British Council
Romeo and Juliet
An engaging video featuring William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is accompanied by six activities designed to reinforce vocabulary, story elements, and comprehension. Scholars match words to pictures, place events in sequential order,...
British Council
Twelfth Night
Scholars experience Shakespeare's, Twelfth Night, with an engaging interactive. After watching the story, six activities extend the learning experience. Topics include characters, vocabulary, a sequence of events, comprehension, and...
British Council
William Shakespeare
After watching a three-minute video detailing the life of William Shakespeare, scholars take part in several activities designed to show what they know about the famous writer. Learners read a series of eight sentences and put them in...
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: What Are Word Types?
This Skillswise site focuses on word types,or as we call them, parts of speech. Included are a video about why learning to identify parts of speech is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Intro to Articles
Articles--words like the, a, and an-are special adjectives we use to indicate whether a noun is specific or not specific.
Education Development Center
Education Development Center: Tv411: Vocabulary
Fifteen short videos that help students learn about vocabulary building skills such as using a dictionary, using a thesaurus, multiple meaning words, synonyms, antonym, homonyms, prefixes, suffixes, and more.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: How to Use Reference Materials: No Nonsense Grammar
A dictionary is one of the most useful reference books anybody could ever use. Watch this video to learn how to properly understand a dictionary's formatting and content.
Other
Vantage Learning: Signal Words
Explains what signal words are and what messages they convey. Discusses words that compare, contrast, or add information, and what to do when you encounter them. [3:22]