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With the possible disruption to social gatherings presented by the coronavirus, there is increased discussion around planning for the use of online learning as a continuity plan for most universities and schools. While there seems to be more fervor around this idea than in the past, this is no different than other times when online has been considered as part of an instructional continuity plan. We have seen a number of resources and ideas being shared, but many of them focus more on institutional plans or are technical how-tos. Here we want to provide an instructional planning guide that individual instructors can use.

Your first tendency may be to ask what tools you can use to deliver live lectures so students don't miss a lecture. Let's take a few steps back and do some quick planning to think through a few things before you decide to do this. This guide is aimed not at the permanent movement from face-to-face to online education but at the desire to implement an interim solution for emergency remote teaching and is specifically focused on lecture-based classes with some considerations for more active learning environments.
The Basics Basic Student Needs
Students will need to access readings and course materials and a way to submit assignments and receive feedback on their work. They also will need a way to send you questions, and they will need to know when and how you will respond to them.
Basic Instructor Needs
You need to deliver your content, for lack of a better term, to your students, and to communicate with them. There are many types of necessary communication in this situation. Students need to know what to do, how you want them to do it, how to submit it to you and how to get your feedback on their work.
Meeting Those Needs
All these needs are things that can be readily handled by a learning management system, if you have one, and most universities and schools do have one these days. As a bonus, the skills you are developing in this time of need can come in handy when you resume your face-to-face class. You can continue using the LMS to distribute handouts and other course documents and for students to submit assignments, post questions and access readings. While many instructors may be exploring the use of social media (e.g. Twitter hashtags or other options), you may find it's best to stick with institutionally supported tools and infrastructures since those will have dedicated support for you and your students as well.

If you are teaching face-to-face classes, your first impulse may be to think about your lectures. You may want to record lectures, narrated PowerPoints/slides or live sessions to make them available online. It is not hard to create some videos or narrated slideshows with technology that is often readily available. Be aware that you need to make sure these materials are accessible to all students, so transcripts or captions will need to be included. Your institution may have specific solutions for these accessibility accommodations, but automatic captioning in YouTube works well with a little effort on your part to make sure it's there. Yes, this may be a little confusing for you at first, but meeting the needs of all of your learners is paramount.

Here are some quick planning items you can implement:

Create a course site in your university's or school's LMS

Load any assignments that will be due into the assignments section (or have support staff help you with this).
For online, students require very clear instructions and prompt feedback, so make sure you provide students clarity on what to submit, how and any associated handouts for an assignment. In an LMS, you can set due dates, attach files and write a description for assignments to provide students guidance.

Load any readings that students will need into resources/files (or have support staff help you).

Create a discussion/forum section dedicated to student questions for you that you will check periodically (may want to set a meeting reminder to allocate time and remind you to do so).

Create a class communication plan so students know where to go and what to expect; address questions like:

Where to send questions

How quickly will you respond to emails; how quickly will you respond to discussion posts

How to reach you with any urgent needs or questions

What sort of regular communications you will send out to the class (e.g. weekly reviews and/or updates)

Other plans you have for how you will be available to students and how you will send out regular information and updates

Most universities often have online tutorials that will guide you through many of these tasks. There is a link provided at the bottom of this article to a resource that has been created with links to all the various resources and guides created by universities.
Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
Think about whether synchronous meetings are really needed. Disruptions that are major enough to force closures, etc., can also be major enough to significantly impact people's schedules and availability. Is it really important that students be present live, at a specific time, for a lecture? Consider recording lectures they can listen to on their own time, and then set up periodic live sessions throughout the week where students can join you for virtual office hours to ask questions and get further guidance and support. This can ensure your learners have the access they need to critical content while also having opportunities for additional support. So, for this decide:

What can be recorded
Identify how you can record this. Most live meeting tools allow you to record, so you often can use Zoom, Blackboard Collaborate, Adobe Captivate or others to just open a session/room or record a talk (share your screen if you have slides to talk through), and then it will save it somewhere and you can provide that file or link. Using the tool your university or school has means it's likely integrated with the LMS for easy distribution. Support staff can help you with this, but if your support staff are overwhelmed, YouTube is also a great user's manual for many of these tools -- most products have how-to videos on YouTube or on their websites. If you want to edit your videos, you may need a different tool like Camtasia, which allows for more advanced editing and closed captioning. Some of the synchronous video tools allow for very basic editing of video.

