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Grammar Lessons

• Gerunds and Infinitives: An Introduction

• Modals: would and will

• The Pronoun this in Telephone Conversations

• Countable Nouns: Regular and Irregular Forms

• Quantifying Countable and Noncountable Nouns

• The Present Perfect Tense: Introduction

• The Present Perfect Tense: My Views on Divorce: An Audio Story

• Sentence Structure and Parts of Speech: He's Always Talking about Grammar

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B = beginner

I = intermediate

A = advanced

Audio of Easy Writer Stories

• "My First Day at College", by Andrey Chechin (B)
• "My Wedding", by Sonia Diaz (B and I))
• "How I Saved Somebody's Life", by Aleksander Vishnevetsky (B)
• "Juan de Pareja", by Zinaida Kitaychik (I and A))
• "This Writing Just Confuses Me", by Alexandre Shteynberg (I)
• "My Views on Divorce", by Tung Mei Ni (I and A)
• "Cross-country Skiing", by Stella Rasporskaya and Gennadiy Gelzayd (B and I)
• "The Blues and Greens of Ecuador", by Wilfrido Lopez
• "Solving Family Problems", by Adimir Ramos (B, low I)

Activities for Listening Comprehension

• Cloze and  Dictation:  "How I Saved Somebody's Life"

• Oral Communication:  Expressing Concern  (all levels)

• Interview with Author:  Getting to Know Me  (all levels)

• True/False Questions and Practice with Adjectives: "Juan de Pareja"

• Open-ended Questions: Nine Questions (all levels)

• Nine Answers (intermediate to advanced)

I = intermediate

A = advanced

Communication Activities and How To's

• How to Express Concern:  Are You Okay? (all levels

• How to Express Gratitude: Thank You Very Much! (all levels)

• How to Begin a Telephone Conversation:  This is Luis (all levels)

• How to Ask for and Give a Recipe:  Yum...I'd Love That Recipe!

• How to Make and Respond to Suggestions: 
    Get Me to the Train Station On Time (all levels)

• How to Arrange a Social Get-together: It's a Date! (all levels)

• How to Begin a Formal Letter:  Dear Help Desk, Part 1 (all levels)

• How to End a Formal Letter:  Dear Help Desk, Part 2 (all levels)

• You've been invited to a party! What Should You Bring? (all levels)
   

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