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1. Greetings with a Difference

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

   This lesson examines different ways of greeting people.

2. Discourse Markers Well and Oh

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

   This lesson focuses on using the discourse markers well and oh for smoother discourse flow.

3. Making Contrasts in English

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

   This lesson aims to help students learn how to make contrasts using intonation.

4. Talking on a Second Channel Using Parentheticals in English Discourse

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

   This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn to pronounce a range of parentheticals appropriately.

5. Teacher Talk: Presentation Skills for Teachers

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

   This webinar, "Teacher Talk: Presentation Skills for Teachers," explores the notions of Teacher Talk Time and Teacher Wait Time.

6. Using VOA Special English to Improve Advanced English Learners' Productive Use of High Frequency Words

   In: English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article focuses on advanced ESL learners’ acquisition of the spelling, pronunciation, and comprehension of high-frequency words at the productive skill level rather than at the receptive skill level. It discusses the use of the Voice of America (VOA) Special English program to expose learners to different activities requiring productive skills. The article offers examples of how the VOA program exposes learners to comprehensible input through high-frequency words and helps them produce these words both in writing and speaking.

7. Comment-Response Mingle

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

   This lesson aims to help students become more aware of and have practice in using appropriate formulaic responses to common situations.

8. Improving the Friendly Discussions of Controversial Issues

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

   This lesson aims to introduce students to a variety of pragmatic routines and lexical phrases employed in disagreements between peers.

9. Listen Actively! You can Keep that Conversation Going!

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

   This lesson aims to help students learn to respond appropriately to maintain a conversation.

10. Hello, I must be going!

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

    This lesson aims for students to become more fluent in using and understanding basic greetings and leave-takings in brief "small talk" encounters.

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