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A1 English Listening Practice - Retirement
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for beginner students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of retirement. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the screen...
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A2 English Listening Practice - Nature
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for lower-level students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of nature. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the screen to...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Modifying to Add Details
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson shows how expanding sentences with simple adverbials (e.g., adverbs, adverb phrases, prepositional phrases) to provide details (e.g., time, manner, place, cause) about...
Language Tree
Foundational Literacy: First and Last Sounds, Part 1
This video helps English learners identify the first sound and last sound in a word.
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A2 English Listening Practice - Emotions
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for lower-level students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of emotions. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the screen...
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A1 English Listening Practice - Breakfast
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for beginner students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of breakfast. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the screen to...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 4
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD video covers how to use a variety of verbs in different tenses (e.g, past, present, future, simple progressive) appropriate to the text type and discipline (e.g., simple past and...
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A1 English Listening Practice - Working from Home
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for beginner students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of working from home. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the...
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A1 English Listening Practice - Homes
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for beginner students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of homes. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the screen to...
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A1 English Listening Practice - Countries Pt 2
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for beginner students. In this second part of the two-part video series on different countries, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about some other countries...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 2
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD video covers how to use a variety of verbs in different tenses (e.g, past, present, future, simple progressive) appropriate to the text type and discipline (e.g., simple past and...
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A1 English Listening Practice - Favorites
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for beginner students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about some of his favorite things. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Connecting Ideas
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson talks about how to combine clauses in a few basic ways to make connections between ideas and to join ideas (e.g. creating compound sentences using "and", "but", "so";...
Rachel's English
Ways to say NO
When you need to say “No” there are many English phrases you can use. Some will help you be more polite. Some of the other phrases will help you say “No” in a more socially acceptable way. English phrases help you take on the nuances of...
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A2 English Listening Practice - Cars and Driving
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for lower-level students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of cars and driving. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the...
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A1 English Listening Practice - Countries
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for beginner students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about several different countries. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the...
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A2 English Listening Practice - Fears
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for lower-level students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of fears. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the screen to...
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A2 English Listening Practice - Coffee
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for lower-level students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of coffee. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the screen to...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Personal Pronouns and Connecting Words, Part 1
This standards-based ELD lesson for beginner English learners focuses on applying knowledge of familiar language resources for referring in order to make texts more cohesive (e.g., how pronouns refer back to nouns in text); Applying...
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A1 English Listening Practice - Language Learning
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for beginner students. In this video, a native English speaker talks slowly and clearly about the topic of language learning. The subtitles are included at the bottom of the...
Language Tree
Foundational Literacy: Upper and Lower Case Letters
This lesson helps newcomer and beginner level English learners recognize both upper- and lower-case letters of the alphabet.
Language Tree
Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Presenting, Part 2
This lesson for beginner English learners focuses on formal and informal presentation skills: Providing information to friends, using eye contact, presenting a familiar topic, informal or formal presentation language based on the setting.
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Personal Pronouns and Connecting Words, Part 2
This standards-based ELD lesson for beginner English learners focuses on applying knowledge of familiar language resources for referring in order to make texts more cohesive (e.g., how pronouns refer back to nouns in text); Applying...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 1
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD video covers how to use a variety of verbs in different tenses (e.g, past, present, future, simple progressive) appropriate to the text type and discipline (e.g., simple past and...