How do you want to make yourself available to students for questions or support with more complex needs than a discussion board may provide?
We recommend virtual office hours. You may decide you want to answer any questions asynchronously or in one-on-one appointments via phone or video chat.

Student-to-Student Communication
Now, let's think about the ways in which students informally support each other in their learning and how you can make some avenues readily available for them. In face-to-face settings, if a student feels confused, they can turn to a classmate and say, "Hey, I didn't understand ... did you?" These sorts of informal social learning supports are crucial to student learning (not just socially but to comprehension and retention as well). Consider how you can integrate some ways for students to connect with each other. Here are some quick and easy solutions to implement:

Create a discussion/forum for students to pose questions for each other and provide each other support.

Provide a link to a live session that's open 24-7 for them to use. For example, Zoom rooms have links and can be open for anytime access. You could create a Zoom room for your class, post that link and tell students it's there for them to use and connect with each other as they need.

Once you have done all that, in your LMS, you can then:

Create a page with a table on it that quickly summarize for students each week -- what they'll read, any assignments due, any recorded lectures and any live sessions -- with links as necessary to these things).

Make sure your class roster is added to your class site -- typically support staff can help with this.

Download your class roster with emails to have on hand for quick reference if necessary (usually, you can save your class roster in a spreadsheet format with this information -- it takes less than one minute to do).

Communicate your plan to your students:
Do a quick walk-through of your plan and the course site for students -- this can be done either in person if you still have some in-person sessions or can be done as a recorded video you share out with your class.

Implement a transition plan with your class, if you have time -- start having your students access readings, etc., in the course site and hold some virtual office hours for class.

Connect with support staff at your university or school to help you ensure your content is accessible.

Keep in mind that online learning may be new to your students, too, so weekly summaries or regular notes keeping them up-to-date, summarizing the past week, providing guidance for the week ahead and any other important communications will help orient them as well. These can be handled as a course email or course announcements in the LMS.
Beyond the Basics
The above steps are geared toward helping you set up a functional, temporary online learning environment for your class(es). The recommendations above are not designed to take the most advantage of the online learning environment and some of the tools and other affordances. Nor does this account for various systemic and/or equity issues that may arise from a sudden shift to online, such as whether students will have reliable internet access. While some of these affordances would take more significant planning and development than you are likely wanting to invest in right now, there are others you may want to consider.
Interactive Learning
Many live meeting tools have features like breakout rooms that allow you to break your class into small groups and go from room to room to talk with each group. If your class is more engaged in active learning, you may find using this feature helpful. Some of these tools also allow you to do polling during a live class or post quiz questions. Often, these tools also have a screen-sharing feature that allows you and students to share your screen. This can be useful if students are working on projects and you want them to share and talk through them or have them give presentations. If you will be online for a time when you planned for group work or sharing, be aware of your options and plan accordingly.

Many of the resources in the link below have more about using these live online environments.
Collaboration
Part of your in-class plan may involve student collaboration on creating a project or working on a paper together. Today, even for in-class work, students are often using tools like Google Docs to work together. If you have some assignments or activities where you want students co-creating some sort of assignment or submission together, consider having them work in Google Docs, Google Sheets or some other sort of online collaborative software and allow them to submit assignments in that format.
Flexibility
Flexibility will be key to ensuring students are not put at a disadvantage by a sudden move to online. Consider implementing flexible deadlines for when anything is due and flexible methods for how students will complete an assignment or demonstrate their learning. Using asynchronous recorded talks instead of requiring synchronous meetings can provide everyone important flexibility as well. In addition, assume at least some students will use phones or tablets for accessing class and completing and submitting their work. There are times that leads to difficulty with viewing, submitting or accessing live sessions. Make sure you record any live sessions and make those recordings available or use methods that allow students to reach you by phone and email, not just by video chat. (Torrey Trust, from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has put together a Google slide deck with more on UDL considerations and a host of great ideas.)

