games for Learning English - Guess What? Format(s): Text

   In Guess the Topic, the Describer says the six words below the topic, slowly, one at a time. The Guessers try to guess the topic after each word is read.

9. Poetry

   Format(s): Text

   Students from all over the world participated in National Poetry Month by writing poems. We received hundreds of poems and want to share them with you. Have you written a poem in English that you’d like to send to us? Email it to us at oelpamenglish@gmail.com

10. Integrating Pronunciation Across the Curriculum

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

    This webinar introduces content-based pronunciation activities that could be used in a reading, writing, or grammar course.

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