Instructional Video4:04
Curated Video

A1 English Listening Practice - Retirement

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:17
Curated Video

A2 English Listening Practice - Nature

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video1:58
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Modifying to Add Details

K - 5th
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...
Instructional Video0:57
Language Tree

Foundational Literacy: First and Last Sounds, Part 1

K - 5th
This video helps English learners identify the first sound and last sound in a word.
Instructional Video3:33
Curated Video

A2 English Listening Practice - Emotions

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:59
Curated Video

A1 English Listening Practice - Breakfast

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video1:22
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 4

K - 5th
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...
Instructional Video3:44
Curated Video

A1 English Listening Practice - Working from Home

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:43
Curated Video

A1 English Listening Practice - Homes

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:52
Curated Video

A1 English Listening Practice - Countries Pt 2

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video1:53
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 2

K - 5th
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...
Instructional Video3:43
Curated Video

A1 English Listening Practice - Favorites

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video2:24
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Connecting Ideas

K - 5th
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";...
Instructional Video6:03
Rachel's English

Ways to say NO

6th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:27
Curated Video

A2 English Listening Practice - Cars and Driving

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:59
Curated Video

A1 English Listening Practice - Countries

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:06
Curated Video

A2 English Listening Practice - Fears

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:19
Curated Video

A2 English Listening Practice - Coffee

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video1:13
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Personal Pronouns and Connecting Words, Part 1

K - 5th
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...
Instructional Video3:38
Curated Video

A1 English Listening Practice - Language Learning

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video2:16
Language Tree

Foundational Literacy: Upper and Lower Case Letters

K - 5th
This lesson helps newcomer and beginner level English learners recognize both upper- and lower-case letters of the alphabet.
Instructional Video2:21
Language Tree

Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Presenting, Part 2

K - 5th
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.
Instructional Video0:57
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Personal Pronouns and Connecting Words, Part 2

K - 5th
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...
Instructional Video1:34
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 1

K - 5th
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...