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Below you'll find some materials I've prepared over the last few years while teaching German to undergraduates here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites. Please, if you do notice anything that appears to be a copyright infringement, I'd be more than happy to remove the offending material if you let me know.

Unless otherwise noted, all materials are in German. Some may have English glosses for vocabulary and about half have English instructions.

Feel free to use these as handouts or links for your own teaching, or for your own reference -- there's no need to give me credit. However, please do drop me a line if you plan on using them for anything other than classroom or instructional use.

Unten finden Sie einige Lehrmaterialien, die ich im Laufe der letzten paar Jahre für den Deutschunterricht hier an der Universität-Wisconsin Madison entwickelt habe. Alle Seiten, die sich hier befinden, wurden von mir persönlich zusammengestellt, aber viele der einzelnen Sätze oder Ideen stammen von alten Lehrbüchern und von diversen Internetseiten. Wenn Sie also etwas bemerken, das gegen irgendwelche Urheberrechte verstößt, bitte sagen Sie es mir, und ich werde das verstoßende Material sofort wegnehmen.

Wenn nicht anders notiert sind alle Materialien auf Deutsch, aber einige haben englische Wortschatzlisten, und etwa die Hälfte hat englischsprachige Anweisungen.

Sie dürfen diese Seiten gerne als Unterrichtshilfe (Handouts oder Links) benutzen, auch für Ihre eigenen Studien. Wenn Sie die Seiten außerhalb des Klassenzimmers benutzen wollen, bitte setzen Sie sich mit mir in Kontakt.

For easier navigation and load times, I've divided these pages into eight categories.

Grammar: covers all levels of basic German (first through fourth semester) as well as a few more advanced topics. Here you'll find worksheets -- most with answer keys available -- as well as web-based quizzes and self-tests on particular grammar topics.

Vocabulary: has vocabulary worksheets on various thematic topics (e.g. clothing, food, environment, politics) for all levels of basic German. Also includes some web-based vocabulary quizzes and self-tests, as well as suggested vocabulary lists from various textbook chapters.

Writing: a selection of writing assignments and project ideas for all levels of basic German, from very beginning to advanced composition. Includes handouts to help with dictionary work as well.

Culture: covers various cultural topics such as German history, German popular music, and geographical and political topics. Has material for various levels of German -- some in English, some entirely in German.

Videos: supplementary in-class materials for German instructional video series. At present this only covers the series "Unterwegs" (also known as "A Reunion in Tübingen") and the advanced-level "Fokus Deutsch" videos.

Lyrics: a collection of song lyrics (many with English glosses) for a number of German popular songs that I have used in the classroom.

Activities: a small selection of classroom activities, games or projects that I've used. This section is quite small at present, but will be expanded soon.

Miscellaneous: other materials such as reading comprehension worksheets, assignment sheets to correspond to the readings in Kaleidoskop, and answer keys to workbook exercises for several different textbooks.

Course Web Pages: each semester that I teach, I keep a current class webpage with online worksheets (most of which are reproduced under the categories above), syllabi and other course materials. Available at present are pages for German 101 (Fall 2003), German 102 (Spring 2004), German 203 (Fall 1999), German 204 (Fall 2001) and German 226 (Spring 2000). Feel free to visit these pages, but be aware that they're no longer actively maintained.

Other Sites of Interest: I have many other German language sites listed on my general-interest links page, but there are three that I would heartily recommend to every visitor interested in learning or teaching German: GermanForTravellers.Com, a great site with tons of useful information and links; Learn-German-Online.Net, based in Bamberg and providing free language-learning exercises as well as information about courses of study in Germany; and finally the often overlooked German.About.Com, which really does a great job of giving an overview of German-related links online.

Um die Navigation und die Ladezeiten zu erleichtern, habe ich diese Seiten in acht Kategorien geteilt.

Grammatik: umfasst alle Stufen Deutsch als Fremdsprache, mit einigen Themen auch für Fortgeschrittene. Hier finden Sie Arbeitsblätter und Übungen -- die meisten auch mit Antworten -- und auch Webquizzes zu besonderen grammatischen Themen.

Wortschatz: Arbeitsblätter und Übungen zu verschiedenen Vokabelthemen (z.B. Kleidung, Essen, Umwelt, Politik), für alle Stufen Grunddeutsch geeignet. Hier sind auch einige Webquizzes so wie Wortschatzlisten aus einigen DaF-Lehrbüchern.

Schreiben: ausgewählte Schreibprojekte und Aufsatzideen, für alle Stufen Grunddeutsch geeignet. Hier sind auch Handouts zum Thema Wörterbuch und Nachschlagen.

Kultur: umfasst verschiedene kulturelle Themen wie deutsche Geschichte, deutsche Popmusik, geographische und politische Themen. Der Niveau der Materialien reicht von Anfängerdeutsch bis Mittelstufe; einige Seiten sind auf Englisch, andere völlig auf Deutsch.

Videos: zusätzliche Materialien für einige DaF-Videoserien. Zur Zeit sind hier nur Materialien zu der Serie "Unterwegs" (auch als "A Reunion in Tübingen" bekannt) und zur Mittelstufeserie "Fokus Deutsch".

Songtexte: eine Sammlung von Songtexten (viele mit englischem Glossar) für eine Auswahl der deutschen populären Lieder, die ich in dem Unterricht benutze.

Aktivitäten: eine kleine Sammlung von Aktivitäten für das Klassenzimmer, auch mit Spielen oder Projekten, die ich ab und zu verwende. Diese Auswahl ist im Moment sehr klein, wird aber in Zukunft erweitert.

Verschiedenes: andere Materialen mit verschiedenen Themen wie z.B. Leseverständnis, Arbeitsblätter zum Lehrbuch Kaleidoskop, und auch Antworten zu den Arbeitsbüchern einiger Lehrbücher.

Course Web Pages: jedes Semester erstelle ich eine Kursseite mit Online-Arbeitsblättern (die meisten davon sind in den obenen Kategorien eingeschlossen), Lehrplänen und andere Kursmaterialien. Verfügbar sind zur Zeit Kursseiten für Deutsch 101 (Herbst 2003), Deutsch 102 (Frühjahr 2004), Deutsch 203 (Herbst 1999), Deutsch 204 (Herbst 2001) and Deutsch 226 (Frühjahr 2000). Sehen Sie sich diese Seiten ruhig an, aber bitte bedenken Sie, dass sie jetzt nicht mehr in Stand gehalten werden.

Andere interessante Seiten: In meiner Linksammlung habe ich viele andere Seiten für Deutschlernende aufgelistet, aber es gibt drei Seiten, die ich unbedingt jedem neugierigen Besucher vorschlagen kann: GermanForTravellers.Com, eine tolle Seite mit vielen interessanten Infos und Links; Learn-German-Online.Net, aus Bamberg, mit Hinweisen und Übungen für Deutschlernende so wie auch Informationen über Studienmöglichkeiten in Deutschland; und endlich die oft übersehene German.About.Com, die eine ausführliche Übersicht deutschsprachiger und DaF-relevanter Seiten im Internet liefert.

Any comments? They're bound to be gratefully received if you mail them to me.

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Le 9 juillet dernier, j'ai fait une interview de Guillaume. Il a 25 ans, il travaille actuellement comme professeur de français à Amboise. Il m'a parlé de la fête nationale française.

1) D'abord, écoutez une fois l'interview (2 minutes 17) pour la découvrir.

4) Et enfin, regardez les solutions du quizz.

