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Greetings, and welcome to my blog!  It's great to meet you, my name is Ben Jansson, and I'm an ESOL educator. Here is a link to my private teaching classroom,  https://padlet.com/benjansson77_1/ben-s-english-class-yizer97w3rn5rox9
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Focus on Folktales: empowering creativity, and leveraging student schema

  Introduction Ideas for Differentiation  Conclusion

Presentation Skills

                                          

Demystifying the summarization process for EAP students

                                       

Be an Author: Create your own dialogues

                                                                                                                     Creating Written Dialogues                                       ( A Way to Write Your Way to More Fluency) Introduction Our lives are filled with endless interactions. Speaking in a foreign language can be difficult if you have no one to practice with.  What kind of speaking skills should I learn? What vocabulary should I memorize? What’s my focus?  Writing our own original conversation is a great way to ...

Listening Contexts

            Listening                                       Here are some links to different listening contexts and I hope to update them from time to time, so, be sure to check back here in the future.    Presentations ~TED TALKS on Youtube A wide variety of topics with speakers from all over the world!  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ted+talk Interviews ~BBC Six Minute English.  These podcasts include a written version (transcript underneath the recording). Lot's of interesting topics. https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english Sports Cast With Shohei Ohtani Before the 2021 Home run Derby, interview with Japanese subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUbMufgyZ_o Baseball superstar, "Shohei Ohtani being really fast!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv_rFoHG7zA      ...