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#MeToo
Lesson plans and materials for discussing the #metoo campaign in intermediate level (B1) English classes, yr 9 and above in Sweden Background Warm-up consent for kids - YouTube (2:42)https://youtu.be/h3nhM9UlJjcHelp kids ...
1:1 Learning
Do you want to improve your English at your own time and pace? Check the following sites for your own English studies: Homework Choice Board Developing learner autonomy: a homework ...
A Christmas Carol
A theme page about Charles Dickens' beloved story A Christmas Carol, with an array of videos from the year 1910 to 2019. Related topics: Winter Wonderland 1-9, Best of Christmas ...
Aboriginal People
The contents of this Theme Page have been approved by an Aboriginal scholar. WARNING: Some of the videos show pictures and mention the name of people who have died. Warm-up ...
Banned Books Page
Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to ...
Best of Christmas 8-B1
Last updated on Dec 13th A Theme Page about mostly secular Christmas celebrations for intermediate-level students, A2-B1. Related topics: Winter Wonderland 1-9, Best of Christmas, 5-7, A Christmas Carol Advent ...
Black Friday – Buy Nothing Day
A Theme Page about Black Friday / Buy Nothing Day and Consumerism for intermediate-level students, A2-B1 Related Pages: Native American Heritage Day, Thanksgiving, Year 3-7, Thanksgiving 7-9, Thanksgiving B1 Warm-Up If You ...
Black History Month
Black History Month is celebrated in February in the USA and Canada, and in October in Britain. During Black History Month the focus is on the achievements of people from ...
Black Lives Matter
This theme page was started after the killing of George Floyd and includes materials about the history and origins of the Black Lives Matter protests. Related themes: Civil Rights, Slavery, ...
Book Tasks
This Theme Page is mainly for teachers who want to explore beyond the traditional book reports, be it in writing, talking, creating or in digital form. At the end, there ...
Chinese New Year
A Theme Page about the Chinese New Year celebrated each year in January-February according the Lunar Calendar. Warm-up Happy Lunar New Year! - YouTube (1:02)https://youtu.be/849Tk-ezcfYThe Lunar New Year is celebrated ...
Christmas Around the World
This theme page presents videos to show Christmas celebrations from around the world: some songs, some reading, general videos, and videos from specific countries. Last updated on Oct 24 Warm-up ...
17andMehttps://www.kqed.org/news/11677078/17andmeTwenty years after Daley Dunham donated sperm, a tidal wave of children came crashing into his life.
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August 26, 2021
26 Must-Watch TED Talks to Spark Student Discussions
26 Must-Watch TED Talks to Spark Student Discussions – WeAreTeachershttps://www.weareteachers.com/ted-talks-students/?utm_content=1553022060&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1wSJWK8_2KG1MqF6XqUbKy2EUseFeZLzPtG9stkdbIP6FbM9qrY2ub86o
Who knows? The next TED speaker may be in your classroom.
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June 16, 2020
4 Fast Debate Formats for the Secondary Classroomhttps://www.thoughtco.com/fast-debate-formats-for-the-classroom-8044Here are four easy-to-use debate formats that can be implemented in the secondary classroom in any discipline.
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March 4, 2021
8 Best True-Crime Podcasts to Listen to in 2021https://www.timeout.com/things-to-do/best-true-crime-podcastsYour next fix awaits. Dig way deeper than ‘Serial’ with our round-up of 2020’s best true-crime podcasts
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February 3, 2021
A Game Of Thrones Onlinehttps://onlinereadfreenovel.com/george-r-r-martin/1051-a_game_of_thrones.htmlRead A Game Of Thrones Online Read Free Novel – Read Light Novel, onlinereadfreenovel.com
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January 11, 2021
Amazing Tongue Twister Raphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvLmcRZte78
A quick rap with words in the alphabetical order. Listen for fun!
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September 22, 2019
Anne of Green Gables | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Lit2Go ETChttps://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/53/anne-of-green-gables/Anne of Green Gables is a coming-of-age novel about Anne Shirley, the Cuthbert’s, and the community of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. – a k a ‘Anne with an E’
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April 26, 2021
Argumentative Writing Prompts for High School Englishhttps://www.weareteachers.com/argumentative-writing-prompts/
Get teens thinking and typing…fast! More Argumentative Prompts
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February 16, 2021
BBC Podcastshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/podcastsPodcasts for every taste and interest.
