B1 Level Resources

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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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.

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.

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

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

Amazing Tongue Twister Raphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvLmcRZte78

A quick rap with words in the alphabetical order. Listen for fun!

A Short History of the English Language – YouTube (9:32)https://youtu.be/iSSTv8-2358Vol 1: A brief history of English from the Anglo-Saxons to Shakespeare. Some sources: The Cambridge history of the English language.

Watch an 8-Part Film Adaptation of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina Free Online | Open Culturehttps://www.openculture.com/2022/07/watch-an-8-part-film-adaptation-of-tolstoys-anna-karenina-free-online.htmlThough the U.S.S.R. may have gone, Mosfilm hasn’t. Under the direction of filmmaker Karen Shakhnazarov, the studio has soldiered on as a quasi-private production company and put out a variety of films

Argumentative Writing Prompts for High School Englishhttps://www.weareteachers.com/argumentative-writing-prompts/

Get teens thinking and typing…fast! More Argumentative Prompts 

 

BBC Podcastshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/podcastsPodcasts for every taste and interest.

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

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

Cookery vocabularyhttps://quizlet.com/_2kouc6

Learn 100 cookery words Common Sense Privacy Evaluation

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.

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!

Enter The Story: classic books as games – YouTubehttps://youtu.be/Vxbw5A_tv7cEnter The Story: classic books as games. – Choose from several epic stories. Play here

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.

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

For ESL English Language Learnershttps://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/wonder/preview.htmlAugust Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Now, starting at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid

Free-eBooks.net | Download free Fictionhttps://www.free-ebooks.net/Download free Fiction, Health, Romance, and many more books – Five free eBooks per month

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,

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…

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.

50,000+ Free eBooks in the Genres you Love | Manybookshttps://manybooks.net/Welcome to your friendly neighbourhood library. We are proud to offer you, as our reader, a library of close to 50,000 free eBooks

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.

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…

Read Books Online – Free Novels Online – Novels80https://novels80.com/Novels80 – Read novels online, Free novels online. All genres.

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.

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.

Questions & Answershttps://webenglish.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/QuestionsAnswers.pdfThis is the first step to getting your students to speak in the classroom. Students read out the questions and answers in turns. The point is that they don’t often match, which makes this game fun.

Rap Lyrics Generatorhttps://www.song-lyrics-generator.org.uk/rap/Automatic Rap generator tool. Choose some keywords and we will automatically create a rap in seconds.

Read-Any-Book.com – online reading for free.https://www.readanybook.com/

New free books – online reading for free.

S-Town Podcasthttps://stownpodcast.org/A new podcast from Serial and This American Life. Hosted by Brian Reed.

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.

Shaking Up Short Stories – The Educators Roomhttps://theeducatorsroom.com/shaking-up-short-stories Many teachers use short stories to teach Reading standards with the idea that students can then apply those standards to larger works.

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

Short stories for English classes – with audiohttps://linguapress.com/short-stories.htmShort stories for the English class, graded for intermediate and advanced learners

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.

Stephen Fry’s 7 Deadly Sins – Hosted by Stephen Fry | SamFry Ltdhttps://shows.acast.com/greatleapyears/episodesExamining the 7 Deadly Sins – Scroll down past the Great Leaps

StoryCorps Animationshttps://storycorps.org/animation/#all-animations

Short, thought provoking animations to inspire discussion and/or writing

Talk Your Head Offhttps://www.talkyourheadoff.eu/collection/categories/free-lessonsInnovative speaking lessons for English classes. FREE

Talks by brilliant kids and teens | TED Talkshttps://www.ted.com/playlists/129/ted_under_20Talks from scientists, musicians, innovators, activists — all under the age of 20. Watch these amazing wunderkinds.

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain – FULL AudioBook | GreatestAudioBooks V2 – YouTubehttps://youtu.be/uy1lzFu34XoTHE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain – FULL AudioBook | Original Version | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.

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)

The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories | American Englishhttps://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/gift-magi-and-other-storiesThis collection of short stories by O. Henry gives the reader a wonderful selection of characters from the United States of 100 years ago.

The Moth | Podcasthttps://themoth.org/podcastThe Moth Podcast features stories from our Mainstage, StorySLAM and Community programs. Episodes are released every Tuesday.

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.

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 […]

The Times in Plain English |https://www.thetimesinplainenglish.com/Clear writing. Global reading. Reporting from Great Newspapers for Today’s Readers

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.

Top 100 Speecheshttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html

A list of famous speeches With video, audio, and text

Video Writing Prompts – YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbEN5TAJTsE&list=PLzDOGMsmDvev9eeJeNUAJx7N8SOGLRwMJVideo Writing Prompts for Students by Professor John Spencer – YouTube Playlist

Wordle – A daily word gamehttps://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

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!

Writing Promptshttps://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/learning-writing-promptsThe Learning Network PICTURE PROMPTS, STUDENT OPINION QUESTIONS, CURRENT EVENTS CONVERSATION – Updated frequently