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Et maintenant, lisez la transcription pour mieux comprendre l'interview.
3) Ça fait ... que = il y a... que = depuis. Donc : " Ça fait 15 ans que je l'ai pas vu " = Il y a 15 ans que je l'ai pas vu " = " Je l'ai pas vu depuis 15 ans ". Ces trois phrases sont synonymes et signifient que la dernière fois que Guillaume a vu le défilé, c'était en 1994 (puisque nous sommes en 2009).

a) Permettre = donner la possibilité de. Dans d'autres situations, " permettre " = autoriser.
b) Un défilé = quand des personnes marchent ensemble en groupe pour une occasion spéciale. Vous connaissez sans doute l'expression " défilé de mode ".
c) Un régiment = une des sections (des parties) d'une armée. Guillaume veut dire qu'il regardait à la télé les différents groupes de l'armée française qui défilaient.
d) Marrant = cet adjectif fait partie du langage familier (non-standard) et signifie " amusant ", " rigolo ", " comique ".
e) Me régaler : normalement, " se régaler " = être heureux quand on mange quelque chose de bon. Mais ici, Guillaume adapte l'expression pour signifier qu'il pense être heureux parce qu'il va regarder quelque chose de beau.
f) Du coup = donc, alors. Mais " du coup " s'utilise plus à l'oral.

Remarques sur les habitudes de langage et les prononciations :
Guillaume vient de Normandie à l'origine, il a donc un accent assez standard mais plutôt caractéristique de la partie nord de la France. Quand il dit " généralement " (par exemple), on entend " généralmen " et quand il dit " petit " on entend " pti " (le " e " entre les consonnes " l " et " m " n'est pas prononcé).
A) Euh : quand on hésite un peu, quand on cherche ses mots, on dit souvent " euh ".
B) Je... : Guillaume commence beaucoup de phrases et il ne termine pas ces phrases. C'est normal, c'est habituel dans les discussions.
C) Ben : " Ben " vient de " Eh bien ", expression utilisée pour commencer une explication.
D) Quoi : on utilise souvent " Quoi " à la fin d'une explication ou après une précision. C'est une habitude de langage mais il n'y a pas de vraie signification.
E) C'est pas impossible : comme presque tous le monde, dans les discussions, Guillaume oublie le " ne " de la négation. La forme correcte de cette phrase est " Ce n'est pas impossible ".
F) Ouais : c'est une manière informelle de dire " Oui ".

Remarques culturelles :
* Le 14 juillet : la fête nationale française est célébrée en souvenir de la Fête de la Fédération (en 1790) et non pas de la libération de la prison appelée Bastille (en 1789) comme les gens le croient souvent.
** J'ai passé plusieurs étés à travailler en centres de vacances : beaucoup de jeunes Français, souvent quand ils sont étudiants, travaillent comme animateurs pendant les vacances dans des centres de vacances. C'est un " job étudiant " typique. Il y a des centres sans hébergement (appelés traditionnellement " centres aérés) et des centres avec hébergement (appelés aussi " colonies de vacances "). Les animateurs s'occupent de la vie quotidienne des enfants ou des adolescents, organisent des jeux, des animations sportives, des visites, des fêtes, etc. Pour travailler comme animateur, il faut passer un petit diplôme appelé le BAFA (Brevet d'Aptitude aux Fonctions d'Animateur).
*** Le défilé = tous les ans, différentes sections de l'armée française défilent (marchent) sur les Champs-Élysées. Le président de la République et différents ministres sont présents. C'est très officiel. Mais beaucoup de gens curieux viennent aussi admirer le défilé. 4) J'irai : ce verbe est au futur simple. Pour réviser le futur simple, vous pouvez utiliser le .
Gabrielle : Tiens Guillaume, la semaine prochaine, c'est la fête nationale. Tu fais quoi (1) d'habitude pour le 14 juillet* ? Tu fais quelque chose ?
Guillaume : Euh (A), le 14 juillet... Donc moi généralement, je... (B) l'été, ben (C) j'ai passé plusieurs étés à travailler en centres de vacances**, pour des enfants. Donc, euh, souvent c'est en France, des fois c'est à l'étranger aussi. Quand c'est en France, euh, je, on a généralement... on essaie d'organiser une activité, euh, le soir qui nous permet (a) de, d'assister aux feux d'artifice, qui est le traditionnel..., enfin, qui est la fête, euh...
Gabrielle : C'est traditionnel pour le 14 juillet.
Guillaume : Ouais, c'est traditionnel, généralement, il y a toujours un feu d'artifice dans, dans tous les petits villages et les grandes villes de France. Euh, après, euh, quand j'étais (2) plus petit, ça m'arrivait aussi de, de regarder, puisque c'était les grandes vacances, donc on avait deux mois de pause, quoi (D), on n'avait pas d'école pendant deux mois, et on partait souvent à la campagne, donc on regardait (2) à la télé le défilé (b)*** du 14 juillet, euh, donc on voyait passer tous les, tous les régiments (c) de soldats, euh, les uns après les autres. Quand on était petits, on trouvait ça marrant (d).
Gabrielle : À l'époque, oui !
Guillaume : Je crois que ça fait peut-être 15 ans que (3) je l'ai pas vu, ce défilé, à la télé, parce que j'ai plus trop le temps maintenant.
Gabrielle : Et cette année, tu sais ce que tu vas faire ?
Guillaume : Cette année, je crois qu'il y a deux feux d'artifice, il y en a un le 13 et un le 14.
Gabrielle : Donc la totale !
Guillaume : Donc c'est la totale, c'est le grand spectacle ! Donc j'irai (4) probablement à celui du 14 qui est à Amboise. Et apparemment, de ce que j'ai pu entendre, c'est un, c'est un beau spectacle sur la Loire. Euh, mais, euh, c'est pas impossible (E) que j'aille au... à celui du 13 qui est à côté d'Amboise, dans un grand parc avec un château, je crois, et euh, pour me régaler (e) les yeux. Donc voilà, le programme a priori, pour, pour cette année.
Gabrielle : Merci ! Profites-en bien !
Guillaume : Eh ben de rien ! Bonne... Toi aussi, du coup (f).
Gabrielle : Ouais (F) merci.
Guillaume : Et à la prochaine.

Remarques de grammaire :
1) Tu fais quoi ? = La question est en français un peu familier. Vous pouvez dire aussi : " Qu'est-ce que tu fais ? " (langage standard) et " Que fais-tu " (langage plus formel).
2) J'étais / On regardait : ces deux verbes sont à l'imparfait. On utilise l'imparfait pour parler d'une situation passée (" j'étais ") ou d'une habitude passée (" on regardait "). Si vous voulez étudier ou réviser l'imparfait, utilisez par exemple le .

Quelques photos du 14 juillet à Paris (le défilé sur les Champs-Elysées et les feux d'artifice devant la Tour Eiffel) :

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Das IB-Programm behandelt den Spracherwerb auf thematische Weise. Es bietet den Schüler*innen die Möglichkeit, sich über verschiedene Themen auszutauschen. Diese Themen ermöglichen es, Vergleiche zwischen der Zielkultur - der Kultur der deutschen Sprache - und der anderer Sprachen herzustellen.
Durch die Beschäftigung mit den fünf Kursthemen erwerben und vertiefen die Schüler*innen ihre rezeptiven, produktiven und interaktiven Fähigkeiten, die nötig sind, um die Lernziele des Kurses zu erfüllen.

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Werden unsere Gegenwart und unsere Zukunft durch unsere Vergangenheit bestimmt? Wenn ja, wie äussert sich das?

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Inwiefern würde sich unsere Sichtweise auf die Welt ändern, wenn wir in einer anderen Kultur leben würden?

Wie prägen uns Ausnahmesituationen wie die Pandemie?

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Was hat Covid-19 mit der Unterhaltungsbranche gemacht?

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Welche Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen bietet die Arbeitswelt im 21. Jahrhundert?

Vor welchen Herausforderungen stehen heute die Gesellschaft und (auch) der Einzelne?

