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Knock Me Out at The Ball Game
Grover demonstrates the danger of not listening in this baseball video. He is unable to get a customer's hotdog order correct and repeatedly prevents him from catching a foul ball, all because of his inability to listen. This would be a...
British Council
British Council Go4 English for Arabic Speakers: Songs
This section of the British Council site for Arabic speaking children teaches English using a combination of fun songs, animation, and short word games (fill-in-the-blank, word finds, etc.). Songs relate to particular vocabulary sets --...
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Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: What Happened to My Crown?
Prince Wednesday takes his brother's crown without asking. Prince Tuesday becomes upset, but then they talk about taking other people's possessions. Remind kids that they cannot take other people's possessions without asking first. If...
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British Council: Learn English Kids: The Story of My Dad
Use this story that can be listened to and read to practice reading skills that pick out details from a story. Activity is included.
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British Council: Learn English Kids: Dinosaur Dig
Use this story about a little girl and a dinosaur dig to practice reading skills such as story sequencing. Use the printable activity sheet to help you practice reading comprehension.
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Learn English Kids: This Is the Way
Listen to this songabout personal grooming and follow along with the lyrics. It begins with a word and picture matching activity.
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British Council: Learn English Kids: Hickory, Dickory, Dock
Listen to this traditional children's song. Then print the song and an activity that shows how well you can tell time.
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British Council: Learn English Kids: Eric the Engine and the Railway Rock
After listening to and reading along with this story, print off the activity sheet to practice sequencing. Good for checking comprehension for early intermediate English language learners or any beginning reader.
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British Council: Learn English Kids: Record Breakers (Song and Jigsaw Puzzle)
This story gives a fun way to check listening and reading comprehension. Read and listen to the story before printing out an activity that tests what you've learned.
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British Council: Learn English Kids: If You're Happy and You Know It
Listen to this upbeat song and follow along by doing the actions.
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British Council: Learn English Kids: Twins' Week
Listen to and read along with this little story about what twins, a brother and a sister, do all week at the zoo. A printable worksheet offers an activity to check reading comprehension. Good for early intermediate English language...
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: Online Library & Listening Lab
An amazing project done by a California high school sophomore. After working as an ELL tutor, she decided to build a website that would provide free audio clips to ELL learners around the world. The resulting site is a library of...
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Kidoons: Brementown Musicians
The story is read aloud page by page. The illustrations are simple and colorful. The vocabulary is for advanced English language learners, or native speakers. Click on the French flag or Italian flag to hear and read the story in those...
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Communication Skills
This Skillswise site focuses on communication skills. Included are a video about how to develop communication skills, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise sites from BBC are...
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Pbs Learning Media: Poem: "Four Seasons"
Video in which the characters from Between the Lions recite a poem about the four seasons. Students can read the words as they listen to the poem. [0:28]
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British Council: Learn English Kids: Incy Wincy Spider
Sing along with the Incy Wincy spider, print out an activity sheet for matching practice, and make a mobile by following the directions on the site.