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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

                                       

Create your own dialogues for preparing to speak

                                                                                                                     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      ...