Skip - ESL-BITS.NET - ESL English Listening - Audiobooks - Listen to a Book and Read Along - fast and slow listening speeds. Stardust by Neil Gaiman In the sleepy English countryside at the dawn of the Victorian era lies the village of Wall - a secluded hamlet.
The lesiurely pace in Wall is disrupted only once every nine years as the mortal and magical meet upon the meadow for a market fair like no other. It is here in Wall that young Tristan Thorn loses his heart to the town beauty - a woman who is as cold and distant as the star she and Tristan see fall from the sky. To gain the hand of his beloved in marriage, Tristan vows to fetch the fallen star and embarks upon a quest that willl take him over the ancient wall and into a world beyond his wildest imaginings... A tale of romance, magic, and glamour, the multiple award-winning STARDUST is a spellbinding story. The Seven Best Simple Novels for EFL Students - Kieran Donaghy. In my previous article I looked at the many benefits of extensive reading which include gains in reading and writing competence, oral and aural skills, vocabulary growth, and increases in self-esteem and empathy.
It is also highly motivating for students to discover that they can read in English and that they enjoy it. For this reason it is essential that the books are interesting to students and at a level appropriate to their reading ability. If students find the books compelling and interesting, and can understand them, they may become more eager readers. However, finding books that are interesting to your students and at a level appropriate to their reading level is not always easy.
For students from level A1-B1 I would strongly recommend using graded readers – books which have been adapted by avoiding using difficult grammar and vocabulary for people learning a foreign language. In this article I’m going to look at the seven novels that have worked best with my students. 1. 2. Tell-me-questions. 6 Reading Strategies - a Parody of Justin Bieber 's "Boyfriend"
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Discussion Question Pack for Fiction and Nonfiction Texts. Boksamtal. Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students (Fun English Study) 20 Literature Response Questions for Any Book. 6 Alternatives to Reading Logs by @shfarnsworth - Teacher Tech. Guest blog post by Shaelynn Farnsworth Let’s face it, reading logs are typically not accurate in time read or books finished.
From forged signatures to parents exaggerating the time their student spends in a book, reading logs do very little to motivate students or to instill a love of books. If the purpose of reading logs is to create habitual readers why do they continually fail both students and teachers? What alternatives to tracking pages or time offer more value and choice to readers? 1. Have students share what they read on social media. 2. Book blogs provide students a social experience of sharing what they read with a global audience. 3. Along with Book Blogs, students can create Vlogs sharing what they read. 4. As adults, when we read something that we enjoy we talk about it. 5. Give Me 5 is a simple strategy where students choose 5 quotes from the book that best illustrate the author’s message, insight into a character, or conceptual understanding. 6.
The online home of speaking & listening across the curriculum. LearnEnglish Teens. Reading Rockets. Celebrate Roald Dahl 100 With Teaching Ideas! 2016 marks 100 years since the birth of the popular children's author Roald Dahl and schools around the world are celebrating with a wide range of classroom activities.
To help you to prepare, we have created this list of some of our most popular Roald Dahl teaching, activity and display resources. Teaching Ideas and Classroom Activities: Organise your own Roald Dahl Day with the ideas in this post. Write your own instructions based on ideas in Roald Dahl's books. Write a recipe for George's marvellous medicine! Downloadable Resources: Study break. "ESL English as a Second Language Listening and Reading Audiobooks". Understand what you read. Home - World Stories. ESL English Language Learning - Adult Literacy - Listening & Reading - Audiobooks - Stories. Read. California Distance Learning Project. Breaking News English Lessons: Easy English News.
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