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1. Calamity - Natural Disaster Preparation

   In: Teacher's Corner: Integrating Global Affairs into Your English Lessons Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students will learn about natural disasters and disaster prevention by playing an online game that uses real-world issues.

2. Trace Effects

   Format(s): Website

   Trace Effects is an English language video game for students. Learn English and explore American culture through puzzles, games, and adventures in an interactive world. If you would like to receive a copy of this game, please contact your Regional English Language Office: https://americanenglish.state.gov/support-near-you-regional-english-language-officer-relo

3. Gina Chavez: She Persisted

   In: ENGLISH LANGUAGE THROUGH LYRICS Format(s): MP3, Text

   This collection from American English provides fun new ways of teaching and learning English.

4. Making the Most of Large Classes by Using Learning Teams

   In: Teacher's Corner: Common Challenges in the English Classroom Format(s): Text

   Large classes can be challenging. Learn ways to make the most of large classes by using learning teams in this week’s Teacher’s Corner.

5. The Wanderer of the North

   In: To Build a Fire and Other Stories Format(s): Text

   In this story from To Build a Fire and Other Stories, a mysterious stranger tells a few mushers about how he followed his wife's kidnapper from his home in the Aleutian Islands to Tokyo Bay and finally to the Yukon Territory in Canada.

6. The Law of Life

   In: To Build a Fire and Other Stories Format(s): Text

   In this story from To Build a Fire and Other Stories, an old and blind Alaskan Native man listens to the sounds of his tribe preparing to migrate to find food and thinks about the law of life: all things must die.

7. To the Man on Trail

   In: To Build a Fire and Other Stories Format(s): Text

   In this story from To Build a Fire and Other Stories, a stranger seeking to get back the money that he lent to another man visits a group of revelers in their cabin. The stranger has been on the trail for 12 hours with no rest. The revelers take him in and listen to his story.

8. Love of Life

   In: To Build a Fire and Other Stories Format(s): Text

   In this story from To Build a Fire and Other Stories, a man who was abandoned by his teammate struggles to survive in the wilderness and stave off hunger.

9. To Build a Fire

   Format(s): Text

   In this quintessential "man vs. nature" story, a traveller is grossly unaware of how cold it can get on the Yukon trail. He struggles to survive by persistent attempts to build a fire.

10. The Wit of Porportuk

    In: To Build a Fire and Other Stories Format(s): Text

    In this story from To Build a Fire and Other Stories, an old and ill chief has a large debt and cannot find the means to pay it. The lender, Porportuk, offers to have the debt waived if the chief gives away his daughter.

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