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April 14, 2021
Bear Brookhttps://www.bearbrookpodcast.com/Two barrels. Four bodies. And the decades-long mystery that led to a serial killer. A podcast about a cold case that’s changing how murders will be investigated forever.Bear Brook podcast
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June 16, 2020
CommonLit | Free Reading Passages
CommonLit | Search | Free Reading Passages and Literacy Resourceshttps://www.commonlit.org/en/library?searchQuery=Short%20storiesView the CommonLit collection and filter by grade level, theme, genre, literacy device, and common core standard. Curriculum Units
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June 4, 2021
Cookery vocabularyhttps://quizlet.com/_2kouc6
Learn 100 cookery words Common Sense Privacy Evaluation
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January 7, 2019
Dictations – Ringo Lingohttps://ringolingo.com/dictation/The Ringo Lingo Multi-Player has been specially designed to make it as easy as possible for you to listen to and complete dictation exercises.
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October 18, 2021
English Listening Lesson Library Online
English Listening Lesson Library Onlinehttps://elllo.org/english/levels/index.htmLearn English Naturally! Listen to over 2,500 free lessons featuring speakers from around the world. All lessons come with audio or video, a quiz, and a script. ESL teachers and students can choose English lessons from beginner to advanced!
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May 13, 2021
Jury – A Time to Kill http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/A.Time.to.Kill/preview.html
The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken young men. The mostly white town of Clanton in Mississippi reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father takes justice into his own hands.
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January 11, 2021
Free-eBooks.net | Download free Fictionhttps://www.free-ebooks.net/Download free Fiction, Health, Romance, and many more books – Five free eBooks per month
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March 23, 2021
Inspirational Short Storieshttps://www.inspirationalstories.eu/
Inspirational stories that encourage us to seek for our dreams and never give up, teach us to notice the magical beauty of life,
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May 26, 2020
Home | PBS Newshour Extrahttps://www.journalisminaction.org/Journalism in Action allows you to learn about ten key moments in US history through a journalist’s lens. In this interactive website designed for middle and high school students, you will analyze primary sources such as newspaper articles, videos, and photography to determine what happened and…
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December 13, 2020
test english listeninghttps://test-english.com/listening/
Improve your listening skills by practicing with audio and video tests. There are tests for each level: A1, A2, B1, B1+, B2. You will be able to see the transcription of the audio after you submit your answers.
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May 17, 2021
Moby Dick Big Readhttp://www.mobydickbigread.com/Moby Dick The Big Read, a full audio book of Herman Melville’s influential novel. All 135 chapters are available to be listened to in your browser.
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August 7, 2021
NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program
NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Programhttps://ywp.nanowrimo.org/National Novel Writing Month is a fun, empowering approach to creative writing. The challenge: draft an entire novel in just one month. For 30 wild, exciting, surprising days, you get to lock away…
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January 5, 2021
Read Books Online – Free Novels Online – Novels80https://novels80.com/Novels80 – Read novels online, Free novels online. All genres.
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January 18, 2021
Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | Lit2Go ETChttps://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/50/oliver-twist/Oliver Twist is Charles Dickens’ second novel. It is about a boy named Oliver Twist, who escapes from a workhouse and meets a gang of pickpockets in London.
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March 6, 2021
Online Read Free Novel – Read Light Novelhttps://onlinereadfreenovel.com/A comprehensive archive of books with text and audio on the net, with Build-in Book Search.
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January 17, 2021
Potterless Podcast | A Grown Man Reads Harry Potter for the First Timehttps://www.potterlesspodcast.com/Potterless is a Harry Potter podcast about a grown man reading the series for the first time. He analyzes the books and pokes fun at plot holes with HP experts.
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March 14, 2021
Read-Any-Book.com – online reading for free.https://www.readanybook.com/
New free books – online reading for free.
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May 26, 2020
S-Town Podcasthttps://stownpodcast.org/A new podcast from Serial and This American Life. Hosted by Brian Reed.
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June 16, 2020
Episode 01: The Alibi – Serialhttps://serialpodcast.org/season-one/1/the-alibi
A potential alibi surfaces … and then disappears again, at the worst possible time for Adnan’s case. – A series of podcasts (appr. 50 min each) telling a story about the disappearance of a high-school student.
