Here's a matching exercise on asking a bank employee about information. Click on the attachment.
Reading
Step Forward: Oxford University Press Site
Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 14:31Oxford University Press has online activities for their texts. Here's the Step Forward site's page.
Jobs & Work: California Distance Learning Project
Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 13:07The California Distance Learning Project has stories about jobs and work.
Manythings.org
Submitted by admin on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 11:45www.manythings.org is a great site with lots of activities especially for beginners and advanced beginners.
California Distance Learning Project (CDLP) Stories & Activities
Submitted by admin on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 13:13The California Distance Learning Project has stories with activities, sound, and some video on critical areas of adult life, including work.
Voice of America Special English
Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 13:46Voice of America Special English provides news, culture, and history stories read slowly with accompanying text.
Reading Skills for Today's Adults: Marshall Adult Education Center
Submitted by admin on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 19:42Marshall Adult Education Center's Reading Skills for Today's Adults has graded reading lessons on life skills topics. There are two levels covering grades 1-8, Level 1 (grades 1-4.5) and Level 2 (grades 5-8). There are printed versions of the readings for teacher use.
Starfall
Submitted by admin on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 19:18Starfall is a site that is now famous for helping children learn to read. There is audio and reading for literacy and beginning level readers.
My life
Submitted by ricoabucham on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 11:26It is somewhat difficult for me to write a blog about myself.However, I guess this is where I should start so all the teachers and students will know more about me!I am a native Brazilian with Middle Eastern background.My grandparents moved to Brazil in the late 19th /early 20th century .They raised t large families there .On my mother's side, I have 5 aunts and 7 uncles, and on my dad's side 7 aunts and 5 uncles .Funny !So I have a big, big family.
My father was born is Syria in 1905 and came to Brazil at a very young age. My mother was born in Brazil 1913.They got married in 1939, and my father was already out of Medicical School. he was general practitioner , he was very devoted to his clients and provided medical care to the poor .We lived in a huge home, and I remeber havng lines of woman and men, to walking in and be checked by my father...My grand fathers from both sides were very hard workers and very much into giving a good education to the whole .
My parents raised 6 children and we all went ot Collge.All my bortghers are doctors , but myself asnd nmy sister.I am a civil engeneer and my sister is a psychologist!
Earth Day and the Environment: VOA Special English
Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 14:19VOA Special English stories related to the environment include:
Sharks: A Bad Image, but Oceans Value Them