You may find that a number of students rely on the physical university infrastructure, such as computers at the library, and will not be able to access remote solutions, especially on such short notice. Be available by phone and email and actively invite students to reach you any way they can and share if they are having difficulties so you can monitor and adjust accordingly.
Access to Additional Resources
Students are probably going to need access to additional resources -- like the library -- to complete their work for your class. Identify what your library plans to do and what they have available and create a section in your course site with links to online library resources as well as links to other types of resources students may need to access at a distance.
Preparing Your Own Space
Finally, it's important for both you and for your students to get the right equipment. You may already have most of these, and you do not need costly options for any of these to be functional:

Laptop, desktop or tablet.

Headphones or earbuds -- the biggest impediment to online communications is poor audio quality, so make sure you have a headset or earbuds; this is important to eliminating audio feedback loops, background noises, and other disruptions.

Microphone -- may already be built into your device, computer, camera or as part of a separate headset.

Webcam -- may already be built into your device or computer.

Internet -- this all does require reliable internet service; a wireless hotspot on a high-speed network may also suffice.

Backdrop -- make sure what students see behind you for any live or recorded video is clean and professional.

Finally, we want to thank and recognize the myriad professional instructional designers who are doing a lot of heavy lifting during this time supporting their universities' planning and implementation processes.

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The Internet TESL Journal published articles from 1995 through 2010.

This website is now an online resource book for teachers who can refer to our published articles on teaching techniques and other things of interest to EFL and ESL teachers.

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Welcome, students and teachers, to the study of English as a second language. In learning how to read, write, and speak English, students are going to gain access to many jobs and other resources that would be unavailable without knowing English. Teachers of English as a second language will do the good deed of passing on life-changing knowledge to others. Our site is made to help you learn or teach the language and become fluent in English so students can take advantage of the opportunities that fluency in English will bring and teachers can gain additional tools to help them in the classroom.

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The topic-based ESL lessons located in the student section under "English Lessons" provide resources for independent learners of English as a second language as well as students in traditional classes and those practicing their English with private tutors, friends, or family members. Each lesson offers discussion questions to help direct topic-based conversation with a conversation partner. These questions can prompt in-depth discussions with native speakers and can be used by two students together to practice their communication skills. Students learning English on their own can use these questions as writing prompts for journal entries or essays. Many lessons include additional reading material and extra examples of idioms and expressions.

Interactive online activities and games available through the topics under "English Lessons" and "Quizzes and Games" engage and challenge you to practice your new vocabulary, to learn new words, and to learn about American culture. Crossword puzzles help you connect synonyms and definitions to new vocabulary, interactive restaurant activities ask you to practice ordering off a menu, travel trivia tests your knowledge of the United States and Europe, and Internet scavenger hunts introduce you to useful websites in English while practicing navigating the Internet in English.

Interactive, self-scoring quizzes and games test your knowledge as you learn. Check your comprehension and discover new areas for improvement. Quizzes test your mastery of important grammar concepts, such as prepositions and verb forms, and your vocabulary knowledge. The level of every quiz-very easy, easy, medium or difficult-is marked to help you measure your progress and some quizzes are made especially for those studying for the TOEFL test. Online, interactive games and trivia quizzes are engaging ways to test your cultural knowledge about topics like movies, literature, and travel.
Lesson Plans and Materials for Teachers of English as a second language
Keep your lessons fresh and your ESL students engaged with materials from ESL PartyLand. The "Lesson Plan" section provides lesson plans and activities to use when teaching communicative skills and includes individual pages for teaching conversation, teaching grammar, teaching listening and speaking, teaching reading, writing and vocabulary, and teaching integrated skills. Find fully-developed lesson plans on many topics, such as noun clauses and conditionals for teaching grammar and telephone lesson plans for teaching listening and speaking. Conversation teachers can find lists of conversation questions and discussion starters along with conversation card sets and ideas on how to use them in the classroom. Grammar teachers can find grammar games and activities to use in the classroom, as well as printable activities and worksheets.