Welche Vorteile hat die Globalisierung und vor mit welchen Probleme konfrontiert sie uns?

Welche Probleme ökologischer und sozialer Art gibt es weltweit und wie können diese bewerkstelligt werden?

Das Leben in der modernen Welt bringt einen erheblichen Teil ethischer Fragen mit sich. Benennen Sie einige und versuchen Sie, Lösungen aufzuzeigen.

Unser Lebensraum teilt sich zunehmend in urbanes und ländliches Gebiet. Welche Vorteile und Nachteile ergeben sich hieraus für uns?

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12 Ausgaben Presse und Sprache bequem im Einzelabo lesen!

Bestellen Sie die Presse und Sprache im Einzelabo. Sie können hier zwischen verschiedenen Abomodellen wählen: PRINT, PLUS und PREMIUM. Im Abo PLUS oder PREMIUM erhalten Sie ergänzende Aufgaben und/oder Audios zum Download. Freuen Sie sich über 12 Ausgaben Presse und Sprache im Jahr, die wir Ihnen im Inland versandkostenfrei ganz bequem direkt nach Hause senden. Optional können Sie auch die digitale Ausgabe der Zeitung dazu bestellen!

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Sprachkurse, Klassen und Lerngruppen profitieren von unserem günstigen Klassensatz. Alle Lernenden erhalten einmal monatlich ein eigenes Exemplar der Presse und Sprache. Lehrkräfte erhalten ab 10 Exemplaren ein Freiabo und den Onlinezugang zu den Aufgaben und zu den Audios gratis.

Ideal für den Präsenz- und Distanzunterricht: Die Presse und Sprache im Klassensatz senden wir Ihnen einmal im Monat an eine oder mehrere Lieferadressen!

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Damit Sie die Presse und Sprache besonders effektiv nutzen können, bieten wir Ihnen begleitende Aufgaben und Audios zum Download an. Diese Materialien sind ideal auch zur Vorbereitung auf international bekannte Prüfungen (Goethe, telc, TestDaF®).

Die Aufgaben in Form von Arbeitsblättern enthalten Aufgaben zu ausgewählten Texten der Presse und Sprache u.a. zu Leseverstehen, Hörverstehen, Grammatik, Wortschatz, Sprech- und Schreibtraining - immer inklusive Lösungsteil. Die Audios der Texte werden von Muttersprachlerinnen und Muttersprachlern gelesen.

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Unsere fünf Sprachzeitungen World and Press, Read On, Revue de la Presse, Revista de la Prensa und Presse und Sprache können Sie jeweils in unterschiedlichen Abomodellen bestellen. Alternativ können Sie die aktuelle Ausgabe sowie die begleitenden Aufgaben und die Audios jeweils monatlich im Einzelverkauf über unseren Onlineshop erwerben. Einzelausgaben der Sprachzeitungen finden Sie auch im gut sortierten Handel.

Einzelabonnement

Im Jahresabo PRINT erhalten Sie jeden Monat bzw. zweimal im Monat (World and Press) die aktuelle Print-Ausgabe im Inland versandkostenfrei nach Hause geliefert. Aktuell sind die Sprachzeitungen World and Press, Read On und Presse und Sprache darüber hinaus auch als digitale Version verfügbar.

Mit dem Jahresabo PREMIUM haben Sie zusätzlich zur Zeitung Zugang zu unseren Aufgaben in Form von Arbeitsblättern und den Audios im mp3-Format, die Ihnen im Kundenbereich jederzeit zum Download zur Verfügung stehen.

Sie möchten unsere Sprachzeitungen erst einmal kennenlernen? Dann schließen Sie am besten das Schnupperabo PRINT oder PREMIUM ab, mit denen Sie die Sprachzeitung Ihrer Wahl drei Monate lang testen können. Außerdem können Sie ein Gratis-Probeexemplar bestellen: Sie erhalten dann eine ältere Ausgabe inkl. Aufgaben und Audios zum Testen.

Klassensatz (Sammelabo)

Für Schulklassen und Lerngruppen können Lehrkräfte außerdem ab einem Bezugszeitraum von einem Monat und ab 5 Exemplaren einen kostengünstigen Klassensatz beziehen. Die Lehrkraft erhält im Klassensatz ab 10 Exemplaren ein PREMIUM-Abo mit dem monatlichen Zeitungsexemplar sowie den Aufgaben und den Audios zum Download gratis.
Hinweis zur Lieferung: Den Klassensatz senden wir Ihnen monatlich an eine oder auf Wunsch auch an mehrere Lieferadressen. Teilen Sie uns dazu einfach die einzelnen Adressen per E-Mail an info@sprachzeitungen.de mit. Beim Versand an mehrere Adressen zahlen Sie pro Ausgabe und Lieferadresse zusätzlich nur € 0,80 Porto für den Versand im Inland (Lieferkosten ins Ausland auf Anfrage).
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Machen Sie Sprachbegeisterten eine Freude mit unserem Geschenkabo! Der/die Beschenkte bekommt ein Jahr lang die Sprachzeitung Ihrer Wahl versandkostenfrei nach Hause geliefert. Wird ein Geschenkabo mit digitalem Zusatzmaterial gebucht, teilen Sie uns bitte die E-Mail-Adresse zur Freischaltung des digitalen Zusatzmaterials entweder telefonisch oder per E-Mail an info@sprachzeitungen.de mit.

Das Einzelabo (Jahresabo) einer Sprachzeitung ist nach Ablauf des ersten Bezugsjahres monatlich kündbar.

Die Jahresabos Student PRINT und Student PREMIUM für Student:innen und Referendar:innen sind auf ein Jahr befristet. Wenn Sie im darauffolgenden Jahr, erneut eine aktuelle und gültige Immatrikulationsbescheinigung bzw. einen Referendar-Ausweis vorlegen, verlängern wir Ihr Abo gerne um ein weiteres Jahr.

Das Geschenkabo einer Sprachzeitung ist auf ein Jahr befristet und läuft automatisch aus. Es bedarf keiner Kündigung.

Klassensätze (Sammelabos) werden befristet eingerichtet und laufen nach der gewünschten Dauer automatisch aus. Es bedarf keiner Kündigung. Auf Wunsch kann ein Klassensatz unbefristet eingerichtet werden, bedarf dann allerdings einer schriftlichen Kündigung (per Fax/ Post/ E-Mail) bis spätestens 6 Wochen vor Ende des berechneten Bezugszeitraums.

Das Schnupperabo einer Sprachzeitung geht in ein Jahresabonnement über, wenn es nicht spätestens einen Monat vor Ablauf schriftlich (per E-Mail, Post oder Fax gekündigt wird.

Der Versand des Probeexemplares ist einmalig, unverbindlich und kostenlos. Wir freuen uns, wenn Ihnen die Sprachzeitung gefällt und Sie sich für ein Abonnement entscheiden.

1. Artikel in den Sprachzeitungen mit zusätzlichen Aufgaben und Audios zum Download sind immer an diesen Zeichen zu erkennen:

2. Voraussetzung für den Zugang zu den Aufgaben und/oder den Audios ist ein Jahresabo PLUS oder Jahresabo PREMIUM bzw. ein Klassensatz (Sammelabo) mit einer Bezugsmenge ab 10 Exemplaren. Alternativ können Sie das digitale Zusatzmaterial monatlich zur aktuellen Ausgabe im Einzelverkauf über unseren Online-Shop erwerben.

