Lesson Plans with worksheets, keys, assignments, and debate questions for use with the recordings in our series "Your English":
The listening comprehension exercises below are just as pertinent today as they were when I was still teaching and introduced them. Little by little, we are uploading worksheets, keys, debate questions, etc., so you can have these accompanying materials free of charge. It will take a little time to put them all on the site:
Honesty - Trust vs. fake information
The Iceberg Project Solving the problem of freshwater
Global Warming Discussions
End of the World The gullibility of the general public
Here are a few of the other listening comprehension audio files from our series "Your English". The accompanying materials were previously found in QualityTime-ESL: The Digital Resource Book Version 2.0, but this book is currently unavailable.
The 1st Solar-Powered Car Solar energy
A Solar Pump Solar energy
Lindbergh Part 1 Performing feats
Lindbergh Part 2 Performing feats
Other sample lesson plans that come from the digital book
Here is a lesson plan with the scripts and activities for a most amusing video produced by a Norwegian teenager who speaks excellent English:
Lesson plan, recordings and worksheets for "End of World" based on the radio play adapted by Orson Welles in 1938 from the science-fiction novel "The War of the Worlds." Marianne Raynaud shows you how you can make all your students speak about this timeless topic concerning the media.
Your English" 18 and 19 (language learning podcasts on iTunes) feature the listening comprehension exercise “Honesty” with oral/written worksheets. This LC in two parts is an excellent introduction to a discussion about all the dishonesty we hear about today in the media: false claims made during the US presidential campaign and Lance Armstrong’s refusal to admit to doping to name just two. Assignment and debate questions included.
Recordings for "End of World" based on the radio play adapted by Orson Welles in 1938 from the science-fiction novel "The War of the Worlds." This timeless topic concerning the media is most topical today.
Recordings from the podcast series "Your English" about inventing "A Solar Pump." Pronouncing exercises for different past tenses of regular verbs are provided.
This lesson plan is about working with the alphabet, which is an excellent way to start off a course and teach students to do pair work in class. "Marianne Raynaud gives ESL/EFL/ELT teachers advice about teaching important aspects of the English language: grammar, tenses, spelling, reviewing numbers, asking questions, posing conditions, using indirect speech, etc.
ESL/EFL/ELT lesson plan, recordings and worksheets for the "Iceberg Project" - a project to use icebergs to provide drinking water for the driest regions of the earth- a topical theme today with the Ice Dream Project about to be launched with a documentary about the work of engineer Georges Mougin together with Dassault Systèmes, a French IT enterprise.
New lesson plan, new recordings and additional worksheets for "Honesty" - a topical theme today with Julian Assange, WikiLeaks and the banking/economy crisis in the news affecting everyone across the world.
Marianne Raynaud gives ESL/EFL/ELT teachers advice about teaching important aspects of the English language—here reviewing numbers.
Lesson Plan with worksheets and link to view as preparation for students to do their own parody review of a tech device. Exercises are included as samples of documents to be found in "QualityTime-ESL: The Digital Resource Book 2.0" by Marianne Raynaud.
For English teachers (ESL/EFL/ELT) wishing to use the topic of global warming and the United Nations Climate Change Conference in class, we provide a listening comprehension, written and oral worksheets, homework assignments and a PowerPoint with a text of explanations. We also present the educational website www.iceandsky.com with documents from the film by the same name.