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Great source of interesting materials and resources to enhance language skills.

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 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.

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.

Great video for introducing what Human Rights are. It also has some questions about what is said in the video.

This website defines "Human Rights". It explains what Human Rights means in both specific and basic terms. You can find out about Human Rights laws and who enforces and monitors them. This site is a great resource for both educators and students.

This worksheet offers a great (and creative, too) activity for you to try with young learners.

Grammar worksheets >Adjectives > adjectives -ed or -ing Worksheets and activities for teaching adjectives -ed or -ing to English language learners (kids, teenagers or adults). Here you can find printable worksheets for many levels: beginners, elementary, intermediate or advanced.

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Here you are finding over one hundred great ideas from teachers across the world. We could develop their critical and creative thinking. So, let's try one!

Great website to learn about the most important facts about human rights history. In this website, you will also find creative posters that show us what our human rights are. There are videos of people performing real life stories on how their human rights have been broken.

In this website, you'll find great ideas to teach human rights, each lesson plan depends on which level you are going to choose. There are other activities; but I strongly recommend you to use those lesson plans.

I looked at this resource and there are many many detailed lessons that get at human rights, such as ways in which all people are alike. How we see ourselves and others, etc. It is a United Nations publication and you are free to use it as you like.

This is a great resourse that will help language learners improve their English watching video 739 video lessons!

Great site to practice grammar through short segments of famous movies! Quite entertaining for our classes and our students!

I thought this was a great resource for finding new teaching apps on the market.

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.

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.