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saisonal: wenn etwas zu einer bestimmten Jahreszeit (z.B. zum Sommer oder zum Herbst) gehört

die Zutat, die Zutaten: Lebensmittel oder Gewürze, die man braucht, um ein Gericht zu kochen

regional: wenn etwas zu einer Region (einem bestimmten geografischen Gebiet) gehört

saisonal: wenn etwas zu einer bestimmten Jahreszeit (z.B. zum Sommer oder zum Herbst) gehört

das Steak, die Steaks: ein Stück Fleisch, das man in der Pfanne brät oder grillt

das Schnitzel, die Schnitzel: ein Stück Fleisch, das man paniert (=das Fleisch hat einen Mantel aus sehr kleinen Weißbrotstückchen) und dann brät

die Beilage, die Beilagen: das, was man zu Fleisch oder Fisch serviert: z.B. Kartoffeln oder Reis und Gemüse.

der Brokkoli, die Brokkoli: grünes Gemüse in Kopfform

der Blumenkohl: weißes Gemüse in Kopfform

satt: wenn man keinen Hunger mehr hat, genug gegessen hat

libanesisch: aus dem Libanon

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vegetarisch: Essen ohne Fleisch oder Fisch

das Gebäck: ein süßes Stück aus Teig

die Zwischenmahlzeit, die Zwischenmahlzeiten: ein kleines Essen, das man z.B. zwischen Frühstück und Mittagessen isst

die Brotzeit, die Brotzeiten: Wort für ein Essen, das, vor allem in Bayern, aus Brot, Butter, Käse, Wurst sowie Gurken, Radieschen und Zwiebeln besteht

das Knäckebrot, die Knäckebrote: ein spezielles flaches Brot, das sehr hart ist

das Schüttelbrot, die Schüttelbrote: ein sehr hartes Brot, typisch für Südtirol

das Lieblingsgericht, die Lieblingsgerichte: Gericht ist ein anderes Wort für Essen, Lieblingsessen

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die Spätzle: eine Spezialität, die man im Süden Deutschlands isst. Spätzle sind eine Art von Nudeln, die man aus Mehl, Eiern und Wasser macht. Oft werden sie noch selbst gemacht.

der Spinat: ein grünes Gemüse, das Blätter hat

das Linsengericht, die Linsengerichte: ein Essen, das man mit Linsen kocht

das Hühnchen, die Hühnchen: Diminutiv von Huhn, oft als Synonym für Hühnerfleisch verwendet

gemeinsam: die Familie isst zusammen

die Kantine, die Kantinen: Restaurant an dem Ort, wo Menschen arbeiten (Büro, Fabrik, Unternehmen)

die Süßigkeit, die Süßigkeiten: ein Wort für Essen, oft mit viel Zucker, z.B. Schokolade

Spaghetti Bolognese: ein italienisches Essen mit Nudeln und einer roten Soße aus Hackfleisch und Tomaten

die Maultasche, die Maultaschen: eine Spezialität aus Süddeutschland, eine Art Teigtasche/Ravioli gefüllt mit Fleisch oder Gemüse

die Gurke, die Gurken: ein längliches grünes Gemüse, das man meist ungekocht isst, z.B. im Salat
lecker: etwas, das sehr gut schmeckt

die Reiswaffel, die Reiswaffeln: eine Art Gebäck, das man aus Reis macht

der Belag, die Beläge: hier: etwas, das man auf ein Brot legt, z.B. Käse oder Wurst

der Keks, die Kekse: kleines, hartes Gebäck

geschnitten: hier: ein Apfel, der mit einem Messer in kleine Stücke geteilt wird

die Limonade, die Limonaden: ein süßes, nicht alkoholisches Getränk

der Smoothie, die Smoothies: ein Getränk, bei dem man in einer Maschine Gemüse oder Obst sehr klein schneidet, dann Wasser hinzugibt und die Mischung trinkt

die Currywurst, die Currywürste: Wurst, die man mit Tomatensoße und Currygewürz isst

asiatisch: aus Asien kommend

die Meeresfrucht, die Meeresfrüchte: Essen, das aus dem Meer kommt

die Apfelschorle, die Apfelschorlen: ein nicht alkoholisches Getränk, bei dem man Apfelsaft mit Mineralwasser mischt

der Pfefferminztee, die Pfefferminztees: Tee aus einer grünen Gewürzpflanze

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This set of 15 classic stories was designed with the early reader in mind. Learn cross-cultural fairy tales while also building reading skills. Folk tales come from both traditional ( The Ugly Duckling, The Tortoise and the Hare) and diverse backgrounds ( Martina the Cockroach and The Spider and the Beehive). The word length for these 5.5″ x 5.5″ storybooks ranges from just over 200 to mid-400. Each book's guided reading level is listed inside the front cover. Be aware that the term "easy reader" is used a bit broadly.

The guided reading levels included start with level E (one story) and include levels F (two stories), G (7 stories), H (3 stories) and I (2 stories. Although challenging words are included (nightingale, snoozed, cockroach), the children can learn these words by using the brief picture glossary at the end of the story. The set comes with a listing of the included guided reading levels, word count, challenging vocabulary list and one comprehension question. These would be good for a parent to read along with their younger reader, assisting in the reading process. Note: book cover colors do not correlate to reading level. Store your books in the included cardboard case. Each book is 16 pp

Help children soar in reading with these just right books they can read all by themselves! Include The Three Little Pigs, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Ugly Duckling, The Little Red Hen, Cinderella, and 10 more beloved classics. Each tale features simple text, supportive pictures, and a helpful glossary to help developing readers build skills and confidence. Storybooks correlate with Guiding Reading levels E-I. Books include:

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Goldilocks And The Three Bears

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The Little Red Hen

The Nightingale

The Princess And The Pea

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Days Crossing | Chasing Time English (New Zealand)

Chasing Time English delivers a unique opportunity for English language education with our Days Crossing series: an engaging drama with purposeful teaching resources designed to motivate learners.

English language classes should excite. They should grip the imagination and inspire students to speak and to write. They should be eager to hear more. And the things they learn should be real and be crucial.

We believe video is the medium to achieve this. The Days Crossing drama series makes for compelling viewing, enlivened with intrigue, humour, surprise and tension. Our vision is for the series to stand on its own as entertainment: captivate learners, and the learning will follow.

We back this up with solid, cutting-edge pedagogy. Our international team of materials developers consists of applied linguists and experienced industry professionals dedicated to designing resources based on contemporary, research-backed approaches.

Chasing Time English promises pedagogical innovation, learner engagement, and quality assurance.
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Escape the classroom | Perceptia Press (United Kingdom / Japan

Discover the secrets of Enigma... break out of a prison cell... make contact with aliens... rescue a trapped prince... solve the mystery of the dead chemist... read the fortune teller's hidden message... escape from a desert island...

Feel the excitement of an escape room and discover the benefits of flow in this ground-breaking textbook. Being completely absorbed in an activity improves performance, creativity, and mental well-being, and the challenging activities in this communication course book aim to transform students' English learning experience.

While immersed in mysterious worlds, solving puzzles and breaking codes, students are strengthening their English communication abilities and developing skills vital to the real world:

problem-solving

observation

concentration

keeping calm under pressure

teamwork

creativity

lateral thinking

decision making

Are you ready for your first mission? Assemble your team and prepare to...

...ESCAPE THE CLASSROOM!
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Fiction Express | Fiction Express (Boolino SL) (Spain / United Kingdom)

Fiction Express is an award-winning literacy resource designed to improve all areas of English language learning. Reading is an integral part of learning English as a second language. Our unique methodology improves poor reading habits by getting children excited about reading through the power of a deeply engaging experience of co-creation between students and authors.

Fiction Express redefines reading by creating a student-centred approach (focused on experience and learning outcomes) instead of a product-focused (= book) method. The original-English Fiction Express stories offer a unique learning opportunity for ELT students, combining an online glossary, audio version, author forum and other activities for reading, writing, spelling, punctuation & grammar and speaking & listening.

