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Use the radio transcripts and audio files on our site to improve your American English and learn about current events, science, health, economics, US history, American culture and much more. We use a vocabulary of common words and a slower speech rate to make the language easier to understand.

Many activities, handouts and mp3 audios.Take a look !!!

A hgeat lesson plan for Human Rights. Very appropriate for the topic Michael requested. 

Here you can find a dialogue between two people with different questions related to the human right topic .

Conversation Question on Human Rights critically examine a topic to develop their own higher order questions. Sample objectives include: After completing a question and answer activity, students will: develop attention to detail and critical analysis by formulating higher order questions concerning a given conceptsynthesize information in order to determine missing information or information deserving clarificationas determined by successfully attending to 80% of the requirements. Prerequisites: None other than adequate Web access.Materials and Resources: What needs to be prepared in advance by the teacher? Usually, the questions will center around a topic that the instructor or a guest presents. The topic may be presented through readings or a lecture prepared by the instructor or guest. What does the student need to bring to the lesson? Students need to view any prerequisite materials.

Students will define the concept of human rights and human rights violations. Students will examine and evaluate the state of human rights in China and the United States.

This is an appropiate issue related to the women's rights. One of the most terrible problems women face is Domestic Violence and it must end.

Hello Maria, I could see all the activities that can be done out of a short article. Because being an authentic material the students are led to think and talk realistically and develop all those linguistics activities. Ruth

the Best Web 2.0 Applications for Education - 2007, here's my next "Best of.." list - the Web 2.0 applications which are most helpful to English Language Learners.

Grammar, listening, vocabulary, and reading activities 

This is an interesting websites because it offers enjoyable activities. For example, there are several info gap activities. These information gaps usually come in twos. You will need to print both the A and B sheets. You can print them directly from the browser if you want, but they will look better if you save them and open them in any graphics program and print from there.

We have plenty to read in the field of education, however, reading for pleasure has lots of benefits for non-native speakers teachers and students. This is my favorite website to find all sorts of books to read for free!

I know we were told to bookmark a site referred only to the topic we chose on the map, but I found this great site that links you to a whole bunch of mterial about human rights. It inlcudes lesson plans, listening activities, interactive activities, pictures, wwebquests and a lot more. I haven't been able to go through the whole thing, but for what I've seen so far, it's very interisting and it will be of great help for some of us. I hope you enjoy it as much as I am right this moment.

Excellent resource for those considering teaching in Thailand

The EDSITEment is a great resource for instructors teaching culture, history, social studies etc.. For my human rights topic the website gives several ideas about freedom of speech including various activities (lesson plans) classes of all ages can do during Freedom of Speech Week, October 17-23. Some of the content/language may be too high for EFL/ESL setting. Their collection of lesson plans are worth looking at though for ideas.