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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
 

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 3

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
 

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
 

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
 

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
 

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
 

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)

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)

Beginner:  How I Saved Somebody's Life  Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs

Intermediate:  Serving in the Israeli Military   Featured Grammar Focus: Spelling

Advanced:  Freedom of Speech   Featured Grammar Focus: Punctuation
 

Beginner:  My Wedding  Featured Grammar Focus: Punctuation

Intermediate:  Everybody Waits for Friday Night  Featured Grammar Focus: Possessives

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

Beginner:  The Mexican Goat  Featured Grammar Focus: Mixed Bag (verb tense, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure)

Intermediate:  My Wedding  Featured Grammar Focus: Sentence Structure

Advanced:  Questions I Ask Myself   Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs
 

Beginner:  This Writing Just Confuses Me Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs

Intermediate:  "Juan de Pareja", by Diego Velazquez  Featured Grammar Focus: Possessives

Advanced:  What Is a Miracle?   Featured Grammar Focus: Questions
 

Beginner:  My First Week at College Featured Grammar Focus: Articles

Intermediate:  What Do Children Really Need?  Featured Grammar Focus: Sentence Structure

Advanced:  Drugs and Human Nature   Featured Grammar Focus: Mixed Bag (articles, gerunds and infinitive phrases, passive and active voice verbs and verb forms, verbs, nouns, adjectives)
 

Beginner: The Blues and Greens of Ecuador  Featured Grammar Focus:  Nouns and Pronouns

Intermediate: Adapting to Life in the United States   Featured Grammar Focus:  Punctuation

Advanced: Life Is Beautiful   Featured Grammar Focus:  Mixed Bag (verbs, articles, nouns, sentence structure, adjectives and adverbs)

Beginner: A Very Bad Experience at the Moscow Airport  Featured Grammar Focus: Prepositions

Intermediate: When Children Commit Crimes  Featured Grammar Focus: Possessives

Advanced: My Views on Divorce   Featured Grammar Focus:  Verbs
 

Lesson 17

Beginner: Leaving Honduras  Featured Grammar Focus:  Verbs

Intermediate: Fantasies and Reality  Featured Grammar Focus:  Nouns and Pronouns

Advanced: Doing It My Own Way  Featured Grammar Focus:  Indirect Speech


Lesson 18

Beginner: At the Moscow Airport  Featured Grammar Focus:  Verbs

Intermediate: Take Your Time!  Featured Grammar Focus:  Mixed Bag (Articles, Modals, Prepositions, Sentence Structure)

Advanced: The Boy Who Divorced His Birth Mother  Featured Grammar Focus:  Spelling
 

Beginner: Everybody Waits for Friday Night  Featured Grammar Focus:   Spelling

Intermediate: Doing It My Way  Featured Grammar Focus:  Gerunds and Infinitive Phrases

Advanced: Long-Lasting Solutions to Our Problems  Featured Grammar Focus:  Nouns and Pronouns
 

Beginner: A Love Story of Two Flowers Featured Grammar Focus:  Punctuation

Intermediate: Why Am I Always So Tense?  Featured Grammar Focus:  Questions

Advanced: More Questions I Ask Myself  Featured Grammar Focus:   Conditional Sentences
 

Beginner: Money and Love Featured Grammar Focus:  Articles

Intermediate: Why Am I Always So Tense?  Featured Grammar Focus:  Questions

Advanced: More Questions I Ask Myself  Featured Grammar Focus:   Conditional Sentences
 

Beginner: Buddhist Prayer Sticks   Featured Grammar Focus:   Verbs

Intermediate: Education in Pakistan   Featured Grammar Focus:   Spelling

Advanced: Frank Shabata: Blinded by Anger  Featured Grammar Focus:   Mixed Bag (conditional sentences, passive and active voice, possessives, punctuation, spelling, verbs)
 

Beginner: The Day My Daughter Was Born  Featured Grammar Focus:   Spelling

Intermediate: What Do Children Need?  Featured Grammar Focus:  Gerunds and Infinitive Phrases

Advanced: The Right to Privacy  Featured Grammar Focus:   Verbs
 

Beginner: Do You Pray before You Take a Test?  Featured Grammar Focus:   Nouns and Pronouns

Intermediate: Solving Family Problems  Featured Grammar Focus:  Verbs

Advanced: My Hopes for China Featured Grammar Focus:   Mixed Bag (Level Two: nouns and pronouns, sentence structure, verbs)
 

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

Intermediate: Not a Ghost Story  Featured Grammar Focus:  Nouns and Pronouns

Advanced: Would You Be Happy?  Featured Grammar Focus:  Mixed Bag
 

Beginner: My First Week of College Featured Grammar Focus:  Sentence Structure

Intermediate: Truth or Lies?  Featured Grammar Focus:  Mixed Bag

Advanced: The Right to Privacy  Featured Grammar Focus:   Possessives
 

Beginner: Money and Love Featured Grammar Focus:  Articles

Intermediate: Solving Family Problems  Featured Grammar Focus:  Spelling

Advanced: My Hopes for China  Featured Grammar Focus:   Mixed Bag (Level Three)
 

Beginner: Everybody Waits for Friday Night  Featured Grammar Focus:  Verbs

Intermediate : Doing It My Way  Featured Grammar Focus:  Verbs

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