Like the "flipped classroom" approach, the Fiction Express methodology focuses on student engagement and active learning, giving teachers a better opportunity to deal with varying levels, student difficulties and differentiated learning preferences.
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Online English Pronunciation Course | Luke Nicholson, Improve Your Accent (United Kingdom)

This innovative and engaging pronunciation course is tailored to the student's native language with lessons designed to prioritise improving intelligibility. It includes:

Practical exercises to train the speech muscles

Ear-training games with multiple voices

Mouth animations

Sense-based approach to learning sounds

Audio that the user can slow down or speed up

Buttons to reveal IPA transcriptions

Comparisons between the sound systems of the student's native language and English

Offering a multimodal approach to learning, this interactive course covers vowels, consonants, rhythm, intonation and articulatory settings. It has been created for adults with an upper-intermediate/advanced level of English who live in England. Standard Southern British English is used as a model, but reference is made to other accents throughout.

Students can attend regular live classroom sessions for coaching and support. In addition, guidance is given about how to practise and how to incorporate what is learned into everyday speech.
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Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary App | Oxford University Press (United Kingdom) with Paragon Software (Germany / Russia)

The world's bestselling advanced-level dictionary for learners of English, in an app!

The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the complete guide to learning English vocabulary with definitions that learners can understand, example sentences showing language in use, and the new Oxford 3000™ and Oxford 5000™ word lists providing core vocabulary that every student needs to learn.

With the app, you can practise and improve your pronunciation, test yourself on vocabulary and usage, and get the Word of the Day straight to your device. And you can access the full A-Z offline to look up any word in the dictionary, anytime, anywhere.

Find out more about the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary App, available for IOS and Android

Para Powerlifting English Competency Course | World Para Powerlifting (Germany) with International Paralympic Committee

The Para Powerlifting English Competency Course is a seven-week online programme designed for the Para powerlifting (the Paralympic sport of bench press for athletes with a disability) community to improve their language skills while refreshing and learning the technical rules and regulations of the sport.

The course is targeted for athletes, coaches and referees from non-native English-speaking countries to expand their professional vocabulary, communicate more fluently, respond more spontaneously in different situations, and improve comprehension of the rules, documents and meetings, as the official language of the sport is English.

The Course is created using modern active and interactive learning methods, and features activities, quizzes, discussions and online meetings.

The Course serves as a step towards the further socialisation and inclusion of retired athletes with a disability from around the world to continue to gain skills and stay involved in sport as coaches and referees.
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Sensations English (United Kingdom)

Making English enjoyable, accessible and rewarding for all.

Sensations English brings a vibrant and contemporary approach to learning. It offers global news-based video and article lessons all provided at five CEFR levels, with subtitles, transcripts, and interactive activities to extend the learning experience.

Updated with fresh lessons 3 times every week, it's a highly authentic, engaging way to learn English.

Students learn about real world events while improving their language skills at the level that suits them. Personalised learning journeys help motivate and encourage self-study.

The innovative Teacher Gradebook enables professionals to set tasks, monitor activities, and give feedback in one-on-one or group learning contexts.

Use online or via the app, stand alone or to support a course, to accelerate learning.

Learning English with up-to-the-minute world events is so engaging.
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Innovation in Teacher Resources

Communicating Identities | Routledge (United Kingdom / New Zealand)

Communicating Identities is a book for language teachers who wish to focus on the topic of identity in the context of their classroom teaching. The work provides an accessible introduction to research and theory on language learner and language teacher identity. It offers a set of interactive, practical activities for use in language classrooms in which students explore and communicate about aspects of their identities. The communicative activities concern the various facets of the students' own identities and are practical resources that teachers can draw on to structure and guide their students' exploration of their identities. All the activities include a follow-on teacher reflection in which teachers examine aspects of their own identity in relation to the types of learner identities focused on in the activities. The book also introduces teachers to practical steps in doing exploratory action research so that they can investigate identity systematically in their own classrooms.
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Engaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms | Cambridge University Press (United Kingdom)

Engaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms is an accessible, practical book, which helps teachers to create the conditions for active engagement and involve their students in shaping the way they learn.

The authors draw on extensive theoretical knowledge to examine engagement from a wide range of perspectives, going beyond the study of motivation to explore how teachers can ensure learners remain engaged in the face of the distractions of 21st century life.

The book begins by considering the contextual factors that affect engagement, before focusing on the aspects of learner engagement that a teacher can influence more directly.

Each chapter begins by distilling the thinking on a topic into key principles, which are followed by a series of actions that teachers can take to implement the principles in their own classroom.
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Teacher Wellbeing | Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)

Written primarily for language teachers and inspired by positive psychology, Teacher Wellbeing seeks to support and maintain teacher wellbeing through a variety of approaches. It serves as a practical guide for individual teachers, helping them discover strategies for nurturing and promoting their wellbeing. It also acknowledges the importance of contextual factors. Readers are encouraged to reflect upon their own practice and find techniques that suit them personally.

This book supports teachers to:

Maintain their mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing.

Promote and sustain their own motivation.

Nurture key personal and professional relationships.

Foster sustainable personal and professional development.

This title is part of the Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers series that covers the topics language teachers want to know more about.
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Teaching English to Pre-Primary Children | DELTA Publishing (Germany)

Teaching English to Pre-Primary Children is essential for adults involved in the pre-primary education of children who are not attending formal schooling and who may not yet know how to read and write. It ensures that the first early language learning experience is a positive one which paves the way for a life-long journey into language learning.

Teaching English to Pre-Primary Children (TEPPC) blends theory, practice and professional development into one book, the key feature of the DELTA Teacher Development series.

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Teaching in Challenging Circumstances | Cambridge University Press (United Kingdom)

Teaching in Challenging Circumstances is an essential resource for teachers who work in challenging circumstances, which might include formal education systems in the developing or developed world and informal or non-formal teaching in areas with growing numbers of refugees or displaced people.

It draws on academic and professional research to provide practical advice that will help teachers address concerns such as teaching large classes, working with limited resources and supporting learners who have experienced interrupted education and who may be suffering from trauma. It also offers suggestions for creating a positive learning environment and implementing effective teaching practice, and discusses the importance of resilience and wellbeing.

Clearly outlines key issues around teaching in challenging circumstances, covering topics raised by practitioners in the field;

Each chapter contains key takeaways, relevant case studies and classroom-ready teaching tips;

Includes opportunities for teachers to reflect on their own knowledge and experience and develop their resilience and ability.

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The Teachers' Classroom App | PeacheyPublications Ltd. (United Kingdom)

The impact of the pandemic has transformed the needs of schools and teachers. More is demanded of teachers both in the physical, remote and hybrid classrooms and they need new and more flexible resources and materials to help them cope with these challenges.

The Teachers' Classroom App has been designed to provide teachers and schools with ready-made lessons and courses they can launch and deliver online from their desktop, as well as a library of teacher development videos, books and links to apps that help teachers prosper in the digital age.

The app can easily be installed on any computer or mobile device and by eradicating the need for student course books it enables schools and independent teachers to instantly launch professionally designed interactive online materials at very low cost for students.

Based on a user-subscription model the app is automatically updated every week with additional materials.
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English Code | Pearson English (United Kingdom)

Learn, think, question and create with English Code!

English Code is a mid-high level primary course from Beginner to B1 that connects the present-day life of a child to learning, by uncovering the power of language to convince, startle and interact.

Students learn English through hands-on creative tasks, investigation, projects and experiments. They develop a coding mindset: a willingness to experiment, resilience, collaboration and the ability to solve problems.