For teachers who want to integrate media into their lessons, pages dedicated to teaching with film and video, teaching with the Internet, and teaching with music give lesson plans and activities designed to incorporate these media into a lesson. Incorporate films into your classroom with fully-developed lesson plans that include pre-movie discussion questions and internet activities, vocabulary and listening activities for use during the movie, and post-viewing discussion questions. Bring music into the classroom with lyric sheets, discussion questions, and music-based activities to use with your favorite tunes. Harness the power of the Internet with Internet scavenger hunts and online worksheets and quizzes. Teachers of all levels, topics, and skills can find material to inspire them and their students.

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ESL: English as a Second Language Resources for Teachers and Students

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Welcome, students and teachers, to the study of English as a second language. In learning how to read, write, and speak English, students are going to gain access to many jobs and other resources that would be unavailable without knowing English.

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Animoto is offering a free Plus account to teachers with access to 50 students. It is a great tool to create animated videos and presentations

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Website and App with some free features that allow teachers to create Classes to promote speaking activities.

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Improve fluency and oral proficiency.

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Join 10,000+ schools who have used Lingt to create 150,000+ assignments. Improve students' fluency and oral proficiency by creating fun and engaging speaking assignments with Lingt's simple drag-and-drop editor.

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Free voice recording tool with sharing and downloading options

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Vocaroo is a quick and easy way to share voice messages over the interwebs.

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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

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For Math teachers in the GED program.

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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

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English grammar guide | EF | Global Site

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Do you have a question about the correct usage of the semicolon or how to place adverbs in a sentence? If so, you’ve come to the right place. These pages are a complete English grammar guide filled with the rules of English usage. Each grammatical rule is explained in plain English with several exam…

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Resources for STEM teachers

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Rubric making website with thousands of teacher made rubrics. you can also design your own rubric to fit your assessment needs.

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RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics, but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.

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New clips with reading scripts.

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Five US military members die in aircraft crash over the Mediterranean

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Get compelling, context-driven news, fact-based reporting, and a deeper look at the 'why' of each story with objective, impactful storytelling.

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Visual storytelling platform with countless stories from all over the world. Great tool for intermediate to Advanced language learners

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PechaKucha 20x20: Discover PechaKucha presentations, stories, ideas, examples, and videos that will inspire

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Students can create their own private journals online using their smartphones or computers.

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Penzu is a free online diary and personal journal focused on privacy. Easily keep a secret diary or a private journal of notes and ideas securely on the web.

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The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is n…

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A total website translator! Just plug in the web address and Lingro will translate each word you click.

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The coolest dictionary known to hombre! (Click to find out what it means.)

* Even though the bearing of a torch formed an integral aspect of Greek ceremonies, the ancient Olympic Games did not include it, nor was there a symbol formed by interconnecting rings.

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* From the 241 participants from 14 nations in 1896, the Games grew to nearly 11,100 competitors from 202 countries at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

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lingro: The coolest dictionary known to hombre!

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lingro is a free multilingual AJAX dictionary and language learning site. Currently supporting English (ESL), Spanish, Italian, French, and German.

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The largest pronunciation dictionary in the world. All the words in all the languages pronounced by native speakers

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Resources can be adapted to fit your students learning. This website also offers information in Spanish.

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Interactive lessons and activities for all students!