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June 16, 2020
Short Stories at East of the Web
Short Stories at East of the Webhttp://eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/indexframe.htmlHe watched her leave, knowing that she only pulled the latch behind her. He had at least two hours before she would be back home. He needed one last souvenir, and he knew exactly where to find it.o
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December 4, 2020
Short stories for English classes – with audio
Short stories for English classes – with audiohttps://linguapress.com/short-stories.htmShort stories for the English class, graded for intermediate and advanced learners
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October 24, 2021
Short Stories for High School Students
Short Stories for High School Studentshttps://americanliterature.com/high-school-short-storiesWe recommend these stories for high school students based on their literary significance and to deepen student appreciation for the short story genre.
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January 18, 2021
StoryCorps Animationshttps://storycorps.org/animation/#all-animations
Short, thought provoking animations to inspire discussion and/or writing
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May 26, 2020
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | Lit2Go ETChttps://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/21/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a first person narrative told by the title character, Huckleberry Finn, as he accompanies a runaway slave on his journey to freedom.
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March 6, 2021
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Lit2Go ETChttps://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/32/the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes/12 stories of people seeking the help of Sherlock Holmes and how he solves their problems.
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March 6, 2021
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Engineer’s Thumb – Audiobook – YouTube (53:27)https://youtu.be/38zIL3SvVUwThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Audiobooks in English. (If you want to listen with subtitles, turn on CC.)
A Case of Identity (55:07)
The Blue Carbuncle (52:20)
The Boscombe Valley Mystery (1:14:07)
The Dancing Men (1:01:34)
The Five Orange Pips (56:00)
The Red-Headed League (1:00:48)
The Scandal in Bohemia (1:07:14)
The Speckled Band (1:03:06)
The Man with the Twisted Lip (1:121:53)
A Case of Identity (55:07)
The Blue Carbuncle (52:20)
The Boscombe Valley Mystery (1:14:07)
The Dancing Men (1:01:34)
The Five Orange Pips (56:00)
The Red-Headed League (1:00:48)
The Scandal in Bohemia (1:07:14)
The Speckled Band (1:03:06)
The Man with the Twisted Lip (1:121:53)
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October 24, 2021
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | Lit2Go ETChttps://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/34/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is set in the 1840’s in the fictitious town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom lives with his deceased mother’s sister, Aunt Polly, and his half-brother, Sid.
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March 6, 2021
The Moth | Podcasthttps://themoth.org/podcastThe Moth Podcast features stories from our Mainstage, StorySLAM and Community programs. Episodes are released every Tuesday.
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April 20, 2021
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydehttp://esl-bits.net/Novellas.for.ESL.Students/Jekyll.and.Hyde/preview.htmlAn intriguing combination of fantast thriller and moral allegory, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde depicts the gripping struggle of two opposing personalities
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June 16, 2020
The Tell-Tale Heart by Annette Jung – YouTube (8:01) https://youtu.be/wDLLHTdVSgU
Ed hates the disgusting eye of his father and so he made up his mind to take the life of the old man to rid himself of the eye forever.
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May 26, 2020
The Tell-Tale Heart – The Poe Museumhttps://poemuseum.org/the-tell-tale-heart/The Tell-Tale Heart True! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses […]
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September 25, 2021
The Times in Plain English |https://www.thetimesinplainenglish.com/Clear writing. Global reading. Reporting from Great Newspapers for Today’s Readers
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May 26, 2020
This American Lifehttps://www.thisamericanlife.org/A weekly public radio program and podcast. Each week we choose a theme and put together different kinds of stories on that theme.
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August 26, 2021
Top 100 Speecheshttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html
A list of famous speeches With video, audio, and text
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May 26, 2020
Video Writing Prompts – YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbEN5TAJTsE&list=PLzDOGMsmDvev9eeJeNUAJx7N8SOGLRwMJVideo Writing Prompts for Students by Professor John Spencer – YouTube Playlist
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March 16, 2021
Wonder Part 1: August – YouTube (1:53:27)https://youtu.be/K_xZWu_eILEWonder by R.J. Palacio-Part 1: August. To skip the adds, use WatchkinPlaylist of all chapters
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November 9, 2021
Write.Right.Ritehttps://guides.loc.gov/jason-reynolds/grab-the-mic/wrrWelcome to the “Write. Right. Rite.,” a “GRAB THE MIC: Tell Your Story” video series!
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October 1, 2020
Writing Promptshttps://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/learning-writing-promptsThe Learning Network PICTURE PROMPTS, STUDENT OPINION QUESTIONS, CURRENT EVENTS CONVERSATION – Updated frequently
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July 20, 2020