These all feature in a syllabus that includes built-in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math), driving learners' natural curiosity about the world around them. A clear focus on functional language gives learners the tools to become effective and confident speakers of English inside and outside the classroom.
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Fun Skills | Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment English (United Kingdom)

Meet Sage the Squirrel, Checklist Buddy and friends, created by kids around the world, who guide and entertain you through this exciting journey.

Fun preparation for Pre A1 Starters, A1 Movers and A2 Flyers covers all the skills you need to be ready on exam day: practise exam tasks with the Professor, get great tips from Sage the Squirrel, assess your own work with Checklist Buddy and connect learning to your world with Think Big Giraffe.

Topic-led lessons bring everything to life with songs, Grammar fun, animations and quirky photos!

The Mini Trainers for Pre A1 Starters, A1 Movers and A2 Flyers provide two full-colour practice tests with Training and Exam Practice.

The Home Booklet provides extra skills practice to do at home as well as 'Fun boost' activities on every page to share with the family and entertaining short stories featuring each of the characters in the Student's Book.
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Helping Matters | Perceptia Press (United Kingdom / Japan)

Helping Matters contains 15 units on topics relevant to social workers today, including domestic violence, palliative care, mental health, worker exploitation, and refugees.

12 units introduce realistic situations where social workers may be called on to help foreigners in a professional setting, while 3 additional units allow students to review what they have learnt.

Each unit provides examples of simple yet useful English that allows effective communication with foreign clients through vocabulary building, conversation practice, and role plays.

Language is constantly recycled to help students learn phrases which can be used in any social

work situation. Optional homework activities further reinforce learning.

By including issues that may be unfamiliar, Helping Matters encourages students to think more deeply about each situation and how they might help foreigners living in, or visiting, their own countries.
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Our Languages | StandFor / FTD Educação (Brazil)

Arts, social media, English as additional language, our own first language... these are only some of OUR LANGUAGES - the ones we use to communicate and act upon the world. Our Languages is a 4-level series for teenagers organized into different "languages" (arts, social media, news, intervention) that act as starting points for critical discussions that frame learning English in a contemporary, critical citizenship way.

Its unique design - created by renowned urban artist Alexandre Orion - invites students to "own" their textbooks as they learn, in a process of redesigning their experience with learning English. It also accompanies exclusive digital features, such as an interactive cover, multimedia content and an interactive workbook. Come and discover your special voice with Our Languages!
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Oxford Discover Futures | Oxford University Press - English Language Teaching (United Kingdom, Egypt, Mexico, Turkey, Spain and the Middle East)
What is the value of time? How do groups work together? Why do we tell stories?
Oxford Discover Futures sparks students' imaginations with thought-provoking questions - inspiring them to think critically about the world around them.

The inquiry-based methodology of this course equips learners with 21st Century Skills in critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity to prepare students for success at school and beyond.

Oxford Discover Futures creates a positive and motivating learning environment by:

Providing content that is relevant, informative, and educational.

Allowing students to consider key questions and to reflect on and reconsider their responses as they develop their understanding

Challenging students to think critically about topics, issues, and questions.

Fostering competence in reading and writing.

Life skills lessons which develop transferable skills for lifelong learning.

Developing strategies that help students perform well in academic study and examinations.

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Booklet of basics grammar in ASL and pictures for deaf and hard hearing | General Directorate for special education and continuous education, Ministry of education in Sultanate of Oman with Al ROYAA NEWSPAPER (Sultanate of Oman)

English for all. Equity and inclusion in teaching English. This booklet is a group initiative aims to help the

deaf and hard hearing learners of English in Oman to learn at the time of school closure and in the conditions of online learning as it is said "Necessity is the mother of invention" . the booklet is designed in a way that goes with the Omani deaf and hard hearing learners' characteristics and abilities to improve their level in English.

The product is a self-study booklet of basic English grammar which uses sign language and

pictures. This is the first part includes 12 topics of English grammar basics presented with pictures and Arabic sign language to be suitable for the Arab deaf and hard hearing learners in Oman.

Lessons are accompanied by a recorded video of the lesson using the total communication approach in educating the deaf and hard hearing, after finishing the lesson, learners will find a link of an interactive electronic exercise to check their understanding. The booklet is used by learners and teachers, the feedback is positive, so we are going to make the second part.
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Converse Across the Universe: Managing Cross-Cultural Communication | Yelena Golovatch, Margarita Kochan, Yauheni Radzetski (Belarus)

'Converse Across the Universe: Managing Cross-Cultural Communication' is a bespoke coursebook tailored for Belarusian learners of English at B1+ and B2 levels and is the first attempt to provide a cross-cultural approach to teaching adults English within a Belarusian context.

The coursebook covers a wide range of topics designed to stimulate debate and discussion, discover and compare cultures, develop critical thinking and hone communication skills in practical, everyday situations. Learners are provided with rich multimedia content that allows them to gain insights into other cultures, raise their awareness of cultural differences and, as a result, acquire a deeper understanding of their own culture.

A flexible modular structure of the coursebook gives teachers the freedom to pick and choose the materials relevant to their classroom, adapt the content to suit their students' needs as well as offers multiple opportunities to encourage learner autonomy.
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Facebook Live Team Teaching for the Palestinian English Curriculum The Hands Up Project (United Kingdom) with UNRWA (Gaza)

This project was developed in response to Palestinian school closures during the first semester in 2020/21 to ensure continued quality English language learning under lockdown. We decided to offer daily team-taught classes delivered live and remotely via Zoom over Facebook Live. These Palestinian English Curriculum sessions (each accessed by many hundreds of grade 1-9 learners and their families) were led jointly by a Palestinian English teacher and an English teacher in another country. They provided form-focused language clarification and scaffolding, exposure to natural spoken English, engaging and interactive practice activities, opportunities for intercultural learning, and rich affordances for teacher development.
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Mosaik Dogme Toolkit | Mosaik Education with Scott Thornbury (United Kingdom)

Mosaik's Dogme Toolkit supports English teachers of refugees to transform transmissive classes into communicative and engaging learning experiences.

Developed by the Mosaik team, local English teachers and Scott Thornbury, the Toolkit combines online demonstration sessions, interactive materials, and a community of practice to enable teachers in Jordan and Lebanon to integrate Dogme techniques into their online or classroom-based programmes.

What our trainees say:

""I then applied these activities with my students and I really see the outcomes. The students like these activities, they became more interactive in the class" - Hadeel, Jordan

"I used to hate it to be honest, using Zoom, and I hated online teaching. ... now I can give my classes in a fun, communicative way" - Abeer, Jordan

"This course is exceptional. It actually combines all the skills you need in simple and applicable steps apart from the philosophy of educational theories which may be sometimes inapplicable". Aseel, Lebanon
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Talk about China with Oxford | Oxford University Press (China) Ltd with Jingban Beijing Education Culture Media Co., Ltd (China)

Talk About China with Oxford (TAC) is a nine-level listening and speaking coursebook presenting a blend of Chinese culture and world perspectives. The core materials employ an innovative listen-along comic book format, as well as a highly unique and humorous illustration style. This format maximises engagement and stimulates students' imaginations while also helping to build vital listening and speaking skills.

The true innovation of the series is how it manages to interweave deep cultural content, daily life topics, and fantastical characters while also presenting clear ELT learning targets that conform to the local curriculum.

Kankan, a dragon, and Shanshan, a phoenix, represent the yin and yang of the TAC universe. There is also a large cast of other mythical creatures in the series who interact with humans during their journeys around China.

As well as excitement and joy, there is also fear, confusion, misunderstanding and doubt on their many journeys. These different journeys represent not only the journey of personal growth, but also the journey towards achieving harmony with society, with nature, and with oneself.
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Volunteers, English Language Learners and Conversation Clubs | Learning and Work Institute with Learning Unlimited (United Kingdom)

The Volunteers, English Language Learners and Conversation Clubs (VELLCC) guidance and resources support anyone, anywhere to organise an effective English language conversation club, face-to-face or online. Commissioned by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, the resources aim to boost the availability and quality of social opportunities to practise English, by supporting civil society organisations and volunteers wishing to offer informal English language learning to new migrants and settled communities.

