News Words: Mainstream

Let's Take a Vacation

We'll take some vacation tours via YouTube:

Elvis Presley's Graceland

A White House Tour in 2008

Ten Things To Do in Hawaii

A Visit to Macau

A Video about Hong Kong

A Quick Trip to Paris, France

Things You'll Love & Hate about London

Tour Edinburgh, Scotland

Let's Visit Mexico City, Mexico

10 Things To Know About New York City

MORE AZAR GRAMMAR LESSONS

from www.azargrammar.com:  


PowerPoint Shows about Grammar

Focus on English Grammar 4th Edition

General Information

1. Civic Center Campus website

     Here you have many sites to choose from. We'll look at some of them in class.

2.  CCSF Student Wiki  

     Another website with many useful links. Find the ones you're interested in, and ask questions.

3.  A Mother's Day Story

   This story includes a paper and listening; it gives a history of this holiday.


4. Free iTunes Podcasts
    
   Podcasts are a good way to listen to English and learn something that you also enjoy.  They are free and you can find them on iTunes, a free program for PC and Mac.

5. Practice grammar with multiple choice questions:                    www.manythings.org/voa/

 Watch stories from the Voice of America on YouTube

6.  www.visualesl.com has many things to study, such as:

• punctuation
• phrasal verbs
• weather vocabulary  
• animal sounds 

7. www.starfall.com is a children's website with a lot of                      information - this one is about pizza

   

Learn English with Reading, Music, and Talking grammar lessons

There are many good materials for learning English here:

Readings:

Urban Legends

News for You Online     password:  2cb812

esl-bits.net  
from this website, read and listen to a 'radio drama' below:
The big story: Manhunt in Manhattan

Music:

esl-bits.net Songs for Language Learning

www.YouTube.com  search for the songs you want to hear - include 'lyrics' in your search and you will see the words to the song on the screen

azar songs with lessons - 1.Never Been to Spain

Talking Grammar Basics: 

talking grammar characters in  
Grammar Speaks - intermediate level

Games, Riddles, Puzzles and ...

Games and puzzles are good for relaxation. They're also good for learning English.

JUST FOR FUN:

When Pigs Fly

Matching Game in Chinese

Jigsaw Puzzles

Arcade game - Fix it, Felix


Class photos L. 5-8 at 3:20 pm

LEARN ENGLISH:

Sentence - Monkey

Puzzles in English

Matching Games in English

Match male and female words

U.S. geography quiz with sound - easy

U.S. geography quiz with sound - more difficult

Antonym or Synonym Game

Maps of China in English

Compound Words: Break them up

Slang or Idioms in English

Jeopardy Game - Prefix/Suffix etc.  

Pronunciation Videos and More

• How to say can and can't

• The difference between -ing and -ed adjectives

• Oral Reading Practice #1

• Restaurant vocabulary - beginning

• SMS English - for texting on your smart phone

We'll add a VOCABULARY GAME section here:

• Vocabulary game with many choices - let's have a look.

• Antonym matching game  An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another word.