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English as a Second Language Podcast is a wonderful collection of daily life conversations.

Hi Tatiana. Glad you figured out how to join and submit sites to our group. I notice the link to ESL Podcast is not working so I'm providing the correct link here. http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html (the home page of the site) http://www.eslpod.com/website/show_podcast.php?issue_id=15819515 (number 1045 being infatuated) Best, M.

This article was fascinating to me because it seems a great commentary on what is a "right" and what is a "Privilege." I feel in the USA the difference between these two are not understood. This writer does a good job of explaining how to define each and who holds the power of each.

This bookmark is from the website called Human Rights Watch. The education has been under attack in conflicts. The article says students, teachers and schools are often targeted and used as a war tactic because of their connection to education. The video is an example of those tragedies. A girl who just believed everybody has a right to access to education was shot. World organizations are providing information and trying to protect education. I think this article can be used as an example of why preserving education is very important in some countries. Students can read and watch the video as an example, then teacher can ask them to find other articles on the website that are related to education as a human right.

We begin this chapter by inventing our own story based on the boxed paragraphs below. Before reading any further, cover all of the boxed paragraphs with a piece of paper. You are going to read these paragraphs, which are extracts from a short story, one at a time. At each stage of the reading ask yourself the following questions as a guide to making links between the separate paragraphs...

Film English is the brainchild of teacher, trainer and author Kieran Donaghy ( Kieran's LinkedIn profile). Kieran teaches at UAB Idiomes Barcelona, part of the Univiersitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The site promotes the innovative and creative use of film in English language teaching and learning. All of the lesson plans revolve around the use of video and film to teach English. The site promotes cineliteracy, the ability to analyse moving images, and considers cineliteracy as a 21st century skill which our students need to learn. In addition, the lessons promote critical thinking in the language classroom, and  encourage learners to reflect on values while learning a  language. PrintFilm English has become a very popular resource English Teaching bank and is visited by over 80,000  teachers every month and there are over 2.5 million page views a year. It has received critical acclaim winning various awards, including winner of Best Individual Blog and Runner-up in The Best Use of Video in the 2011 Edublog Awards; the 2011 TEFL.net  Site of the Year; and British Council Teaching English Featured Blog of the Month.

"Human Rights Watch defends the rights of people worldwide." Students can investigate, on this site, about abuses happening worldwide and use the information for a debate in the classroom. They can also try to find a solution for a specific problem like they wold at the UN. Another idea would be to write reports or compare what's going on in a specific place around the world with their own reality.

This site goes over the general facts about NSA surveillance programs. It describes the basic metadata that is collected for US phone calls:"the telephone number of the phones making and receiving the call, and how long the call lasted." It mentions the NSA program PRISM which collects emails, instant messages, and both private and public facebook data. It also mentions the program XKEYSCORE which gathers massive amounts of data from internet traffic. This FAQ also mentions what sort of things can be revealed by metadata and why critics of these programs find them alarming and illegal. This is a great article that covers the basic issues and concerns associated with NSA and mass surveillance. You could have students read it as a way to prep them for a project or discussion on this topic.

Film English by Kieran Donaghy features a media lesson on Human Rights and street art. This time a lesson is designed based on an award-winning video for Amnesty International by Carlos Lascano. On this section, you can find the link for the video to project in the classroom and a worksheet with activities mainly designed to generate discussion among the members of the group. The activity is intended for students in upper-intermediate level onwards. These activities will reinforce the listening and speaking skills.

In this article the author presents 3 levels of racism described in order to promote and foster the creation of new theories on this concept. Moreover, the writer created a didactic allegory on a gardener's tale that illustrates her points and gives a clear and easy to understand perspective about racism. This can be used as a taxonomy to describe the different types of racism and promote the reflection upon it.

This is a video from the "What would you do?" program. It is a social experiment in which there is a racism situation performed by some actors. This role play was created in order to analize people's reactions on such a case. This can be food for thought in order to open a classroom discussion on human rights and the way we act to make them be respected and taken into consideration.

I've just found this webpage in one of Larry Ferlazzo's "The best of." In this webpage you have interactive exercises for your students to practice grammar. You can create a virtual classroom, then a lesson and your students can sign in and complete the activities while you track their progress.

English language teaching in India has for a long time treadled the traditional path of Language Teaching and Learning. The path leads us through teaching vocabulary and grammar textbooks, cramming students with a considerable amount of exercises and then evaluating their accomplishments through consecutive exams. Song have been in integral part of human life and experience since ages. They have also become an integral part of our language experience, and if use in coordination with a language lesson they can be a great value.

I agree Dipak! Music uses a different part of our brains that helps us retain information better. I am interested in finding music I can use in class that was not designed for pre-schoolers. Adults in my class should not be singing songs for little kids! Thank-you.

This is a page on Amnesty International's website. It is full of lesson plans that explicitly teach human rights. There are two separate sections - one for elementary students and one for middle school/high school students. The elementary lessons involve games and songs. This is a great resource for classroom teachers - lessons would need to be modified for distance learners.

This activity can be added to the previous link. A Yes/No qiuz presented in a game. One of the best activities for the lesson, I suppose.

The website has a lot of activities and tasks that a teacher can use in her class as per the context and level of the learners. It is easy to navigate. The website also contains a link to a blog by Larry Ferlazzo on 'Understanding our basic human right'. Students and teachers can join the blog for further discussions.

This website has a small section/page about "Children and Human Rights". It lists and describes some of the human rights that are violated in many children's lives. It's a good page with facts about Human Rights for children.

This Web site, first created by The Seattle Times in 1996, contains the story of a remarkable man, Martin Luther King Jr., images of a tumultuous time, and perspectives of politicians, academics, students and the many, ordinary citizens whose lives he touched. 

This is a website to practice pronunciation and IPA

Hello dear teachers, This is a web page you can use to teach IPA.

It's a great page for young people to learn more about issues related to human rights that affect the world. I would use this web page for previous reading before a debate or a discussion.