"These are brilliant resources." (Regional Strategic Migration Partnership)

"I've just watched the conversation club webinar ... It was very interesting and gave me some good ideas. We are hoping to start a conversation club around health and well-being with [...] our local Roma community." (Conversation club organiser)

"I am so glad the resources have been converted for online use, it's exactly what we all need!" (Conversation club organiser)
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Digital Innovation

BOOKR Class | BOOKR Kids (Hungary)

BOOKR Class is a 3-in-1 platform with the mission of incentivising implicit learning through storytelling: an easy-to-use gamified library app for language learners between 4-14 (pre-beginner to intermediate level), a Classroom version to share the stories with the whole class remotely or in the school and a Teacher's Dashboard for educators, all designed to teach and learn English as a Foreign Language.

The library app includes more than 1000 engaging digital content to match with your coursebooks, curriculum, in-classroom or online activities: interactive books from the classics of world literature, original stories, songs, civilizational materials and CLIL, educational games and flashcards.

The Teacher's Dashboard assists teachers in preparation, time optimization and differentiation with real-time reading statistics and book assignment.

Besides original content, we also partner with content providers: Oxford University Press, Moomin, Edutainment Licensing, Harriet Ziefert, White Star Publishing.

BOOKR Class is recognized as an official textbook in Hungary and has educational partners in Turkey, Greece, South Korea, Spain, South America (Berlitz) and Singapore.
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CIELL-Comics for Inclusive English Language Learning | Lancaster University (United Kingdom) with AKTO Art & Design College (Greece), Innovation in Learning Institute, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany), Language Centre, University of Cyprus (Cyprus)

Designed to support students with (and without) dyslexia, the CIELL App offers an inclusive, gamified approach to learning how to plan an essay at B2+/C1 level.

Students love the colourful comics saying it's "an interesting, exciting and easy way to learn how to write essays", "it's a fun app" and "it's like a game".

Sample essays based on the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 "spread awareness" and "raise serious social issues in a very interesting way".

Teachers love that the App can also be used in-class, or at home, for talking, reading and listening activities, e.g. listening to essays read-aloud by 6 authentic voices.

Download the free App (iOS/Android) and Teachers' Guide from the CIELL website.
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Immerse Virtual Language Experience Platform | Immerse VR (United States of America)

The Immerse VR English teaching and learning platform has all the tools and flexibility of the online learning environment, combined with the delight of traveling into a new world.

No longer do learners have to imagine being in a real-life scenario when practicing English. In VR, teachers and learners are fully present in a 3D world together allowing for deeper emotional connection and enhanced social interaction.

Research on VR shows immersion in VR improves learner self-efficacy and motivation. VR immersion allows language learners to enter what research describes as a "flow state": longer engagement, high focus, and minimal anxiety for maximum language progress.

Transform your English language learning experiences with Immerse VR.

"Immerse has enhanced my ability to teach effectively. It has opened my eyes to a whole new way of teaching and helping students experience language and culture." -Emma Weissburg, teacher
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LearnCube Homework Application | LearnCube (United Kingdom)

LearnCube specialises in a virtual classroom and online school software for language education providers and language schools. Recently, we released LearnCube Homework.

Currently, language teachers find it extremely clunky, difficult and time-intensive to manage and monitor homework for online classes.

LearnCube Homework is a simple and fast digital solution for language teachers to give and provide personalised feedback on homework.

Students like how seamless the experience is to view, complete, and load completed homework into the next online class.

Teachers love that the tool is simple to use, fast to create homework, is highly interactive, easy to personalise, saves so much time, it can be used on any device connected to the internet and can be seamlessly integrated into the live online language class.

Language schools can use this tool as part of the LearnCube Online School, an all-in-one solution for managing staff, students and online classes.
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Link Online Learners (LOL) | hundrED (Finland) with volunteers and educators from United Kingdom, United States of America, Vietnam, Nigeria, Australia, Denmark, Cambodia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, India, and N. Macedonia

Link Online Learners (LOL) is a diverse and inclusive global youth network where young people have a seat at the global table and engage in youth-led intercultural exchanges that help them develop curiosity, foster trust, understanding and deep empathy for cultures not experienced before, as well as courage to speak up, perform and take action towards greater connectivity across borders, cultures, religions, perspectives, and ways of life, and, in the process, improve their communicative skills in English through meaningful interactions with their peers.

It offers a safe way for teachers and students of EFL to connect and engage in active conversations that enhance the English language acquisition in a natural and spontaneous way, free of charge. LOL is moderated by a committed community of adult volunteers and educators, mostly linked through HundrED, a Finland-based non-for-profit organization that seeks and shares ambitious education innovations to help children flourish in life.
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Literatu Scribo for IELTS Writing Success | Literatu Pty Limited Australia (Australia)

Scribo helps ESL students improve core English writing skills as they prepare for IELTS examinations. All levels of students have instant access to personalised feedback and guidance on how to improve their writing. WIth ten levels of writing feedback, students love the way Scribo AI gives them an accurate CEFR score, all practice essays are scaffolded and all feedback is available in the student's native language to help them better understand the feedback.

Colleges and tutors can monitor student practice sessions adding additional feedback as needed. Scribo AI leverages writing data to tailor feedback and guidance and for colleges to target teaching.

Scribo gives educators and students more time, feedback, and data to improve English writing skills. Educators gain teaching time by doing less writing correction; students enjoy more time learning with instant feedback and score estimates.
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Vlogger Academy | Digital Learning Associates Limited with The Weirdos and Creatives Collective (United Kingdom)

Great digital learning needs great digital media. Vlogger Academy deploys real life YouTubers - some of the world's most exciting creators - to secure great digital media for English learners.

Vlogger Academy mentored young and diverse digital creators in Africa, Hong Kong, Jamaica, UK, USA and across the globe to be the new faces and voices of ELT. The result is the world's first fully aligned and comprehensive ELT resource bank made by authentic YouTubers. Learners are engaged by the vlogger format. They develop with the inclusive mix of content. They master natural English, global English.

Anyone in the ELT world needing diverse, global and authentic content to connect with today's learners, can license up to 60 graded and learning-ready vlogs. Each unit comes with a flexible set of digital-ready learning resources. Vlogger Academy content already reaches a million learners around the world. It's a pioneering content solution for ELT's digital future.
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Escuchaba regularmente los videos de Vicente para la comprensión auditiva. Consciente de mi pobre nivel de español oral, decidí ir más allá y suscribir a cursos de la Academia de Español online. Pensé que podría ayudarme para la gramática, la conjugación. La Academia me parece muy completa y menos cara que otras escuelas de idiomas online. La recomendaría a amigos y amigas quienes como yo quieren mejorar su español.

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The individual oral activity (IOA) in the language B course is designed to help students develop their analytical and critical thinking skills. It is important for us, as educators, to create opportunities for students to build these skills and reflect on their progress. Here are some classroom activity ideas you can use to help students master the skills needed for the IOAs. Activities included here will help students with extract analysis and presentation, anticipating theme-based questions, and developing theme-related vocabulary.

Many of the activities can be modified based on your classroom contexts and student needs, but the idea is to guide students toward a deeper understanding of themes and texts, and what success looks like on the IOA. So let's jump in and get started!