Use digital citizenship lesson plans to address timely topics and prepare students to take ownership of their digital lives. Browse lessons by grade and topic below, or see an overview of the curriculum.
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Research-backed digital citizenship lesson plans help schools navigate timely topics, such as cyberbullying, online safety, privacy, and media literacy.

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An online dictation website where students can listen to audio clips while typing what they hear.

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See words and their families

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Listening practice to help you understand the main points of clear, standard speech about everyday or job-related topics. Situations include phone calls, meetings and interviews.

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Open source audio and video recordings from across the world

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Its name can be squeezed onto a tea towel, a decorative plate, a magnet, a mug, and other touristic souvenirs, but has the northern Welsh town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoc been celebrated in song?

Indeed it has. The Great Big Story's Human Condition episode, above, has vinyl proof, though the tune's unlikely to give The White Cliffs of Dover, The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond, or The Rocky Road To Dublin much of a run for the money.

Still, whichever outside-the-box Victorian thinker had the bright idea to attract tourists by expanding the village's original name - Pwllgwyngyll - by 46 letters was onto something.

Turns out you don't need natural wonders or world-renowned cultural attractions to stake a claim, when out-of-towners will make the trip just to take photos of the local signage.

Village Community Council Chairman Alun Mummery attributes the name-lengthening publicity stunt in 1869 to a local cobbler.

Or perhaps he was a tailor. That's what poet John Morris-Jones, author of 1913's A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, maintained, while refusing to outright identify this clever civic booster.

Wikipedia throws doubt on these origin stories by citing an entry in an ecclesiastical directory published a few years prior to 1869, which gave the full parish name as "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerbwlltysiliogogo."

(Close enough!)

Someone in the tourist information office told travel writer Dave Fox that it translates to "St. Mary's Church in the hollow of white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the red cave."

It's tempting to think this little Welsh town has the longest name in the world, but that honor actually goes to Bangkok.

Wait, what?

The name by which most foreigners know Thailand's capital city is actually an archaic reference to its pre-1782 location.

Thai people call their capital Krung Thep - short for Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnopparatrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit.

It means "City of angels, great city of immortals, magnificent city of the nine gems, seat of the king, city of royal palaces, home of gods incarnate, erected by Vishvakarman at Indra's behest" and looks like this, when written in Thai script:

กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลก ภพนพรัตน์ ราชธานีบุรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์ มหาสถาน อมรพิมาน อวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยะ วิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochians still get to brag that they have the longest town name in Europe.

Their football club, Clwb Pêl Droed Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Football Club - CPD Llanfairpwll FC for short - might well be the longest named football club in the world if it weren't for that damn Amon Rattanakosin Krung Thep Mahanakhon Mahinthara Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Ayuthaya Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit Bravo Association Football Club (aka Bangkok Bravo FC).

Some of the fun of living in a town with such a cumbersome name must be amazing tourists by how casually it rolls off local tongues.

Pub owner Kevin Bryant obliges visitors from The Great Big Story by downing a pint on camera before rapping it out.

Anything for the local economy!

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoc also got a boost from mentions on Groucho Marx's quiz show, You Bet Your Life, in a Bossa Nova-inflected Stephen Sondheim song, and in several films, including 1968's Barbarella.

As YouTuber Tom Scott points out below, long words are invariably shortened in everyday speech, and place names are no exception.

Postmaster Jim Evans advocates shortening the town name to Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.

When not actively impressing tourists, local people say Llanfairpwll.

Which is still a pretty impressive consonant to vowel ratio.
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Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.

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Your guide to FREE educational media. Find thousands of free online courses, audio books, textbooks, eBooks, language lessons, movies and more.

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This website uses movie and TV show clips for listening. Students can then quiz their listening comprehension by answering the attached tests.

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Online listening and speaking practice for English language learners

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A tool to create presentations using images and videos. Users can add their voiceover to narrate the presentation.
The website has a database of shared work by teachers that can be adapted for listening and speaking activities.