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It's a unique blend of reading and audio!  Listen to and Read Your Favorite SOFTWARE FOR STUDENTS Essays - All written by learners of English. Below is a sample of what's on our Inner Circle library shelves.


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Listen to the essays.
(All audio is in .mp3 format.)

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Read a version of the essay with grammar errors.    Do your best to correct the errors.
(All text downloads are in .pdf format.)

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Read the corrected version of the essay.
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KEY:  Level: Name of Essay, Featured Grammar Focus

Lesson Nine

Beginner:  Cross-country Skiing  Featured Grammar Focus: Spelling

Intermediate:  Life Is Beautiful   Featured Grammar Focus: Mixed Bag (articles, adjectives and adverbs, nouns,
prepositions, verbs

Advanced:   Young Hearts Should Be Happy Featured Grammar Focus: Mixed Bag (adjectives and nouns, gerunds and infinitive phrases, modals, punctuation, verbs)

Lesson Eight

Beginner: Money and Love Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs

Intermediate:  Where Is the Moon Tonight? Featured Grammar Focus: Questions

Advanced:  The Immigrant:  Determined to Work Featured Grammar Focus: Mixed Bag (gerunds and infinitives, passive voice, verb forms)

Lesson Seven

Beginner: Do You Pray before You Take a Test?  Featured Grammar Focus: Prepositions

Intermediate: The Blues and Greens of Ecuador  Featured Grammar Focus: Sentence Structure

Advanced: My Sleepy Husband  Featured Grammar Focus: Indirect (Reported) Speech

Lesson Six

Beginner: Everybody Waits for Friday Night  Featured Grammar Focus: Mixed Bag (Passive Voice, Indirect Speech)

Intermediate:  The Day My Daughter Was Born Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs

Advanced:  Crime and Punishment in Liberia  Featured Grammar Focus: Passive Voice

Lesson Five

Beginner: Money and Love  Featured Grammar Focus: Nouns and Pronouns

Intermediate:  Where Is the Moon Tonight? Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs

Advanced:  Winners and Losers  Featured Grammar Focus: Indirect (Reported) Speech

Lesson Four

Beginner: Cross-country Skiing  Featured Grammar Focus: Articles

Intermediate:  My Wedding  Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs

Advanced:  Thoughts about Handling Conflicts  Featured Grammar Focus: Gerunds and Infinitive Phrases

Lesson Three

Beginner: Friday Nights by the Black Sea  Featured Grammar Focus: Spelling

Intermediate: A New Day  Featured Grammar Focus:  Gerunds and Infinitive Phrases

Advanced: Stress Everywhere   Featured Grammar Focus: Punctuation

Lesson Two

Beginner: Buddhist Prayer Sticks  Featured Grammar Focus: Nouns and Pronouns

Intermediate: Why Are Some Rich and Others Poor?  Featured Grammar Focus: Punctuation

Advanced: What My Uncle Told Me about Marriage  Featured Grammar Focus:  Passive Voice

Lesson One

Beginner: I Wanted to Be a Fireman  Featured Grammar Focus: Articles

Intermediate: What Do Children Really Need?  Featured Grammar Focus:  Nouns and Pronouns

Advanced: Will Adam Enlist?  Featured Grammar Focus: Conditional Sentences

 

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