This activity involves dividing students into small groups to get them acquainted with the process of the IOA. Students collectively analyze text extracts, prepare and present mock IOAs to their own groups, and receive peer feedback. It is an effective way to have all students practice for the IOAs collaboratively. Here are the steps involved:

Select a couple of extracts that are good for analysis with your students

Make A3 copies and paste them on even bigger sheets of paper to make a poster. Ensure there is enough space for adding notes.

Hang/post the posters across the room or leave them at different tables

Divide students into groups of three and assign them a table/wall.

Preparation and analysis

Students need to mark the poster assigned to their group indicating:

Why the extract is important

Connections to themes

Observations

Questions

Connections to other texts

Questions that can be asked in relation to the extract or the themes that relate to it.

After 20 minutes, groups move to another poster and respond to what is written there, add ideas, and ask questions. Here's a sample of a marked-up poster with student notes:

After 8-10 minutes, all groups go back to their original poster and review the new notes to discuss suitability.

Peer-reviewed presentation

Each student in the group is assigned a different role for a presentation:

Presenter

Teacher

Notetaker (will grade the performance)

Each student records a mock IOA and presents to the other two who grade and provide feedback. This is repeated till all three students have presented.

The teacher walks around the classroom observing how students perform and can then give feedback on pluses and minuses to the whole class.

The IOA is structured into three parts. For the third part, students and teachers interact around other prescribed themes that have not previously been discussed during the IOA. Here's a quick refresher on the structure of the IOA for your reference:

One way of helping students think about possible questions that may be posed during the IOA is to build a question bank based on themes and sub-themes/topics. Both teachers and students can come up with these questions based on class discussions as well as materials they have been exposed to. This activity is designed around a sample question bank for the theme of 'Social Organization'. It is a useful way to equip students with interesting ideas to tackle a variety of questions regarding a certain theme or topic.

Download this sample question bank and distribute one set of questions to small groups of students.

Give students time to discuss the questions and make a visual representation of what resources from class they can use to answer the questions. You can ask them to connect it to another theme or topic as well.

Next, give each group time to make short presentations or put together a gallery walk based on the resources they come up with. All groups add more ideas and comments to the work presented.

For students to be able to have sustained conversations around texts and themes, it's important for them to build up a rich vocabulary. This activity helps students build a wide range of vocabulary, including idiomatic expressions, in a way that they won't forget easily!

Divide the students into groups. Share 2-3 images from this sample photo bank with each group.

Have students identify a theme and sub-topic that best relates to each of the images they have been given. They should have a different theme and sub-topic for each image provided.

Once they've identified a theme, ask them to think of words/phrases/idiomatic expressions connected to the theme/sub-topic that come to mind when they see the images. Have them draw these out as a mind map on a large sheet of paper.

From the list of words that emerge, have them choose 4-5 words they like best and come up with synonyms for these.

Each group then displays their mindmap in a gallery walk. Students can go around the room 'collecting' interesting words for each of the five language B themes and adding them to their personal notebooks.

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Buondì.

What does being 'advanced' or 'fluent' in Italian feel like?

I taught English to Italians for over twenty years, including kids from the age of three, but mostly adults, at all levels from complete beginner to 'advanced', groups and individuals, 'general' and 'business', conversation and writing.

The beginners were always the happiest, despite the obvious pyschological challenges of being unable to understand much or express themselves.

When you're just starting out, you can't help knowing that you know nothing, which is a drag.

But at first everything your learn seems like a huge improvement!

It's so much fun to watch, though evident that the sensation of making amazing progress wears off quickly enough as the months pass.

As a student rises through the 'levels' (a totally artificial concept, and a limited one) they seem to become increasingly dissatisfied.

The more they know, the more they realise how much they don't yet know, and may never. Back in the day, they could understand 'nothing', but with such a fantastic sense of progress they were sure the situation wouldn't last for long.

But now, when they can get maybe a third or a half of what a native speaker is saying, and have a good guess at the rest, any progress seems minimal. It almost feels like going backwards!

And the 'advanced' students are the most miserable of the lot.

They might, for instance, be preparing for an international exam, perhaps so they can go work abroad in some professional role - a medical doctor, say - where high-level language skills are a must.

And objectively they stand a good chance of getting the (really quite hard) qualification they need, given a little time and preparation.

So they should be happy, right?
"When I watch an American film in the original language with no subtitles I can't understand everything!"
You wouldn't believe how many times I heard complaints like that.

"But what do you EXPECT?" I'd reply. "Everything" is such a stupid goal.

You surely do not understand 'everything' in your mother tongue, after all. Don't agree, don't believe me?

When was the last time you listened to the music that teenagers are into? Or read the terms and conditions governing your investments or pension?

You might pretend to understand, but you don't really. No one understands "everything", just as no one is "fluent".

"Fluency", as a concept, is relative, and anyway depends entirely on the task to hand.

You might be fine buying stuff in a shop, or chatting at the bus stop, but how would you do making a speech at a wedding or addressing a board meeting?

No one feels "fluent" all the time, which is why people get anxious about public speaking.

It's just that we're used to our limitations in our mother tongues, while fretting about them unhelpfully in the foreign languages we know.

Back to Italian. People used to remark to me all the time things like "Oh but you're ENGLISH! You have such a strong accent."

They'd not really say "So that's why you make so many mistakes", though I could see it in their faces.

Because I used to teach English to Italians, I always spoke in English, so as to help my students out.

At home too, so as to promote bilingualism in our three (now adult) kids. It worked out well - the eldest (educated entirely in Italian, in Italy) graduated from a Scottish university and is now finishing a post-graduate law course in London.

"You can thank daddy for that", I tell her.

My spoken Italian suffered, obviously, at least in the sense that it never really took off, beyond routine things that I did every day (such as selling English courses...)

In recent years though, since hosting Bug and Roomie, I've spoken mostly Italian, this for the same reason as I used to speak English to my kids.

For them, because they'll need 'fluency' in comprehension and communication, and to instill the confidence that comes from growing up in a home in which people talk to each other, read books, and so on.

Surprisingly, people have totally stopped commenting on my British accent when I speak Italian. I don't remember the last time. Weird, huh?

Better, my brain has finally (after twenty-five years!) started - and of its own accord - making a point of trying to conjugate sentences so that the article, noun and adjective agree in terms of gender and singular/plural.

I always understood that stuff technically (albeit imperfectly). It just never played much of a role when I spoke or wrote Italian. And now, suddenly, it does.

I've even learnt to pronounce papà, with its horrible, final-syllable stress pattern. Though that took several years of actively trying.

To return to my question as to what being 'advanced' or 'fluent' in Italian feels like.

It feels normal.

It feels like you don't have to worry about messing up, or not understanding, because when you don't get your message across easily, or understand what's been said, you can manage the situation anyway.

You just rephrase what you want say. Or say it again, more loudly, and in an irritated tone.

You ask for clarification, but in a way as to make it perfectly clear that the problem was the other person not expressing themselves effectively, rather than any inability to understand on your part.

You use the language CONFIDENTLY.

Remember what I said about C2 (proficiency) students being the most miserable?

With my Turkish, Swedish, French, etc. I'm mostly somewhere in the B (Independent) bands, but happy enough.

There's a lesson there - I'm not 'advanced' or 'fluent' at Turkish/Swedish/French. but what native speakers of those languages might PERCEIVE about me, is that I can get by.

They will hopefully feel that they can chat with me, and that I'll be able to follow.

And that, however strangely I may express myself, I seem to be able to get my message across, somehow or other.

In short, feeling 'fluent' is about familiarity.

It's about getting used to what you can do with a language, but also what you can't do.

And it means not being miserable about those limitations.

A lunedì.

P.S.

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Subscribing gets you the bulletins via email, three times a week - on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Then all you have to do is read/listen to them. There's no catch.

How come subscribing is FREE?

Because EasyItalianNews.com is funded by donations from its users.

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