Ben Jansson ESOL Education

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                                                         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 practice speaking if you do not have regular access to a conversation partner or class. So, this post is about writing dialogues, and improving our communicative speaking practice through writing. When we do this activity we engage our pred...

            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                ...